Chase Ink cardholders are reporting receiving a letter letting them know that you have until April 30th, 2015 to sign up for the Lounge Club benefit before it’s discontinued. For those already enrolled (and for those who enroll before the deadline), you’ll be able to continue to use this benefit until the expiry date shown on your lounge club card (one year from the issue date). If you haven’t already enrolled, I’d recommend doing so here. The full letter that was sent out can be viewed below:
Image thanks to reader Sasha
What Is The Chase Lounge Club Benefit?
Lounge Club has approximately 350 lounges world wide (I think this is just a rebrand of the Priority Pass, but I could be wrong), by enrolling your Chase Ink card you were given limited access to this program. You received two complimentary visits per year after you enrolled your card and then had to pay $27 per person per visit. This benefit was available on the Chase Ink Cash, Chase Ink Bold (now discontinued) & Chase Ink Plus.
Final Thoughts
This benefit was useful for the two free lounge passes annually, although I doubt I’d ever want to pay $27 for any of the lounges that are available. The Lounge Club access that the Chase Ritz Carlton card offers gives unlimited access to the same lounges (although the annual fee is much higher at $395). Personally I always see lounge access as an added benefit, but I’d never sign up for a card specifically for that benefit (usually I have access to at least one lounge program purely based on chasing different sign up bonuses).
It’s always a shame to see benefits disappear from a card, so fingers crossed that Chase replace this benefit with something more cardholders will actually use.
Hat tip to Malibu Miles on Twitter
@Diamond, awesome thanks for the quick heads up!
appreciate it!
There is no list of negative changes at the moment. I guess I could create something but it’d probably be pretty time intensive.
yeah wish you could tag your posts so we could search and look it up ourselves 🙂 I know you might have a lot on your plate at any given time! just trying to make the site we all love, better and more user-friendly.
or if you could have a common search phrase in such posts, like “remove” “losing” “loss of benefit” … I suppose we could search keywords that way, hopefully the search engine here obliges.
but yeah a comprehensive, recent list of negative changes (or links to relevant posts) for the purposes of what Diamond outlined, would be very helpful indeed!
That’s a good idea, I’ll start tagging posts with “benefit loss” you can view that tag here: https://www.doctorofcredit.com/tag/benefit-loss/
It won’t work for existing posts (but I will add it to future posts), but this post has a round up of the recent lost benefits: https://www.doctorofcredit.com/credit-card-losing-a-benefit-ask-for-compensation/
Be sure to ask Chase for compensation for the loss of the benefit — I asked for and received 5k UR points over secure message.
Great tip, Diamond!
Diamond,
What did you say in the Secure Message Center to get that extra 5k?
If I have an Ink Plus and Ink Bold card, can I sign up for the Lounge Club card twice?
Yup
curious if they verify and check the person registering as an Ink card holder?
I do have an Ink card but while registering your CC they let you put any card you wanted to be billed to (in the future.)
so wondering if I can sign up fam members for a year of lounge even though they will most likely never use it due to limited traveling and locations of this lounge.
Not sure, I imagine they check to make sure that number range is a Chase Ink card but not 100% sure. I wouldn’t risk it personally but up to you. You can always get authorized user cards and then enroll those which apparently works.
The authorized user benefit apparently was dropped by Chase for Lounge Club cards. I signed up a couple more Ink AUs to my account prior to the cutoff date and signed up for the Lounge Club cards PRIOR to the cutoff date. However, I never received them, even though I received the automated e-mails saying I would get them in 10-14 days or something to that effect. I called the “benefits administrator” number provided by Chase and the lady says that it doesn’t cover AUs any longer, only primary cardholders. Does anybody know when Chase made this change without telling anybody?
My current lounge club card is set to expire April 2015. Any ideas if the card auto-renews, or is it generally a one-time benefit?
For Chase RC, how many guests can u bring along with u without charge? or free for cardholder only?
From our review of the Chase RC card:
How many guests will be admitted free of charge using the club card?
This depends on the specific lounge you want to attend, it seems you can have as many guests as you like up to the lounge limit.
I just received the chase ink card. How do I get the “access code” that’s requested when I click the link to sign up for lounge pass?
access code is CHASEINK
thank you
Should just be CHASEINK, if that doesn’t work call the number on the back of your card.