Club ITC: Up to 50,000 Bonus Points, and Is Culinaire Worth It?
Updated as of 14 Oct 2026. Checked on the Club ITC terms and the Culinaire page on itchotels.com. 1 Green Point = ₹1 when you spend it at ITC hotels.
ITC Hotels is running a bonus called Stay More Earn More. Stay at enough different ITC hotels or brands before 20 February 2027 and you get up to 50,000 bonus Green Points, worth ₹50,000 at ITC hotels. The catch: you need at least 10 room nights first. Below we explain the offer, then answer the question we get most about ITC: is the paid Culinaire dining plan worth buying?
Stay More Earn More: the offer
| Stay at | Bonus Green Points | Worth |
|---|---|---|
| 3 different hotels, or 2 different brands | 2,000 | ₹2,000 |
| 4 different hotels, or 3 different brands | 5,000 | ₹5,000 |
| 5 different hotels, or 4 different brands | 20,000 | ₹20,000 |
| 5 different brands | 50,000 | ₹50,000 |
- Stay dates: stays completed between 21 Aug 2026 and 20 Feb 2027.
- Minimum 10 eligible room nights in that period. Fewer than 10 nights earns no bonus at all, however many hotels you visit.
- Book only on the ITC Hotels website or app. Travel agents, online travel agencies and corporate tools don’t count. Nor does booking an ITC hotel through marriott.com.
- Day-use stays don’t count: since 27 May 2026, day-use packages earn no room-night credit.
- When you get it: within 30 days after 20 Feb 2027, on top of your normal Green Points.
What it’s worth: the maths
Say you spend ₹1,00,000 on 10 nights, before tax. A base Club ITC member normally earns 2% back on rooms, so 2,000 points.
- Hit 4 brands: 2,000 + 20,000 = 22,000 points, or 22% back.
- Hit all 5 brands: 2,000 + 50,000 = 52,000 points, or 52% back.
That is the best hotel loyalty return we’ve seen in India this year. The 5-brand level is harder than it looks, though. You need a night each at a Mementos, a Storii and a Fortune, as well as an ITC and a Welcomhotel, and Mementos has only a few resorts. Fortune and Storii nights usually cost far less than ITC, so the cheapest route is a few short Fortune or Storii stays on trips you’re already taking.
Who should chase it
- Go for it if you already do 10+ hotel nights a year in India and can book them yourself. Spread them across brands deliberately.
- Skip it if your company books your hotels, or you’d need to invent trips to reach 10 nights. Don’t spend ₹50,000 to earn ₹20,000.
- Using the points: Green Points pay for rooms, dining, spa and even a Culinaire subscription at ₹1 each, and they don’t expire while your account is active. You can also move them to Marriott Bonvoy (2 Green Points to 3 Bonvoy points), but only 5,000 Green Points a quarter.
Is ITC Culinaire worth buying?
Culinaire is ITC’s paid dining plan, added on top of a free Club ITC account. Every plan gives 20% off food and drinks at participating ITC, Welcomhotel, Mementos, Storii and Fortune restaurants, and 3–12% back in Green Points on dining, depending on your Club ITC tier. You also get yearly vouchers. Prices are before GST; we’ve added 18%.
| Plan (1 year) | Price | With 18% GST | Main vouchers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classic | ₹8,500 | ₹10,030 | 2 buffets for two, 2 cakes, 50% off one group meal (up to 8), 2 × 50% off spa, 1 × 15% off a room |
| Select | ₹19,000 | ₹22,420 | 1 free night, 2 buffets for two, 2 × 50% off a bill (up to 4 guests), 3 × 15% off a room |
| Elite | ₹29,500 | ₹34,810 | 2 free nights, 4 buffets for two, 2 × 50% off a bill, 5 × 20% off a room |
Our break-even maths, using rough prices at a big-city ITC hotel such as ITC Grand Chola in Chennai. These are our estimates, so plug in your own hotel’s prices: a free night worth ₹14,000, less about ₹2,500 GST you pay when you use it; a buffet for two worth ₹6,000; and a 50%-off voucher on an ₹8,000 bill worth ₹4,000.
| Plan | You pay | Vouchers you’ll realistically use | Value | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classic | ₹10,030 | 2 buffets + 2 cakes | about ₹14,000 | Worth it if you’ll use the buffets |
| Select | ₹22,420 | 1 night + 2 buffets + 1 × 50% bill | about ₹27,500 | Thin margin; the 20% discount makes it |
| Elite | ₹34,810 | 2 nights + 4 buffets + 1 × 50% bill | about ₹51,000 | Best value, if you’ll really use 2 nights (and cheaper still on a 5-year plan) |
On the discount alone, Classic pays for itself once you spend about ₹45,000 a year on ITC dining: 20% off, plus 3% back in points on the discounted bill, comes to about ₹10,000. That’s roughly one family dinner a month at an ITC restaurant. If you eat there less than that, the vouchers have to carry it.
How we got 5 years of Culinaire Elite for free
Until September 2026, Axis Bank let Magnus cardholders move EDGE Reward points to Club ITC at 5:4. Here’s exactly what we did with it last year, from our own account emails:
- 28 Oct 2025: moved 1,26,600 Axis Magnus EDGE points to Club ITC on Axis Travel EDGE. 1,01,280 Green Points landed the next day.
- Added the Green Points we already had from earlier stays, taking the balance to 1,30,785.
- 3 Nov 2025: paid for Culinaire Elite for 5 years entirely with points: 1,30,567 Green Points, which is the ₹1,10,650 price plus 18% GST.
Result: no cash out of pocket. That works out to about ₹26,100 a year with GST, against ₹34,810 for a single year of Elite. It’s 25% cheaper per year, with 2 free nights and 4 buffets for two every year until 2030. Each Axis point was worth about ₹0.80 here.
Can you still do it? Not with Axis: Axis dropped Club ITC as a transfer partner on 23 September 2026 (see our post on the Axis partner reshuffle). The trick that remains is to pay for Culinaire with Green Points. That’s why Stay More Earn More matters: 50,000 bonus points covers more than a year of Elite, or two years of Select. A 5-year plan locks in today’s price, but only buy one if you’re sure you’ll keep eating and staying at ITC. Unused vouchers still expire every year.
For the full benefit-by-benefit breakdown, read our Culinaire Select vs Elite guide and what changed in Club ITC in May 2026. For how we used Culinaire vouchers on a family trip, see our ITC Grand Bharat trip report.
Culinaire catches in the fine print
- Vouchers die after 12 months. Unused vouchers don’t carry over, even on a multi-year plan.
- No discount through apps. Paying through Swiggy, Zomato, District or EazyDiner loses the 20% and the points.
- Staying at the hotel? Charge meals to your room. Paying at the restaurant, or in cash, loses the discount and points.
- Room-rate vouchers work only by phone, through ITC’s guest contact centre, not online.
- The 50% vouchers don’t work at Bukhara or Avartana. You can’t use two vouchers on one bill, and the 20% discount covers up to 15 diners.
- Renew early: renewing before your plan expires earns 1,500 bonus Green Points.
Check your card first
Some premium cards include Culinaire. The IDFC FIRST Private card, for example, gives Culinaire Select when you pay its joining fee, and renews it only if you spend over ₹40 lakh a year. Check your card’s benefits before you pay. And if Stay More Earn More pays you 20,000 or 50,000 points, use them to buy next year’s Culinaire: Green Points pay for it at ₹1 each.
DealUni take
Stay More Earn More is excellent for anyone already doing 10 hotel nights in India before February: plan a Fortune and a Storii night into trips you’re taking anyway, and book everything on itchotels.com. Culinaire is a good buy only if you eat at ITC restaurants regularly. Pick Classic for the buffets, and Elite only if you’ll really use two free nights. Select sits awkwardly in the middle.
Das raatein, paanch brand, aur pachaas hazaar points: plan karke chalo toh faayda pakka. (Ten nights, five brands, fifty thousand points: plan it and the gain is certain.)
Sources: Club ITC terms and conditions (Offers: Stay More Earn More; Culinaire enrolment, renewal and redemption); ITC Hotels: Culinaire subscription benefits; IDFC FIRST Private: Club ITC Culinaire terms. Hotel and buffet values are DealUni estimates. Checked 14 Oct 2026.
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