[Expired] Chase IHG Premier: Five Free Night Certificates (Up To 40,000 Points Per Night)

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• I understand that the certificate expires within a year of issue but let's say I get the SUB Feb 2025 so it expires by Feb 2026. Does this mean it needs to be used by Feb 2026 or needs to redeemed by this date (i.e could I book for later in May or September)

• I'd get this in a heartbeat but they nerfed having more than one card. I still have the old $49 AF card. A shame since most of my hotel stays are with IHG I guess I'll have to do something else eventually

  • I had two old cards with the $49 free night and cancelled em both a couple years ago. No regrets. I’ve been churning the new SUB every 2 years and collecting the free night at 12 months just prior to cancelling. 4th night free has been handy as well.

• I'm still waiting for Boundless 5FN offer lol

• The only IHG hotels I would want to stay in are either way over 40k a night or 20k a night and thus a terrible value to use certs at, but we have the $49 AF card, so once or twice a year we'll just use a cert at a 20k Candlewood suites or something. But yea any more than once or twice I would really struggle to use certs.

• A much better 170k offer on the Premier and 100k on the 0 AF is out there as well.
  https://creditcards.chase.com/a1/ihg/Traveler12325AEP?CELL=6M1W&cm_sp=WEB-_-6C-_-HOME-_-HERO-_-US-EN-_-CC-_-CHASEPREMIERQ12025

  • Finally! I've been waiting for that offer for months.

  • Thanks

• Just used these. Last week at the Singapore Intercontinental, very nice hotel and great redemption. And this week at the Offenbach Holiday Inn Express, near Frankfurt. Only okay hotel as I could not get anything nicer in Frankfurt.

  • Yeah but you got the 60k and not the 40k certs right? I can barely use these 40k ones at upper tier Holiday Inns in the US.

• 40k cap is too low to be interesting on the personal version.

• I see people complaining about not being able to redeem these, but I just did this offer at the end of last year for 140k points. I was able to get 5 nights in Holiday Inn Munich City Centre for 119k points. Did it in 2 separate booking to use buy 3 get 4th night free deal and had them combine the stays. Saved about $1k and still have some points left over.

  • I thought free night certs don't count towards 4th night free.

    • My offer was for 140k points, not free night certs. Seems that might be better than this even though this is more points per night.

      • So you are comparing apples with oranges

        • Actually I was talking about your post which you mentioned not being able to use 60k certificates so I wanted to mention I was able to use my certificates for the hotel I wanted.

        • Did you use 140k points or certificates

        • 119k points. I said so above: I was able to get 5 nights in Holiday Inn Munich City Centre for 119k points. Did it in 2 separate booking to use buy 3 get 4th night free deal and had them combine the stays. 

        • Those are 2 different things, where you clearly don't understand where the complain come from.

          you are booking nights with points those have 2 advantage

          Your points doesn't expire (certificate does)
          you have flexibility to use 3 get 4th,

          As for 60K certificate it is hard to use because Those certificate value is 60K if you redeem a 40K room you are leaving 20k point value to waste and you can't combine it with 3 get 4th

          For example if @guest_1990230 booked the same 5 nights at the same hotel you stayed 5 nights. He/She will use up all 5 certificates worth 300K which means the SUB actually only worth 119k points, leaving 180K on the table,,, would you do that?

          You will say then why not redeem a 60K property? You would think that a 60K certificate would cover property like InterContinental or Kimpton, No those property are usually higher than 60K, so you are stuck because redeem night are majority around 30K-50K or above 60K and 60K is not a good certificate to have especially you can't top off it>

          Of course you can use it for cheaper 30k-40k property but then it defeated the purpose of getting a 60K certificate where 20% of value is wasted

          So my advice to anyone consider sign up for certificate offer. DON'T DO IT. Especially this one 5 x 40K offer is like a 160K point offer, because if you take 160K offer you can use the 3 get 4 night free which at the end you are getting a total of 5 night after all. And no expiration to worry about and you wont waste the value of certificate if you redeem anything below 40K

• Can't even use the 60k certs from the previous offer. All hotels that I go, don't make anything available during the weekend, or have crazy unjustifiable point prices.

  • Just make sure you are using the right rate. It is a "cash" rate and then the free night properties show up when you select the FNC rate option. It should apply for any property at 60K or less per night. You won't see the certificate option if you look for a points rate (although a points search can be helpful to see which properties you can book).

• Anyone have any insight on when Chase may increase the SUB on the business card? 140k is just too low for me to sign up...