Bookmyshow RBL PLAY Credit Card: Hands-on Experience
RBL Bank silently launched “PLAY by BookMyShow” Credit Card during 3rd week of September 2022 under exclusive partnership with BookMyShow. RBL had cards with similar features & benefits namely, Fun+ Card (later replaced with Movies and More Card ), Blockbuster card etc. thereby creating confusion to customers
Thankfully RBL decided to stop issuing these cards and instead launched RBL Popcorn credit card 3 years back having almost similar features & benefits. Lets quickly delve into card features, benefits and experience of RBL Play Credit Card.
Fee Structure
Joining Fee:
- INR 500+ GST (Waived if you are a BookMyShow Superstar during card approval)
Welcome Offer: 2 movie tickets upto INR 500= 2X250 each at BookMyShow (applicable even for a BookMyShow Superstar with NIL joining fee). 200 BMS cash as well post card approval upon completing VKYC
T&C: Activate and transact once with your PLAY credit card within 30 days of issuance. Valid for any among Movies/ Plays/ Events/ Sports/ Activities/ Stream and for a period of 90 days from Card activation. Convenience fee has to be paid.
Annual Fee:
- INR 500+ GST
Waived if you continue to be a BookMyShow Superstar, else waived upon spending 1.5 Lacs per year.
BookMyShow Superstar
As per BookMyShow, you become a Superstar on completing 10 bookings (via any card and not limited to PLAY card) in past 365 days and transaction amount is worth minimum 100 each time.
Superstar status continues upon making 10+ bookings in subsequent years.
Features & Benefits
USP Benefit/ Monthly Offer:
Spend INR 5000+ in a billing cycle to get 2 free Movies/ Plays/ Events/ Sports/ Activities/ Stream (upto 500 discount in Stream category) tickets upto 250 each
2 Free monthly ticket offer upon spending 5000+ will be activated for next month billing cycle. These free tickets can’t be accumulated and should be used within next billing cycle only.
Also monthly offer should be used in a single transaction and upon booking minimum two tickets (Wish! they made the redemption simple & convenient)
Other Benefits:
Upon booking F&B alongside movie tickets using this card and applying ‘PLAY Credit Card- F&B Offer’, a discount of INR 100 will be applicable once a month (Only one offer can be applied). Unused quotas will be carried forward.
Note: This offer is mostly useless if you hold any Visa Infinite Credit/ Debit card which discounts both tickets n F&B simultaneously (Keep in mind that the Visa Infinite offer is quota based and gets quickly exhausted)
Fuel surcharge waived off upto INR 100, once a month upon fuel transactions between 500 to 4000
Limitations
RBL PLAY won’t reward anything once you have spent INR 5000 in a billing cycle (Two free tickets criteria).
On paper although it looks like a sweet 10% kind of return, but as several cards offer B1G1, the reward rate will turns out to be ~ 5%.
Even bit lower as it’s not possible to make use of 250 per ticket everytime completely and hence in reality 3.5-4% kinda reward is justified.
Still good to use for RBL merchant offers and get those 2 free tickets every month. Because anyway very few RBL credit cards are rewarding enough.
Final Thoughts
PLAY card integration into BookMyShow app leaves a lot to be desired. Even though experience have been smooth in redeeming the monthly/ welcome offer, they should have easily provided monthly offer active/ inactive status for more clarity.
If you already hold an RBL bank credit card, the limit gets shared between them, even though I was shown a different lower limit during card approval.
