The Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant American Express Card (review) is Marriott’s most premium co-branded credit card, and there are all kinds of reasons to consider picking it up, including a great welcome offer.
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Annoying that the Starbucks app/accounts do not appear to allow you to set a monthly auto-reload for $25 a month, and instead the only option is "when you balance drops below $X." Anyone know if I'm missing something? Or other restaurants/dining options that make this an easy option? Manually reloading every month is still kind of annoying.
The sad part is you cannot use it in the last Days of the month. It is when your charges are posted & settled, Not everyone posts the charges the same Day and Amex does not settle everything the same day. that is what I was told. so your benefit end's up in the next month's account.
Of all the Amex 'dining' credits, this one may be the easiest to use; it's just a straightforward $25 statement credit each month on anything dining (I'm sure there are caveats, but I haven't noticed.) Unlike the other cards, which have the Resy credits (Platinum, Gold, Delta Reserve, etc.), this is one benefit of the Amex Brilliant that actually keeps it simple stoopid. (That said, still miff'd about Marriotts devaluations and the 85K certificate diminishing in value over time and the games played by aspirational properties to start awards at 111K to avoid folks using their certificates there...)
This dining credit is too simple, must be due a nerfing.
I would not be surprised if they rise the fee to $695, and offset it by enhancing the dining credit to $30 per month for use at RESY only.