Hotels.com® Rewards Visa®

This card is worth considering if you book through Hotels.com often enough to care about earning extra value within that ecosystem and you want a $0 annual fee card to go with those stays. The lack of foreign transaction fees also helps if you use Hotels.com for international travel and want a simple Visa to bring abroad.

Outside that use case, the appeal is very limited. With no meaningful ongoing rewards on everyday spending and no listed travel or purchase benefits to make up for it, this is not a strong primary card. Most readers would be better off using a more flexible cash-back or travel card for daily purchases and only choosing this card if they are specifically committed to Hotels.com.