Bali is the perfect example of just how bad Edits is compared to Amex. A place like Bali has tons of beautiful, cheap hotels. The couple hotels Chase has are outrageously expensive. Amex has about 15 hotels and many can be fully covered with the platinum credit. I have a 1 night booking at the ritz Bali fully covered with Amex. I have anotherv4 night stay at the Conrad. It’s pay 3 get 4. So about 1000 dollars for 4 nights, less the platinum credit. The edits hotels in Bali would all be significantly more, even with the CSR credit.

the only place I have found where CSR is helpful is Singapore. Otherwise I can find a better deal for a similar or better hotel not through CSR. I see lots of people making some use of the credit, by saying the hotel is a bit more than booking directly, but you get the credit. The issue is you can almost always find a cheaper hotel, that’s bettter quality.

as someone who stays in high end hotels regularly I actually can’t get over just how bad the Edits is. Fortunately my card just renewed and they charged no annual fee, so I’ll keep for a year and get some value out of the Singapore hotels (forget about the Tables, another garbage program) but no way I’d pay for this.