The IHG® Rewards Club Select Credit Card is one of the underrated cards out there. Here are a few things that it provides
- IHG Platinum status, which admittedly is not worth a ton
- A signup bonus anywhere north of 60,000 points, which would be enough for as many as 12 nights at a IHG Point Breaks hotel.
- It’s not subject to the Chase 5/24 rule – SEE ALSO: The 2 types of cards note subject to Chase 5/24
- Annual fee waived the first year
- And the real benefit is that every year after paying the very modest annual fee ($49), you get one free night at ANY IHG hotel (not category capped like most of the other hotel cards are)
Mostly for the anniversary night, this card is one of the few cards that I will pay the annual fee on. In fact, if you are in the miles and points world with a spouse or partner, I recommend that you BOTH signup for these cards, and at the same time of year. That way you can sync up your anniversary nights. Who wouldn’t want 4 free nights at the IHG Bora Bora?!?
IHG® Rewards Club Select Credit Card signup bonus up to 80K
The offer on this card has been for a signup bonus of 60,000 points, but there is now a public offer for 80,000 IHG points. I’m not able to link to the offer on this page, but it can be found if you check out our page of top credit card offers. If you’d rather not support me and instead just pay the commission to Chase instead, you can find a link at chase.com
It gives a signup bonus of 80,000 points after spending $1000 on purchases within the first 3 months and an additional 5,000 points for adding an authorized user.
How to get up to 100K, including if you’ve already signed up
There also exists a targeted offer for 100,000 IHG points on the IHG card. It’s not available publicly, but there have been multiple reports on our points and miles Facebook group as well as other sites of people that have signed up for the 60,000 or 80,000 point offer being able to match up to the 100,000 offer. by sending a secure message to Chase. Most of the time, they will tell you that once you’ve met the spending requirements, to send another secure message and they will grant the bonus.
As always, it’s always good to get this stuff in writing in case there are problems down the road. That’s happened to me quite a few times and I was glad I had written confirmation of these types of promotions!
(SEE ALSO: Problems getting my Citi AT&T Access More free phone)
(SEE ALSO: How I (finally) got my 50,000 AA miles from the Citigold promotion)
Good luck out there and happy travels!
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Just got approved for ihg select cc from chase what can I expect will these be my foot in the door with chase cc products? . The 5/24 rule would have gotten me with the other chase cc products is this product good to get the other chase cc anyone? thanks
How do you send a secure message to Chase?
Do it through their website / contact form
How does 80K points become 100K points?
SMd and was told I wasn’t eligible for the 100k. However, they did say I could get the additional 20k after completing $2k in spend and messaging them again.
That seems to be the standard response that people are getting. So you do need to spend a little more ($2000 instead of $1000) but you get an extra 20K. Sounds like a deal to me!
Yeah, moving from 60k to 80k isn’t bad, especially since I’d also gotten a $100 statement credit.
Makes sense – I’d rather have $100 cash than 20K IHG points!
Thanks, that’s helpful. 80K is obviously good, it will be interesting to see if I can get to great with a 100K (or some statement credit) with a little more spending.
So similar but different answer for me…
Thank you for contacting Chase about matching the bonus
points offer for your IHG® Rewards Club Credit Card
account.
Let me share that your account is not eligible for the
100,000 points new bonus offer you requested. The original
offer you applied for will remain on your account. You
will receive 60,000 bonus points after you spend $1,000.00
on purchases in the first 3 months your account is open.
Our credit card offers vary and change, and new ones
become available on a regular basis. We hope you’ll
continue to check with us for available offers that apply
to your account. Although we appreciate your loyalty, we
ask that you trust that this decision is the same for all
cardmembers. We feel that adhering to the same policy for
all such members is the best way to remain fair and
consistent. We apologize for any inconvenience caused in
this matter.
OR NOT
Question: If you get 1 free anniversary night and both my spouse and myself have the card, how do we get 4 Free nights? Wouldn’t we only get 2?
“Mostly for the anniversary night, this card is one of the few cards that I will pay the annual fee on. In fact, if you are in the miles and points world with a spouse or partner, I recommend that you BOTH signup for these cards, and at the same time of year. That way you can sync up your anniversary nights. Who wouldn’t want 4 free nights at the IHG Bora Bora?!?”
That would be having 2 people using their anniversary nights right at the anniversary (so 1 night is at the end of the second year, 1 night is at the beginning of the third year). It takes a bit of planning and luck to pull off but that’s how you can get 4 nights