The Offer
Chase is sending out the following offer on the INK Cash card as well:
- Earn a total of 10% Cash Back on up to $2,500 in combined hotel and car rental purchases made through the Chase Ultimate Rewards portal with your INK Cash card
It’s not 10% extra, only 9% extra, on top of the standard 1% cash back earnings on all purchases.
The Fine Print
- Offer valid for bookings made from March 1 to March 31, 2017
- Offer valid when using your INK Cash card and booking through Ultimate Rewards portal
- Bonus cash back will post to your account within a week of the transaction posting, and will appear on your monthly credit card billing statement and be available for use within 1-2 billing cycles
Our Verdict
Note the terms indicate that you must pay with your INK Cash card. You have to book during March, but can book out into the future. Update: make sure you got the email from Chase about this offer. Since there’s no public landing page, it might be targeted.
You will be losing out on the portal rewards by booking through Ultimate Rewards instead of an OTA. You could use your CSR, for example, and get 3x on travel when booking through a different OTA. Looking at it that way, it’s just 7x bonus. And you also might be losing out on hotel loyalty points, so keep that in mind.
We posted this offer for the Freedom and Freedom Unlimited cards, and reader Rahul let us know that the same offer is being sent out on the INK Cash card. I haven’t yet found a public offer page, if anyone finds such a link please let us know and I’ll add it in.
