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The Chase Freedom and the Freedom Unlimited cards can both be used very effectively to boost your ultimate reward balance and accumulate tons of points for travel with one of Chase's great travel partners.

Ideally, we think it is best to get both cards, but if you can only get one, we think the Chase Sapphire Preferred card is the one to choose.

Open as many as you can and enjoy a ton of free travel benefits!

Citibank is aggressively advertising its new and improved ThankYou cards, but the benefits of the costly Prestige Card aren't entirely clear. We did some digging and found they are there.

The answer: "It depends."

Even though Singapore's KrisFlyer program is an outstanding way to redeem Chase points, it still makes sense to transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards points to United under certain circumstances.

Cardholders who accrue points in these programs should try to keep them there until they know exactly how they will redeem them.

Unless you are a frequent traveler to London, it is time to discontinue your use of the Club Carlson Visa Signature Card from US Bank.

Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer is now the only airline frequent flier program allowing you to transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards points, Citibank Thank You points and American Express Membership Rewards points on a 1-to-1 basis. In many cases, more value can be extracted through KrisFlyer than through virtually any other transfer opportunity.

Citibank has been rolling out some exciting new cards with great rewards recently and has become very competitive with Chase, Barclays and Amex. This new card is going to be the most valuable one for those needing a new IPhone.

The following table contains the top 15 travel and rewards cards based on value received through sign up bonuses and usage. The value that you receive from any card may differ, based on your particular usage patterns and whether you are able redeem points you earn for the most valuable rewards.

One of the principal reasons for many to hold an Amex card is going away.