The Citi Prestige® Card 50k offer expired. You can find the current 40k offer here: Citi Prestige® Card

I've deleted all links from the rest of the post since it is out of date.

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The Citi Prestige® Card is one of the very best credit cards for earning free travel.

I got this email on Saturday because I have a Citi Prestige® Card.

It looks like it is designed to remind people about their $250 Air Travel Credit, and that it is personalized to include how much of your 2015 credit you received and how much of your 2016 credit you've gotten so far.

As I already wrote about, I got all of my 2015 credit on my first 2015 statement and all of my 2016 credit for airfare purchased in 2015 that appeared on my January 2016 statement.

But if you haven't gotten your full 2016 credit yet, you

The Citi Prestige® Card has the best benefits of any of the premium cards at the moment, which is why I consider it one of the top credit card offers on the market. Many of those benefits are annual benefits.

You can check out the updated version of this post here.

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I get a lot of questions about the Citi Prestige® Card because it is an awesome and complicated card.

The Citi Prestige® Card is one of the best cards on the market now with:

50,000 bonus ThankYou Points after $3,000 in purchases made with your card in the first 3 months the account is open
$250 in airfare or airline fee credits per calendar year
access to the American Airlines Admirals Clubs and Priority Pass lounges
the fourth night free on hotel stays
three free

This offer is expired.

The Citi Prestige® Card comes with 40,000 bonus ThankYou Points after $4,000 in purchases made with your card in the first 3 months the account is open.

Almost every time I fly, I get free lounge access one of three ways:

International Business and First Class passengers get lounge access throughout the journey, and I fly a lot of international premium cabin awards.
Most airports have one or more lounges affiliated with Priority Pass.

I don't spend much time in hotels (here's a breakdown of where I'm sleeping as I travel 365 days this year), but I've been looking at booking some upcoming hotel stays. I carry several co-branded credit cards, but as I've crunched the numbers, my Citi Prestige® Card has come out as a better option for paying the hotel stay in almost all cases.

That's especially true if I'm looking at a four night hotel stay, since the Citi Prestige® Card offers the fourth night free on paid hotel stays, which is an ~25% rebate (more if you're doing it right.