Makes sense, thanks for explaining.

This was really interesting, thanks for posting. Out of curiosity, do you have any insight from your clients as to whether Amex FHR is similar?

According to them it is structured differently. If they are part of the Amex programs they are part of them all the time, they don't get excluded because they drop their price, but it sounds like Amex's program is shown to the hotels they invite to join, and the deliverables are all comped out the same, so not individually negotiated with each property. Kind of like, here is our program, what you are required to offer guests through it, what we will offer you, so either you accept and join or you don't.

No negotiating how much to pay for breakfast, or whatever it may be. Not that that it's a fixed amount of $20 per person for breakfast, but it sounds like their program is hotels in Price range 1 get this much per person for breakfast, Price range 2 pays this, and 3 pays another amount.

I'll join the applause -- thanks for explaining how this all works in the background. We travel geeks live for this stuff.

Are there any restrictions on the $100 credit? Does it simply apply to any charges above the room rate/tax?

I saw a report here that it worked to cover the parking charge, which is relevant for a stay I'm considering.

It’s property specific.

This is not accurate. I didn't have to wait.
I had an Edit booking that utilizes the $250 credit. When the price dropped, I cancelled and rebooked right after.
A few days later, two transactions posted to my account: a debit of $250 and a credit of $250.

Yes, and my experience with FHR on that is the properties tend to be all over the map. Some are very restrictive, such as $100 only for their spa. Others simply credit $100 to the bill. Lots of in-between possibilities. Be sure to check with the front desk before raiding the minibar. Sometime that can go toward the credit; sometimes not.

It can vary. I booked and rebooked a total of seven times, but the EDIT credit only appeared and was reversed three times, and currently I do not have the credit. Here's the history - only the bookings with an asterisk triggered the credit.
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Has Points Boost value dropped on Edit hotels? Previously, I thought most if not all Edit hotels were at 2 cpp. Now I'm seeing most hotels are only at 1.65 cpp. That's a big drop in value.

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Yes, looks like this is widespread. Chase quietly changed the language on The Edit points boosts to up to 2x instead of a guaranteed 2x. A ridiculous nerf considering how poorly this refresh has gone for them, and incredibly frustrating for how I was hoping to use the card post-refresh.

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This article: https://www.chase.com/travel/guide/t...benefits-guide was originally posted in July 2025.

Here is the text from JULY:
Here is the same paragraph from DECEMBER (with changes in red)

Exactly this. Really infuriating they did this especially with no announcement.

Wow, just wow. I was going to make a couple of bookings in the coming weeks solely based on the 2 cpp redemption value but now that that's pretty much over for the properties I was looking at, they lost my business.

Yup I’m done with Chase after this points boost nerf. What a rug pull. Yesterday some other threads were indicating ultra luxe properties were still at 2x but I’m not seeing that to be the case likely was just a delay in their updates.