Does anyone have experience with the dining credit for non-U.S. EDIT hotels? For example, the benefit only states $100, but does a Canadian reservation get US$100 or CA$100?

yes the Fairmont was $130 CAD

When in Germany one hotel we stayed at under The Edit gave us 100€ instead of $100. Seemed like a fair exchange. It'll probably depend on where you end up, but the minimum ought to be $100 equivalent

Made an Edit booking today at the Andaz Maui. The base rate for the room was only $15/night more than booking direct with Hyatt. However, pre-paying appears to include the resort fees and I'm assuming I won't get that back even with Hyatt Globalist status which usually waives the resort fee. The $250 credit more than covers the higher cost + resort fee and getting x8 instead of x4 for the rest of the spend also tips the scale even more in favor of using Chase Travel/the Edit. Altogether, between the credit and the extra points, I figure booking this stay with the Edit was $300 less than booking direct.

I was also able to confirm with my Hyatt concierge that the rate was eligible to earn EQN and points with Hyatt.

I think in many cases the higher Edit cost vs booking direct is going to nullify the $250 credit, but if you're paying cash, the extra 4 points per dollar for booking through Chase Travel might make up for it.

Amex THC also has a 2 night minimum so I don't understand why that's less of a killer being that there are plenty of THC hotels that are with The Edit as well. I prefer FHR that allows for 1 night bookings but if I'd be staying 2 nights anyway and found a hotel that worked for me I would book using The Edit no problem especially if I'd already used up all my FHR credits from the Plat card.

i'm just not mad at this benefit at all. i think it's great.

spending 2 nights between xmas and new year at Dallas Fairmont to celebrate our anniversary. $354 all in -$250 - $100 prop credit + free breakfast. What's not to love?!?

welcome to Dallas.

now try DC where the cheapest hotels for my dates are $1200 for 2 nights (less credit). Nothing for 2nd tier cities like Sacto. No bueno.

I also really like the fact that you can redeem points at a value of 2 cpp for the amount you owe above $250 which is not the case for Amex FHR or THC - for FHR they will allow redeeming at 1 cpp and if it's a THC booking then they'll give you a measly 0.67 cpp value.

Sacramento has at least one Edit hotel

Yes DC is a more expensive city. That's true regardless of whether you have an Edit benefit or not.

I'm a little confused...when i do one night searches, I see The Edit options...So no bennies for that since it is not 2night+?

How about the $250 credit...would that work for one night bookings?

You get all the benefits shown on the search when you book one night.

Two nights is only required for the $250 credit.

Can't book hotel in Sevilla
 

Since this weekend, I can't book ANY hotel in Sevilla through the portal. For any dates. Called yesterday and they couldn't either so they created a ticket to investigate it.

What and odd bug! I was waiting to book to use The Edit credits.

Edited to add: note, this is not just The Edit hotels. It's all hotels! For a major city in Spain.

https://chase-edit-hotels-map.web.app/

You can see the Chase Edit hotels by country. Easier for international planning purposes.

Bali has quite a few hotels which is nice for Hyatt and Marriott members.

Also:

Awardhack mapping for Edit hotels + Open Table restaurants:

https://www.awardhack.com/chase-tools/edit-hotels-map

Just got back from an EDIT stay at the Cosmopolitan Hotel at Vegas. Putting in my MGM membership when I was booking, I was able to search and add the reservation on MGM to see it on my app. With that, I think I am able to see how much Chase paid for the stay vs that Chase said my room was worth. On Chase Travel it was $1009 but on the MGM app, it said $795 was paid. I checked before booking the EDIT stay, MGM direct booking price was $950'ish. I figured that $60 extra will get me $100 dining and free breakfast so I booked with Chase instead of MGM.

I am MGM pearl and normally I don't get any room upgrade at Vegas. This time it was different. The check in clerk actually tried and got us a really nice upgrade with a bigger room on the 59th floor. I don't think I have ever gotten a room that high up that gives you full view of the Sphere. I am thinking the upgrade was from EDIT booking not from my Pearl status. Just the upgrade itself was worth the $60 extra.

EDIT gave $100 dining which could be used at almost all restaurants at any of the MGM hotels (Bellagio, Cosmo, Aria, MGM Grand, etc..), . There is a QR quote on the welcome letter that tells you which restaurant is valid. And the free breakfast was $60 per room per day. It can be used at Wicked Spoon, Eggslut, District Donuts and The Henry. We picked WP buffet brunch which is normally $50 pp. For $50, we would not not go to a buffet as we can't eat $50 worth of food. But for $20, it was amazing. With tip and tax, it ended up about $35 pp for a very nice brunch. The Henry and Eggslut also seems like good choices and probably would be under the $30 pp spending. Both the dining and breakfast credit are not "credit". When the charge shows up on my MGM app, it just subtract the credit out from the bill (before tips). The tips cannot be used toward the credit. If the breakfast is $25 and you tip $5, you will be paying the $5 yourself even though you have $30 credit.

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.