I am seeing consistent parity with Amex FHR for stays at my favorite hotel, the Hay-Adams in D.C. Sometimes I can do better than Amex/Edit, and sometimes that's the best deal. There have been enough times with the latter than I'm getting pretty much full value for the Amex $300 credit and $250 for Edit.

Perhaps what happy10345 sees as inflated Edit prices is just normal dynamic pricing. Those of us who have used Amex FHR for years know that many times the FHR rate isn't the best deal. But quite often it is, especially when you factor in all the benefits.

I would expect people are comparing the rates in real time so there shouldn't be any significant variance, if that's what you mean by dynamic pricing.

FHR is also just the rack rate, so makes sense that in general it would match EDIT. That matches what I have seen as well.

Hotels may have better pricing by booking prepaid rates, promotional rates, or for stays of several nights they may have long term stay rates. That has been the case for all the supposed examples I've seen in this thread. Those generally won't be reflected in the luxury programs, although certain Nth night free or fixed discount for length of stay promotions may also exist in the luxury program rates and sometimes those are actually better than any publicly available rate. I do wonder if Chase will eventually have similar Nth night free promotions as it definitely is a competitive disadvantage of their program compared to FHR and the chain-specific programs.

It may also be that for a sufficient ADR or length of stay, the difference between the member rate and rack rate is not worth the benefits of the luxury programs, especially if they overlap with any kind of hotel status benefits.

I also have a very strong corporate rate which often makes any of the luxury program rates not worth considering. But even then, so far, I've found enough value with the EDIT credits to say they are worthwhile.

Similar for me. I have access to the American Bar Association's Preferred Rate Hotel program. https://www.americanbar.org/content/...ate-hotels.pdf (BTW, anyone can join the ABA -- don't have to be a lawyer.)
Sometimes that rate is the better than FHR/Edit, sometimes not.

Last time I checked I was not impressed with the ABA rates but given hotel inflation they look much better now, especially for 4S properties. In fact if I had booked the ABA rate for my last trip i expect it would have saved me more than the $250 Edit credit. Of course I would not have received the free breakfast...

The ABA rates are most useful for dates with very high demand. Hotels jack up the rates to whatever the market will bear, and that might be a lot. But the ABA rate is fixed and must be available to an ABA member if that room type has any availability. A couple of times I had to get the ABA involved to enforce that contractual provision the hotel has with the ABA.

Yes, you need to charge at least $250 to the card for a minimum 2 night stay to get the $250 credit. The remaining balance can be covered with points at whatever rate that particular hotel is showing at - used to be all Edit properties had a 2 cpp redemption rate but as extensively discussed above this is not the case any longer.

I'm currently in an Edit stay. The breakfast vocuher at this place says it gives a two egg and potato, sausage or bacon, and toast breakfast for two for free. It would cost $20 off the menu. We learned we cojld also get the $16 belgian waffle with fruit or the avoocado toast for $18. It also comes wirh coffee, tea, or juice which is $4.50-7 off the menu.

My friend happened to ask about gratuities. We were going to leave a tip regardless but I wouldnt have thought to ask. The server said "the company pays $4 per person for the breakfast to the server.". I assume she means Chase (or whatever travel provider). I still left a few bucks.

I suppose Im getting value out of the Edit credit. I wanted to see Key West and the price worked out to not much more than I was paying for Miami IHG hotels. I would be to cheap to pay $20 for breakfast butwe get to convenientlybeat breakfast here and use the $100 dimig credit later.

This place has free two hour kayak, bicycle or paddleboard rental too and fome rsnfom activities.

I imagine she means that the restaurant gives the server $4.00 whenever a voucher is used to pay for breakfast. There are probably many rates which include breakfast.

At Ocean's Edge, the gratuity charge and added gratuity counted for the $100 credit. I asked several times and it just showed up at the $100 charge (I had even it out to exactly $100 for the one meal) and then $100 credit on the final bill. No issues with being double charged on resort or other fees that said included during the booking.

So here is a prime example of The Edit ripoff:

Madison, WI - 2nt weekend stay. No Edit hotels but Chase offers the following rates.

AC Marriott = $392 all-in on Marriott. Edit = $494 or approx 30k points (.015 cpp). As Marriott Plat I get free breakfast.
Hyatt Place = 18k points on Hyatt. Edit = 44k Chase UR (note Chase UR transfer at 1:1 to Hyatt). Everyone who stays here gets free breakfast

To be sure these are both listed as Point Boost but not The Edit so I guess I would not even receive the $250 rebate or free breakfast

Have not checked Amex yet

I mean, maybe this fits some narrative, but it literally has nothing to do with The Edit.

Plus this part is confusing. Is there an Edit option or not?

There are not Edit options.

The poster is conflating Edit with Points Boost options.

Yeah, if a Hyatt Place is in The Edit, I guess I’ll need to check FHR the next time I need a Hampton Inn stay..

Seems like.

That's why I cut the Hyatt Place option from my quote as that's definitely not an Edit option. However, there are plenty of Marriotts that are so it was confusing to first claim there aren't any Edits in that location but then say there is at .015 redemption rate but it seems like that was just points boost and not even an Edit option.