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Written by: RJ
Wells Fargo became the new home of Choice Hotels cards earlier this year. The new cards are now live.
- Annual fee: $0
- Multipliers
- 5x Choice Hotels & Choice Privileges point purchases
- 3x Gas stations, groceries, home improvement, & phone plans
- 1x All purchases
- Benefits
- Cell phone insurance
- No foreign currency conversion fees
- Mastercard World Elite benefits
Welcome offer – spend $1k in the first 3 months to get 60k points
Choice Privileges Select Mastercard
- Annual fee: $95 (waived in year 1)
- Multipliers
- 10x Choice Hotels & Choice Privileges point purchases
- 5x Gas stations, groceries, home improvement, & phone plans
- 1x All purchases
- Benefits
- Global Entry or TSA PreCheck
- Cell phone insurance
- No foreign currency conversion fees
- Mastercard World Elite benefits
Welcome offer – Spend $3k in the first 3 months to get 90k points.
Thoughts
Not bad if you like the Choice program. I’d go for the Select for the larger payout and Global Entry first. Then downgrade in year two if you don’t find as much value.
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