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The Citi Premier® Card just got a new look and some extra perks. Citi announced the Citi Strata Premier Card in early May 2024, refreshing the popular mid-tier travel card with more value for cardholders without hiking the annual fee.
Whether you’ve had your eye on applying for the Premier Card or you’re an existing cardholder, here’s what you need to know about the revamp.
The Strata Premier offers more rewards and protections
Before the announcement, the Citi Premier Card offered 10 points per dollar on hotels, car rentals and attractions booked through the Citi Travel portal through June 30, 2024. With the redesigned Strata Premier Card, that rewards rate will become permanent.
The new card also offers 3 points per dollar spent at electric vehicle charging stations.
These bonus categories are offered in addition to the 3 points per dollar cardholders already earn on restaurants, supermarkets, gas stations, air travel and hotels, and 1 point per dollar on all other purchases.
Additionally, the card now offers more travel protection perks, making it a better choice to cover your travel purchases. New and existing cardholders will get the following benefits:
- Trip cancellation and interruption insurance: Provides a reimbursement for certain non-reimbursable expenses charged by a common carrier if your trip is canceled or cut short due to a covered reason.
- Trip delay insurance: Offers reimbursement for certain expenses, such as food and hotel accommodations, if your trip is delayed by a common carrier for a qualifying period of time.
- Lost or damaged luggage insurance: Provides coverage for personal belongings that are lost or damaged by a common carrier.
- MasterRental coverage: Offers collision damage waiver coverage if you get in an…