The Offer
- Chase is offering a three free night certificates that can be used on properties costing up to 50,000 points per night when you spend $3,000 within the first three months of account opening on the Chase Marriott Bonvoy Boundless card. You also get platinum status through January 31, 2022
Card Details
- Annual fee of $95, not 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:
- 10x on up to $2,500 in combined purchases at hotels participating in Marriott Bonvoyâ„¢, restaurants, and gas stations within your first 6 months from account opening
- 6x points per $1 spent at Marriott Bonvoy hotels
- 2x points per $1 spent on all other purchases
- Elite status:
- Platinum status through January 31, 2022
- Gold status if you spend $35,000 or more within a card member year
- 15 elite night credits towards status each year
Our Verdict
Not as good as the recent five night deal. It does come with Platinum status so I guess it could be an OK offer for people that really care about status or are going after lifetime Platinum but for me this is an easy pass and I won’t be adding it to the best credit card bonus page.
re annual free night…it actually posted to my account before the annual fee did. After I cancelled the card to avoid the annual fee, the free night stayed on my account. Free night posted mar 2. Annual fee was set to renew April 1. I cancelled around 3/10.
Not sure if it’s worth updating but they changed this to just a straight 75k offer
Hi when does this offer expire? Thanks
3 weeks ago, I used my dad’s referral offer for 3 free nights – but only good for hotels up to 35k points. If I ask Chase to match this offer, will that disqualify my dad from receiving the referral bonus?
Platinum status has become meaningless. The benefits are lame
Still get free breakfast and lounge access with platinum right or am I missing something?
the main superpowers of hotel status is lounge access and suite/room upgrades
aren’t lounges closed due to covid restrictions depending on what state/country you’re in?
that definitely dilutes the value considerably.
we’ll see if things get better in 2021..
it’ll be interesting to see how the hotel groups continue to innovate to distinguish their base service since a big part of even the base hotel amenities has been lost under the covid restrictions
Makes me glad I got in for the five nights deal… 🙂
BTW, for my personal Amex Marriott card, I was told by multiple reps that the retention offers are now offered every other year, and not every year. When did things change?
Still enough time to receive the 15n credit for 2020?
Dont know why this shouldn’t go on the ‘Best Offers’ list – Basically 150k points + Plat for $95. Usual bonus is 75k (sometimes 100).
Because very recently we had an offer for an additional 2 nights.
“Best offers” means “Best offer ever”?
No. But this offer isn’t that good and that’s why it’s not listed.
“Not as good as the recent five night deal.”
Unless you can’t meet spend for that.
‘It does come with Platinum status so I guess it could be an OK offer for people that really care about status or are going after lifetime Platinum”
No Platinum, no free brekky.
Marriot Platinum is not that meaningful? Worse than Hilton Diamond or Hyatt Globalist
Like I said, free breakfast. Makes for a more even comparison with the Surpass.
IMO, for most people this is on par with the Surpass 125k+$100 “dummy booking” offer, at least for the 1st year:
Surpass
(125k HH = ~$625 in points)
+ $100 SC
– $95 AF
+ $breakfast
– (assumed 3% opportunity cost of $2k MSR = $60)
——–
$570+$breakfast
Boundless
3×50k = ~$600
+ 1×35k = ~$150
– $95 AF
+ $breakfast
– (assumed 3% opportunity cost of $3k MSR = $90)
——–
$565+$breakfast
The second year, $95 gets you free breakfast on the Surpass or a 35k FNC on the Boundless. That’s probably where the values really start differing, depending on how you travel.
Obviously, all of that is also dependent on whether you agree with my valuation of HH points and Bonvoy 35k/50k FNCs.
As for me, Marriott has more properties in my price range in the places I (want to) travel, but I’d never get close to Bonvoy Platinum organically… so I’d probably get more value from getting Bonvoy Platinum than getting Hilton Gold [$breakfast(Marriott)>$breakfast(Hilton)]. That puts the Boundless ahead for me… but I know I’m probably in the minority.
This card only gives Platinum until 31 Jan 2022. Right now (not just due to Covid itself, but even more due to the severe downturn in business travel) most properties which don’t give free breakfast to everyone (and thus where you’d need Platinum for free breakfast) have suspended most or all benefits, so you get ZERO breakfast, lounges are CLOSED, etc.
If this was due solely to Covid, you would expect that it would START getting better around the middle of the year, but since it’s actually due even more to a downturn in business travel (since that’s who fills most of the rooms at the types of properties where you need Platinum to get free breakfast), it could take much longer. (Even if Marriott’s benefits “guarantee” returns by then, and who knows, that “guarantee” only means you get bonus points if benefits are denied by the hotel, it doesn’t actually “guarantee” that you’ll get those benefits.)
So I’m not sure if right now Platinum is as valuable as it was pre-Covid, and I’m not sure just when it will return to being that valuable.
At any rate, you have to call every hotel you’re considering staying at and ask them what their breakfast / lounge situation currently is, because in many areas only some fraction of hotels will have benefits for some time to come. And I’ve seen MULTIPLE hotels go from breakfast-to-order served (to go) one week, to suddenly only minimal grab-and-go bags the next week! So even calling in advance doesn’t guarantee that what they told you on the phone is what they’ll have by the time you get there!
And I don’t think breakfast is worth very much if all you get for “breakfast” is a bag with a muffin and a cereal bar.