Another 24,000 points-worth of IHG Rewards Club bonus codes

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• Ben E says:

  10 Oct10 October 12:03

  17k and a gold status from the HP employees get gold promo

• Rob says:

  10 Oct10 October 12:37

  No, once registered most – not all, but most – show up under My Offers on your IHG Rewards Club account.

  • Blackberryaddict says:

    10 Oct10 October 20:50

    The bonus points will only show up after your stay.

  • Rob says:

    10 Oct10 October 20:56

    Yes – you haven’t completed them! Even if you’ve got a prepaid room, it doesn’t count as a stay if you don’t check in, so you aren’t due the points until after your stay.

• s8yad says:

  10 Oct10 October 12:59

  Am I understanding this correctly? If say, I book a nights stay at a Holiday In Express on a Advance purchse rate for £39, i stand to gain circa 20k points. I am not currently a IHG menber, and so do I qualify?

  • john says:

    10 Oct10 October 16:00

    Well, first step is to join IHG…

    • s8yad says:

      10 Oct10 October 17:29

      I didn’t want to join another program if there wasn’t an very good incentive for it as I am currently with SPG. However if an outlay of £39 results in 20k points and eventually 4k Avios, then I am happy to do dip my toe.

      • xcalx says:

        10 Oct10 October 18:15

        Also sign up for the big win promo once you have joined IHG .. Use search at top of HFP home page. I cant seem to get links to post here

        • Rob says:

          10 Oct10 October 20:57

          One link per post is fine. Two links and it gets treated as spam and I have to manually approve it.

  • Rob says:

    10 Oct10 October 21:01

    If you sign up and then register for all these promos before you stay, then you’ll get the points.

• Blackverryaddict says:

  10 Oct10 October 19:47

  Do you have to register for these promos before you make your booking? Or does is work for already booked stays?
  Thanks

  • Rob says:

    10 Oct10 October 20:56

    Fine for stays already booked.

• Rob says:

  10 Oct10 October 21:42

  If you search for a town for a certain date it will search all properties within 50km and you can rank by price. You can change this to 100km by selecting the ‘Distance from Destination’ drop down menu on the left after you’ve done your initial search.

  Cheapest nights almost certainly Friday or Saturday. £29 nights can occasionally be found in dumpy parts of the country on a weekend!

  Searching Sheffield for 23rd November brings up the HIX Rotherham at £37, extending to 100km brings in the HI Stoke at £29 for example.

  Cheaper than £29 is very unlikely – at least on a rate code that qualifies for points (all rates which show without inputting special codes will qualify for points).

  • Tony says:

    10 Oct10 October 21:58

    Note you can also change the km to miles, so boosting your search area by a factor of around 2.5

  • Rob says:

    11 Oct11 October 09:19

    No, Sundays are more expensive than Fri or Sat (subject to no big events happening) as business travellers check in then before meetings on Mondays

• Tony says:

  10 Oct10 October 21:56

  Just think of the most miserable place in the country, then try on a Sunday night, and you’ll be close 😉
  Holiday Inn Corby/Kettering, Sunday 27th Oct, £35 on the 35% offer rate
  HI EX Leeds (East) £31
  HI EX J5 of the M74, £32.47

  • Geoggy says:

    10 Oct10 October 22:45

    The 35% offer rate doesn’t earn points does it?

    • Trevor says:

      11 Oct11 October 00:26

      That rate shouldn’t, you’re right. If you use a special rate option, view rates and then click “Book this room”, it’ll show you the potential points earned under your name at the top (sign in first). If a rate doesn’t qualify, you’ll see 0 points listed here – it’s the easiest way to check and be sure.

      With 2 bookings (used your link, Raffles) between my wife’s account and mine for a weekend away, we stand to earn up to 42,000 points each (don’t expect all to post, but still…), so I’m not taking a chance with discount rates to try save a few bucks right now. With up to 16 nights on PointBreak specials, these points are worth a lot more than the few £ saved.

      • Tony says:

        11 Oct11 October 06:36

        Sorry, I thought it did – my bad.

    • Rob says:

      11 Oct11 October 09:19

      It often does, but in theory the hotel is allowed to not give them and you can’t appeal.

      • Trevor says:

        13 Oct13 October 17:48

        Ok, Raffles, I’m a bit confused… In your previous post regarding IHG discounts, you mentioned that the 35% discount rate normally shouldn’t post points, but sometimes you get lucky. Here you say “It often does, but in theory the hotel is allowed to not give them and you can’t appeal.” Finally, having done a search using that discount rate, the IHG site shows “You will earn 610 points for this stay”.

        So to confirm… Even though the booking page shows the points due, the hotel may not post them and then as using the discount rate you have no grounds for appeal? I realise you don’t make/uphold the “rules”, but maybe through experience you know what can and can’t for fought for depending on the booking confirmation. As the 35% discount rate still shows points (unlike the family and friends discount, which, while giving the same price, shows no points due), I am tempted to book and get the discount price. But as only saving £6, not the end of the world to pay the “Advance Saver Rate” and not risk losing all the bonus codes posting (the 610 points on their own are obviously effectively meaningless).

        • Rob says:

          13 Oct13 October 19:04

          If the points show, take a screenshot and you will be fine – if they don’t post, the call centre should fix it.

          IHG is the only hotels group which lets hotels arbitrarily decide which rates earn points. IHG has its rules but the hotels often dont follow them, leading to call centre issues. You should, in theory, be OK with anything that shows on the IHG site without using a special code.

          The biggest issue is 241 rates. The rules clearly say 241 rates are one night at full price (which triggers points) and one free. Many hotels treat it at 2 nights at a 50 per cent discount which means no points. You then need to take your complaint to the call centre / email centre which is in the Philippines and is staffed by people with only a modest grasp of English and zero grasp of understanding promotion rules.

        • Trevor says:

          13 Oct13 October 19:24

          Thanks as always for the prompt reply and good advice. Screenshots it’ll be then, along with the discount. Hopefully the basic and, more importantly, the bonus points post without an issue (erh, if there is an issue and the basic don’t post, will the bonuses always post once the stay is corrected? I realise I can’t go chasing those… pity I didn’t think of requesting clarification on that earlier too, as between 2 bookings they’ll be worth as much as 100,000 points! Don’t worry, you don’t need a disclaimer here 😉 )

        • Alan says:

          13 Oct13 October 19:57

          I’ve never had to challenge on that particular issue before, but when I had a problem with a recent stay I went via their Twitter team and they were fantastic at sorting things out. I think they’re US-based.

• Trevor says:

  10 Oct10 October 23:33

  I have got all the codes mentioned in the original post above to register, along with the following:
  7641 – 1,5k Welcome Back bonus
  4644 – 1k/stay bonus for 90 days
  4777 – 5k Platinum bonus
  2619 / 4944 – 2k/stay Book direct bonus

  They were all the first codes attempted, and all 15 went smoothly. Then I tried some more from the FlyerTalk link above, in reply 4. It’s a loooong list, and note that the codes are all repeated when categorized about halfway through. Every one of them was unsuccessful, saying:

  “The code you entered is invalid for your membership. Please check the qualification requirements for your country, region or program.”

  Has anyone else tried and had success/failure with these codes? Is it possibly a UK address failure? It seems strange that from such a long list, they all consistently failed for me.

  I have found and got 2 codes to register subsequently from the thread:
  1881 – AMBASSADOR ACCELERATOR BONUS
  7637 – 2 day weekend stay 5k bonus

  So no 15 code registration limit as I’d wondered about, but also sadly from such a long thread with so many codes, none others that were still valid/working for me. I’d be interested if anyone else got anything else to work, but having gone through myself, also suggest not wasting your time.

  BTW, of the 17 codes that successfully registered, “My Offer Status” lists all of them (and I now see that you can select to list up to 30 per page, so definitely no 15 code limit, or any small number if at all).

  • Rob says:

    11 Oct11 October 09:18

    A lot of the FT codes are very old and no longer work, so don’t worry about that.

• nicola green says:

  11 Oct11 October 08:42

  Thank you for this. Just had 19k points added to account for a 2 night stay at Crowne Plaza Blackfriars and was on the BMW promotion so double thanks!

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