Increased Signup Bonus On Chase IHG Premier & IHG Traveler Cards

The Offer

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Chase is offering increased signup bonuses on the IHG Premier $99 fee card and on the IHG Traveler no-fee card:

  • IHG Premier: Earn 165,000 bonus points after spending $3,000 in the first 3 months from account opening.
  • IHG Traveler: Earn 2 Free Nights—valued at up to 100,000 total points (each night valued at up to 50,000 points)—plus 40,000 bonus points after spending $2,000 in the first 3 months from account opening.

Card Details

IHG Premier:

  • Annual fee of $99 (not waived the first year)
  • Card earns at the following rates:
    • 26x points per $1 spent on IHG properties (10x from the card + 15x from status and club membership)
    • 5x points per dollar spent on travel, dining & gas
    • 3x points per $1 spent on all other purchases
  • Free night certificate on card anniversary (worth 40,000 toward a stay)
  • Automatic Platinum elite status
  • Fourth Reward Night Free on any stay of 4 or more nights
  • 20% discount when purchasing points
  • Global Entry or TSA PreCheck fee credit
  • Earn a $100 statement credit and 10,000 bonus points once you spend $20,000 in a calendar year.
  • When you spend $40,000 in a calendar year, you will qualify for Diamond Elite Status through December 31st of the following year.
  • Receive up to $50 United TravelBank Cash each calendar year after registering your IHG Rewards Premier Credit Card with your MileagePlus account.
  • This product is available to you if you do not have a current IHG® Rewards Credit Card (any IHG personal card) and have not received a new Cardmember bonus within the last 24 months (on any IHG personal card). This restriction does not apply to Business Card Credit Card products.
  • Chase 5/24 rule applies to this card

IHG Traveler:

  • No annual fee
  • Card earns at the following rates:
    • 5x points per $1 spent on IHG properties
    • 2x points per $1 spent on gas stations, grocery stores and restaurants
    • 1x points per $1 spent on all other purchases
  • Gold elite status when you spend $10,000 on your card each calendar year
  • Fourth Reward Night Free on any stay of 4 or more nights
  • 20% discount when purchasing points

Our Verdict

Earlier this year we saw a similar offer on the Premier at 170,000 with $4,000 spend. The no-fee Traveler card we’ve seen 100k and 120k offers with the same $2,000 spend requirement; the current offer of two nights + 40,000 is unique if you can max out value on the free night certificates. There’s also an increased offer on the IHG Business card as well. 

Regarding the IHG Premier offer, a lot of people won’t value it as much as the 5-free-night signup offer we saw a few months ago. The no-fee Traveler card is more interesting, but again, many will prefer to simply signup for the Premier card instead. 

Hat tip to DDG
    Chuck
  • On September 4, 2025, 13:52
Tags: bigchasechase ihgchase ihg premierchase ihg travelerihg

View Comments (16)

  • Currently at the Intercontinental Crete for 5 nights and then Intercontinental Athens for 4 nights and booked all with ONLY Personal Premier and Business Premier bonuses. Also using one of the free night certs on a crown plaza stay for 1 night on the way back home! IHG can have value guys!

  • I wish the spend wasn't always so much more for business bonuses. 6 months help, but $9k is 2 bonuses or more on some cards.

    Worth it to avoid a credit line I guess (And I'm not eligible with the grandfathered card anyways)

    • I think I've heard that on Chase bonuses before, but they could also just not give the bonus.

      I have the grandfathered card as well and the math doesn't bode well the favorable signup bonuses. Keeping for now as I have a decent redemption, and can find other good bonuses to do instead.

      • What type of redemption did you have? I found it is very hard to get a decent redemption with my IHG points :(

  • For the IHG Premier card, the referral bonus is only 140,000. Will the referral bonus go up to 165,000 as well?

    • Be careful referring for this card. If Chase sends you a 1099, they will value the referral points at 1CPP.

    • In my experience the referral offer does not usually change so I would expect it to remain at 140,000

  • Would've opened the IHG Business for 200k, but definitely not biting at $9k spend. They need to do better, $5k max, but even then that's a lot, with how weak and devalued IHG points are nowadays.

  • Looks like I am a rare user who values 165k points more than free nights :)
    I often book using points for 3days to get 4 th for free. For example my latest Honolulu booking cost me 108 points for 4 days. So I could use 165 as 6 days there.
    Often I use cheaper hotels which costs around 25k points per night. Then redemption even better. But YMMV.

    • I frequently get excellent redemptions with the fourth night perk. Generally, these destinations are abroad, but they definitely exist.

    • You can even get some hotels for less than 20k. The 165k points can get you 10 free nights if you use the free 4th day perk

  • Try booking a room using points if satisfied then apply source: platinum member , not able to book anything decent ,member since 2011

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