The Offer
No direct link to offer, sent out via e-mail. Unknown subject line, terms found here.
- Chase IHG Premier card is offering a signup bonus of 160,000 points after $3,000 in spend within the first three months.
Card Details
- Annual fee of $89 NOT 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
Previous best bonus we’ve seen on this card was 140,000 points + $50 statement credit with the annual fee waived. That’s probably a better deal unless you value IHG points highly. If this was a public offer it would definitely get added to the best credit card bonus page, just keep in mind possible IHG devaluations and use the points ASAP.
Hat tip to m16p
New offer on the ihg.com home page today, 150k points with no annual fee first year. There is a big banner on the top that for some reason shows up for me on Microsoft Edge, but not Firefox. And there’s no better offer (like a $50 credit) when doing a dummy booking.
Hard pass
I got a targeted offer of 125k+free night of 40k or less (separate from the annual night) with 3k spend — coming to 165k total. Annual fee not waived, though.
I got the same offer as James
Got this offer
Me too, same offer. email subject line was “You’re going to need one more PTO day… “
More devaluation coming.
Yeah I think the AF is not waive the first year…
The bonus has to be at least 400K and has to earn 20 points minimum on each dollar spend on all purchase for me to apply for IHG card. 70000 points a night for $89 holiday inn and 120000 points a night for $130 intercontinental a night ? No thanks .
Really depends on the location you want to stay at. In Dallas, most hotels can be redeemed for 10-15K points/night. Plus you get a free 4th night if you use points to book.
ya… dallas hotels are cheap…but I’m not really interested in staying in a dallas hotel for vacation….that would be fine for work but for vacation I’d go to a place like South Padre Island or similar… probably can’t get that for 10-15k…. Actually I just checked the two hotels don’t even have reward nights available.
Yeah I’ve had good luck when redeeming in Europe. $100 rooms for 10-20k points is pretty good in my opinion.
Where do you see the af is waived the first year? I got the offer in my email but don’t see anything about the fee being waived
Same here. No annual fee waiver.
Thanks, let me update.
Inflated redemption. Few years back, when i got my IHG card, it was 80000 after $2000 spend. Current 160K offer is worth as much as 80K few years back.
Well, then, the card signup keeps its value.. /s
yes, soon we might see 0.5 Million IHG points signup… 🙁
card may keep its value, but IHG has screwed its millions of customers who hold (or perhaps “hoard”) its points.