IHG Rewards Club Select MasterCard from Chase offers an unrestricted free anniversary night for any IHG hotel worldwide. This article shows how to redeem these free IHG Chase card nights.
There was an issue in April 2018 when the new Chase IHG Rewards Club Premier card came out with an anniversary free night limited to hotels at 40,000 points.
I did not follow that discussion closely at the time, but apparently it was resolved so no points cap is placed on IHG Select MasterCard members anniversary free night certificates issued before May 1, 2019.
The Points Guy -Â IHG Select card uncapped free anniversary night to 2019.
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Your Anniversary Free Night Awaits
One of the many benefits of being an IHG® Rewards Club Credit Cardmember is your annual Anniversary Free Night. With more than 4,900 eligible IHG hotels around the world available to redeem your Anniversary Free Night, your next vacation could be the best one yet.
How to book your Anniversary Free Night:
Anniversary Free Night will be available for redemption on your credit card account renewal anniversary date each year1.   Login at ihgrewardsclub.com
2.   Go to My Account (top-right, click on your name)
3.   Click the Free Night link above the Account Activity & Messages buttons
4.   Select your Free Night for redemption
5.   Book your hotel room
6.   Enjoy your stay
*Anniversary Free Night is valid at IHG® Hotels with a current point redemption level of 40,000 points or less, and must be redeemed, and stay must be completed, within 12 months from date of issue. Below is a list of hotels whose redemption threshold is higher than 40,000 points.
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This article shows the steps listed above using my free Chase IHG Select anniversary night in my account to book the InterContinental Paris Le Grand, a hotel normally at 70,000 points.
The Chase IHG Rewards Club Premier card anniversary free night capped at 40,000 points excludes higher reward rate hotels like most InterContinental Hotels and Kimpton Hotels around the world and dozens of other hotels worldwide such as my local Holiday Inn Express Cannery Row Monterey, California.
Steps 1 and 2 above are IHG Rewards Club login and go to My Account.
Left side of the my account page shows ‘1 Free Night‘.
This is the link for booking your Chase credit card free night.
As you can see, my free night expires November 2, 2018.
When I click on ‘Book Free Night‘ link, then Chase Anniversary Free Night appears in rate types.
Most of my Chase IHG Select credit card free nights have been redeemed at top tier InterContinental Hotels. I mostly have stayed at InterContinental London Park Lane when transiting through the city on my way to some other place.
InterContinental Paris Le Grand was one of my favorite free night redemptions.
Loyalty Traveler -Â InterContinental Le Grand Hotel, a storied institution of Paris
or $593.65 for same room on flexible rate with same cancellation rules as Chase Anniversary free night.
Chase IHG Rewards Club Select card anniversary free night is a high value benefit.
Looks like I will have one more uncapped free night issued in October 2018 before I find out what happens with my IHG Select credit card in 2019.
Chase IHG Rewards Club Premier card 4th night free on reward stays and a 40,000 points anniversary free night sound like decent replacement benefits for my style of travel. InterContinental one night stays are a splurge. I would actually derive more benefit from several 4th night free stays during the year since one of the limitations I found for my Chase Select Anniversary Free Night is my wife does not like to bounce around hotels and I would not pay to stay at the expensive luxury hotels I stayed at using the Chase credit card free night.
I lead more of a Holiday Inn kind of life.
