Update 12/18/25: We’ve heard back from Chase and they’ve confirmed that The Edit hotel bookings are indeed no longer guaranteed to get two cents per point of value. However, Chase will be honoring 2c per point for bookings through 12/22/25. We received this statement:
Some of our Chase Travel content marketing the 2x points boost promotion for The Edit remained in market longer than intended. We will proactively honor 2x points value for any customers who book a stay at a property in The Edit through December 22, 2025. Customers will see the points adjustment in their Ultimate Rewards balance. As a reminder the terms outlining the Points Boost program are available here*
At this point, we do not know when to expect a points adjustment, but if you intend to make a booking through The Edit, you’ll need to make it by 12/22/25 in order to lock in 2c per point.
Chase had a day earlier told us that they always intended to have rotating offers across hotel properties, though we saw zero indication of that when they first launched Points Boosts for The Edit, nor did they communicate that until customers noticed that they were getting less value than had previously been promised.
Here was Chase’s full quote after we first published about this change:
At launch, we shared that Points Boost would be available at up to 2x on select hotels and flights. While all of The Edit properties have been boosted to 2x since launch, it was always intended that the program would include a range of rotating offers across flight classes and hotel properties. Many properties that are part of The Edit are boosted at 2x, with others now at varying redemptions. This is the rotating nature of Points Boost offers, which now comes with the addition of new airlines and different airfare classes. We’re very excited for the demand we’ve seen for Points Boost and will continue to invest in the program to provide cardmembers with more value across more options.
Our original post about this change follows.
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Greg recently wrote Rethinking The Edit by Chase Travel℠, a post where he shared his updated thoughts about the value of The Edit hotel bookings when redeeming points if you have a Chase Sapphire Reserve® card.
Well, it appears that he’s going to need to re-rethink his assessment of The Edit.
That’s because someone on Reddit has highlighted that Chase has edited The Edit. It’s no longer guaranteed that you’ll get to credit 2 cents per point (cpp) of value for The Edit which is something that will no doubt lead some Sapphire Reserve cardholders to say fuhgeddabouttheedit.
When Chase first launched The Edit, some readers noticed a couple of instances where redemptions of Ultimate Rewards points at The Edit properties weren’t being calculated at a 2cpp value. We reached out to Chase to highlight the instances where redemptions weren’t being calculated at a 2cpp valuation and those were promptly fixed.
Over the past 24 hours or so, I’d seen a couple of mentions/comments where people had highlighted that The Edit bookings they’d been looking to make weren’t being calculated at 2cpp. I’d initially assumed that these were glitches rather than it being a devaluation of the program fewer than six full months after it was launched, but sadly that’s not the case.
Reader EP150 directed us to this Reddit post. Again, I initially figured that the person who started that thread had simply encountered a one-off property that wasn’t being calculated properly. That is, until I started scrolling down.
For starters, many Redditors shared their examples of not getting 2cpp of value. That was a bad enough sign, but what appears to be the nail in the guaranteed value coffin is that Chase has updated the wording on its website to no longer assure you of 2cpp of value for The Edit bookings.
Grantwwu used the Wayback Machine to confirm that Chase’s website used to state that your points are worth 2x when redeemed for The Edit bookings if you have a Sapphire Reserve card.
Originally, the terms on Chase’s website stated the following (our bolding):
If you have a Chase Sapphire Reserve card and you use Points Boost, your points are worth 2x when you book a hotel that’s part of The Edit℠, and up to 2x when redeemed for both thousands of other top-booked hotels and flights with select airlines through Chase Travel.
However, that same page now states the following (our bolding):
If you have a Chase Sapphire Reserve card and you use Points Boost, your points are worth up to 2x when you book a hotel that’s part of The Edit℠, and up to 2x when redeemed for other top-booked hotels and flights with select airlines through Chase Travel.
See the difference? That page used to say ‘your points are worth 2x,’ but now it says ‘your points are worth up to 2x.’ It’s never good when anything in this hobby says ‘up to’ because it often ends up meaning ‘rarely’ and it most certainly means that 2x isn’t guaranteed.
Based on our initial observations, it appears that while you can still get 2cpp of value for some The Edit bookings, there are many others where you’ll only get 1.65cpp of value. In effect, that’s a 17.5% devaluation for redemptions at those properties.
For example, in the screenshot below you can see two hotels in New York. The Fifth Avenue Hotel costs $3,438 for two nights, or 171,901 Ultimate Rewards points – a 2cpp value. However, the Wythe Hotel costs $,1370 for the two nights or 83,044 points. Although it’s marked as a Points Boost hotel and that it’s part of The Edit, that equates to only 1.65cpp of value.
It would be bad enough if there were more than just a handful of examples of this devalued pricing, but it seems to be even worse than that. When checking hotels in New York, Greg found 18 properties where you could redeem Ultimate Rewards for 2cpp of value, but 23 others that had a lower redemption level.
The fact that you now get less than 2cpp of value at more than half the properties in a major US city using one of the flagship benefits of Chase’s updated Sapphire Reserve card is an incredibly disappointing development, especially coming less than six months after it launched. It definitely gives the impression that they wanted plaudits for the 2cpp guaranteed redemption ability immediately after the card’s revamp, only to hope that the subsequent devaluation would be missed/ignored/forgotten just a few months down the line.
We’ve reached out to Chase about this development, so we’ll update this post if/when we receive some kind of statement.
In the meantime, the Frequent Miler Bonvoyed of the Year awards are coming up in the next week or so and Chase seems to be making a late push for winning that unwanted award. If they manage to snatch it out of the hands of Southwest this year, it’ll be a truly impressive feat.
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Has anyone actually received the retroactive points adjustment for bookings prior to 12/22/25? Is there a timeline for these adjustments? We made a booking on that day, but we still haven’t seen points added into our account.
I am on the phone right now with Chase Sapphire Reserve Customer Service Representative and Chase Travel for the Edit program. Neither of them have heard anything about the announcement for the 2X being honored through December 22nd. Trying to make one last Edit booking at 2X for a Ritz-Carlton and calling to verify that this actually is being honored, and all of them there are clueless.
It sounds like that Chase has possibly run a foul with compliance the 2009 CARD ACT .
IANAL
JPMC did disclose with advance notice of future devaluation of points and earning (WHY?) – but they also did a bait and switch – selling/marketing ” 2X points boost on EDIT bookings” as part of the forthcoming changes. The quietly EDITed their marketing.
From CFPB on the CARD ACT:
“REWARDS PRODUCTS: For certain consumers, comparison shopping for new
credit cards frequently revolves around considering different rewards programs.
Rewards offers can be highly complex, with detailed rules regarding the eligibility
for sign-on bonuses, the value of earned points, the rate at which they are earned,
and the rules governing their forfeiture.”
(The CFPB IS STILL IN BUSINESS – they have be defanged a little but Credit issuers are not ignoring complaints).
This card is ridiculous… the “Chase Tables” dining credit is at like <0.1% of restaurants, and they will frequently not honor it (due to technical issues) even you dine at one of those restaurants.
… and now the 2cpp, arguably the thing making "The Edit" as a whole worthwhile (since a $250 credit off of a "$1000/night x 2 night stay" is not meaningful by itself), is largely toast.
So it's a Stubhub/AppleTV card then?
FYI for the chase dining they don’t need to accept it, you just pay as normal with your chase card and the credit appears later.
Guilty
Chase couldn’t even extend the 2x point boost into January to allow us to use our Edit credit. Very uncool
Honoring yet another condition of the card program, this time for three whole days. THREE DAY. Gosh, what a bargain! /s
Screw them. I foolishly already paid my AF for the year, when it runs out, this card is going away. It’s crap now, and gets worse every day.
In six short months, Chase has gone from best to worst. Mission accomplished, brilliant geniuses!
You can downgrade and get your AF prorated.
Yikes, Chase. I wasn’t too negative about the new Sapphire, but I really don’t see much value in keeping it beyond a year. I’d rather use a hotel-specific card or hunt for deals on booking websites.
Screw Chase for this bait and switch. This was one of the stated benefits of the card and now they’ve completely changed it. This should be illegal with sufficient notice.
Reach out to the CFPB. Oh, wait. Nevermind.
This is why banks lobbied to dismantle CFPB, this is just the beginning of scams.
No mention of the “Amenity fee” The Edit hotels are charging customers. Plenty of receipts on Reddit showing the charge. Ridiculous. Chase is disgusting.
Update x3 from /u/Chase on Reddit:
Wow. You would think once they had blown off a few of their toes they would stop shooting.
Such a statement, if genuine, suggests Chase intended to roll out 2cpp to attract customers and intended to subsequently remove it. Call it what you will but, to me, this displays incredibly bad faith.
@Jack – advertising one thing and then slowly or not-so-slowly degrading the experience while charging the same or more as originally charged describes a very strong majority of the consumer economy these days…
Given that this entire thing is disjointed, I might attempt a “bank error in my favor”.
I’m going to make a booking (for next year) prior to Dec 22. Presumably, some time in the coming weeks I should get an adjustment to my ultimate rewards balance for the difference between 1.65cpp and 2.00cpp. In my case for this booking, it will be ~13k pts.
The entire thing is so disjointed, that I doubt it will even be linked to my booking. I think some on the back end or in customer service will be just making a one-time deposit of points.
There is a good chance I will need to cancel this booking eventually if the dates no longer work (i.e. because they’re essentially forcing me to do it ~7 months in advance because of this Dec 22 deadline). If I do so, I will get refunded the points from the original booking. I imagine I might just also keep the points they deposited into my account.
We will see…
Chase really hates customers. Wow. People need to stop complaining and just downgrade or better cancel their Chase UR cards. Not like they’re earning much from them anyways. Only then will Chase respect customers and appreciate loyalty.
The tapping you hear is the last nail in the coffin for this card.
Let’s never forget Chase’s willingness to gaslight and make fraudulent statements when they could’ve simply said, “We changed our minds.”
I’ll still use the $250 The Edit credits each 6-month period, but, yeah, not ‘great.’ At least the 4x for booking directly with hotels is sort of a 1x increase. However, the loss of rental cars, cruises, and other travel from 3x to 1x is still my main complaint about all the recent changes.
I’ve been trying, but haven’t been able to find a good use for them. Comparing them to the Amex FHR, “$250 off of 2 nights” is a lot worse than “$300 off of 1 night”, especially since the Edit seems to have a smaller footprint.
I’ve spent a lot of time searching, but I’ve only been able to find a single hotel with my upcoming travel plans for the next year where I think I will be able to get meaningful value from the $250 credit. So many of the hotels are like $1000+/night, which means $2000 for a 2 night stay, which is like ~$1750 after the credit. If I’m getting 2cpp, it’s ~44k chase pts per night, while if I’m getting 1.6cpp its more like 54k chase points per night
I can get better value by transferring those same Chase points to Hyatt and using less points to book a similar-or-better hotel. Or I can often get the same hotel with another loyalty program using less valuable points.
I just can’t seem to get any value out of the $250 edit credit. Which I suppose, is why it’s been designed the way it has.
Meanwhile, I have several Amex FHR bookings (to utilize $300 credits) that were fairly low-effort to work into my travel plans.
I was finally able to find a booking that made sense with the Edit…..kinda.
I found an Edit hotel where it was $601 for 2 nights. By stacking the $250 Edit credit and the Chase offer for $100 off a Chase Travel booking of $600 or more, I ended up paying $251 for the 2 night stay.
Of course, there was a comparable hotel that I could have booked outside of Chase that was $327. So the $350 in combined credits ended up being worth $76 for me. Except I could have booked the other hotel through a shopping portal for 3% cashback, so I guess it was really only worth $66 for me. And I guess maybe had I really tried, I could have found a different trip to book a non-Edit hotel through Chase Travel for over $600 to use the $100 Chase offer, so maybe it really cost me $34 to use the credits. Regardless, it certainly wasn’t easy!
Nice stacking with that $100!
FHR, especially with the new $300 six month credits is far superior to Chase. Yet, still Citi Strata Elite’s $300 credit and horrible travel portal makes Chase look like a saint…