April 3, 2025
Best Credit Card Welcome Offers: April 2025
Pam
If you’ve been considering a new credit card, April is bringing the heat with some of the best welcome offers we’ve seen in a while. Whether you want to earn free hotel stays or rack up airline miles, these elevated offers are worth a closer look. Some deals are only available briefly, so now is an excellent opportunity to take advantage of these generous welcome offers. Here’s a roundup of the best credit card welcome offers available in April 2025.
Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
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Elevated welcome offer or not, this is our absolute favorite card because it has the best transfer partners, in our opinion. It is our recommendation as the first card all beginners in points and miles should get and one we will always have in our wallets. Read this review to learn more. But right now, this is the highest welcome offer we’ve ever seen on this card for a long time! 🎉💃
Flights to Hawaii have been made possible with the welcome offer from this credit card.
Chase Freedom Unlimited®
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This is a great limited-time offer on a card with no annual fee and a low minimum spend! Although this card is marketed as a cash-back card, it actually earns Ultimate Rewards® ($250 = 25,000 bonus points) if you pair it with the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card, the Chase Sapphire Reserve®, or the Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card.
Ink Business Cash® Credit Card
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The welcome offer hasn’t increased on this card, but meeting the minimum spend has gotten easier. This makes this card a great choice for those who might have skipped over this card in the past because felt like they couldn’t meet a $6K minimum spend in just three months. This card is marketed as a cash-back card, but you’ll earn Ultimate Rewards® as long as you also have the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card, the Chase Sapphire Reserve®, or the Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card.
IHG One Rewards Premier Business Credit Card
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This is a great welcome offer if you’re looking to rack up IHG points for some hotel stays (maybe for the Kimpton Seafire or Kimpton Roatán).
Stay at the Kimpton Seafire with these points!
Capital One Spark Cash Plus
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Alex, Jess, and I have all applied for this card as the welcome offer is ginormous! The ability to use it to pay our estimated taxes has helped us meet the larger minimum spending requirement. You’ll earn $2,000 cash back after $30K in spending in 3 months. If you have a Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card or Capital One Venture X Credit Card, this card’s welcome offer can be converted from $2,000 cash back to 200,000 Capital One Venture miles, which is what we’ll be doing. And another plus: it won’t count toward your 5/24 status.
Jess used Capital One Venture miles to fly business class on Turkish Airlines to Greece.
Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card
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75,000 Venture miles and a $250 credit with one welcome offer? Yes, please! We love our Capital One Venture Miles and use them a lot for international flights. And, yes, you can have both Capital One Venture personal cards!
All information about the Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card has been collected independently by Travel Mom Squad. The issuer did not provide the details, nor is it responsible for their accuracy.
Alaska Airlines Visa Signature® Credit Card
The current welcome offer for this card is 70,000 Alaska Miles plus Alaska’s Famous Companion Fare™ when you spend $3,000 in the first 90 days after opening the card. Recently, I have found great value in booking flights to Tahiti and Europe with these miles.
All information about the Alaska Airlines Visa Signature® Credit Card has been collected independently by Travel Mom Squad. The Alaska Airlines Visa Signature® Credit Card is no longer available through Travel Mom Squad.
I recently booked flights to Tahiti with Alaska miles.
United℠ Business Card
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This is a great offer if you live near a United hub like I do. 125,000 United miles can easily get you a couple of economy-class tickets or a one-way business-class flight with lots of miles left over for the next trip. The annual fee of only $150 for a $5,000 minimum spending in the first three months is also doable for most people.
Other Great United Offers
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There have been some changes to the United credit cards. Some are good, and some are not so good. However, United miles are always valuable to me.
The Hilton Credit Cards
These welcome offers have also increased. For particulars, check out this post. The addition of free-night certificates makes them much more valuable.
This view was made possible by Hilton points.
Marriott Bonvoy Credit Cards
This is the month to find a lot of co-branded credit cards, and Marriott is not being left behind. These welcome offers are as high as these cards usually run, so if you are a Marriott fan, you are in luck!
Marriott Bonvoy Bevy™ American Express® Card
- Earn 155,000 Marriott Bonvoy points after spending $5,000 in the first six months from account opening.
Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant® American Express® Card
- Earn 185,000 Marriott Bonvoy points after spending $6,000 in the first six months from account opening.
Marriott Bonvoy Business® American Express® Card
- Earn 3 free-night awards (each night valued up to 50,000 points) after spending $6,000 in the first six months from account opening.
Marriott points would allow me to stay at the JW Marriott Nairobi again.
Bottom Line
Now is the time to learn more about these cards and earn the best credit card welcome offers! We always advise applying when the welcome offer is high. Which of these elevated welcome offers intrigue you right now?
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Hi! What do you recommend doing if we already have the sapphire preferred and want to apply again for the new sign up bonus of 100k?
As a follow up, I’ve had my sapphire preferred just over 4 years!
You could downgrade it: https://travelmomsquad.com/how-to-downgrade-a-chase-card/
Or cancel it and wait a few weeks to reapply. It must be 48 months since you got your welcome offer.
Thank you Pam! Your content is so very helpful ☺️