The Edit by Chase Travel℠ has suddenly become interesting. The Edit is Chase’s answer to Amex’s Fine Hotels & Resorts (FHR). Just like FHR, The Edit offers elite-like hotel perks for a curated selection of hotels and resorts when you book through their program. The reason The Edit has suddenly become interesting is because the newly redesigned Sapphire Reserve card makes The Edit bookings more rewarding than ever: it offers $250 back every 6 months, 8x earnings on paid stays, and 2 cents per point value when redeeming points for stays (via Point Boosts). When you add in the fact that The Edit lets you earn hotel points and elite benefits for most stays booked through the program, it all becomes extremely intriguing.
But what if you have to pay a lot more to book hotels through The Edit? If that’s the case, all of that potential goodness I just mentioned would be for naught. So, I dug in to see for myself how The Edit rates compared to booking direct, booking through Fine Hotels & Resorts, and booking with hotel points. The results were encouraging…
The Edit by Chase Travel: Overview
Benefits
- Daily breakfast for 2
- $100 property credit
- Room upgrade at check-in if available
- Early check-in/late check-out if available
- Free Wifi
- Earn hotel points and elite benefits at many participating hotels (Chase Travel search results clearly show if the stay is eligible for hotel points)
Benefits compared to Fine Hotels & Resorts
Both programs list nearly identical benefits, but Fine Hotels & Resorts has one big advantage: guaranteed 4pm late checkout. If late checkout is important to you, Fine Hotels & Resorts is the way to go.
On Chase’s side, one big advantage of The Edit is that Chase clearly shows when a hotel booked through The Edit will earn hotel points for the stay. In most cases, FHR stays qualify for hotel points too, but Amex doesn’t do anything to show when that’s available.
Eligibility
The Edit is available to cardholders of the following cards:
- Sapphire Reserve
- Sapphire Reserve for Business
- J.P. Morgan Reserve Card.
Sapphire Reserve Perks
Beginning June 23rd, 2025:
- Redeem points for The Edit stays at a value of 2 cents per point
- Earn 8 points per dollar through Chase Travel. For people who had their card before June 23rd, this benefit doesn’t start until October 26th 2025.
- Consumer cards only: $250 rebate every six months (Jan-June, Jul-Dec) on prepaid bookings of at least 2 nights. For people who had their card before June 23rd, this benefit doesn’t start until October 26th 2025.
My Experiment
The new Sapphire Reserve perks for The Edit sound awesome, but only if the prices are okay and if there are a good number of hotels available. Here’s what I did to find out…
Methodology
I picked a random weekend in the fall (October 3 to 5) to look at The Edit hotel prices. I then picked 10 of the most visited cities around the world: London, Istanbul, Paris, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, New York, Miami, Los Angeles. With each city, I checked how many hotels were available via The Edit and also recorded the number available through Fine Hotels & Resorts. I then picked a single hotel that was available through both programs, and through a major hotel chain, and recorded the cash and point rates. As much as possible, I tried to match cash rates based on refund policy. For example, hotels booked through The Edit were often cancellable up to the day before the stay, so I tried to find similar flexibility when comparing to booking direct.
Results
City Comparison
In most cities, The Edit had fewer hotels available than Amex’s Fine Hotels & Resorts (FHR). And I didn’t include Amex’s The Hotel Collection in these numbers. If I had, Amex would have been waaaaay ahead in the number of available hotels. Note that I only counted hotels that had rooms available for my search, so numbers may vary for other dates.
| City | # The Edit Hotels | # FHR Hotels |
|---|---|---|
| London | 27 | 42 |
| Istanbul | 4 | 12 |
| Paris | 16 | 24 |
| Bangkok | 6 | 14 |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 13 |
| Mexico City | 8 | 8 |
| Buenos Aires | 0 | 2 |
| New York | 40 | 36 |
| Miami | 18 | 17 |
| Los Angeles | 21 | 31 |
Price Comparison
With each city, I picked a single hotel to drill down on. In almost every case I picked a hotel from a major hotel brand (Marriott, IHG, Hyatt) where The Edit specified that the stay was eligible for earning hotel points. I didn’t find any Hilton hotels on The Edit (probably because Hilton is closely aligned with Amex). The hotel in Hong Kong was the only exception because I couldn’t find a hotel that was in both programs (The Edit and FHR) that participates in a major hotel loyalty program. Buenos Aires was dropped from this second chart because there were no The Edit hotels available there.
| City | Hotel | Direct Total Price | The Edit Price | % Above Direct Price | FHR Price | % Above Direct Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | The London EDITION | $1,730 | $1,782 | 3% | $1,762 | 2% |
| Istanbul | The Ritz-Carlton | $1,234 | $1,192 | -3% | $1,182 | -4% |
| Paris | Park Hyatt Paris | $4,906 | $5,091 | 4% | $5,120 | 4% |
| Bangkok | Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok by IHG | $729 | $773 | 6% | $772 | 6% |
| Hong Kong | Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong | $1,328 | $1,209 | -9% | $1,209 | -9% |
| Mexico City | The St Regis Mexico City | $1,567 | $1,599 | 2% | $1,598 | 2% |
| New York | The Beekman | $1,480 | $1,591 | 8% | $1,439 | -3% |
| Miami | W South Beach | $1,958 | $2,052 | 5% | $2,053 | 5% |
| Los Angeles | Regent Santa Monica | $2,627 | $2,788 | 6% | $2,750 | 5% |
Prices shown above were the total for two days, after taxes. In most cases, prices at The Edit and FHR were extremely close. One major exception was with The Beekman in New York where FHR was $152 less.
As expected, I found that it usually costs more to book through The Edit (or FHR) than booking direct. That said, the premium was usually small: between 2% and 8%. And, in two cases I found that it was cheaper to book through The Edit. One was 3% cheaper and the other was 9% cheaper. I expected The Edit to be significantly more expensive so I was pleasantly surprised by these results.
Point Comparison
We have been told that all of The Edit hotels will be available to book for a value of 2 cents per point through Chase Travel. Assuming that’s true (we’ll find out on Monday 6/23), I estimated the number of Chase points required to book each of the hotels shown above. Then I also searched each hotel chain for the point price for the same weekend and listed that below as well…
| City | Hotel | The Edit Price Per Night | Chase Points Per Night | Hotel Reward Program | Hotel Points Per Night | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | The London EDITION | $891 | 44,550 | Marriott | 116,500 | 2.6 |
| Istanbul | The Ritz-Carlton | $596 | 29,800 | Marriott | 70000 | 2.3 |
| Paris | Park Hyatt Paris | $2,546 | 127,275 | Hyatt | 66000 | 0.5 |
| Bangkok | Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok by IHG | $387 | 19,325 | IHG | 54000 | 2.8 |
| Mexico City | The St Regis Mexico City | $800 | 39,975 | Marriott | 86000 | 2.2 |
| New York | The Beekman | $796 | 39,775 | Hyatt | 29000 | 0.7 |
| Miami | W South Beach | $1,026 | 51,300 | Marriott | 84000 | 1.6 |
| Los Angeles | Regent Santa Monica | $1,394 | 69,700 | IHG | 179000 | 2.6 |
An interesting, but not surprising, finding was that the Hyatt hotels in this round-up were much cheaper to book with Hyatt points than with Chase points. That’s consistent with what we’ve long known about how valuable Hyatt points can be. With Marriott and IHG, though, it was always much cheaper to book with Chase points than with Marriott or IHG points. Usually the number of Marriott or IHG points required was around 2.5 as many as the Chase points required. In one case, W South Beach, you would only need 1.6 times as many Marriott points to book the hotel.
Analysis
Chase’s The Edit has a large selection of hotels available in certain major cities, but they don’t yet have nearly the coverage that Amex does with Fine Hotels & Resorts. Additionally, if you’re a fan of Hilton hotels, I think you’ll have to look elsewhere.
While the cost to book hotels through The Edit is usually higher than booking direct, the difference is often very small. In a couple of cases I found prices were actually cheaper through The Edit when I compared to booking direct with the same cancellation rules. If you don’t mind getting locked in to the price paid, I often found (not shown) that booking non-refundable rates directly was much cheaper.
When considering a stay at a Hyatt hotel, it’s a great idea to check the number of points that Hyatt itself would charge for the stay. Often that will be the best deal. And you can transfer your Chase points to Hyatt 1 to 1 to book your stay.
With chains other than Hyatt, though, booking with Chase points could be a very good deal since you should get 2 cents per point value that way.
Conclusion
I’m excited about the opportunities that will soon be available through The Edit. As things stand right now, The Edit is not as good as Fine Hotels & Resorts since it has fewer properties and lacks guaranteed 4pm late checkout, but it offers very nice opportunities for Sapphire Reserve cardholders. And while I found that prices through The Edit were sometimes extreme, they were usually very close to the cost to book direct (with flexible cancellation rules).
There are a number of advantages of booking hotels through The Edit rather than with hotel points:
- The Edit offers perks like free breakfast and $100 property credit
- You can redeem your Chase points for 2 cents per point value
- You can earn hotel points and elite benefits during your stay
- I believe you will be able to pay $250 of your stay with your card and the rest with points in order to earn the consumer Sapphire Reserve card’s $250 rebate every six months.
- When booking through The Edit, you can pick from any available room-type rather than the (usually) more limited selection available when booking with hotel points.
On the other hand, there are times it doesn’t make sense to book through The Edit:
- With Hyatt in particular, you’re likely to do much better by booking the hotel with Hyatt points
- In most destinations, you can book a nicer (or just as nice) independent hotel for much less than the cost of booking a major chain hotel like those found on The Edit.
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Yea, I don’t think I’ll be staying at any $5000/night hotels any time soon. I’ll stay at the $200-300/night one down the road that’s almost as good, or maybe even the $50/night hostel (depending on where I am in the world). When I travel, I go to see the location, not to stay in the hotel.
That’s what I don’t get. Who are these people paying $1,000 a night for hotel rooms? And then saying “oh boy I can use my CSR to turn a $2,000 2 night stay into a $1,750 stay.”
If there was no 2 night minimum, then I could MAYBE see there being a small benefit to this thing. Might I stay at the Ritz Istanbul for $350 for a single night instead of $600? Maybe. But I’m certainly not interested in turning a $1,200 2 night stay into a $950 stay. And that’s one of the cheapest hotels on the list.
Greg: bull’s eye. Let he who has eyes see and he who has ears hear. The rest can complain.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to compare the Edit to the Hotel Collection from Amex due to the 2 night stay requirement for both?
Agree, this article lost me when THC wasn’t included.
I was looking at options in Vegas and noticed that some Edit properties don’t mention the breakfast for 2 benefit. I thought breakfast for 2 was standard for The Edit like it is for FHR. Is that not the case?
FWIW, every property in about a dozen other locations I checked listed the daily breakfast for 2 benefit. Strange that some Vegas properties don’t.
Greg: Thank you for putting this together -a clear demonstration that the Edit collection and the Chase Sapphire benefits are very much useless for most of us. Paying $729 for a two night stay in Kimpton Bangkok to get $250 credit? I just checked and the rate inclusive taxes and fees for two nights on ihg.com for the same dates was 616.63 USD. Now as a Hilton Diamond I will be perfectly fine with Conrad Bangkok paying 301.02 USD (all in) with free breakfast and lounge access. And there are other good options with Marriot and Hyatt. According to your post the Edit only offers 6 choice in Bangkok whereas such a small chain as Hyatt has 8 properties (not counting Mr & Mrs Smith).
If the Edit is 2-8% more expensive than booking direct, and hotels on The Edit are costing upwards of $1000 per stay, then the cost to book via The Edit is $200-800. For that cost, you get daily breakfast, a $100 property credit, and some other minor benefits. Is this really worth it?
To put it another way, the $250 credit brings the cost down to what you would normally pay, I.e., the $250 credit pays for these The Edit benefits.
Am I missing something? If the cost of the stay when booking direct is $1000 and The Edit is 8% higher you’re paying $1080 (1000×1.08). If you include the $250 semi-annual credit it’s effectively $830 which is a 17% discount over booking direct.
Don’t waste your breath. Even if you spoon fed some, they still won’t get it. They will continue to complain about how rotten the card is. Their minds are closed. They don’t have the brain power to figure stuff out and unlock the value that is there. They’re focused on clipping coupons to achieve net-zero-cost lounge access so they can fill their gym bags with buffet food.
So, while we’ll capture the value, you have to let it go and say to them “fine, don’t get the (stinkin’) card.”
I think, per the math, the cost to book via Edit would be $20-80 , not $200-800.
Viv and Nathan31 are correct; I am wrong. Serves me right to try to be doing math around bedtime.
I think most readers would like to pay the least amount possible out of pocket or with points and use mainly the $250 credit. It would be interesting to see how many hotels are available that are that are less than $250/$500 per night so at least 50%/25% of the cost is covered.
I’m assuming you can’t combine the $250 credit with 2 cpp award bookings?
I think you can: you should be able to pay with points for all except for $250 of your stay and then you should earn the $250 back as long as its at least a 2 night stay.
Well that could make it very interesting indeed…
@Greg couple things
I compared MaxFHR vs EDIT/Renowed Hotels (UA Quest $150 & 1N vs $250 & 2N) same portal platform, properties.
It appears that Amex uses dynamic pricing for properties (low demand, or bookings lower prices – hence MaxFHR) where as EDIT/RH tend be to be more fixed – so if you comp MaxFHR low price dates against the EDIT- It has a much more fixed rate that doesn’t really change. But I have also found some properties less than FHR as well.
We booked Fairmont Whistler in May with Renowned Hotel – earned Allcor (ALL) reward points and status nights – got an upgrade , 2 PM checkout and all inclusive Brekfast ala carte including 25% tip.
I’ve been playing around And some properties offer 4PM guaranteed late check-out – Kimpton Seattle
We PC’d two Freedom cards on Monday to CSR. Depending on the SUBs for CSR and CSR Biz we may add one or both depending on MSR if the rumors thst the CSP SUB won’t prevent getting the SUB on another personal CSR ‐ hopefully any SUB application last into August 50% off the way thru 2nd CSP SUB and AA Biz SUB. P2 got another CSP SUB in April – I was approved 5.30 (100K – fraud/ID theft auto decline – was using NordVPN to apply in JAX airport on Mother’s day.
I do think Chase is slow-rolling existing CSR cards to increase breakage as you have a little over 2 months during the holiday season to use all the semi-annual credits (Dine/Edit/StubHub as well as the Apple/Pelton credits are only for 66% for the longest AF fee people (AF hit this month) .
Otherwise ambitious maximzers could have triple-dipped the credits (but new CSR applicants possibly still could (at $550) some close-in bookings drop on FHR (not sure about EDIT) but we are peak vacay – so rooms maybe spendy during peak summer.
Good info, thanks!
Is the Edit’s list of hotels any different from Chase’s Renowned Hotel list for United cards?
Good question!
feels a little out of touch for hotels that cost $400 – $2500 per night weights closer to $1,000. but hey, maybe Greg is raking it in, and paying 4 digits+ is a nothing-burger.
What happens if you use Ultimate Rewards points and then cancel within the permitted window. Do the points go back into your Ultimate Rewards account as if you booked a Hyatt or Marriott directly with points?
I don’t know. I’ll look into that.
Thanks for this article, Greg. My understanding is that The Edit requires a two-night stay whereas AMX FHR only requires a one-night stay. If that is the case then FHR will still have a distinct advantage in a place like Las Vegas where my Player 2 (who has her own AMX Platinum card) and i can book one-night FHR stays at two casino/hotels within walking distance on the Strip and get $200 each back for both nights on a weekend trip to Vegas.
Yea definitely. This post wasn’t meant to be a comparison of the Chase vs Amex rebates.
What about split billing at checkout? If my stay is $600…can I pay $300 with my card and $300 with P2 card so we each get a $250 credit?
Are there any The Edit hotels for $200-$250 a night?
In Vegas
I’m not a Vegas person. I was thinking about upgrading from the CSP, but I think some of these credits are going to be too hard to use.
Yeah, spending $500-$1000 to use a $250 credit isn’t my thing either.
Yeah, that’s what I fear I would have to do to use it and then I don’t live in a big city so the dining credit would be hard to use. I don’t think I’m going to upgrade, too much of a hassle to deal with more coupons.
Yes, seen some very reasonable rates SEA/PDX/Vancouver BC –
Keep in mind that even if they are $250 per night, you wouldn’t get it for free since the $250 rebate requires a 2 night stay
This is the problem. I have uses for the AmEx FHR/HC credit that I can normally get for $150-$200/night. Almost everything on the Edit is so expensive that even after the credit, I’d be paying much more than I would be paying by staying in a different hotel.
Searching around the Edit, so far I’ve managed to find under $200/night in Dubai and Auckland, and a few options $200-$300/night in Palm Springs, Miami, Cancun, Mexico City, and Taipei
I found one in Istanbul for $300 on my first search.
Re: points earning through The Edit, been seeing data points with people not getting credited and then getting kicked around between Chase and the hotel management. This is despite it clearly saying that the stay is eligible for elite status earning and points earning.
I see this as well…I’d like to see some word from the HOTELS that The Edit is available for points earning, because it seems Chase wants it to be, but put no system in place to actually make it so. People have reported that hotels see it as a 3rd party reservation, and do not upgrade or give other benefits.
Hotel listing on Desktop show Loyalty program eligible under the listings for more than just the big 3 brands but also smaller boutique chains as well.
We had no is with All on a Fairmont Stay in May – earned reward points and status nights. With FHR I always call and ask them to add my reservation in the systems so I can tracknit with the app – 95% O have earned points.
VenX Premier choice (they send the actualy chain reservation number in the email as well as the Cap1 Conformation/reservation #.
Have heard the same from numerous sources as well about getting sent back and forth on the reservation. He has to keep spouting how great the card is though to keep shilling the card to the masses, yet he won’t even give people the courtesy to tell them the upcoming sign up bonus on the card even though he has already been told.
Wow, I hadn’t heard that. That’s really unfortunate. There wasn’t much reason to use The Edit before, but I suspect there will be a ton of bookings going forward, so there will be a ton of complaints if people don’t earn points. This won’t help early adopters, but I’d bet that they’ll get this worked out after a while
I hope so. Right now it seems clear Chase are on the back foot trying to copy Amex and the Platinum card but with less functioning, lower tier alternatives. Don’t know how successful they will be taking the penny pinching, cheaper alternatives but we will see. The days of their prior disruptive moves like the initial CSR launch are long gone.