And the new IHG top tier is confirmed as …. Spire Elite

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• mark2 says:

  11 Jul11 July 06:07

  Once again many thanks to Rob, and indeed all of you for pointing out these opportunities. I regard the 25,000 points as very beneficial although free breakfast as well would have been better obviously!
  Thanks to the credit card I shall achieve this fairly easily without setting foot in an IHG hotel and benefit when I go to Canada in September. If, however, I stayed in lots of IHG hotels but did not make it to Spire level I would not be pleased so the scheme does not appear to be well-designed.

• What's the Point says:

  11 Jul11 July 06:26

  Same here, thanks to HfP I have hit Spire with only 1 stay in an IHG property this year (I can just hear all the grumbles from the big IHG hitters!)

  I appreciated the 25,000 points which are now in my account, and I honestly believe that for the balance of the year and into 2016 I will start using IHG more than Hilton (which is my main hotel chain I use, generally 35+ stays year)

  Free breakfast would be the deal clincher for me, and I would probably swap all my future stays into IHG. Maintaining Spire status is probably going to be very difficult for me without some serious spend on the IHG credit card.

  • AndyGWP says:

    12 Jul12 July 09:05

    “I have hit Spire with only 1 stay in an IHG property this year”

    I’m intrigued – assume it must’ve been the credit card to get to 60k, but then what happened?

    • Jason says:

      12 Jul12 July 09:44

      I’m going to hit it without staying in an IHG property this year, 60k bonus on credit card and 10k spend which has yet to hit my account.
      I am intending to stay at some IC’s later this year and join their ambassador scheme.

• Mark says:

  11 Jul11 July 06:37

  How do you claim the 25k points? I’ve hit Spire, but don’t see anywhere to do this.

  • Mark says:

    11 Jul11 July 06:58

    I found it, it’s under ‘Choice Benefits” on the ‘My Account’ page for anyone else who was struggling.

• Max says:

  11 Jul11 July 06:43

  All academic for me as I rarely feel inSPIREd to stay at IHG hotels.

• Mark B says:

  11 Jul11 July 07:19

  That’s made me even prouder to be a Spireite 🙂

• Nathan says:

  11 Jul11 July 08:45

  It would seem the talk of spire being the equivalent to Royal ambassador for existing ambassadors was wrong.
  Strange because 75 nights would get royal status anyway if 20 nights were IC. Never mind, another major let down from IHG

• David Salford says:

  11 Jul11 July 09:09

  I have claimed my points – but it says they expire (interesting connection with similar sounding word) at end of 2016. If I spend points how do I designate these?

  • Rob says:

    11 Jul11 July 09:16

    Not, that is not what it meant. It meant you had to CLAIM them by Dec 16.

• Cradders says:

  11 Jul11 July 09:30

  That’s a truly awful name… I’d put money on that being dreamt up by some kind of external design consultancy. You can imagine the pitch to IHG as you read its utterly absurd explanation! I’m amazed it got signed off…

  • Peter says:

    11 Jul11 July 11:23

    Quite. Dreadful name. Certainly not an aspirational name to encourage me to stay at IHG to strive to reach the top level.

    It concerns me that the IHG top brass are spending more time thinking up duff names than actually concentrating on delivering a decent product in the hotels.

  • Aeronaut says:

    11 Jul11 July 16:33

    Indeed, the explanatory blurb is a load of utter unmitigated guff.

  • Nick says:

    12 Jul12 July 04:52

    On the subject of ihg and design consultancies, is it just me that thinks their branding is very similar to PwC?

    As regards the crappy name: makes no ids to me whatsoever. They could call it IHG mugs’ club for all I care, if the benefits are worth striving for then I’ll aim for it.

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