CIBC Aventura Visa Infinite Privilege Card

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3.4out of 5, our rating

$499 for 2 points a dollar across most everyday categories, six lounge passes, a $200 travel credit and a genuinely high $200,000 cap.

Annual fee$499
Purchase APR21.99%
Welcome offer25,000 pts
Minimum income$150,000

Rates and features verified 2026-08-18Full terms and conditionsHow we research cards

What we like, and what we don’t

Worth having

  • 2 points a dollar on dining, entertainment, transport, gas, EV charging and groceries
  • 3 points a dollar on travel through the CIBC Rewards Centre
  • 1.25 points a dollar on everything else, so no weak base rate
  • $5,000,000 of emergency medical cover for 31 days and $1,500 of mobile device insurance
  • Six lounge passes, a $200 annual travel credit and a NEXUS rebate
  • The 2x cap is $200,000 of annual spending, high enough that most people never reach it

Watch out for

  • The advertised "$2,600 in value" mixes a one time welcome bonus with recurring perks against a recurring $499 fee
  • The two welcome tiers are cumulative against the same window, so the spend bonus totals 50,000 points and not more
  • Additional cards cost $99 each
  • Aventura is a fixed value currency, so 2 points a dollar is about 2%
  • $150,000 personal or $200,000 household income required

What this card earns

Groceries
2x
Gas
2x
Dining and restaurants
2x
Travel
3x
Transit
2x
Entertainment
2x
Everything else
1.25x
Bonus rates apply up to
$200,000 of annual spending after that, the base rate
Bonus categories at once
3 you choose which
What we value a point at

The earning fine print

3 Aventura Points per $1 on travel purchased through the CIBC Rewards Centre (CIBC by Expedia). 2 points per $1 on eligible Dining and Entertainment, and 2 points per $1 on eligible Transportation, Gas, Electric Vehicle Charging and Groceries. 1.25 points per $1 on all other purchases. Cap: the 2x accelerated earn applies only to the first $200,000 in net annual card purchases on the account. A single shared account-wide counter across all cardholders and all bonus categories, not per category. Above $200,000 those merchants revert to the regular 1.25 rate. The limit resets to zero after the day your December statement is printed, so it is statement-driven rather than calendar-year or anniversary-based. Supplementary cardholder spend consumes the same counter.

The welcome offer

Welcome bonus
25,000 points after you spend $3,000, within 4 months
Second tier
25,000 points after you spend $6,000, within 4 months

What the offer actually requires

Advertised as up to $2,600 in total value, of which up to 80,000 Aventura Points (stated as up to $1,600 in travel value). Tier 1: 25,000 points for $3,000+ in the first 4 billing periods. Tier 2: a further 25,000 points for $6,000+ in the first 4 billing periods (cumulative, not additional to tier 1). THIRD TIER not captured in the tier fields: 30,000 anniversary bonus points requiring $25,000+ in net purchases within the first 12 months. This is a 12-month, anniversary-paid tier. Remaining advertised value is recurring cardholder benefits rather than welcome value: 6 lounge visits (~$385), 2 NEXUS rebates ($325), $200 annual travel credit, first-year Skip+ ($110). No first-year annual fee waiver. No offer end date published.

Fees and interest rates

Annual fee
$499
Additional card
$99
Foreign transaction fee
2.5%
Purchase APR
21.99%
Cash advance APR
22.99%
Balance transfer APR
22.99%

Who can get this card

Minimum personal income
$150,000
Minimum household income
$200,000

Insurance and benefits

Travel medical
$5,000,000 first 31 days of a trip
Trip cancellation
$2,500
Trip interruption
$5,000
Flight delay
$500
Baggage delay
$500
Mobile device
$1,500
Rental car damage waiver
Included
Purchase protection
Included
Extended warranty
Included
Airport lounge
6 free visits a year
Annual travel credit
$200
NEXUS fee credit
Included
Concierge
Included

What the benefits really mean

Emergency travel medical $5,000,000 per insured person per trip, 31 consecutive days at age 64 or under but only 10 consecutive days at age 65 or over (no hard age cutoff, hence age_limit null); auto-extensions of up to 5 additional days each for delayed transport, medical unfitness or hospitalization. Trip cancellation $2,500 per person / $10,000 combined. Trip interruption $5,000 per person / $25,000 combined, including accommodation and meals at $250/day to $2,000 per trip combined. Flight delay $500 per person / $1,000 per occurrence. Baggage delay $500 per person / $1,000 per occurrence. Lost or stolen baggage $1,000 per person / $2,500 per occurrence. Rental car collision/loss damage waiver on vehicles with MSRP up to $100,000 for up to 48 consecutive days, no deductible. Mobile device $1,500 per occurrence per insured person. Purchase Security 180 days; Extended Protection up to two additional years. Hotel burglary $2,500 per occurrence combined. Common carrier accident $500,000 per insured person. Lounge: 6 complimentary visits per MEMBERSHIP year via Visa Airport Companion at 1,200+ lounges, additional visits US$32 per person per visit. $200 annual travel credit applies to CIBC Rewards Centre travel, posts up to 30 days after the qualifying purchase, unused portion forfeited at end of calendar year and reinstated 1 January. NEXUS: two statement credits up to CAD$200 each, limit two per every 4 years. 24/7 Visa Infinite Privilege concierge. Annual fee rebates possible with an active eligible CIBC Smart Account. Up to 9 additional cards at $99 each. HEADLINE VS SUBSTANCE: 'up to $2,600 in value' conflates one-time welcome points with recurring annual benefits (lounge passes, travel credit, NEXUS rebate) that a cardholder receives every year and which are partly offset by the $499 fee. Only the ~80,000 points are genuinely a welcome bonus. The two 25,000-point tiers are CUMULATIVE against the same 4-billing-period window ($3,000 then $6,000), not two independent bonuses. Total from spend tiers is 50,000, not 50,000 on top of separate thresholds. A third 30,000-point tier requires $25,000 in 12 months and pays at anniversary; it does not fit the two-tier schema and is easy to drop. Travel medical days collapse from 31 to 10 at age 65. A very large real-world reduction that a single ins_travel_medical_days value cannot express. $200,000 earn cap resets after the December statement prints, not on the account anniversary despite this being an anniversary-benefit-heavy card. $200 annual travel credit uses a CALENDAR-year forfeiture (reinstated 1 January) while the earn cap uses the December statement date. Two different clocks on the same card. Lounge passes reset on the MEMBERSHIP year, a third distinct clock. Interest rates render as placeholder tokens on the live page; taken from PDF 11995-en.

Our verdict

This is a well built premium card. 2 points a dollar across dining, entertainment, transport, fuel and groceries is a wide accelerated set, the $200,000 ceiling is high enough to be theoretical for most households, and the insurance is both generous and actually published, which is more than several rivals manage. The $200 travel credit takes the real cost down to $299.

The marketing is where to be careful. "Up to $2,600 in value" adds a one time points bonus to benefits you receive every year, and sets the total against a fee you also pay every year. Strip that out and you have a card earning about 2% on most spending with a $299 effective fee, six lounge visits and good insurance, which is a fair deal without needing the number in the advertisement.

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Where this came from. CIBC product page; CIBC Aventura Visa Infinite Privilege benefits guide; CIBC Aventura Visa Infinite Privilege certificate of insurance (aventura-infinite-privilege-certificate-en.pdf); CIBC Summary of Annual Interest Rates and Fees 11995-en, effective 1 Aug 2026. We take every figure from the issuer’s own pages, never from another comparison site, and we leave a field blank rather than guess at it.