The Edit by Chase Travel℠ has suddenly become interesting. The Edit is Chase’s answer to Amex’s Fine Hotels & Resorts (FHR). Just like FHR, The Edit offers elite-like hotel perks for a curated selection of hotels and resorts when you book through their program. The reason The Edit has suddenly become interesting is because the newly redesigned Sapphire Reserve card makes The Edit bookings more rewarding than ever: it offers $250 back every 6 months, 8x earnings on paid stays, and 2 cents per point value when redeeming points for stays (via Point Boosts). When you add in the fact that The Edit lets you earn hotel points and elite benefits for most stays booked through the program, it all becomes extremely intriguing.

But what if you have to pay a lot more to book hotels through The Edit? If that’s the case, all of that potential goodness I just mentioned would be for naught. So, I dug in to see for myself how The Edit rates compared to booking direct, booking through Fine Hotels & Resorts, and booking with hotel points. The results were encouraging…

The Edit by Chase Travel: Overview

Benefits

Daily breakfast for 2

$100 property credit

Room upgrade at check-in if available

Early check-in/late check-out if available

Free Wifi

Earn hotel points and elite benefits at many participating hotels (Chase Travel search results clearly show if the stay is eligible for hotel points)

Benefits compared to Fine Hotels & Resorts

Both programs list nearly identical benefits, but Fine Hotels & Resorts has one big advantage: guaranteed 4pm late checkout. If late checkout is important to you, Fine Hotels & Resorts is the way to go.

On Chase’s side, one big advantage of The Edit is that Chase clearly shows when a hotel booked through The Edit will earn hotel points for the stay. In most cases, FHR stays qualify for hotel points too, but Amex doesn’t do anything to show when that’s available.

Eligibility

The Edit is available to cardholders of the following cards:

Sapphire Reserve

Sapphire Reserve for Business

J.P. Morgan Reserve Card.

Sapphire Reserve Perks

Beginning June 23rd, 2025:

Redeem points for The Edit stays at a value of 2 cents per point

Earn 8 points per dollar through Chase Travel . For people who had their card before June 23rd, this benefit doesn’t start until October 26th 2025.

. For people who had their card before June 23rd, this benefit doesn’t start until October 26th 2025. Consumer cards only: $250 rebate every six months (Jan-June, Jul-Dec) on prepaid bookings of at least 2 nights. For people who had their card before June 23rd, this benefit doesn’t start until October 26th 2025.

My Experiment

The new Sapphire Reserve perks for The Edit sound awesome, but only if the prices are okay and if there are a good number of hotels available. Here’s what I did to find out…

Methodology

I picked a random weekend in the fall (October 3 to 5) to look at The Edit hotel prices. I then picked 10 of the most visited cities around the world: London, Istanbul, Paris, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, New York, Miami, Los Angeles. With each city, I checked how many hotels were available via The Edit and also recorded the number available through Fine Hotels & Resorts. I then picked a single hotel that was available through both programs, and through a major hotel chain, and recorded the cash and point rates. As much as possible, I tried to match cash rates based on refund policy. For example, hotels booked through The Edit were often cancellable up to the day before the stay, so I tried to find similar flexibility when comparing to booking direct.

Results

City Comparison

In most cities, The Edit had fewer hotels available than Amex’s Fine Hotels & Resorts (FHR). And I didn’t include Amex’s The Hotel Collection in these numbers. If I had, Amex would have been waaaaay ahead in the number of available hotels. Note that I only counted hotels that had rooms available for my search, so numbers may vary for other dates.

City # The Edit Hotels # FHR Hotels London 27 42 Istanbul 4 12 Paris 16 24 Bangkok 6 14 Hong Kong 3 13 Mexico City 8 8 Buenos Aires 0 2 New York 40 36 Miami 18 17 Los Angeles 21 31

Price Comparison

With each city, I picked a single hotel to drill down on. In almost every case I picked a hotel from a major hotel brand (Marriott, IHG, Hyatt) where The Edit specified that the stay was eligible for earning hotel points. I didn’t find any Hilton hotels on The Edit (probably because Hilton is closely aligned with Amex). The hotel in Hong Kong was the only exception because I couldn’t find a hotel that was in both programs (The Edit and FHR) that participates in a major hotel loyalty program. Buenos Aires was dropped from this second chart because there were no The Edit hotels available there.

City Hotel Direct Total Price The Edit Price % Above Direct Price FHR Price % Above Direct Price London The London EDITION $1,730 $1,782 3% $1,762 2% Istanbul The Ritz-Carlton $1,234 $1,192 -3% $1,182 -4% Paris Park Hyatt Paris $4,906 $5,091 4% $5,120 4% Bangkok Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok by IHG $729 $773 6% $772 6% Hong Kong Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong $1,328 $1,209 -9% $1,209 -9% Mexico City The St Regis Mexico City $1,567 $1,599 2% $1,598 2% New York The Beekman $1,480 $1,591 8% $1,439 -3% Miami W South Beach $1,958 $2,052 5% $2,053 5% Los Angeles Regent Santa Monica $2,627 $2,788 6% $2,750 5%

Prices shown above were the total for two days, after taxes. In most cases, prices at The Edit and FHR were extremely close. One major exception was with The Beekman in New York where FHR was $152 less.

As expected, I found that it usually costs more to book through The Edit (or FHR) than booking direct. That said, the premium was usually small: between 2% and 8%. And, in two cases I found that it was cheaper to book through The Edit. One was 3% cheaper and the other was 9% cheaper. I expected The Edit to be significantly more expensive so I was pleasantly surprised by these results.

Point Comparison

We have been told that all of The Edit hotels will be available to book for a value of 2 cents per point through Chase Travel. Assuming that’s true (we’ll find out on Monday 6/23), I estimated the number of Chase points required to book each of the hotels shown above. Then I also searched each hotel chain for the point price for the same weekend and listed that below as well…

City Hotel The Edit Price Per Night Chase Points Per Night Hotel Reward Program Hotel Points Per Night Ratio London The London EDITION $891 44,550 Marriott 116,500 2.6 Istanbul The Ritz-Carlton $596 29,800 Marriott 70000 2.3 Paris Park Hyatt Paris $2,546 127,275 Hyatt 66000 0.5 Bangkok Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok by IHG $387 19,325 IHG 54000 2.8 Mexico City The St Regis Mexico City $800 39,975 Marriott 86000 2.2 New York The Beekman $796 39,775 Hyatt 29000 0.7 Miami W South Beach $1,026 51,300 Marriott 84000 1.6 Los Angeles Regent Santa Monica $1,394 69,700 IHG 179000 2.6

An interesting, but not surprising, finding was that the Hyatt hotels in this round-up were much cheaper to book with Hyatt points than with Chase points. That’s consistent with what we’ve long known about how valuable Hyatt points can be. With Marriott and IHG, though, it was always much cheaper to book with Chase points than with Marriott or IHG points. Usually the number of Marriott or IHG points required was around 2.5 as many as the Chase points required. In one case, W South Beach, you would only need 1.6 times as many Marriott points to book the hotel.

Analysis

Chase’s The Edit has a large selection of hotels available in certain major cities, but they don’t yet have nearly the coverage that Amex does with Fine Hotels & Resorts. Additionally, if you’re a fan of Hilton hotels, I think you’ll have to look elsewhere.

While the cost to book hotels through The Edit is usually higher than booking direct, the difference is often very small. In a couple of cases I found prices were actually cheaper through The Edit when I compared to booking direct with the same cancellation rules. If you don’t mind getting locked in to the price paid, I often found (not shown) that booking non-refundable rates directly was much cheaper.

When considering a stay at a Hyatt hotel, it’s a great idea to check the number of points that Hyatt itself would charge for the stay. Often that will be the best deal. And you can transfer your Chase points to Hyatt 1 to 1 to book your stay.

With chains other than Hyatt, though, booking with Chase points could be a very good deal since you should get 2 cents per point value that way.

Conclusion

I’m excited about the opportunities that will soon be available through The Edit. As things stand right now, The Edit is not as good as Fine Hotels & Resorts since it has fewer properties and lacks guaranteed 4pm late checkout, but it offers very nice opportunities for Sapphire Reserve cardholders. And while I found that prices through The Edit were sometimes extreme, they were usually very close to the cost to book direct (with flexible cancellation rules).

There are a number of advantages of booking hotels through The Edit rather than with hotel points:

The Edit offers perks like free breakfast and $100 property credit

You can redeem your Chase points for 2 cents per point value

You can earn hotel points and elite benefits during your stay

I believe you will be able to pay $250 of your stay with your card and the rest with points in order to earn the consumer Sapphire Reserve card’s $250 rebate every six months.

When booking through The Edit, you can pick from any available room-type rather than the (usually) more limited selection available when booking with hotel points.

On the other hand, there are times it doesn’t make sense to book through The Edit: