Fairmont Chase Signature Card
Feb 21, 2017, 6:15 pm
#1711
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Charleston, SC, USA
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I strongly suspect that the prohibition of using cert.s to get alcohol is because liquor laws in some states/ provinces/ countries forbid giving alcohol away free or even at a price discounted by coupon(s.) Hotels located elsewhere have no reason to care.
Feb 21, 2017, 10:49 pm
#1712
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: YYZ
Programs: Accor ALL Diamond, AC Aeroplan 25K, Nexus/GE
Posts: 2,735
Le Ch teau Frontenac wouldn't let me apply dining certs toward alcohol. Our meals were charged to the room, and apparently the front desk could see the details. That's the only time I've run into that rule being enforced.
Feb 22, 2017, 7:50 am
#1713
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: YUL
Programs: AC*E
Posts: 779
This is a workable explanation, however, the Royal York has a sign in the gold lounge saying provincial law prohibits free alcohol, and yet I never have problems redeems certificates towards alcohol at RYH or Chateau Laurier. Mind you, we drink 1 cocktail per $200 dinner.
Feb 22, 2017, 9:49 am
#1714
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: EWR Ionosphere Club, LAX Clipper Club, Still Traveling Global, yearly BIS miles
Programs: EAL Silver Wings, I-Club, Flying Colonels DL, WorldPass PLat from the olde Meatball and PE SMARTbank
Posts: 1,988
Longtime lurker first time poster to this thread. I finally pulled the trigger and applied for this card.
OK, just received the card after lengthy approval wrangling. My what an ugly cheap looking card. Not what we have come to expect for these premium cards. Kinda like a pre-paid gift card! Anyways.
What, if anything do I have to do before Feb 28th?
Thanks!
OK, just received the card after lengthy approval wrangling. My what an ugly cheap looking card. Not what we have come to expect for these premium cards. Kinda like a pre-paid gift card! Anyways.
What, if anything do I have to do before Feb 28th?
Thanks!
Feb 22, 2017, 1:12 pm
#1715
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Charleston, SC, USA
Programs: Avis Pref+, Hyatt Explorist, Marriott Life Gold, Honors Silver, IHG Plat via MC.
Posts: 6,786
Frank, I agree. The plastic feels week & bends easily, just like the Chase Hyatt Visa! I personally would prefer a gold-colored card such as the DL Amex. However, the benefits are way more important than the feel & look of the card 
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Anyway, there is nothing to do by Feb. 28. Your deadline is in mid-May, before which you must charge US$3000 in net purchases to your new card to earn the Welcome Bonus of 2 Free Nights!
!Anyway, there is nothing to do by Feb. 28. Your deadline is in mid-May, before which you must charge US$3000 in net purchases to your new card to earn the Welcome Bonus of 2 Free Nights!
Feb 23, 2017, 3:49 pm
#1716
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: America!
Programs: Hilton Diamond, Hyatt Explorist Caesars Wyndham Diamond, MGM Gold
Posts: 249
I finally received the welcome email (applied chase cc last month).. 2 free night certificates not showing up yet.. But I see two $25 USD dining, 3rd night free certificates with issue date as 23/Feb/2017 and expiry date as 28/Feb/2017... BOTH 2017.. What was that? I was hoping those to be valid for a year...
Feb 23, 2017, 5:17 pm
#1717
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: FRA / YEG
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I finally received the welcome email (applied chase cc last month).. 2 free night certificates not showing up yet.. But I see two $25 USD dining, 3rd night free certificates with issue date as 23/Feb/2017 and expiry date as 28/Feb/2017... BOTH 2017.. What was that? I was hoping those to be valid for a year...
Feb 24, 2017, 6:44 am
#1718
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Charleston, SC, USA
Programs: Avis Pref+, Hyatt Explorist, Marriott Life Gold, Honors Silver, IHG Plat via MC.
Posts: 6,786
Gee, I too laughed at my new certs valid for 2 weeks 
! Du-uh, why bother issuing them? OTOH, it's lucky for the few of us who have booked stays in late Feb. (or who live near a Fairmont hotel.)
Anyway, I thought only people who acquired Premier status in 2016 got certs expiring 28 Feb. 2017.
! Du-uh, why bother issuing them? OTOH, it's lucky for the few of us who have booked stays in late Feb. (or who live near a Fairmont hotel.)Anyway, I thought only people who acquired Premier status in 2016 got certs expiring 28 Feb. 2017.
Feb 24, 2017, 12:06 pm
#1719
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: America!
Programs: Hilton Diamond, Hyatt Explorist Caesars Wyndham Diamond, MGM Gold
Posts: 249
Do I need the free nights certificate while I book or while I check in? Also, can we cancel or change a Reservation booked using free night certificate without a fee?
Feb 24, 2017, 12:47 pm
#1720
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: YYZ
Programs: Accor ALL Diamond, AC Aeroplan 25K, Nexus/GE
Posts: 2,735
Certificates are redeemed by the hotel at the time of check-in, so you can certainly cancel a reservation that has a certificate applied, and still have that certificate available for other reservations.
If for some reason the certificate you intended to use for a stay isn't available at the time of check-in, be prepared to get charged full price for the reservation.
Feb 28, 2017, 10:44 am
#1721
Join Date: Oct 2014
Programs: spg gold, hilton diamond, marriott gold, carlson gold
Posts: 6
Figured I'd give people a heads up of a dispute I'm having with fairmont.
I was given a Chase/Fairmont free night December, 2015 (for 2016) and fairmont gave me a "free night" in July, 2016 (since some people didn't get they're free night). I treated it as a bank error in my favor (I used two last year).
Now, Chase "granted me" a free night December 8, 2016 but fairmont won't issue it (since they're saying "the second free night" was for 2017.
After much back and forth with Fairmont and Chase there has been no resolution, so I filed a complaint with the BBB.
Did others get 2 fairmont free nights in 2016?
I was given a Chase/Fairmont free night December, 2015 (for 2016) and fairmont gave me a "free night" in July, 2016 (since some people didn't get they're free night). I treated it as a bank error in my favor (I used two last year).
Now, Chase "granted me" a free night December 8, 2016 but fairmont won't issue it (since they're saying "the second free night" was for 2017.
After much back and forth with Fairmont and Chase there has been no resolution, so I filed a complaint with the BBB.
Did others get 2 fairmont free nights in 2016?
Feb 28, 2017, 4:10 pm
#1722
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Charleston, SC, USA
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Marty, it sounds like your July 2016 free night was intended as compensation because they did not realize you got yours in Dec. 2015. So they're treating the Dec. 2016 award as already used. So you still got 2 free nights. Best of all you got to use the 2nd one early--possibly at the same hotel as the first. Personally, I'd rather have one 2-night free stay at an oh-so-expensive hotel than two one-nighters!
So I bet that you, Chase & Fairmont are even now. So forget it & let it rest.
So I bet that you, Chase & Fairmont are even now. So forget it & let it rest.
Feb 28, 2017, 11:20 pm
#1723
Join Date: Jul 1999
Posts: 196
I received my welcome email this afternoon, and I promptly activated my account. I just got back from dinner, full and happy, using the two $25 dining certificates before they expired.
Mar 1, 2017, 8:34 am
#1724
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: PHX
Posts: 4,787
I saw this question asked earlier in the thread but not sure if there is an answer yet. I didn't do the spending to get a free night this year, so I am thinking of cancelling.
If I do, will I lose the upgrade and third night free cert that posted to my account today for the new year?
If I do, will I lose the upgrade and third night free cert that posted to my account today for the new year?
Mar 1, 2017, 9:54 am
#1725
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Chicago
Programs: Delta, Accor, Marriott
Posts: 40
Apologies if I missed this earlier in the thread or elsewhere, but is this card still available and is the two free nights with $3,000 spend still active? I couldn't find an application online.
Thanks for the help.
Thanks for the help.