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Marriott Bonvoy fans can once again enjoy a best-ever offer to earn five free night certificates each good for a night costing up to 50K points. This is an offer that can yield fantastic value if you can maximize the use of the certificates before they expire.
The Offer & Key Card Details
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125K points ⓘ Non-Affiliate Limited Time Offer: Earn 125,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 on eligible purchases within the first 3 months.$95 Annual Fee This card is subject to Chase's 5/24 rule (click here for details). Recent better offer: 5 x 50K free night certificates after $5K in spend (expired 1/9/24) Earning rate: ✦ 6X Marriott Bonvoy ✦ 3X gas stations, grocery stores, and dining on up to $6K in combined purchases each year ✦ 2X everywhere else Card Info: Visa Signature issued by Chase. This card has no foreign currency conversion fees. Big spend bonus: Earn Gold status when you spend $35K each year ✦ 1 Elite Night Credit towards elite status for every $5K spent Noteworthy perks: ✦ Annual free night certificate for 1 night at a hotel redemption level up to 35K ✦ Automatic Silver status ✦ 15 nights of elite credit each year ✦ 1 Elite Night Credit for every $5K spent See also: Marriott Bonvoy Complete Guide |
Quick Thoughts
Marriott has gone fully-dynamic with its program, eliminating award charts in favor of award pricing based on demand. However, that hasn’t worked out to be as bad as some may have feared — and with hotel cash prices holding steady at very high, one could get considerable value out of these free night certificates with the latest offer on the Marriott Bonvoy Boundless Credit Card.
Keep in mind the limitations: unlike points, which don’t expire provided you maintain activity, these free night certificates will be valid for one year from the date they are awarded. You’ll need to be ready to use them — and if your preferred property isn’t available, you may have to settle for a different use than originally intended. You can’t split a certificate for multiple nights, so they aren’t as flexible as points.
That said, since you should be able to top off each certificate with up to 15,000 points to book a night that costs more than 50K points, it should be easy to get hundreds of dollars in value from each certificate. We peg the value of a Marriott 50K free night certificate at $320, and that accounts for the fact that free nights are not as flexible as points. That could certainly make this bonus worth chasing if you’re eligible.
Speaking of eligibility, be sure to consult our Marriott credit card eligibility matrix to determine whether you are eligible for a new Marriott card. See our Marriott Bonvoy Complete Guide for full details.
Overall, this is an exciting offer for those who can make good use of the certificates, though it sacrifices the flexibility of a large point bonus.
H/T: Doctor of Credit
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I just product changed my existing Boundless- had for 5+ years to a Ritz card in order to take advantage of this offer with a new Boundless. How long should I wait to apply? The website is already showing the Ritz card icon for a few days now. Thanks!
FYI, waited a week, was approved.
Is this available through referrals? Is there an end date?
This offer has some weird terms that everyone should be aware of. If you have a bonvoy amex you’re not eligible. Or an SPG amex card, wtf?
This should be added to the OP as is pretty f’n odd.
The new cardmember bonus is not available to you if (1) you currently have or had any of the following cards within the last 30 days: Marriott Bonvoy® American Express® Card, The Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express; or if (2) you applied and were approved for any of the following cards within the last 90 days or (3) received a new cardmember bonus or upgrade bonus for any of the following cards within the last 24 months: Marriott Bonvoy Business® American Express® Card, Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express, Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant® American Express® Card, Starwood Preferred Guest® American Express Luxury Card, Marriott Bonvoy Bevy™ American Express® Ca
Approved on the 5 free night application after calling recon. See card in my chase app. Question, does anyone else that was approved see the new account bonus tracker? Like on other cards under the rewards and benefits section of the app you’ll see how much spend is left to hit the bonus and what the bonus is.
Hey @Casey, can you tell us why the application was denied in the first place? Was it 5/24?
[…] Five Marriott free night certificate initial bonus offer […]
[…] The Chase Marriott Bonvoy Boundless card has a new offer for five free night certificates valid for one year, each for a stay of up to 50,000 points. The sign-up bonus requires $5,000 in spend in three months, and the annual fee on this card is $95.This is an outstanding deal for Marriott if you’re able to use all five certificates in the next year, but you will probably end up paying for parking and resort fees, so remember that free isn’t free when you’re Bonvoyed. (Thanks to FM) […]
Can someone clarify regarding these FNC expires after one year… do I just need to book the stay within one year or does the stay have to be within one year? E.g. if I get 5 FNC in Dec 2023 and book in 2024 for a vacation in Feb 2025. Will it work?
I’m 99% sure you cannot do this:
The FNC’s are issued as soon as you achieve the spend requirement and they expire 12 months from then and most importantly they have to be in your account and active when the stay is paid for (not when booked).
2/24
800 credit score
7 personal and 2 business with Chase
Applied and got 7 – 10 business day message.
Will call Reconsideration tomorrow
Hey, what’s the update?
Called Recon, app was still pending. They said there is nothing they can do until a decision is made. App is still pending as of today. Will call once I get the confirmed denial.
Just got an email I was approved.
There was a devaluation a few weeks back. Most hotels trending to 0.5ccp now with above average redemptions at 0.75cpp and the rare one pushing 1.0cpp.
While still not a bad offer, 50k even with 15k top off pushes even residence inns in many tourist destinations out of reach.
Keep in mind straight points gets you 5th night free but these certs won’t, so effectively worth 20% less than face value.
A bonus of 200k effective points at 0.5cpp still a solid $1000 bonus on $5k spend or 20% off spend bonus.
What’s your source fod for the deval?
Also many people are anyway not staying 5 nights in a row so it’s not quite 20% less compared to points.
See flyertalk, extensive discussion on the deval.
Also, while hypothetical value is interesting, I tend to look at practical value. Congrats you scored a qsuite for 65k miles. Is it really worth $20k? Only if you’d otherwise buy it. Otherwise I’m going to compare it to economy or premium economy price and the rest is cherry. Same for these certs.
Unless you’re swimming in points, the best value is on a five night stay where you get fifth night free. Sure there’s plenty of people in the middle but a significant enough number will either forfeit some of all certs for lack of travel (there are endless posts on people asking how to extend…) or you have a 5+ night vacation a year and could use points at 20% off. I think it’s reasonable to look at baseline value (0.5cpp at stay 5 pay 4).
With dynamic pricing you could also argue value is lower than 0.5cpp since you’ll have to redeem at 50-65k/night for all five nights to hit this. Of course stay5pay4 only knocks off the cheapest night so that would nudge value upward…maybe call it a wash.
So:
0.5cpp Bonvoy value
Stay5pay4
15k pt window for max value
65k/nt redemption ceiling
One year expiry and deval+dynamic pricing making it very hard to use all at desirable properties in desirable seasons.
I’d look at this bonus as $1k back in $5k spend with a risk of losing some or all of it depending on travel habits. Not bad at all.
I agree with you but you’re kind of making my point. The same way the q suites are not worth 20k to me, being that I rarely stay 5 nights in one place, the 5th night free is almost worthless to me. I’m not sure why that’s a factor in your valuation. Do you think most people do in fact stay 5 nights?
FNA expiration is definitely a con vs straight points but for people that think they can use them in the next year(or 2) this is a fantastic offer. I don’t remember a points SUB on a Marriott card with this AF even close to this.
You don’t take a five night vacation a year? That’s just 3-4 days. Moving more often than that is exhausting. I’d guess one or two 5+ nts/yr is more common than five 1nts/yr of leisure travel.
This sub has been offered sporadically for a few years now when pts were worth significantly more. When it first came out you could get ~50% more value on the dollar and at much nicer properties to boot (thanks inflation). A good deal on a $95/yr $5k spend card but not the exceptional deal it was. Today it’s high end of average at what to me is 20% on the MSR.
I was just approved last week for the 3x50K FNC offer. What are the odds Chase would match this one since it doesn’t appear to be a public offer on Chase site?
Same situation but 2 weeks. I tried via SM. No success. Anyone else?
I also tried. No success. Huge bummer
Phone or SM? I included a screenshot in the SM but they’re response indicated (maybe inaccurately) that they checked and I wasn’t eligible for the higher offer.
Signed up a week ago with the 3X50k cert offer, and requested a match to the 5X50k cert offer via SM. No luck. Disappointing.
I tried this with a SW card and the agent said Chase is less likely to do this with cobranded cards.
Well my timing was bad. I wanted to get this the last time it was offered but I had to wait after cancelling my Amex Bonvoy card. I ended up getting the no fee Bold with the 100,000 point offer. I still have the Amex business to get my 30 elite nights.
I’m about 200 nights away from Lifetime Platinum and then I’ll cancel everything and cherry pick offers like these.
Question
Looking for a card to PC to RC after 1 year is this card that card ?
IIRC this is the card to PC?
Visa Infinte card CL with Chase is non-issue.
TIA
Yes.
Yes I just upgraded mine to the RC last month after hitting the one year anniversary since taking advantage of the 5 FNC offer last year.
You said “You can’t split a certificate for multiple nights, so they aren’t as flexible as points.”. Is that mean I have to use ALL 5 certificates at the same at the same property.
I just want to make sure I understand that correctly before I apply.
I think he just means one cert, one night. So, one cert doesn’t cover two nights if the rate is 25K points per night.
Please comment on the transferability of these certificates to another account (e.g., P2).
Not possible.
I was just regretting not picking this up while the offer was elevated, to later convert to a Ritz card. It seems like these have more frequent elevated offers than most cards!
Since they’ve run this promo >1yr they know the numbers on how the certs are actually used now. Plus liability is off the books after 1yr whereas points are sticky. They’re essentially saying 5x50k</=100k points. Probably most of the burn comes from shill sites(not this one). "Look at this insane offer. 250k points for only $95!!! Best offer on the ever!!!"