Chase Freedom/Freedom Unlimited 5x Bonus Category On Hotels For March

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  • You must login and select your Chase Freedom or Chase Freedom Unlimited® card to view the offer.
  • Registration for this offer isn’t required and the offer is not targeted.
  • Booking must be made via the Ultimate Rewards site.
  • You can earn this bonus on multiple cards.
  • This promotion is marketed as 5% cash back, but you’ll actually get 5 Ultimate Rewards points per dollar spent, which can be worth much more than 5% cash! For example, points can be transferred to Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card or Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card where they’ll be worth a minimum of 1.25 cents each towards travel or they can be transferred into airline/hotel miles. Or they can be transferred to Sapphire Reserve where they’ll be worth a minimum of 1.5 cents each towards travel or they can be transferred into airline/hotel miles. If you earn 12.5K points on Freedom/Freedom Unlimited and transfer them to Sapphire Reserve they’ll be worth a minimum of $187.50 towards travel and your effective rebate will be at least 7.5% or potentially much more as airline miles or hotel points.
  • You must use cash and not redeem points for the hotel stay in order to earn 5 points per dollar.
  • The 5x promotion is only valid for travel booked in March, though travel can take place at any time. That’s a potential 12.5K points per card.

Both the Freedom and Freedom Unlimited are excellent no annual fee credit cards.

The Chase Freedom card earns 5 points per dollar on $1,500 in quarterly spending. You can click here to activate next quarter’s Chase Freedom 5% categories. With $1,500 in spending per quarter you will earn at least 30,000 Ultimate Rewards points over the course of a year (7,500 points per quarter at 5 points per dollar spent).

You can register now for 2020 Q2 spending which will be valid 4/1-6/30 at:

You still can finish Q1 spending through 3/31 at:

  • Internet, Cable, and Telecom: This includes your internet bills, TV bills, cell phone bills (including cell phones and accessories charged to your monthly bill), and landline bills.
  • Select streaming services: This includes Disney+, Netflix, Hulu, Sling, Vudu, FuboTV, Apple Music, SiriusXM, Pandora, Spotify, YouTube, and ESPN+.
  • Gas stations: This includes most 7-Eleven stores and gas stations that sell gift cards for other stores as well. You can lookup how a store is categorized here. My local GetGo gas stations earn sweet rewards on gift card purchases, making this quarter even more lucrative. Officially warehouse clubs are excluded, but I have gotten this at Costco and Sam’s Club gas stations in the past.
    • I racked up tens of thousands of Ultimate Rewards points and over $500 in free gas buying gift cards at gas stations in Q3 on our 5 Chase Freedom cards!
  • You can also buy gift cards at any of the stores above to lock in savings!

While Chase Freedom is a great card for the bonus categories, it’s not a great card for everyday spending. However the Chase Freedom Unlimited® card also has no annual fee and is excellent for everyday spending thanks to 1.5 points per dollar that can be earned everywhere with no limit, but it does not have any bonus categories.

The no annual fee business version of Freedom Unlimited is the Ink Business Unlimited® Credit Card Card, which offers $500 in the form of 50,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points after spending $3,000 within 3 months plus 1.5 points per dollar spent everywhere.

Freedom, Freedom Unlimited, and Ink Unlimited alone can’t transfer points into much more lucrative airline or hotel miles, but if you or your spouse has an Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card, Sapphire Reserveor Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card, or card then you can transfer points from Freedom to one of those cards and from there to your favorite travel currency. Those cards also allow you to rdeem your points for paid travel at a value of 1.25 or 1.5 cents per point. The Freedom, Freedom Unlimited, or Ink Unlimited card can also keep your points alive for free if you do close one of those premium cards.

The value of the points will be based on where you use them, but if you use those points for a trip worth where they are worth 2 cents each then you’ll have effectively earned 10% back on those “5 point categories.” The sky is the limit of the value of airline miles as they aren’t tied to the cost of a ticket. That’s good for people in the know and bad for those who are not. 1 mile can be worth 0.25 cents or it can be worth 25 cents, it all just depends on how you use them!

HT: Eluzer K

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24 Comments On "Chase Freedom/Freedom Unlimited 5x Bonus Category On Hotels For March"

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Elli

What a perfect time!

Ali

Dan, you are 11 days early. April Fool’s Day is April 1st

AmEx holder

I wonder which hotel chain sponsored this

None

Haha – not many people staying in hotels.

Sam

Thanks Dan, more than one way to skin a cat.

Noam sonnenberg

Can I book a refundable hotel wait until points come in and cancel?

Zali

When they had the 10x on $2,500 travel last year, if one cancelled the reservation even a few months later, they removed all the bonus points.

rob

Who in their right might would book nonrefundable travel right now?

E

I do have to travel but this isn’t terribly interesting. Would rather use Chase Ink, get the 3 points per dollar, book at hotel website and get full points/status benefits

EliFL

I wonder if the secret trick will work on this promo as well

mimb

pm?

Nun

I booked 2 in last year’s promotion and legitimately had to cancel 1. Points were correctly removed.

EliNC

OOOhhhh yeah… the secret trick. Might work. Although, you may want to use the super secret trick for this one.

Alex

Pm?

Simcha

A great sense of humor!

gemarakop

wow chase has a sense of humor

Martin

Couldn’t have been a better suited bonus category. YEEEEESH!

simcha

anyone know if i cancel a flight on leal that i booked with through chase UR if/how i can get my points back?

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