Update 10/09/18: Readers are reporting seeing offers higher than they received before. For example one reader was previously offered 0 points and is now being offered 50,000 points to upgrade. Might be worth another look.
Update: The upgrade website will be down until July 9th for some unknown reason. You can still upgrade by calling Chase directly (use number on the back of your card and they will direct you through).
If you’re a Chase Marriott Premier cardholder you can now get an offer to upgrade to the new Premier Plus card. The annual fee is $10 higher at $95 instead of $85 and the card earns at a high rate as well, the following graphic does a good job explaining the differences. It’s important to note that the Premier Plus card will no longer offer trip cancellation or trip interruption insurance.
People are being offered anywhere from 0 to 50,000 points after a single purchase by 12/31/18. Because this is a product change and not a new account opening, you should keep your account history and credit age (this also means upgrading will have no affect on your 5/24 status). You can check your own upgrade offer here.
One thing that isn’t entirely clear is what happens the 15 elite night credits for existing Premier cardholders that upgrade to the Premier Plus. The Premier Plus won’t offer those elite night credits until 2019, so I guess people that upgrade will lose those but it’s not 100% clear. You can read a more dedicated post on whether upgrading is a good or bad idea here.
Hat tip to reader Abey & MH
Just received an offer today for $200 statement credit after spending $5,000 for upgrading.
Offer expires 3/31/19
I got an offer for a $100 Statement credit if I spend 3k within the next 60 days. My AF posted earlier this month and am contemplating should I keep checking the site the next 2-3 days or just forget it and cancel the card
Same here, called them and found another option is 50K points bonus. You may want to try.
My Marriott premier credit card is about to pay annual fee next week. I will get a free night up to 25K after paying $85 annual fee. I am also thinking about to upgrade to Marriott plus card. My question is will the anniversary year reset when I upgrade today? In other words, When can I get the free night (35K) if I upgrade today. The same day with it is supposed to be based on old premier card or have to wait for another year? Thanks.
The 50k deal expired on 12/31. I called them but the best they would offer is the $100 for 3k spend by 3/31. Did you call after 12/31 or before ?
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Denied Free Night Certificate due to Upgrade
Got the card in June 2016, first free night certificate in 2017, and in May of 2018 I got the email saying “your free night certificate is on its way” (within 8 weeks).
Also got the upgrade offer (30k) around the same time and accepted.
Just realized that the free night certificate was never added to my account. After 2 weeks Chase finally responded with “The free night stay will be issued on 05/17/2019, due to the upgrade it will be sent next year.”
My annual fee moved from June to September, and I paid on September 1 this year.
What the heck? Of course I’m escalating…
I opened my card on 12/1/2017. never got any email about the free Night. Have sent a SM to Chase about my Free Night Certificate. I missed this post earlier. Will wait to get a good offer to upgrade to Premier Plus.
just got off the phone with chase and it seems like they’re staggering the release of the 50k points for everyone who upgraded after 10/1 over the course of two statement periods. I received 10k a few weeks ago and was told the remaining 40k would appear after my current statement closes
Ah good to know, thanks. Did the 40k post yet?
Initially had a 20k offer, dropped to “not available” and later 50k which I accepted.
Any idea how long it takes for the bonus to hit?
My statement closed on the 11/1/2019 showing the bonus (50K) and the points posted on Marriott today 11/4/2019
I upgraded a few weeks ago for 20k poin upgrade bonus. I received my new card and everything. Then less than a week later I got an email offering me to upgrade for 50k points. I called chase and they said to see what happens when you click the link. It let me “upgrade again” I have not seen the extra 30k points show up yet but when I called back they assured me I would get the extra 30k points on my next statement. Has this happened to anybody else? If so did you get the extra points?
hey i was offered 10k originally, then 50k recently. i took the 50k and only 10k posted
This just happened to me too. Did you contact them?
I got an email offering me an upgrade to Premier for 50k points. I only have the Marriott Biz right now. When I try to enter my information for the upgrade offer, I get back “Thank You
We are sorry. We are unable to process your request at this time.
For further assistance, please call the number on the back of your card.”
Boooo!
Had a feeling that it wouldn’t work but was waiting until my anniversary night posted before trying to upgrade.
I have the Marriott personal card but had the same experience as you. Got the 50K upgrade email on 10/23, but the “We’re sorry…” message when clicking on the upgrade link and filling in my personal info. (I’d always gotten the “We’re sorry…” message when DoC previously posted upgrade alerts too) I sent a secure message to Chase requesting the upgrade/50K points, with a copy of the email, and they said to call in. So I called in, and in under 10 minutes was able to upgrade with the 50K offer. It might be worth calling in, the rep I had handled the upgrade seemingly without any issues.
Data points in case they’re helpful for others – I’ve only had the card since March 2018, and haven’t charged anything for a few months since I hit the $3K spend for the 75K points. Also, the email I received with the upgrade offer came to the email address I have tied to my Marriott rewards account, which is a different email address than I use for my Chase account.
I only have the Marriott Rewards Business card (from Nov 2017) but just received an email offering me 50,000 points to upgrade to the Marriott Rewards Premium Plus Card (no mention of it being business card).
Not sure what to make of that.
Just got this email as well with the personal Marriott Premier.
Same here. Got it on my business card. Did you go for the upgrade?
Originally offered 10k back in May and changed to 50k in October. Upgraded for the 50k and made my single purchase. My statement hasn’t dropped yet, but the transaction is only showing 10k points pending for that first transaction. SM sent…waiting to hear back.
I was offered 50k to upgrade but just today only 10k posted to my marriott account
same 10k showing in transaction but was supposed to get 50k. What happened when you sent sm?