We stayed at Park MGM via THE EDIT program back in December. No breakfast benefits, just the $100 dining credit.

In fact, many of THE EDIT hotels in LV do not offer breakfast. Like someone mentioned Bellagio is one includes breakfast in the package. Cosmopolitan is another.

Thanks. I did stay at Bellagio in Nov and got free breakfast

We will be in NYC for a couple days in July. There are approximately a million Edit hotels available. I'm leaning towards one of these - any thoughts/ideas/preferences? We are mainly looking for something not $1500/night in midtown-ish. I've got IHG Diamond/Hyatt Explorer through the CSR, and I have both $250 crEDITs and the $250 IHG/Pendry/etc credit.

• Lotte New York Palace
• Intercontinental NY Barclay
• JW Marriott Essex House
• Virgin Hotels NYC
• Luxury Collection Midtown
• The Ned NoMad
• Pendry (a little more spendy but whatevs)

Thanks

I haven't stayed at any so can't give you my own opinion but a friend of mine recently stayed at the Virgin Hotels and was able to use both their Edit and Select hotels credit for a total of $500 off their stay (Pendry and Intercontinental would qualify for both as well). They said they were happy with their stay.

Locations is probably the biggest difference.

Pendry would be closer to luxury adjacent compared to the other options.

Wow, it really changes. Today when I searched for hotels in NYC for those same dates, only two options appeared for the Edit. I'll look again tomorrow.

Yes, it's quite frustrating. FHR (via Amex) is much, much more consistent/dependable.

Regards

You may have to search by name. There are occasional glitches where not all hotels show up on the first screen.

iirc hotels can pull from the edit if the ADR is too low, they might be available on more expensive dates / weekends

I had a very good experience on my second visit (both 2 nights) to The Mondrian CDMX with The Edit promotion. It helped that I knew "the lay of the land" of the property; service and amenities were better than my first stay and almost felt as if treated like family. Looking forward to a third trip later this year, before I likely won't renew my CSR card in October. Highly recommend the area in La Condesa, near Roma and Parque Mexico. Good value with the promos, had dinner both nights at the hotel (however, very limited dinner menu).

A datapoint for my stay Andaz Singapore. I'm a globalist and booked a standard room via the Edit hotel, but I also booked a 1 night stay with Amex FHR. I was upgraded to a King high floor with a view of the water, but the property didn't move me up to a standard suite. I could tell they didn't want to give a free upgrade to a suite and instead offered me a "great deal" by wanting me to pay for the upgrade ($700 more). First they said they had no suites available during the week, but came back with availability when I showed them they were selling the standard suite. I said no, not worth it. With the $100 credit, they saw I had both programs booked but only allowed me to use $100, not both credits, except they allowed me to use it for my entire stay for the 2 weeks.

The property is nice and housekeeping is great. The free drinks and snacks they offer during the day easily offset at least $200 in what I'd spend going out to buy beverages and coffees.

Back to back bookings for properties might differ if you use both the Edit and FHR program to book at the same property.

Nextcard.com (as reported by Doctor of Credit) shows that in conjunction with moving 9 hotels to 2.5 cent point boost, they lowered 243 hotels from 2 cents to 1.65 cents.

https://www.nextcard.com/tools/chase...oost-changes=1

Really not enjoying these no-notice devaluations across the board. And I assume Chase thought most folks wouldn�t notice.

is there a list of which ones went up and which went down? All I see is a map with hotel rates.

At 1.65 The Edit becomes unattractive compared to Hyatt point transfer, at least for the next month. (In many locations Hyatt is still better because it is the only option or only low cost option)

I haven't checked super-recently, but IME, there are still some 2.0 cent properties (both within and outside of Edit), though the big change was in, what, mid-Dec, where since launch all Edit properties were guaranteed at 2.0 cent point boost. I booked an edit stay right after the stealth deval of a 2.0 cent guarantee for Edit, but when they were still offering the 'refund' of points to match the 2.0 rate.

Look, I had always assumed that the value would go down - anyone with half a brain should never have assumed the plethora of 2.0 cent redemptions were going to continue. That was with the big marketing push of the card updates and giving people a reason to want to pay the higher AF.