Best Credit Card for Airport Lounge Access?

😅Truth be told, there are many cards that offers free access to Airport Lounges

🧐We are spoilt for choice as many banks are offering travel cards that comes with free airport lounge access

✅ The difference lies in the no. of complimentary visits, type of lounges and the annual income eligibility

Based on these factors, we cannot pick the BEST one in the market, instead, we can only pick one that best suit our lifestyle and use.

For that, Citi Prestige Card is the best for us due to these reasons:

1️⃣ Unlimited Airport Lounge Visits + 1 free guest (Priority Pass)

Because we travel quite often, having an unlimited visit access is a big bonus to us. Often, we take the earlier flights out so that we can have some time after landing, but that also means that we do not have time to have our meals. Hence, having lounge access gives us the option to grab a bite and rest comfortably while waiting for our boarding. This is even more precious when there are flight delays - airport lounges are life saver if you need a quick shower or have some refreshments!

Citi have also extended the lounge access to your +1, which means you can bring your travel buddy into the lounge and enjoy the facilities with you 😊

2️⃣ Annual Fee

Yes, it’s a drag to pay annual fees. And while there are many cards that can have annual fees easily waived, Citi Prestige Card is not one of them. Being in the 120k tier card, most of the banks would instead offer incentives rather than waivers on annual fees. For us, we take the payment of annual fees as a purchase of miles (Cardholders receive 25,000 miles for paying the annual fee, which works out to about *2.14 cents per mile) - while this is quite a high cost to pay for miles, the other privileges of this card can easily make up for it!

3️⃣ Complimentary 4th night stay

4th night complimentary stay is the one that will offset the annual fees quite simply. We often take workacations, and the quality of amenities in the hotel matters - most importantly Wi-Fi has to be fast. Using this privilege on this card, we are essentially lowering the average cost of our hotels during our stay.

Pro-tip: If you and your partner both have this card, you can book your hotel separately and use this privilege twice in the same city. Thats 2 nights free from an 8 night stay.

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