🚀 Boost your bonus points - Daily Drop Jul 05, 2025

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☺️ Good morning, friend! I hope you had some fun 4th of July celebrations — our friends across the pond certainly noticed. 👀

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Let’s keep the party going with the best travel news from this past week!

P.S. Sorry in advance — it was another credit card-heavy one. We don’t make the news… we just pass it along lovingly.

😏 How to sweet talk your way out of airline and hotel fees.

🙌 There are 26 cards with elevated offers right now — that’s… a lot!

🎥 This week’s YouTube video will show you how to book the famous ANA first-class suites with points.

🏆 Our Favorite Pick: What is the new Points Boost feature?

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If you’ve been reading Daily Drop lately, you’ve heard us go on (and on) about this card refresh. New perks, boosted earning rates, shiny new benefits… and yes, a higher annual fee.

We promise we’ll stop gushing soon (okay, we’ll try 😬), but one change in particular has everyone talking: Points Boost. And it’s not just for the bank’s top-tier card.

Points Boost is also available with our most popular card, as well as this OG business card, and this brand new one.

So… what is Points Boost?

It’s a new way to redeem points inside the bank’s travel portal at varying rates, depending on which card you have:

Newly revamped card and business version: Points are worth up to 2 cents each for select premium air cabin tickets and hotels (including luxury The Edit properties)
Our favorite card and this trustee business one: Points are worth up to 1.5x on select flights and hotels, and up to 1.75x on select premium cabin tickets

These changes replaced the fixed redemption values that these cards previously had. Some people aren’t fans (yet), but overall, I think it’s a net positive for us.

For example, the overwhelming majority of hotels I’ve searched for in the portal have brought up a redemption value of 1.5 cents. Just like this one in San Francisco 👇

I’ve even found flights with the 2 cents-per-point valuation that Points Boost promises us, though the hotel redemptions seem to be much more consistent overall.

If you’ve been nervous about transferring your points and navigating that whole process, using the Points Boost feature is now a great option to get pretty decent value for your points — but always do your research before pulling the trigger.

I wasn’t a huge fan of this bank’s travel portal before, but… I see a lot more bookings in my future. 👀

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