flyertalkuser2016

That would be great. I will update after my travel next month.

friedablass

In 2021, I let my $200 hotel credit go unused because I couldn't find any good options for using it that fit my travels. I was/am also very much trying to eat through my stash of Marriott points prior to the upcoming 2023 full dynamic pricing devaluation.

I'm still having a hard time finding a use for it for this year as well. I'm wondering if it's worth booking a $430 room = $230 at an Intercontinental vs using ~60k+ points at a RC very close by (both hotels are very similar in quality/category). I have no status with IHG, where my spouse and I have Plat and Titanium with Marriott. Not sure we can use SNAs at RC, but we do have those too in case we can. At the Intercontinental we would get a $100 food credit as the FHR benefit.

I'm really ok to let it go unused again if I don't feel I'm getting any bang for my buck, just wondering if perhaps it would be worth using in the case above.

Explore

We charged an FHR stay to my wife's Platinum card, which we probably won't renew. We'll have to cancel the card before the next statement date. Will the $200 credit for a completed stay be clawed back if we do that?

cfischer

no it does not. You got the credit for a completed stay. If you cancel in the future that does not affect credits you have received.

Gertjaars

DP
Booked THC on 5/14 for upcoming June Stay
$200 Statement credit posted on account 5/28

Stay has not occurred yet.

JJ804

One way to address the problem of using the $200 FHR credit from a spouse's Plat card when the spouse would not be present for a particular hotel stay has been to get an additional Gold card (AU card) on the Plat account. It seems like Amex might now be removing the ability to get the credit on an additional Gold card. I was disappointed to notice the following language on my Plat statement that cut a couple days ago. Has anyone noticed this, interpreted it, or written about it? Has anyone tried to get the FHR credit with an additional Gold card recently?

"We have updated the Terms and Conditions of this benefit to clarify that purchases of eligible prepaid bookings for
The Hotel Collection made through American Express Travel using eligible Additional Gold Cards on the Platinum
Card Account are eligible for the benefit. Purchases of eligible prepaid bookings for Fine Hotels + Resorts and The
Hotel Collection made through American Express Travel using eligible Basic and Additional Platinum Cards on the
Account are also eligible for the benefit. However, the total amount of statement credits for eligible purchases will
not exceed $200 per calendar year across all Cards on the Account. Delta SkyMiles Platinum Card Members are
not eligible for the benefit. Fine Hotels + Resorts program bookings may be made only by eligible U.S. Consumer
Basic Platinum and Additional Platinum Card Members. Bookings of The Hotel Collection require a minimum stay
of two consecutive nights and may be made by eligible U.S. Consumer Basic and Additional Platinum Card
Members and Additional Gold Card Members on the Platinum Card Account. Additional terms apply; see
for further details."

MaxVO

Make sure you're clear what's required by the bank, and what's by the hotel. The main requirement from AmEx is that the hotel is prepaid by the Platinum card owner (your spouse). That's enough for them to issue the credit. After that payment, your spouse will be the only listed traveler on the reservation.

The hotel will want to see the person checking in on that reservation. Your spouse will have to amend the list of travelers directly with the hotel. Although it's a simple task, AmEx Travel is not capable of doing it. Fortunately most hotels are interested in getting this business, and are unlikely to give you a hard time.

Feral24

Has anyone had issues with the AMEX Platinum hotel credit being applied after a cancellation and a reboking?

We made a The Hotel Collection booking, cancelled it on the same day, and then made a new FHR booking on that same day. The $200 credit was applied to the first booking, but then 3 days later was clawed back, and the first hotels charge refunded as well (all as expected). However, it has been 3 weeks since then and we still don’t have a new $200 credit applied to the subsequent FHR booking. Have played phone tag with AMEX CSRs twice, both times they cite some 90 day bullcrap to wait for it to be auto applied, and that they can’t manually apply it. I’m not very confident that it will be automatically applied in 90 days, because I feel like the same day rebooking must have screwed something up in their system.

Would it be a bad idea to just cancel the FHR booking, and after a day or two to clear it out of the system, make a new booking and hope the credit is auto applied within the normal 1-2 day timeframe (as it has always been before this)?

Doppy

The terms seem to be saying that you can't get the FHR credit if you make a reservation with a gold card. That makes sense to me - you have to have a platinum card to use FHR in the first place.

kthpence

Will this credit trigger if you use the "plan it" feature that is offered by AMEX? With $0 fees and $0 interest, sort of makes sense to use the plan it feature if you don't mind paying something off over time interest free, but I'm curious if doing so won't have the $200 trigger.

cruisingmickey

Is the $200 credit for a FHR booking taking longer than usual to post for anyone? It used to post very quickly for me, less than a week, but no credits yet. It's been about 3 weeks so far.

dw

Some (but not all) credits seem to be quite delayed over the past few weeks. I am actually in the opposite situation- I cancelled a FHR booking a week and a half ago; usually the previously applied credit is clawed back and posts a day or two after the FHR refund posts- but so far nothing. (I actually want to make a new booking but am scared that if I do so before the credit is clawed back, it’s going to screw it up for the new booking.)

jghassell

$200 credit on a FHR booking made on 6/12 was credited back on 6/14.

Tilto007

We just came back from Stockholm and the At Six Hotel was available at 260 all in , minus the 200 credit. The hotel was in a great location and with the breakfast for 2 and the 100 hotel credit ,they ended up paying us around a $100 to stay there. We did the stay in 2 player mode so I highly recommend this hotel if your plans take you to Sweden.

lowfareair

Another hotel I'll tag on - going to Ecuador with a friend in September and getting 2 nights at the NH Collection Quito Royal for about $12/night net after taxes & credit. It's hotel collection, but DPs show the $100 credit is good towards breakfast and will cover it for 2 people for 2 mornings. Likely not worth the full $200 credit (breakfast in Quito isn't exactly expensive and decent Airbnbs/local hotels are fairly cheap), but I'd rate it worth about $130-$150 so not a bad option for those who want to treat it as a credit rather than a coupon.

EDIT: LOL, I realized that I posted a similar thing a couple months ago upthread.