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Card Overview
The Citi Prestige card encourages travel with the card benefit of $250 received per year on travels. Travel rewards include 5 points earned on air travel and restaurants and 3 points earned on hotels and cruise lines.
Card-Smart Tips & Advice
- Good credit needed
- You cannot receive another bonus if you’ve opened or closed a card within the same brand or family in the past 24 months
- You can only get approved for 1 Citi Personal Card every 8 days, and not more than 2 Citi Personal Cards every 65 days
- Citi will usually pull your Experian credit report (If you freeze Experian you can sometimes request the reconsideration department to pull Equifax)
- You can check your application status here or call 1 888 201 4523
- If declined you can call 1 800 695 5171 to be reconsidered
Card Details And Benefits
- Earn $250 tavel credit every year
- Earn $145 statement credit if you are a CitiGold client
- Complimentary fourth night after a minimum of 4 consecutive night booking through ThankYou.com (capped to two times per year)
- Global entry and TSA pre-check
- No Foreign Transaction Fee
- Lounge Access
- Return Protection
- Extended Warranty Protection
- Cell Phone Protection
