The Offer
- Chase IHG Premier card is offering a signup bonus of 150,000 points after $3,000 in spend within the first three months with the annual fee waived first year
Card Details
- Annual fee of $89 waived first year
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 25x points per $1 spent on IHG properties (10x from the card + 15x from status and club membership)
- 2x points per $1 spent on gas stations, grocery stores and restaurants
- 1x points per $1 spent on all other purchases
- Free night certificate on card anniversary, this is limited to properties that cost 40,000 or fewer points
- 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
- 10,000 bonus points when you spend $20,000 or more and make one additional purchase each account anniversary year
- This product is not available to either (i) current cardmembers of this credit card, or (ii) previous cardmembers of this credit card who received a new cardmember bonus for this credit card within the last 24 months. If you have the old IHG card, you’re still eligible to get this bonus/card.
- Chase 5/24 rule applies to this card
Our Verdict
This is the highest bonus we’ve seen on this card, but I’d recommend waiting a few days as normally you can get an additional $50 statement credit by doing a dummy booking. That doesn’t currently work, but it usually takes 2-3 days before that offer starts appearing. Because of that I won’t be adding this to our list of the best credit card bonuses.
Dummy booking with a $50 statement credit works now.
any updated/enhanced offers?
Doubtful $50 credit via dummy booking will happen with this offer. The fine print states current IHG Rewards card holders aren’t eligible for bonus, but I guess that doesn’t apply to $49 annual feel legacy or the no annual fee card holders from reading prior comments regarding the premiere card.
Still no dice on dummy bookings showing the 150k offer. Any idea how long updated offers take to percolate into the dummy bookings? Post mentions several days, but it’s been a couple weeks now. Starting to wonder if the dummy booking won’t be updated for this offer.
I would just apply. Additional $50 is nice to have, but shouldn’t be a determining factor. I’d be more upset if Chase drastically increased sign up bonus as it did with Sapphire Preferred, from 80k bonus to 100k.
Definitely planning to apply within the next few weeks regardless, but I’m not in a huge rush either. Thus, if there’s still a chance of the extra $50 credit, I don’t mind waiting a bit longer.
Don’t think it’s gonna happen unfortunately.
Dummy booking finally works!
Is the Traveler card no longer available to apply to?
Can this car be downgraded to the Traveler card and can I have 2 IHG Traveler cards?
chase.com now shows the 150k + no annual fee offer. So that’s some progress. Previously I only saw it at ihg.com.
Dummy booking currently shows 125k + $50 statement credit with $3k of spend
better offer of $50 statement with this offer still doesn’t show up with dummy booking
Is it possible to hold this card and the legacy IHG at the same time?
YES
Just got this card less than a month ago for a bit less of an offer and no AF waived. Calling to see if I can get it matched.