If you ran through the coupon tracker that we published last week and realized that you need some Fine Hotels & Resorts inspiration, there’s an awesome free tool that came out last year to help people make use of their Fine Hotels + Resorts (FHR) credits each year. It’s called MaxFHR and is brought to you by the guy behind MaxMyPoint. We are re-publishing this post to remind people about this awesome tool and how it can help you find properties within your desired price range.
Update 9/22/25: MaxFHR has added The Hotel Collection, so you can now filter to either Fine Hotels & Resorts or The Hotel Collection or search both at the same time. This is a fantastic update for those with increased/newly launched prepaid hotel credits to use!
Read on for the original post about this awesome tool.
What MaxFHR does is collate every hotel bookable through FHR (and now The Hotel collection as well!) and sorts them via the lowest price it’s possible to book them for through the end of the booking calendar. It’s automatically sorted by ascending price, but you can sort it in descending price too. I imagine though that most people will prefer the ascending price option.
As you can see, the lowest available price is displayed for each property on the site’s home page. You can scroll through all properties, but it’ll take a while – the site loads 20 properties at a time and, at the time of originally publishing this, there are 1,337 different FHR properties around the world.
Pricing Calendars
When clicking through to a property, the site displays the pricing for every day of the current month. You can then scroll through the calendar one month at a time to quickly peruse pricing, with it changing from month-to-month lightning fast rather than taking ages to load.
Being able to see a monthly pricing calendar can be extremely useful if you’re flexible with your travel dates. If you were visiting Auckland, New Zealand in the next few days, you’d be able to book two nights at the Cordis, Auckland by Langham Hospitality Group for only slightly more than $200, thereby getting two nights out of your $200 FHR credits (n.b. the credits are now a twice annual $300 per year; once from January-June and the other July-December).
As you can see in the screenshot above, there’s a disclaimer stating that the pricing displayed might not be the most up-to-date pricing. The site is therefore presumably pulling pricing at regular intervals (perhaps once per day) which is why the pricing calendars can load so quickly as it’s not pulling dynamic information from the FHR website. In my opinion that’s worth the trade-off for a site that loads so quickly and makes it easy to check pricing at each property seeing as it’s not like a site looking for limited award inventory where live results are much more important.
For some hotels, the calendar pricing can be particularly useful in identifying cheaper dates. For example, next month The Palazzo at The Venetian has pricing ranging from $132 per night at the low end up to $1,389 per night at the high end.
Seeing the results displayed by month can help you pick a cheaper date even if you have very limited flexibility with your dates. As you can see above, if you’d searched the regular FHR website for Monday May 6, you’d likely be put off by the astronomically high price of $1,019, not necessarily realizing that the night before only costs $132.
Other Features
MaxFHR has filters for pricing, different types of FHR credit and displaying Special Offers only. Perhaps the most useful tool though (other than the Ascending Price sorting option) is the search bar at the top. This enables you to search by location in order to exclude properties elsewhere in the world.
Something worth knowing is that you need to use certain specific search terms. For example, searching for ‘USA’ displays results where the letters ‘usa’ happen to appear in the location name.
To search for properties in the US, you need to search for ‘United States’ instead. I hadn’t expected how many hotels in the US are bookable for $300 or less. I’d known about The Duniway Portland as we’ve stayed there ourselves using FHR and I knew there’d be several Vegas options. What I hadn’t expected was the ability to spend less than $300 at FHR properties in New Orleans, San Francisco, Tucson, Phoenix, Seattle, Savannah and more.
Similarly, searching for ‘England’ displays nothing, but searching for ‘United Kingdom’ displays 46 eligible properties.
I hadn’t realized before using MaxFHR that The Gainsborough Bath Spa in England was on FHR. We stayed there a couple of years ago and loved it, so it’s good to know that it’ll be available as a booking option this way in addition to hopefully being bookable via Hilton soon as it’s part of SLH. With room rates available from $254, that would be a great deal when using a $300 FHR credit.
Question
Have you used MaxFHR yet? If so, did it help you find somewhere to use your FHR credits? Let us know in the comments below.
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I’m doing some trip planning and found MaxFHR to have a lot of inaccurate information.
Instead, use the filter for Amex travel and select Hotel Collection and/or FHR. It’s pretty clunky but you’ll probably end up there to book anyways, and it won’t screw up your expectations with bad info.
Yep, saw some great prices on MaxFHR then went to Amex to book and multiple hotels were not there.
Seems like the date range (for free users) is automatically set to the current week. Not a problem if a property you are interested in has availability that week (you can move to future months in calendar view). But if not, is there any way as a free user to “look ahead” about a property’s availability?
They made this tool shitty and useless after paywalling this basic feature.
Question – If one is able to book one FHR night at under $300, does the unused credit amount carry over to another booking or is it forfeited?
It carries over
HERE for the update! Well done Max FHR!
the addition of THC is awesome! always found there was no easy way to see those without initiating a search on Amex Travel portal itself
tool is unusable now without paying $80 a year… way overpriced
Exactly! This tool is shitty and useless now that they have paywalled the most basic feature.
The credit is now more than $200, the title should be updated.
Missing: Bookable via Choice. Are they integrated?
I’ve been waiting for this jank tool to load for 10+ minutes now after paying for platinum. Do not waste your money on this junky tool. Don’t worry though, the ads load great /eyeroll/
Exactly! It used to be good but now it has gone downhill. They’ve paywalled the most basic feature, a date range filter. How is that not considered essential and free? Instead of locking core functionality, why not find a fairer and a smarter way to monetize instead of crippling the tool?
[…] Looking for vacations ideas? It’s key to find fun places to visit near me with affordable fine hotels. Using loyalty programs, like the Amex Platinum card, can help. It offers a $200 annual credit for Fine Hotels and Resorts (FHR)17. […]
[…] Looking for vacations ideas? It’s key to find fun places to visit near me with affordable fine hotels. Using loyalty programs, like the Amex Platinum card, can help. It offers a $200 annual credit for Fine Hotels and Resorts (FHR)17. […]
This is fantastic, because I find the FHR website so dang hard to use. The search function isn’t great, and even the layout of their website leaves so little room for exploration. Excited to try this out and actually use my credits!
Looks like the Gainsborough Bath Spa in England is up on Hilton for 60k a night.
I had my entire hotel credit available, so as a birthday gift for my wife, I decided to use MaxFHR to book an excellent hotel for a staycation during the holidays. The hotel truly lived up to the FHR standard, and I was thrilled with the fabulous price of just $287 in total. We utilized the dining credit at their award-winning restaurant, and our bill ended up being just $1 over the credit amount. The following morning, we enjoyed a delicious breakfast at another one of the hotel’s restaurants, which was also completely covered by the hotel credit.
All in all, this grand staycation only cost $110 because I used maxFHR. One of the best deals in 2024!
This fall we did the Viceroy in Chicago, great hotel. They were running a deal on Amex pay for 2 nights get a 3rd free, minus the $200 credit, it was a great deal. Perfect location.