There’s a new free tool out last year that can help you make use of those pesky $250 Chase Travel℠ The Edit credits that come with the Chase Sapphire Reserve and Sapphire Reserve for Business cards. It’s called EditMaxxer and essentially aims to do for The Edit what MaxFHR does for Amex’s Fine Hotels + Resorts®.
It’s a free tool, and allows you to quickly find properties that are part of The Edit by location, brand, value, or price, and even allows you to filter by hotels that are eligible for both the $250 Edit credit and the one-time $250 Chase Travel credit for select hotels that’s only available for this year.
Editmaxxer collates every hotel bookable through The Edit and displays them by the lowest price at which they’re bookable through the end of the booking calendar. Results can then be displayed by map as shown above or as a list, like you see below:
As you can see, like MaxFHR, the lowest available price for each property is displayed on the list results.
When you click through to a specific property, the site displays the pricing for every day of the current month. You can then scroll through the calendar month by month to quickly review pricing, which can be extremely useful if you’re flexible with your travel dates.
To view a full-year calendar, you’ll need to create a free account with NextCard, the site that offers the tool. Otherwise, can only see the current calendar month, as shown below:
Handily, for each day of the calendar, you can also see what the Points Boost rate is for that property on that date, from 1.65 cents per point to 2.0.
Again, like MaxFhr, there’s a disclaimer that the pricing displayed might not be the most up-to-date. The site presumably pulls pricing at regular intervals, which helps the calendars load quickly, since they don’t pull dynamic information from the Chase Travel website.
EditMaxxer is more stripped down than MaxFhr. It doesn’t have the same number of filtering options, and it also doesn’t display the unique benefit for the property in question. Still, it’s a handy free tool that helps you make use of what’s arguably the most frustrating of the coterie of new credit card-based hotel credits.
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I’m planning on booking 4 nights at an IHG property that is on The Edit. It is only about $320 for 2 nights. My plan is to make 2 separate 2 night bookings. On the first booking it will use one full $250 credit and a partial of either the edit credit or the IHG credit. When I make the 2nd booking will it use a partial credit remaining from the first booking or the full credit from the 2nd $250 Edit credit?
It doesn’t actually reflect availablility. I searched for a place in Thailand and while it shows up in EditMaxxer, when you search on Chase Travel it shows as sold out for those dates.
You can’t actually search for edit+chase special category (additional $250 benefit) unless it’s on editmaxxer page, which displays only current month. If you want a future month you need sign on to nextcard with an email, and option to use special category hotels is no longer available.
Here’s a tip on using this tool. When searching, some hotels say “View Price” rather than showing a price. These hotels will show up as long as you don’t change Price Filter (which is 0-2000). However, if you change the price filter, hotels that say “View Price” will not show up because there is no price to validate against. An example is the Virgin Hotel in New Orleans. If you search for “Virgin” without changing the Price Filter, you will see the one in New Orleans. It says “View Price” rather than having a price per night. However, if you change the Price Filter, you will no longer see it.
It looks like if you sign up for the free account, it unlocks the pricing so then the hotel would show up. But if you don’t sign up for the free account, the above tip holds true.
i believe this is happening because some of the hotels have 2 night mins that we implemented a patch for. Are there other hotels that you see are missing pricing data?
Hi John…With “United States” and “New Orleans” as the only criteria, the hotel called Maison Metier shows up in the list (but not the map), without a price. If you change the default Price Range, Maison Metier is filtered out of the list. The hotel doesn’t have a “Per Night” price, which is why I think it’s filtered out when you change the Price Range. Again, I have not signed up for the free account, which may unlock the pricing…I’m not sure. I’ll give that a try as well.
Hi John. Both Maison Metier and Virgin Hotel in New Orleans do not show up with any pricing data, even after signing up to unlock the pricing.
hi david. just took a deeper look into this
Maison Metier doesnt have any availability in 2026 for some reason. I tried about 5 different dates, but saw nothing
virgin hotels new orleans is also sold out through 5 diff date options
Do you see availability via Chase Travel? Please ping me if you see any discrepancies here
Hi John. I booked the Virgin Hotel through Chase Travel for April, but I did it at the end of last year. I’ll check again tomorrow to see if there is availability.
Hi John. You are right…there simply aren’t any rooms available when searching through Chase Travel for those hotels. That’s why there is no pricing. I was surprised. I guess I got lucky booking the Virgin hotel in New Orleans for April at the end of last year. I checked a lot of short stays in Jan, Feb, March, and April just now and it’s not showing any availability in Chase Travel for those hotels. So the tool is working correctly. If the hotel is not listed, or it’s not showing a price, then there is no availability. Thanks for clearing that up!
no worries. lmk if u ever see any other inconsistencies
I managed too use both for the same hotel in Vietnam and then also use the Amex Plat $300 fine hotels credit at th same for an almost free 6 night stay!
we’re planning on adding support to toggle Plat FHR hotels as well so you can find cross opportunities for users who hold both cards. But glad u were able to find the opportunity to use both in one go!
Thanks for publishing this. To some, it will lighten the burden of holding the CSR.
lmk if you have any feedback/questions! there are some “2 night” minimum hotels similar to THC on there that don’t show pricing data, so happy to investigate if you see any pricing discrepancies
Why isn’t this bought/implemented by Chase?
Chase wants breakage.
Chase is thrilled if you miss out on a credit, why make it easier for us to use?
Because you can’t run a profitable loyalty program based on systematic errors on the buyer’s side. It will be priced-in.
lol yeah ive heard both sides of the argument. but one things for sure: hoping this tool makes it easier for you to use the credit!
Well done!
Next for nextcard: I want an app. that goes on my phone, “sees” all my credit cards, airlines, hotels and other loyalty programs, and, when I come to make a purchase, sees how it will be coded and chooses the best card.
Should be a piece of cake.
that’s actually a lot harder than it seems (for the level we want to do/make it most effective). read this reddit post for more info but tldr its essentially banned by the major card companies: https://www.reddit.com/r/CreditCards/comments/1iu3haw/why_the_allinone_card_wont_exist_in_the_us_market/
Thanks! Yes, my suggestion was very serious, but I recognize that it is actually very difficult to implement. I suspect it will appear as a series of apps. that slowly encroach on the data.
My link for a free account telling me to sign up for a “NextCard”, whatever that is. Nooooooooooooooooooooope.
need to prevent spam, abuse, and automated traffic (like bots or DDoS). No cost to use and helps keep the tool reliable!