The Edit vs Amex (now that the guaranteed 2x boosts are gone)

Chase recently made a significant negative change to The Edit by Chase Travel℠, Chase’s luxury hotel program for Sapphire Reserve® customers. Instead of offering a 2x “boost” for all of The Edit hotels, they now offer “up to 2x”. When paying with points, you’re no longer guaranteed to get 2 cents per point value with The Edit. Instead, many hotels are showing 1.65x boosts. In light of that change, I wondered if something good might have come from it. For example, maybe they lowered prices or added more hotels to their program. I don’t have much data from before the change, so I couldn’t do a direct before-and-after comparison. Instead, I matched The Edit against Amex’s hotel collections to see how it now looks in a head-to-head comparison…

Overview

To answer several questions I had about The Edit and how it compares to Amex’s Fine Hotels + Resorts (FHR) and The Hotel Collection (THC), I searched for hotels in both programs for a specific weekend (May 15-17, 2026) and across two cities: New York and London. Results can be found in the answers to each question below. First, though, here’s a quick comparison of the programs:

Did Chase add many more hotels to The Edit?

One of my biggest criticisms of The Edit has been that it has a much smaller collection of hotels than Amex does. In many medium-sized cities, I haven’t found any qualifying hotels. My hope with the Points Boost change was that it was driven by the realities of adding many new hotels, some of which would be less profitable for Chase. So, did Chase add many more hotels?

Answer: Not really, no.

At the time of this writing, Chase’s website shows that The Edit includes 1,402 properties. When we wrote about how to find that information and a list of eligible hotels (here) on November 14th, there were 1,371 eligible properties. Since then, the list has grown by 2.2%. That’s better than nothing, but it’s not enough to justify lowering the Points Boost on many properties.

Are many hotels boosted less than 2x?

I wouldn’t worry too much about the new 1.65x boosts if they only affected a small percentage of Chase’s catalog. Unfortunately, I found that around half of the results across New York and London were boosted at only 1.65x.

• Across New York and London: 73 hotels
  • 1.65x boost: 39
  • 2x boost: 34
• New York City: 44 hotels
  • 1.65x boost: 25
  • 2x boost: 19
• London: 29 hotels
  • 1.65x boost: 14
  • 2x boost: 15

Answer: Yes, approximately half of the hotels I looked at were boosted at only 1.65x.

Did The Edit gain ground compared to Amex’s hotel collections?

Chase may not have added many hotels overall, but they may have rebalanced their portfolio to look better in head-to-head comparisons with Amex.

Answer: Nope (at least not in New York or London).

Here are the number of eligible and available hotels that I found for the weekend of May 15-17, 2026:

• New York City
  • Chase’s The Edit: 44 hotels (19 with 2x boost, and 25 with 1.65x boost)
  • Amex: 73 hotels (34 Fine Hotels+ Resorts, and 39 The Hotel Collection)
• London
  • Chase’s The Edit: 29 hotels (15 with 2x boost, and 14 with 1.65x boost)
  • Amex: 84 hotels (39 Fine Hotels+ Resorts, and 45 The Hotel Collection)

In both cities, Amex offers far more available hotels than Chase. When looking only at Fine Hotels + Resorts, though, Chase has more eligible properties in New York (this was true in June 2025, too). However, In London, Amex’s Fine Hotels + Resorts alone includes more than twice as many hotels as The Edit

Are Chase’s prices competitive with Amex’s prices?

Maybe the reduced Points Boosts were introduced to make room for lower prices? If so, I’d expect Chase’s prices to be competitive with Amex’s…

Across the 73 hotels available through The Edit in New York and London, 47 were also available via Amex’s Fine Hotels + Resorts (FHR) or The Hotel Collection (THC). I did head-to-head price comparisons with those 47 matching hotels:

The data shown above made it possible to answer the following questions:

How do prices compare overall?

About half of the time, prices matched either exactly or within $15. That’s better than I expected for Chase. However, when prices were different, Amex was much more likely to have the lower price. Amex’s prices were lower 38% of the time, whereas Chase’s prices were lower only 9% of the time.

Does the answer differ whether the hotels are part of Fine Hotels + Resorts or The Hotel Collection?

Given that Fine Hotels + Resorts (FHR) includes many more perks than The Hotel Collection (THC), it seemed to me likely that Chase’s prices would be more competitive with FHR than with THC. The actual result, though, was the opposite. In 3 out of the 4 times where Chase was cheaper than Amex, the hotel was part of FHR. Of course, with numbers this low, the difference is just as likely to be a fluke.

Answer: No.

Are Chase’s prices better when the Points Boost is lower?

It would be reasonable to expect that hotels with lower Points Boosts would be more competitively priced than those with 2x boosts. Surprisingly, the opposite seems to be true. With 2x Points Boosts, I found that Chase had the same or better prices than Amex 70% of the time. With 1.65x Points Boosts, though, Chase had the same or better prices than Amex only half (52%) of the time.

Answer: No. In fact, prices seem to be better with 2x boosts!

How significant were the price differences?

When Amex was cheaper than Chase, there was no strong pattern in the extent of the savings. Approximately the same number of “winners” fell in each of the savings categories (1 to 5%, 6 to 10%, 11 to 15%, and 16 to 20%), but the savings never exceeded 20%. Meanwhile, when Chase was cheaper, the savings were only 1% or 2%, except for one outlier in which Chase was 23% cheaper than Amex (this was at The Mark in New York City).

Conclusion

Sadly, even after Chase introduced 1.65x boosts, The Edit compares poorly to Amex’s hotel collections. Amex has far more properties in its collection, and you’re more likely to get a better price through Amex than through Chase. On the other hand, with The Edit, you do have a very good chance (around 60%) of finding prices that are equal to or (rarely) better than Amex’s. And, if you want to use points to pay for your stay, you’ll do much better with Chase than with Amex since Amex doesn’t offer Points Boosts at all.

What does it all mean? It is possible to get reasonable prices through The Edit, and it is still possible to get 2x boosts about 50% of the time. The value that I wrote about last week (Rethinking The Edit by Chase Travel℠) is still there, but it’s now harder to find.

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