I just barely started at my firm and got staffed on a project which requires travel. My firm only allows me to expense hotels on a personal card, everything else goes on the corporate Amex. I’ve had a venture one card for 2 years now but am thinking about getting the chase sapphire reserve. Kind of lost here - any advice?

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Since you can only expense hotels, look at their cobranded cards for your preferred hotel chain and then decide if things like airport lounge access and billing credits are worth paying for the high annual fee version or the low/no annual fee version.

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How long is that travel project? If you can hit the sapphire reserve spend of like 4k across hotel and personal purchases, it would be a good idea.

The Preferred has a higher sign up bonus at the moment so I would definitely consider that. Disagree with looking at co-branded cards unless Hilton or Hyatt because Marriott are crap and the earning on card isn’t much. Rather earn flexible currencies and stay your way to status.

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