Update 2/6/24: Offer is now showing on referral links as well through March 27th (ht berkstud14). No referrals in the comments below.
Update 1/25/24: Offer is back (ht Spiel)
The Offer
- Chase is offering a five free night certificates that can be used on properties costing up to 50,000 points per night when you spend $5,000 within the first three months of account opening on the Chase Marriott Bonvoy Boundless card.
Card Details
- Annual fee of $95, not waived first year
- Eligibility for this product: The product is not available to either:
- current cardmembers of the Marriott Bonvoy™ Premier credit card (also known as Marriott Rewards® Premier) or Marriott Bonvoy Boundless™ credit card (also known as Marriott Rewards® Premier Plus), or
- previous cardmembers of the Marriott Bonvoy™ Premier credit card (also known as Marriott Rewards® Premier) or Marriott Bonvoy Boundless™ credit card (also known as Marriott Rewards® Premier Plus), who received a new cardmember bonus within the last 24 months.
- Eligibility for the new cardmember bonus: The bonus is not available to you if you:
- are a current cardmember, or were a previous cardmember within the last 30 days, of Marriott Bonvoy™ American Express® Card (also known as The Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express);
- are a current or previous cardmember of either Marriott Bonvoy Business™ American Express® Card (also known as The Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express) or Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant™ American Express® Card (also known as the Starwood Preferred Guest® American Express Luxury Card), and received a new cardmember bonus or upgrade bonus in the last 24 months; or
- applied and were approved for Marriott Bonvoy Business™ American Express® Card (also known as The Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express) or Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant™ American Express® Card (also known as the Starwood Preferred Guest® American Express Luxury Card) within the last 90 days.
- Chase 5/24 rule applies to this card
- Free award night every anniversary valid at a property costing up to 35,000 points
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 6x points per $1 spent at Marriott Bonvoy hotels
- 2x points per $1 spent on all other purchases
- Elite status:
- Automatic silver elite status
- Gold status if you spend $35,000 or more within a card member year
- 15 elite night credits towards status each year
Our Verdict
This has been available as a public offer in the past. The nice thing about this offer is that there is not any sort of restriction on when/where the free night certificates can be used and you can also top up the certificates with points if they cost more than 50,000 points per night (up to 15,000 points per night). This is a fantastic offer and the best variation we see (normally when it’s flat points it’s only 100,000 points). As this is a public offer we will add it to the best credit card bonuses.
Hat tip to MashTheGash2018
Post history:
- Update 9/8/23: New link (ht dannydealguru)
- Update 8/17/23: Available again. This time a public link
- Update 5/9/23: Reader Pjfunner shares a new link with this offer, we don’t know the source of the link.
- Update 4/14/23: There’s now a public link for this offer (ht DDG and YAR)
I applied for the amex business card with the same offer after I was approved for this card. Is that going to mess up the bonus on this one?
I applied at 11:30pm on 3.27. Do I still qualified for the offer ?
still available on 28th :/
not through referral link anymore
You have to use up the cert within 12 mths of receiving them is tat right?
Correct
TQ!
yes
“Each award is valued up to 50,000 points.”
Well that gets you a night at the Fairfield just off the interstate, or maybe at the El Paso Fairfield Inn, unless it’s a weekend…
We used my certs from the offer last year for 5 nights in the Marriott Suites Clearwater beach, 5 certs and 10K points for Tuesday – Sunday in early April 2024. My wife just got the 5 night offer this week and we plan on 5 nights Wed – Monday Memorial Day week 2025 oceanfront in Myrtle Beach.
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I see nights at the Ritz Carlton in downtown Chicago for around 50K. You aren’t looking hard enough.
Going to use these at LeMeridien Seoul. Pretty good value!
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What are the best uses for these five nights?
A last day reminder? William Charles
Thank you for the reminder!
Applied through the referral with 5/24 and got approved immediately.
For people who received this deal before, was it worth it? Were you able to use them at your desired destinations instead of having to take forced vacations just to use the certificates? Marriott point requirements are higher than in the past in addition to many properties charging resort or destination fees. Wondering if five 50k certificates with a year expiration date is worthwhile.
Used 3 nights for a lousy hotel I needed to stay at for a wedding. Place was a dump. Glad I didn’t have to pay $200/night, BUT was not happy to be there… also I need to point out that ***Chase issued a 1099 for some made-up value of the free nights.***
So I have to pay income taxes on some $400 in “value”. If you’re under $600 in total “value” from Chase, you’ll escape the 1099, but I also got a referral on SW cards at $0.01/point for $200, which put me over the top! I wish they were just points and not taxed. Net of the taxes, yes, there was value, but this wasn’t a lay-around-at-a-resort-on-the-beach experience I had in mind.
I thought the 1099s were a mistake that was corrected? Wife and I each did this so we will have ten of these to use.
@frito Not helpful though when they didn’t send them out until 3/18/24, when my taxes were already done. It’d cost more to have my CPA rerun my taxes vs just leave the tax hit.
Oh I agree that sucks, but I mean future users are ‘t likely to get 1099ed if chase decided this was a mistake
Wow, what timing… I just received the corrected 1099 in the mail today! Procrastination pays off again.
If you plan a stay at Marriott within a year, I say it’s worth it. If not, stay away.
I pulled the trigger when it was 3 nights last year (had a 40k referral from P2 so it still seemed worth it) but had a hell of a time using up the nights for anything remotely aspirational. YMMV
I never recieved a 1099. for April 2024 we have 5 nights booked at the Marriott Clearwater Beach suites, cost me 5 certs and 10k points for 5 nights…………..My wife just got the card this year and we plan on using the 5 nights Oceanfront in Myrtle beach Memorial day 2025
DP: Am sitting at 6/24, last Chase card was opened late 2021 and most of my spending is with Citi. Was feeling risky, applied, and got an under review screen. Three days later got an approval email.