In case you didn’t already know Chase is changing the free night benefit on the IHG card (this applies to the certificate issued on the new Premier card as well). For certificates issued after May 1st, 2018 they will be restricted to properties that cost 40,000 points or less. Confusingly it seems that cardholders that applied from 1/1/18 until 4/5/18 will be grandfathered and received an unrestricted free night certificate after their account anniversary.
Earlier this week IHG provided a list of properties that are ineligible (e.g cost more than 40,000 points). The list was inaccurate though as it contained properties that cost 40,000 points. A new list has been added and it no longer includes those properties. The full list of ~200 odd properties can be found here. The real question becomes: why were those properties listed in the first place? They didn’t list all properties that were 40,000 points so I don’t think it was a coding error/misunderstanding error. One option is that IHG has a devaluation planned and those properties will soon cost more than 40,000 points per night. Let’s hope that isn’t the case. We will also update our best uses of the free night certificate post in the near future.
Hat tip to Mommy Points.
