Capital One’s Venture Card Has Its Best Offer In Years — Earn 75,000 Miles Plus A $250 Travel Credit

by Gary Leff

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The Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card (See rates and fees.) is probably the simplest high value miles-earning card in the market. And it has the best offer they make for it right now.

LIMITED-TIME OFFER: Enjoy $250 to use on Capital One Travel in your first cardholder year, plus earn 75,000 bonus miles once you spend $4,000 on purchases within the first 3 months from account opening – that’s equal to $1,000 in travel

This $95 card earns unlimited 2x on purchases. And you can redeem points against travel purchases (one cent apiece, effectively a 2% rebate) or transfer to a variety of airline and hotel programs. Most are 1:1, though I note below other ratios:

  • Star Alliance: Air Canada Aeroplan, Avianca LifeMiles, Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer, EVA Air (2:1.5), TAP Miles&Go, Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles

  • oneworld: British Airways Club, Cathay Pacific Asia Miles, Finnair Plus, Qantas Frequent Flyer, Qatar Airways Privilege Club, Japan Airlines Mileage Bank (2:1.5)

  • SkyTeam: Air France KLM Flying Blue, Aeromexico Rewards, Virgin Red

  • Non-alliance: Emirates Skywards (2:1.5), JetBlue (5:3), Etihad Guest

  • Hotel: Choice Privileges, Wyndham Rewards, I Prefer Hotel Rewards (1:2), Accor Live Limitless (2:1)

Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card has imple high value earning as a $95 (not $795!) rewards card and the best offer I’ve seen them make for it in many, many years.

About Gary Leff

Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »

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Comments

  1. CapitalOne is infuriating by pulling all three credit reporting agencies. I have had numerous fraudulent activities against me, so have blocks on all three agencies. No way I’m going through the effort of temporary unfreezes for a CapitalOne card.

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