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Meghan Coyle

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NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

Yes, that's true.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

And remember, Capital One is changing its guest access policy for the Capital One Venture X card.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

It's coming up so soon.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

That is February 1st.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

They will now charge for Priority Pass guests.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

You're the goon who's bringing in 12 people on one card.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

Yeah.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

And then also going back to all these coupon book credits that are very stressful to use, the Bilt Palladium card has its own set of those.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

There is a $400 hotel credit that is again split into half for the first and half for the second half of the year.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

So $200 per half of year.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

They also give you $200 in Bilt cash annually.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

So again, that's what you're using to pay for these random merchants that Bilt has decided you can spend your Bilt cash on.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

Shadowberries.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

Similar to the Capital One Venture X's travel credit and their 10,000-mile anniversary bonus, if you use the hotel credit and the $200 in built cash, if you seriously are taking all these lifts or doing all these various classes, you can make up for the annual fee based on that alone.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

We also got to mention the sign-up bonus.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

It is 50,000 built points plus automatic gold status after spending $4,000 on everyday purchases in the first three months, plus you get $300 of built cash refunds.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

Reminder, since NerdWallet values bill points at 1.8 cents a piece, I'll just do the math for you.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

That bonus is worth $1,200.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

We do need to talk about Build Transfer Partners.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

We have been getting Alaska a lot of love on this show, but we should mention a few of the others.