Earn 75,000 Points, Lounge Access, And Much More From Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card!
Signup bonus:
Capital One’s ultra-premium card, the Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card is offering 75,000 Capital One miles for opening the card and spending $4,000 in 3 months.
Annual fee:
There is a $395 annual fee for the primary card.
There is no annual fee for up to 4 additional cardholders and they can each take advantage of benefits like free lounge membership, elite status, and more.
The best part about this card’s annual fee is that you automatically get a $300 travel credit via the Capital One Portal and 10,000 points every year! After those savings, you more than pay off the annual fee, with a profit!
There is no minimum age limit for additional cardholders and you don’t need to provide a SSN for additional cardholders.
Annual travel credit:
Receive a $300 annual travel credit every cardmembership year for all travel booked through the Capital One Travel portal, where you can book flights, hotels, and car rentals. Those credits can be applied multiple times until you spend $300.
If you maximize this credit, this card’s effective annual fee is just $95.
Anniversary bonus:
Cardholders will get an anniversary bonus of 10,000 miles every year that they have the card. Those miles are worth $100 towards travel or gift cards, but they can also be transferred into 10K airline miles where they can be much more valuable. At a value of 1.5 cents per airline mile, that’s like another $150 back every card anniversary.
Between the $300 annual travel credit and the 10,000 mile anniversary bonus, the annual rewards can be worth more than the card’s annual fee!
Global Entry/Pre-Check Fee Refund:
It costs $85 to apply for a 5 year TSA Pre-Check membership which makes flying pleasant again. Shorter lines, no need to remove your shoes, belt, jacket, or hat. You can keep your laptop and small liquids inside your carry-on. And you go through a good old fashioned metal detector instead of assuming the position in the body scanner. If you charge it on your card the fee will be refunded.
It costs $120 to apply for a 5 year Global Entry membership which lets you bypass the customs line. If you have Global Entry you also get TSA Pre-Check for free.
If you charge it on your card the fee will be refunded. You can get refunded for this charge once every 4 years.
You can read more more about the differences in this post.
My whole family has Global Entry and it sure makes traveling a whole lot easier!
Capital One Lounge and Capital One Landing Access:
Capital One now operates lounges in Dallas/DFW’s terminal D near gate 22, in Denver’s Concourse A near gate 34, and in Washington DC/IAD, located just beyond the airport’s TSA PreCheck, between the East and West Security Checkpoints.
Capital One also operates a Capital One Landing in Washington DC/DCA in Terminal 2 in the National Hall near Concourse D with free premium food and drinks.
I loved being able to shower, use the prayer room, and enjoy free snacks while connecting in DFW.
New lounges will be added soon in Las Vegas and JFK and a Capital One Landing location will be added soon in LaGuardia.
Venture X cardholders get unlimited free lounge entry and can bring 2 guests for free. You need to have a departing or connecting flight within 3 hours to use the lounge.
Best of all, Venture X additional cardholders are free and they also get unlimited free entry and can bring 2 guests for free!
Venture X cardholders and additional cardholders get free access to Capital One landings with 1 free guest eash.
Lounge access for Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card and Capital One Spark Miles for Business cardholders is $45 per person per visit. Lounge access for everyone else is $65 per visit. Kids under 2 are free.
Lounges feature grab and go food with to-go bags for your flight, fully stocked bars with local beers and craft cocktails, coffee bars, work zones, exercise rooms with Peloton bikes and yoga mats, nursing rooms, kids rooms, soundproof relaxation rooms, luggage lockers, multi-faith prayer rooms, and shower suites!
Priority Pass Membership:
Venture X Primary and additional cardholders get a complimentary Priority Pass lounge membership.
You can enroll here.
Priority Pass lounge membership allows you to bring 2 guests with you into over 1,300 airport lounges. Similar to AMEX, this membership no longer includes access to retail airport offers with a per person credit.
Plaza Premium And Virgin Atlantic Lounge Membership:
Venture X Primary and additional cardholders get a complimentary Plaza Premium lounge membership with 2 free guests. You just need to show your credit card to gain access to these lounges.
These include highly rated Virgin Atlantic Clubhouses in JFK, Newark, San Francisco, and Washington DC.
Card earnings:
- 2 miles per dollar everywhere.
- 5 miles per dollar on flights booked via Capital One Travel, plus get a refund if Hopper by Capital One Travel says to buy a flight and the prices goes down within 10 days. Cardholders can also freeze the price of select flights for up to 14 days!
- 10 miles per dollar on hotels and rental cars booked via Capital One Travel.
- There are no foreign transaction fees.
Spend Threshold:
You’ll need to spend $4,000 on this card within 3 months for 75K bonus miles.
You can pay your federal taxes for a 1.82% fee. If you overpay your taxes you can request a refund or apply it to your next year’s taxes.
My local natural gas company allows me to prepay up to $1,000 on a credit card for a $1.65 flat fee. That’s a great way to earn miles and help meet a spend threshold. My electricity supplier allows me to pay with a credit card for free as long as I am enrolled in autopay.
See this post for more ideas on meeting a credit card spend threshold.
¿Por Qué No Los Dos? (Yes, You Can Get Both)
As the Venture cards are easily profitable to open for the signup bonus and then keep open for the annual card anniversary bonuses, it’s a no brainer to open a Venture X Business Card in addition to a Venture X Card.
I had no problem getting the Venture X and Venture X Business cards.
Hertz elite status:
Venture X Primary and additional cardholders get Hertz President’s Circle elite status. Benefits include skip the counter and e-return, the widest vehicle selection, guaranteed upgrades, free additional driver, and more!
Excellent MLB Redemptions
Capital One cardholders have access to exclusive tickets to special events such as All-Star Week, the MLB Postseason, and the World Series presented by Capital One.
Plus, you can redeem just 5,000 miles (or $40 cash back) for ultra-premium MLB seats in every ballpark, for every game. There are 4 tickets available for every game at that rate. The best time to buy is when each month’s games go live, which are posted here.
I have gone to games with excellent seats in Cleveland, New York, and DC and hope to go to many more using my Capital One miles at an excellent value!
Getting $200 seats for 5,000 miles is a great deal!
Excellent Visa Infinite card benefits:
This will be a Visa Infinite card, which means it will come with awesome benefits like 3 free years of Shipt for free deliveries from Target stores and more.
Primary and additional cardholders get benefits like:
- Primary rental car CDW insurance, up to $75,000 of coverage
- Return protection, up to $300 per item and $1,000 per year.
- Cell phone insurance, up to $800 per claim and $1,600 per year if monthly bill is charged to card. $50 deductible applies.
- Trip delay insurance, up to $500 per person on delays of 6+ hours.
- Trip cancellation and interruption insurance, up to $2,000 per person.
- Extended warranty of 1 extra year, up to $10,000 per item.
- Lost Luggage Insurance, up to $2,000 per bag and $3,000 per trip.
- Travel Accident Insurance, up to $1,000,000 per person.
- Purchase protection for items damaged or stolen within 90 days, up to $10,000 per item.
Premier collection hotel access
Venture X Cardholders have access to The Premier Collection of hotels.
Those hotels will qualify for the card’s $300 travel credit and 10x points per dollar, plus you’ll get a $100 experience during your stay, breakfast for 2, free WiFi, upgrades, early check-in, late checkout, and you will earn standard elite credit, elite benefits, and hotel points.
Flight booking perks
Cardholders get access to airfare perks like the ability to get free price drop credits, get alerted about price drops, and the ability to pay a nominal fee to freeze airfare prices or get a refund on airfare for any reason.
Discounted travel offers are also available for Venture X cardholders.
Product changes:
Capital One doesn’t have regular product change options like most banks, but you may be able to change between the no annual fee Capital One VentureOne Rewards Credit Card, the $95/year Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card and the $395/year Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card, but you won’t get a signup bonus for upgrading from VentureOne or Venture to Venture X.
Even if you aren’t eligible for a product change, you can always close a card for at least a month after an annual fee is billed, to get a refund of the fee.
Use points for paid travel reimbursement:
You can redeem your points to pay yourself back for any travel related expenses (airfare, hotels, car rentals, cruises, ride sharing, etc) or book new travel at a value of 1 cent per point.
Airline and hotel transfer partners and transfers to other cards:
You can transfer points from Capital One into these programs at the following ratios:
- Aer Lingus (1:1, via BA, No alliance)
- Aeromexico (1:1, SkyTeam)
- Air Canada Aeroplan (1:1, Star Alliance)
- Air France/KLM Flying Blue (1:1, SkyTeam)
- Avianca LifeMiles (1:1, Star Alliance)
- British Airways Avios (1:1, OneWorld)
- Cathay Pacific Asia Miles (1:1, OneWorld)
- EVA (2:1.5, Star Alliance)
- Etihad (1:1, No alliance)
- Emirates (1:1, No alliance)
- Finnair (1:1, OneWorld)
- Iberia (1:1, via BA, OneWorld)
- Qantas (1:1, OneWorld)
- Qatar (1:1, via BA, OneWorld)
- Singapore (1:1, Star Alliance)
- TAP Air Portugal (1:1, Star Alliance)
- Turkish Airlines (1:1, Star Alliance)
- Virgin Red/Virgin Atlantic (1:1, No alliance)
- Accor Hotels (2:1)
- Choice Hotels (1:1)
- Hilton Hotels (1:1.5 via Virgin)
- Wyndham Hotels (1:1)
You can also combine miles between Capital One miles cards online, transfer cash back into miles online, and you can transfer miles to any Capital One cardholder by calling Capital One!
A nice perk is that after the 1,000 mile minimum transfer, you only need to transfer points in increments of 100, meaning you have fewer leftover points compared to other bank transfers.
Dan’s Quick Thoughts:
This card seems like a no-brainer thanks to the annual credits that more than cover the annual fee.
Assuming you take advantage of those annual credit, there is essentially no cost for all of the card’s valuable benefits, like Capital One lounge access, Priority Pass lounge access, Hertz elite status, high end protections, and more. Plus, all of those benefits apply to free additional user cards and there’s no age limit for Capital One additional user cards.
With the ability to reimburse yourself for any travel purchase and the option to transfer points to airlines like Turkish, where you can fly anywhere in the US50 for just 10K miles in coach or 15K miles in first class, spending on the card is valuable and doesn’t require jumping through hoops with multiple cards as with other banks.
The 75,000 point bonus is just gravy on top of those benefits!
Will you signup for the Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card?
