Another IHG Rewards Club 24-hour “flash sale” on Monday – some very good deals

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• whiskerxx says:

  19 Oct19 October 08:09

  Would a reward stay in Indigo Paddington count towards one of the required brands for my BIg Win promotion?

  ( for info – when I open Headforpoints, Norton Security removes the file “Exploit Toolkit Website 25”. Does anyone else get this?)

• Mrtibbs1999 says:

  19 Oct19 October 08:18

  My norton picked it up too, thus why I’m on my iphone now. Raffles, have someone look into this ASAP, if Chrome decides to block you, it’ll cause you major seo issues.

  • Rob says:

    19 Oct19 October 09:56

    Google Webmaster Tools shows:

    Malware
    Google has not detected any malware on this site.

    It is almost certainly something in one of the ads that is causing a false alarm.

• Brian Taylor says:

  19 Oct19 October 08:53

  Reward stays do not earn points, so I doubt they’ll count towards the Big Win, alas.

• Farringdon says:

  19 Oct19 October 09:27

  I’m having security issues with my corporate firewall at the office. When I opened the site yesterday, the firewall completely shut down all internet access for 10 minutes. Seems like there’s a serious problem with something on the website.

  • Rob says:

    19 Oct19 October 09:50

    There was something yesterday, you are the 3rd person to mention it. It must have been some code in one of the ads that was being mistaken for malware.

    I am 99 per cent certain that Google scans all its ads for malware, and the stuff that comes via the agency is 100 per cent blue chip advertisers (M&S, Disney etc) so it would be a surprise if there had been anything in that.

    For what its worth, I never got any warnings yesterday and I spend longer on the site than the rest of you!

• James67 says:

  19 Oct19 October 10:28

  Ohh so good and too bad 🙁 I wonder why they didnt change dates this time. Phuket would have been perfect for me first week December, would have saved me over £700 for a week. And if ionly it had been Edinburgh HI last time instead of West. Anyway, some you win, some you lose. Anybody have a chance to use the Phuket HI go for it, it is a great hotel .

• Peter Cashen says:

  19 Oct19 October 10:29

  The exploit is still being caught.

  My corporate Symantec Endpoint Protection just got it now!

  • Rob says:

    19 Oct19 October 14:17

    Very very odd. Still had not nothing pop up here and only a very small number of reports (versus the 4,000 unique visitors we had yesterday).

    • Rob says:

      19 Oct19 October 15:15

      I have run a full Wordforce scan on the site, with no issues. I have removed the two video ads that ran at the bottom of two posts this week, which is the only thing that I can imagine could be causing a problem.

• Pid says:

  20 Oct20 October 23:40

  Will bonus codes work with any of these purchases?i

  • Rob says:

    21 Oct21 October 10:01

    No, because they are reward nights and they don’t count as ‘qualifying stays’.

    Ironically, the HIX in Madrid I stayed at last night was on offer at 5,000 points per night when I booked. They must have thought I was crazy, given my points balance, to be turning up and paying cash. Little did they know ….!

    • Brian says:

      21 Oct21 October 10:37

      Presumably, though, your wife doesn’t have such a large balance…

      • Rob says:

        21 Oct21 October 10:55

        Ironically she does, because I did ‘Crack The Case’ for her 2 years ago and she had a big bonus target. I don’t redeem hers much, as I usually redeem at IC’s and I am an IC Ambassador, she is not. Any IC redemptions therefore come out of my account.

        (PS. Any reference to “my” points balance on HFP should always be taken as referring to either my balance or her balance, depending on which account I am using at the time!)

• mrtibbs1999 says:

  21 Oct21 October 10:24

  Do you have any knowledge of how tight a grip IHG take on Bonus promo abuse. For example, If I could status match multiple accounts to plat and then transfer the points for free, how do you think it would go?

  • Rob says:

    21 Oct21 October 10:54

    They are s***-hot on spotting duplicate accounts, I had one closed once. They seem to match credit card numbers used for bookings, oddly. They would probably also pick up on transfers to the same airline account from different PC accounts.

    However, if you open accounts, do a stay on each and then redeem the points for hotel nights, you should be fine. You could use different names on each if you always put yourself down as second guest. Not worth trying to match them to Plat – the extra base points bonus is peanuts and you’re unlikely to get much benefit when you redeem.

    • mrtibbs1999 says:

      21 Oct21 October 11:13

      Thanks for the insight. I suspected that with 35k points available for £25 they might be a little clued up on stopping people from abusing the process on a massive scale. I have an account for me and one for my wife with circa 40k each in. I’m going to redeem for cash and points at the Intercontinental Dubai in 2 weeks.

      If I was to create 2 new accounts, with new email addresses, new IP’s and pay using 3V cards, do you think that I would stand a chance of being able to have a go that way?

      • Rob says:

        21 Oct21 October 11:41

        Yes, that would be fine. If you are paying at check-out I’m not sure the credit card bit applies anyway, as IHG would not have access to your payment details.

        If you’ve not been to IC Festival City Dubai before, note that the Crowne Plaza is in the same building (they share a pool and cross-charge all restaurants) and is a cheaper redemption. If you are Platinum but not an Ambassador, you may also get an upgrade at the CP whilst you’d get nothing at the IC. Both hotels very nice, though.

        • mrtibbs1999 says:

          21 Oct21 October 16:59

          I have booked the discounted HI in the flash sale. I know there are much better hotels out there but for 15k points(that cost me £10!!!!!!!!!!!!!) I could not resist. I’m there 2 nights but in reality only there for 38 hours before I fly to the Seychelles on my error fare adventure!

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