Unless you really dislike moving rooms or you are staying by yourself, just put the 2nd 2 nights stay under the other person's name. You can book Chase Travel hotel stay under anyone's name. I book rooms on Chase Travel for my wife all the time when she is traveling with her friends. You are not going to get the IHG nights for the 2nd 2 nights, but you get extra $100 property credit. After the first 2 nights, you just have to check out and have the other person check back in.

It's not even an IHG hotel so that doesn't matter anyway. I am staying with family and I am neutral about moving rooms, however I already booked it under my name for the sake of simplicity. I'm not sure if I care to get a second $100 credit, but I still have enough time to cancel and switch it to my spouse's name if I do.

Most hotel systems will combine your 2 nights + 2 nights into 1 stay. If they do that, the system will automatically only give you $100 dining credit (per stay credit) for the single stay. It would just be like you have booked 4 nights. It's similar to hotel loyalty stay credit. The system will auto combine multiple consecutive nights into one single stay even if you book them separately.

I read that some people were able to talk the hotel managers to manually credit them the $100 in EDIT back to back stays. Good luck and let us know what happened!

I recently got the CSR card with the 150K UR sign-up bonus and have used it a lot over the past month. The 150K UR have hit my account and I have used over $1000 in credits already. Here is what I have used so far:
$359 Whoop credit - received the device and now have a 1-year subscription to their Life plan. I only paid for taxes of about $30
$250 Edit credit - used it for a 2 night stay at the Marriott Waikiki beach resort. Prices for the 2-nights was slight lower than booking Marriott direct before applying any credits
$100 resort credit - this is part of booking an Edit hotel. I really liked having this to use for on property purchases of food & beverages
$300 annual travel credit - this showed up almost immediately after booking the Marriott hotel through Chase Edit portal
$150 StubHub credit - I didn't get full value from this because the tickets were more expensive than direct thru the merchant but I estimated I got about $94 in value
$150 Open Table dining credit - used for a night out at the Hau Tree in Waikiki

I think of the CSR card like this : $795 annual fee gets nearly cancelled out after booking one 2-night Edit stay. ($250+$100+300) Then when you throw in a dining credit and a StubHub credit you are in the green as far as getting additional value from the card to cover your annual fee.

Thats not a lot of work for me to make the card return positive ROI. So far, I like it because it aligns with how I am currently traveling and spending. I will also say that the Marriott Waikiki was not super expensive, as compared to many of the Edit properties. So overall, I was comfortable with the deal. I actually cancelled a 2-night stay at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki as a Globalist to put my new CSR thru its paces via the Edit portal.

After Hyatt's big devaluation, and given my current travel schedule, getting hotel status thru the CSR is a soft landing from my eventual leaving Hyatt as a 15+ year Globalist. I see the future, and it currently looks bright as a free agent.

Last post should be moved to CSR master thread.

So far 3 stays with the Edit. Zero room upgrades in fact some of the worst rooms in the house. Supposedly all sold out properties.

The free breakfast and $100 credit is definitely the biggest perk after the $300 discount on room rate. Though honestly I would prefer lounge access to some of the understaffed hotel restaurants.

Ultimately the Edit brings the cost of the lower-priced properties to what I consider a reasonable level. But overall not any type of special treatment. I am sure Chase doesn’t care as it’s all about the benjamins. Not that Amex THC or FHR treatment is any better but they do have more properties.

If they participate in Edit, they are also likely to be part of Virtuoso, FHR, or any other travel advisor partnered programs.

So I guess while you may be treated better than booking through Hotel.com, Edit customers are probably still pretty low on the special treatment totem pole.

We got a two category suite upgrade on our one Edit stay. It was a Four Seasons. Whether we'd have done better with a FSPP or the like is not clear. It is clear how a FSPP would answer that question :)

Disappointing to hear that you didn't receive any upgrade for any of your 3 stays. Would you care to share which properties those were?

With regard to the $300 discount mentioned, did you mean the $250 Edit credit or are you referring to having received your $300 travel credit against an Edit booking because it qualifies for that credit as well?

I booked a property that participates in Edit but not FHR (didn't check Virtuoso as I wasn't going to book with them either way since I can't use my points AFAIK) and I was able to use UR points at a value of 2 cpp for the balance above $250. I'll report back after my stay how we were treated.

I booked the stay I mentioned in the post immediately above yours to use UR points at 2 cpp. Otherwise I'd have booked through our TA.

I was upgraded in Feb. at JW Anaheim. The ‘upgrade’ was to a ‘club-level’ room. I’m unclear what the benefit of that room over a room on a different floor would be, accept for the high floor so a better view. When I asked at the desk about club hours, I was told that the club level rooms doesn’t actually include club access, but that he’d add it for me as a exception - not sure if that is pretty common or not. So given default ‘club-level’ room doesn’t come with the access, I’m still unclear of what it would actually do over a normal floor room, IME club level rooms typically, at least when reserved with cash, come with the access and are otherwise the same as the equivalent room type on a different floor. We did take advantage of the amenities there.

as for upgrades in general, I realize, whether for these kinds of programs or just for hotel status in general, it’s a bit of a gimmick. They aren’t guaranteed in most cases, so even when O book with FHR/edit, I’m not expecting anything different than I booked. I see it as a way to get a nicer hotel at a relatively affordable rate. The credit/breakfast always help, for sure. But upgrades don’t really phase me.

case in point, I booked a Kimpton in NY, and they ‘upgraded’ me (for status, it wasn’t edit) from a Queen to a King room. But realized it was probably actually a downgrade - given the size of the room (I think <200sq ft - this was Manhattan), and the queen and kings are listed as same size, and it was just me, the king vs. queen doesn’t really do anything, except take up more space, of which there was little (I’m being generous here).

this. In fact, every hotel I’ve seen on edit, I’ve seen as FHR (not the other way around though). Which is why I realize that there are multiple people staying on these rates nightly, and don’t expect benefits like an upgrade. You know what they say, when everyone gets treated ‘special’, no one is actually special.

I also stayed at a FS through Edit. I thought the stay was pretty perfect. The upgraded room was stunning and I would absolutely return.

I think the brand makes a difference. Is this a hotel brand that has a big elite pool that expects upgrades to the best available room? Or is it a chain that consistently strives to make every stay good, even if you don't get outsized upgrade.

My Edit stays at the FS have all been almost perfect, while those at chains that offer upgrade to elites have fallen short of my expectations.

I have never stayed at a FS (yet) but the impression I get from anyone who has is that their service is beyond exceptional and unparalleled - not something you will usually see at even the high end brands of Marriott, Hilton, IHG, and Hyatt (i.e. STR, Ritz, WA, Kimpton, Park Hyatt, Andaz, etc). Not to say that these luxury brand properties never have good service or give upgrades; there are certainly many that do and I myself have had good experiences with, it's just that FS is much more consistent as a brand across all or most of their properties in making sure their delivery is impeccable.

I don't think I've ever had a flawless stay at a FS.

I've had a room at GV with cigarettes smell so strong that I had to move room. I've had bathroom vents covered with thick dust at Embarcadero.

But overall, everyone is friendly and pleasant to interact with. You get the feeling you are valued and they are happy you are there.

It's this last sentence that is exactly what all these guests are referring to when they rave about the FS service. You don't see that so much anymore with the high end brands from the chain hotels.

Of course, you also have an expectation that at that price level the hard product will be perfect too but service is equally as important, at least to me.