The Offer
- Chase is offering the following bonus on the Marriott Bonvoy Boundless card (formerly known as the Chase Marriott Premier Plus card)
- $200 statement credit after first purchase
- Two free night awards (up to 35,000 points per night) after $3,000 in spend within the first three months
Card Details
- Annual fee of $95 is waived first year
- Eligibility for this product: The product is not available to either:
- current cardmembers of the Marriott Bonvoy™ Premier credit card (also known as Marriott Rewards® Premier) or Marriott Bonvoy Boundless™ credit card (also known as Marriott Rewards® Premier Plus), or
- previous cardmembers of the Marriott Bonvoy™ Premier credit card (also known as Marriott Rewards® Premier) or Marriott Bonvoy Boundless™ credit card (also known as Marriott Rewards® Premier Plus), who received a new cardmember bonus within the last 24 months.
- Eligibility for the new cardmember bonus: The bonus is not available to you if you:
- are a current cardmember, or were a previous cardmember within the last 30 days, of Marriott Bonvoy™ American Express® Card (also known as The Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express);
- are a current or previous cardmember of either Marriott Bonvoy Business™ American Express® Card (also known as The Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express) or Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant™ American Express® Card (also known as the Starwood Preferred Guest® American Express Luxury Card), and received a new cardmember bonus or upgrade bonus in the last 24 months; or
- applied and were approved for Marriott Bonvoy Business™ American Express® Card (also known as The Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express) or Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant™ American Express® Card (also known as the Starwood Preferred Guest® American Express Luxury Card) within the last 90 days.
- Chase 5/24 rule applies to this card
- Free award night every anniversary valid at a property costing up to 35,000 points
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 6x points per $1 spent at Marriott Bonvoy hotels
- 2x points per $1 spent on all other purchases
- Elite status:
- Automatic silver elite status
- Gold status if you spend $35,000 or more within a card member year
- 15 elite night credits towards status each year
Our Verdict
Other current bonus on this card is 100,000 points without the annual fee waived. We’ve also seen three night bonus offers in the past as well. If you redeem the free nights at properties costing 35,000 points per night this is basically a bonus of 70,000 points + $295 (remember the annual fee is waived) in comparison to 100,000 points. The upside to the points offer is you have more flexibility in what you use the points for. That being said most people will much prefer $295 to 30,000 Marriott points so if you can use the certificates smartly and value cash sign up bonuses then this bonus might be worth considering in comparison to the straight points offer.
Keep in mind all the restrictions on who can get the bonus on this card:
I most likely won’t be adding this to our list of the best credit card bonuses. Before applying or asking questions, read this post about everything you should know about Chase credit cards first.
Hat tip to reader Julia
Is there a new link? The old link isnt working. Im finally done with my 5/24
Let me see if I can find one
Do you think there’ll be another offer soon? If so can you post it. Thanks
Will do if I see it
Hey Doc, is there an updated link? The current link isn’t working for me. Thanks!
FWIW you can get different offers if you do a dummy booking through Marriott as well – I’m currently being offered $250 statement credit, waived 1st year AF, and 1 night with $2,000 MSR. I’ll probably do the one this post suggests with two free nights/$200 credit/waived AF for $3k MSR over the dummy offer or 100k point offer though.
I see a handful of good (for me) redemption offers at 35k points that make the decision easier.
how will the 35k certificate be affected by peak pricing? will it not be available to use at resorts that the regular rate is 35k but it’s more during peak?
And in 3 months they move hotels up one category and then a few months later we have peak/off-peak
I signed up and was approved April 9 at https://creditcards.chase.com/marriott/apply?CELL=64R2. Nothing there about the $200 Statement Credit + Two Free Nights. Do you think I will get it? Should I send a secure message to Chase? Thanks.
You signed up for a different offer. You need to use the link in this post for the $200 statement credit & two free nights.
I got the (now closed to new applications) Chase Marriott Premier Plus Business Card about 6 months ago and still have it open. Am I eligible for the sign-up bonus?
The bit about not having the SPG business or luxury cards specifically says you can’t have them AND have received a sign up or upgrade bonus within the last 24 months, next section says can’t have opened within 90 days. So… If you’ve had say SPG business long enough that your bonus was over 24 months ago you are eligible.
DoC – do you know when this offer expires? Or is it just the standard offer for this card now?
This “AMEX/Chase no overlap” rule is utter nonsense. Virtually every financial product competes with everything else. Credit, debit, checking, savings, etc. And every form of spending competes for your money as well. Imagine if every bank/creditor said you couldn’t open a new account if you’ve ever had an account with so and so currently or in the past…
It’s not much different than American Airlines having both Citi and Barclays offering co-branded credit cards. And from what I understand, if a person with a citi AA card applies for one of the AA cards, Barclays won’t accept the application. If you apply it just gets voided out.