My Recent Credit Card Approval: 70,000 Points with the Barclaycard Arrival Plus


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Just a month ago, the Barclaycard Arrival Plus® World Elite Mastercard® increased their welcome offer to 70,000 miles! This is the best ever we’ve seen for this card and a card offer I did not want to miss out on. In the past, the publicly available offer ranged anywhere between 40,000-60,000 miles, so this is definitely an offer worth considering! This is different than some of the other points and miles card since it is a fixed redemption card. This means you are redeeming at a fixed 1 mile = 1 cent per travel — 70,000 miles from the sign up offer means $700 towards travel. I personally love having a fixed redemption card to use on travel purchases that do not take your normal hotel points or airline miles, or on hotel/airline purchases where using their own points isn’t a good value.

With this card, you’ll also earn 2x miles on every single purchase, plus when you go to redeem your miles, you’ll receive a 5% rebate back on your points. Ultimately this means you are earning 2.11% back on all purchases.


Barclaycard Arrival Plus® World Elite Mastercard®

Enjoy 70,000 bonus miles after spending $5,000 on purchases in the first 90 days. $89 annual fee waived for the first year. *Terms Apply.


Using Your Miles

To redeem the miles earned from the Barclaycard Arrival Plus® World Elite Mastercard®, all you do is make your travel related purchase on the card (as if you normally would with any credit card), and once the charge hits your card, you go online and redeem the miles for that purchase. This means you do not need to worry about award availability for flights or hotels or blackout dates. You are just redeeming your miles at a fixed 1 mile = 1 cent. Then within a few weeks after redeeming your points, you’ll receive the 5% rebate on your redemption.

You can use your points on most travel related purchases, including: airfare, hotels, car rentals, cruises, trains, taxis, uber/lyft, etc. You also do not need to purchase directly from the hotel or airline (although there are sometimes benefits of doing this), and can use your miles for third party hotel sites such as hotels.com, expedia.com, etc. or even travel agencies and tour groups. These miles are great to earn for extra travel expenses where you typically cannot use your hotel points or airline miles.

The one restriction for using your miles is that you must redeem for a minimum $100 purchase, but on the flip side, you can also redeem your points for only a portion of the travel expense. Let’s say you purchased a $1,000 flight, but only have 80,000 miles in your account. You can redeem your miles to cover $800 of the flight and then you’ll just be paying $200 out of pocket.

Having a flexible point and miles card, such as the Barclaycard Arrival Plus® World Elite Mastercard® is definitely recommended and this definitely one of the better offers on the table right now. Once you put the $5,000 minimum spend on the card, you’ll earn another 10,000 miles (since every dollar spent = 2 miles) which will net you a total of 80,000 miles which is worth a fixed $800 towards any travel purchase! If you want to take into consideration the 5% rebate when you go ahead and redeem your miles, then you are effectively looking at a $840 value from this welcome offer!

How I Am Using My 70,000 Points

We are a big ski family, but unfortunately there are not many chain hotels in the Northeast where I live. We depend on smaller ski lodges nearby mountains for our weekend ski trips. While I love the smaller mom and pop hotel feel, it means we are spending money on our lodging instead of using hotel points. This is where miles from the Barclaycard Arrival Plus come in handy. I was able to use my points to put towards an Expedia reservation I made at ski hotel right near Loon Mountain in New Hampshire. Since lift tickets can get quite pricey, having the Barclaycard Arrival Plus points essentially erase the cost of our two night hotel stay was quite nice! Fortunately, hotel prices in the Northeast aren’t too expensive (compared to the ski lodges out West), so I still have a good amount of miles left over to put towards another vacation.


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Kathy
Kathy
5 years ago

I’ve had the Barclays Arrival Card before but I don’t think it was the Plus. Can I get this card? Thanks for any info.

John Clayman
John Clayman
5 years ago

Hi Jen.
My wife and I are planning a trip to Europe in 2020. This sounds like it will be a perfect way to reduce the cost. Thanks!!!!

Jon
Jon
5 years ago

I’m trying to understand the redemption rules for the miles earned by this card. Can the miles be redeemed in 10,000 point minimum increments ($100.00) to defray multiple smaller travel purchases or is that only individual purchases of greater than $100 are eligible for points redemption? If it’s the latter, most cab or Uber/Lyft rides, many train rides, short term car rentals, and inexpensive hotel stays would not qualify.

TOM KEEFE
5 years ago
Reply to  Jon

Hi it is only in increments of 100.00 it used to be only 25.00 I think. You can by a gift card from said places for 100+ an then use the gift card to offset charges against the 100 that qualifies as a travel redemption. Only exclusion is the annual fee they allow you to offset that for whatever balance you have in the account I believe.

Gene
Gene
5 years ago

Is this card subject to 6/24? Thanks.

Acker
Acker
5 years ago

I downgraded my Arrival + 2 yrs ago, I put under $50 spend/yr on it, and put under $50/yr on my downgraded AA card. Have every card under the sun but I’m itching for another card since I have some large year end spend planned. Safely under 5/24. Think Barclay’s hip to me not putting spend on the Barclay cards I have while I apply for a 3rd card?

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