Update 7/11/24: This offer now has a more normal landing page at this link
The Offer
- Chase is offering a bonus of 5 Free Nights (each Free Night valued at up to 60,000 points) $4,000 in purchases within the first 3 months
Card Details
- Annual fee of $99 (not waived the first year)
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 26x points per $1 spent on IHG properties (10x from the card + 15x from status and club membership)
- 5x points per dollar spent on travel, dining & gas
- 3x points per $1 spent on all other purchases
- Free night certificate on card anniversary (worth 40,000 toward a stay)
- Automatic Platinum elite status
- Fourth Reward Night Free on any stay of 4 or more nights
- 20% discount when purchasing points
- Global Entry or TSA PreCheck fee credit
- Earn a $100 statement credit and 10,000 bonus points once you spend $20,000 in a calendar year.
- When you spend $40,000 in a calendar year, you will qualify for Diamond Elite Status through December 31st of the following year.
- Receive up to $50 United TravelBank Cash each calendar year after registering your IHG Rewards Premier Credit Card with your MileagePlus account.
- This product is available to you if you do not have a current IHG® Rewards Credit Card (any IHG personal card) and have not received a new Cardmember bonus within the last 24 months (on any IHG personal card). This restriction does not apply to Business Card Credit Card products.
- Chase 5/24 rule applies to this card
Our Verdict
Best bonus was 175,000 points. Think this is a much better bonus as you’re getting five free night certificates up to 60,000 points per certificate (really up to a maximum of 300,000 points). Some things to know about the certificates:
- They expire 1 year after being issued
- In the past you have not being able to top up certificates from the sign up bonus with additional points (e.g if a property costs 70,000 points per night it wasn’t possible to add 10,000 points to one of these certificates)
There are some datapoints that this is bypassing 5/24, but it’s unclear if this is due to miscounting (share your datapoints in the comments below). It’s possible we will see the same offer with an additional $100 statement credit when doing a dummy booking but don’t think it’s necessarily worth waiting for based on the history of those offers appearing for IHG. We will add this to our list of the best credit card bonuses.
Hat tip to DDG