What Chase Sapphire Reserve unlocks

If you already hold the Chase Sapphire Reserve, you're one enrollment away from IHG One Rewards Platinum Elite: link your accounts and IHG activates the status free in the US, active through the end of 2027, no stays or spend required. The same card enrollment also hands you Avis Preferred Plus and National Emerald Club Executive in the US at no cost.

IHG Platinum Elite is the springboard for two more free hotel matches: Choice Privileges will match it to Choice Privileges Platinum in the US and Canada, though that's a once-per-lifetime move capped at Platinum, and Wyndham Rewards will match it to Wyndham Diamond, which only holds for 90 days unless you add 10 qualifying nights to extend it. On the car side, the National Emerald Club Executive tier the card grants directly — a lower tier than the Executive Elite reached through IHG — separately matches into Sixt Platinum, a status that doesn't expire outright but needs renewing after 12 months.

Car rental brands routinely match each other's status, so it's normal for the longer chains here to cross brands. IHG Platinum Elite threads through National Emerald Club Executive Elite into Avis President's Club; the Avis Preferred Plus you get directly chains through Hertz President's Circle into Enterprise Plus Platinum; and the deepest route runs from IHG Platinum Elite through Wyndham Diamond and MSC Voyagers Club Gold to Explora Club Gold. Each leg is its own match with separate proof and renewal terms, all mapped in the reference below.