I have the Citi Strata Premier and Double Cash cards to cover my every day spend. I love the combo since I’m in an AA hub, but I’m looking to add a Visa card to the mix. Mainly to pay for Costco runs. Thoughts on the CSP? It’s a meh card overall but I value Hyatt a lot. Are there better options?

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Citi points are so valuable now that they have AA, so makes sense that you like running those cards.

For Chase I mainly focused on churning their SUBs, although they've cracked down on it quite a bit. Just open CSP and all the Ink cards to get a huge pool of points you can send to Hyatt. You will need to keep a CSP or CIP to have access to transfer partners though, but imo that alone is worth the $95 fee.

You can just open CSP for the bonus and downgrade after a year. You'll need to upgrade back (or have a CIP) in order to transfer points though.

As for Costco, you can effectively get 5x there with CIC and gift cards. A bit annoying but worth it imo.

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