Overall a great experience. The hot food menu was a little small, only offering a few dishes, but each were excellent. Cocktails were great, and the small plates were also good and convenient. Was able to do the cheesemonger tasting and only had about a 45 minute wait. The cheese selection was pretty good and they give you the option to choose or let them create a custom selection for you.

Overall the service was excellent and wasn’t too busy in the middle of the day. Definitely looking forward to my next trip there.

I’m looking to book award hotel in Chicago..a few say “free self parking” that are downtown Chicago (Marriott magnificent mile, Hyatt place the loop). Is this too good to be true?

My main hub is EWR and I basically only fly through United. I love all the perks offered from the card but it seems I am never be able to make the most of it. Thinking about cancelling my VX card and getting a United Club card.
I am almost reaching my first AF renewal. Should I do it before or after?

Venting here a little. The capital one app lets me authenticate by tapping my venturex card. The Travel app only has the option to authenticate using my cell number.

So.....if i am traveling and wanting to book my next flight, why would I be forced to get on roaming to verify my Travel? Make it easier when traveling...not harder!!!

My first experience was bleh but it wasn't a top-rated lounge and in a small airport. The free bottled water was probably the highlight.

Second experience was much better. I had a domestic flight from Bangkok to another city in Thailand at BKK airport. I had intended to get a proper lunch at a nice spot, but was a bit slow in the morning and there was a protest which slowed things down. By the time my Grab (like Uber) arrived to take me to lunch, I decided to change plans go to the airport, which was doubly a good decision because then the automated check-in kiosks weren't working for me so I had to wait in a long line for manual check-in for my flight.

I hadn't eaten yet and was really hoping the lounge would work out.

I went to the Coral Executive- one of the first ones I saw- after passing ticket check. BKK is strange in that the lounges & food options are after ticket-check but before bag security. After bag security there aren't any restaurants IRRC, and seemingly no lounges either (BKK domestic by the way). This was confusing and I was anxious because I had already arrived later (and hungrier) than I would've liked. Thankfully I made the right decision to do the lounge BEFORE security.

The main food was pretty okay... One of the things was fairly good (chicken biryani). I didn't like the over-abundance of seafood options as I'm not a seafood fan. If you like seafood, you'd probably quite like the food. It all seemed fresh enough. There was some chocolate mousse dessert thing that was great. Other misc stuff were good.

When I entered the staff made me feel very welcomed, and there was a manager lady that helped me find a seat and helped me get stuff, etc. I think it could annoy some people but being as it was my second time in a lounge it was nice being a bit more guided. She was SUPER nice. Offered me beer and other stuff, I said just water, she was like "nah nah sit let me get your utensils and water for you." Seat was comfortable, space was kind of small, but it was pretty good. I didn't notice any bottled water to take with me lol.

Overall I'd say the food wasn't bad, and some pretty good. If it were a paid restaurant I wouldn't be so happy about it, but for "basically free," it's pretty good. The desserts are nice. I don't drink alcohol these days but if you do you'd appreciate the free beer.

If there was an airport restaurant that I knew to be quite good, or looked much better, I'd still consider eating a main meal there but still plan to swing by the lounge for chilling before boarding + free snacks + water.

I'm fairly liking this perk of the VX! Priority pass isn't something I'd pay for, but I'll put up with spending $300 via the portal for this.

Edit: and it was nice technically saving $ by not having to buy an airport meal and getting a little time in a nicer area. However for BKK domestic it is kind of annoying having to pass security before your final gate, I don't really like "lounging about" before security from bags but that's an airport complaint not about VX/PP

I live in a country outside of the US. My mom (from the US) came to visit me recently and we got scammed when making a purchase.

She needed some medication from the pharmacy, so we ordered a delivery order from pretty much the most reputable pharmacy that exists here.

The delivery driver arrived and my wife went downstairs to retrieve the order and pay. It all seemed fairly innocuous until my wife came back upstairs and we had my mom double-check she was charged correctly.

Lo and behold — the charge was for almost $900 and it was supposed to be around $250. We thought maybe it was just the authorization amount and when it posted it would be the correct amount, like when you get gas.

A few hours later, the pharmacy called us to ask if we had ever received our order. It turns out that the delivery driver (their employee) had never marked the order as delivered, nor did they ever return to the store. The pharmacy concluded their employee scammed both the store, as well as us. The employee used their own fake payment terminal to obtain the payment from us and actually delivered the medication, so the store was never paid either.

We obtained from the pharmacy, in writing, an acknowledgment as to what occurred and they accepted fault, but mentioned that because they had never actually collected money from us our recourse would be with our bank, Capital One.

Capital One for some reason is making this into a huge ordeal and won’t refund the money in any capacity. I advised my mom to call and have them set up the dispute so she didn’t improperly enter any information. The support person set it all up for her and then they DENIED her claim like a day later, for some asinine reason that doesn’t even make sense. They said the dispute was filed until the wrong category and therefore, it didn’t apply to our situation and was rejected — except for the fact their own customer support person did that and not us so why blame my mom?

Then, she managed to get the case reopened by appealing. They immediately rejected her dispute on the grounds that since she received a product there was no fraud. Never mind the fact she was charged almost $900 for something with a price that would’ve been barely $250. She is now around 6 hours into arguing with them over multiple days and they’re fully attempting not to refund her in any capacity, even though she’s been a customer for 40 years and was literally robbed and has a letter from the company apologizing for the situation and stating to contact my bank for a refund since they’re physically incapable of providing a refund since they never received money.

This is utterly ridiculous and I can’t believe I’m having to appeal to Reddit for assistance in figuring something out before my mom gets robbed of over $600 she never intended on spending.

Does anyone maybe have any advice or know a way to escalate this beyond the normal channels which are getting her nowhere?

Anyone have this issue? I booked a ticket to ICN using capital one as I’ve been doing every year to travel to korea, and usually I am able to buy a seat change on korean air directly since it’s not available in Capital One.

HOWEVER, it seems that Capital one bought the lowest fare ticket (its economy but it’s apparently the lowest fare economy) from Korean air and they’re not giving me a seat or even the option to upgrade seat change. I called both Korean air and Capital one but it doesnt seem like either of them want to deal with this scenario. Has anyone run into this issue before?

I realize now that booking international portal through the travel portal is not ideal... but is there any way I can salvage my situation?

I got a capital one shopping offer via email for $30 off $50. The email mentions a specific item I looked at on eBay. Will the offer only work on this item? Or can I use it on any eBay purchase? This is my first time using C1 shopping.

I have a Venture which I took around 6 months back. Once I am done with 1 yr, I am planning to downgrade it to Venture One and apply for Venture X.

Will I be eligible to get SUB for Venture X again since I already got it for Venture?

Hello everyone,

I wanted to ask what are the requirements to be eligible for any of the Venture card line through Capital One. I currently have two credit cards with them the savor one which I am thinking of letting sit for a month or so before closing and the Savor rewards for good credit.

I'm planning to stick with Capital One for a good while trying to strengthen more of a relationship with them, but I wanted to ask what does your credit score have to be around? Is there any other contributing factors to assist you in getting an offer or even accepted for the venture or Venture x. Or even the Venture One.

And do you have to have a spotless record on your credit profile I am doing what I can currently to clean up my credit profile i have a bankruptcy that was filed back in 2020 it won't be off until at least 2028 I currently make about $60,000 on my own none really much saved to do family circumstances but saving here and there as best as I can.

Any feedback is appreciated

The rental car company is saying it's California law that I have to list my personal insurance for liability even though the card covers collision.

I know the card doesn't cover liability but will this negate the primary coverage for collision?

I recently got a VentureX card and am now trying to book my first flight using points. The issue that I am running into is the lack of partnerships for domestic flights in the US.

I have tried to go around this issue by booking flights through other companies like airfrance, air canada, and british airways that share an alliance with companies such as Delta, United, American, ect.

However, when using these portals I either cant find a flight, the flight doesn’t make sense(2 lay overs), or the portal wont even load. I have tried this with multiple different destination and origin cities, different dates, and different trip types(multi city, round trip, one way).

I fly domestic significantly more often than I would ever fly international. I am beginning to think that the VentureX is suboptimal for someone like me. Does anyone have a solution, or information that would help me out?

I was approved for the card in May wth a 30k credit line. Based on some of the advice on here, I applied for a CLI after a few weeks and it was approved to 33k. I was planning to request another increase after 6 months, but Capital One beat me to the punch.

I’m trying to upgrade from VentureOne to Venture X because I don’t want to hurt my credit by canceling a card and applying for a new one (Planning to apply for a mortgage soon, so I want to maintain a good credit score).

How does the upgrade process work? Can I just call Capital One to see if I’m eligible for an upgrade?

Would you recommend upgrading? What are the benefits of having Venture X besides lounge access?

Hello, just got approved for the Venture X (personal)!

I've heard that if you apply for a CLI within days of being approved it's likely to be approved? Is that true? When should I be asking for the increase?

Traveling to Honolulu from Cleveland. Overall, the best prices are between United, Delta, and American.

What is the best value to exchange my venture miles?

Please explain in simple terms. I am a noob and never redeemed miles before.

I was in a comment thread a while back asking about traveling to Japan. A number of kind redditors explained the process to me and then linked an r/awardtickets post. Between these two pieces of help I booked my Japan trip this morning. Two business class tickets.

You guys are amazing! Thank you!

I’ll be going to the Capital One Landing in DCA for the first time this week in the morning. Anything I should know? Do I need to reserve a spot or anything? Thanks in advance

Just thought I'll share the redemption strategy and process in case it's helpful to anyone. Award flights from EUR to USA west coast have dropped a lot. Especially Flying blue used to have amazing redemptions and they have killed it, for dynamic pricing. Anyway, here it is..

Venture X currently has a 20% transfer bonus to BA. I booked a business class award flight from AMS to DEN via LHR. The cost of this flight is 115.5k points and $639. The cash price of this cost is $5361. Here is how I used the points:

• I have 37k Avios in my Qatar frequent flyer account earned purely from past travel. I consider these types of frequent flyer points free.
• I moved these into my BA account since they allow seamless moving of avios on supported programs.
• I transferred 66k Venture X miles to my BA account to make up the rest and get over 115.5k avios with that 20% transfer bonus.

So I'd consider the total credit card miles/points to be just 66k for this trip, making it a 7.15 cpp redemption which is great. If we consider the 37k Qatar earned avios in the calculation, it drops to 4.58 cpp which is still great. (numbers are slightly off since I rounded to 66k, and not the exact balance which would be 65 point something). And the long haul is with their refreshed individual suites on the A350.

Note, the same flight was available through Atmos for 55k points plus $1100 in taxes. However, I don't have any current means to build Atmos currency. However, you could buy enough points to make up the 55k points for about $900 and that plus the $639 still makes for a great cash purchase.

Just received my renewal card for Priority Pass and noticed it doesn't say 'SELECT' anymore compared to some of my old cards. Is there a difference? Anyone else get the same?

Newbie here. 2 nights ago was checking remote non-touristy place in Japan and hotels were around $68/night.

Yesterday, $181/night. Today $221/night. I have no clue what's going on.

Another interesting finding: the price during the search of hotels lower than the price when you click on the actual hotel. It is so fishy.