Capital One Venture X Business Cuts Priority Pass Restaurants, Sort Of

The ads on this site are getting out of control. I suppose it's true what they say, given enough time eventually any publication will saturate their site with ads until readers abandon it and it becomes bots serving bots. Sad.

Venture X Business card already was very underwhelming and this makes the decision to cancel this card upon renewal even easier.

$300 travel credit is useless, as you're tied to the crappy Capital One travel portal.

Miles earned are useless as the transfer partners are lackluster and transfer bonuses have been practically non-existent.

It's, at best, a glorified 2% cash-back card. In fact, it's worse because you get less actual cash value per point than a cent.

Sitting on ~300k Capital One miles, and they are absolutely useless. What a disappointment.

Couldn't agree more. It's brutal.
Yesterday one of the ads served as background, making it basically impossible to read the text of the post.
Ben needs to get it under control. Last bastian of good award blogging, and we're losing it.
Screenshot of yesterday's ad shenanigans: https://imgur.com/a/XdKURAK

Lucky does not control ads. That’s BoardingArea. But I agree that it’s gone from bad to worse.

Imagine not using an ad blocker in 2024

In that case I would be happy to get rid of those 300,000 miles for you.

I'll probably just close my account soon and won't use them. They're completely useless.

Kendall, I have an ad blocker and I still get four ads per page. Landing page, four ads. First article, four ads. Second article, four ads. Clicking to comment on the same page, four more ads.

REGARDING THE ADS . . . you know how everyone complains about Marriott or some other loyalty program cutting a benefit or devaluing their points? The loyalty programs will continue to do so until their revenue numbers are affected. Similarly, ads and more ads will continue until traffic numbers (which drive revenues) decline. Until then, if you like the content, deal with it. If you don't, leave. Sad but that's the way it is.

I use Adblocker Ultimate in Firefox and I see zero ads.

Why don't you book cash travel for $3k usd and then use the "purchase eraser" feature. Much better than wasting them on account closure.

@ Manny -- I'm curious, so you view the Venture X as really costing you $300 per year, because you don't think the $300 Capital One Travel credit is worth anything? I understand the Capital One Travel portal might not be perfect, but booking a $300+ flight on one of the "big three" carriers doesn't seem like that high of a barrier to the point that it renders that useless, no?

@ James and others -- I hear you, and appreciate the feedback. I'm having discussions right now to see what we can do here. The changes won't be immediate, but I want to find the right, including having a good user experience. I appreciate your patience, as this may take a little bit of time -- our ads are run through BoardingArea, so I don't directly control them.

Darn. Without that Priority Pass feature to show off HOW am I suppose to pick up hot chicks???

Quietly sitting here with my Citi Prestige hoping that Citi doesn't even remember that Priority Pass Restaurants are something they continue to offer.

I don't really value the restaurant credit. The priority pass restaurants out of my home airport BLOW! I kinda want the switchover to VISA; Costco Business Center Here I some! A lot of my spend is nonbonused so this card is pretty lucrative for me. Sometimes I wished they would issue the card on both payment networks. I remember Citi Used to do this with cards being issued both as AMEX and MC for the same account.

No need, I'm not traveling enough :-/.

Really wish Capital One points would be more flexible.

It's mostly just a problem on mobile. Ad Blocker on desktop takes care of that.

Citi doesn't remember they had the Prestige anymore.

You use hands?

Capital One has removed access for Venture X cardholders who happen to be airline employees. Employees on personal travel are space available passengers, and as such do not receive seat assignments until they arrive at the gate. Their boarding pass simply states space available, which is good enough to get through TSA, but no longer good enough to access the Capital One Lounge. They just de incentivized all airline employees to get the card. Very poor policy decision by Capital One.

Ah yes Kendall, making it the customer's problem to resolve instead of the businesses problem for inundating the consumer. Very 2024 of you, indeed.

Been a reader for 10 years, never had a problem or complaint, and happy to support Ben and BoardingArea as a whole, since I rely most on them for my travel/award updates.

At some point you've got enough of an audience that you can move off of Boarding Area (or is it a question of waiting until Randy sells up?).

Amex started this bs, and their prequals go straight to the shredder as they should. This is not only unfair to airline employees, but any passenger who misses a connection due to weather, mechanical or other delays and is made to go standby. These cards are garbage, especially the amex coupon book. They want you to pay full price but not receive the most valuable benefit.

They can go have FUn with themselves.

Thanks for the post. This card was on my short list specifically because of the Priority Pass with restaurants - no more. I have the Venture X consumer and consider it a keeper (at worse it breaks even). I typically use the $300 credit for rental cars as it's often competitive pricing, has primary insurance, and I'm getting 10x on any overage. The 10k rounds out the deal. Now that the benefits match for the consumer and business cards, no point in doubling up.