Three little tricks to help you hit your IHG Accelerate target

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• Ralphy says:

  26 Jan26 January 08:48

  Any tips for completing three overnight stays in three different countries?? No idea why I was targeted with that one but it is impossible to achieve my bonus based on that and one other silly task.

  • Rob says:

    26 Jan26 January 08:50

    No joy there. You need to forget that one and focus on the other silly one!

    • Ralph says:

      26 Jan26 January 13:32

      17,600 for staying in 3 different countries and 17,000 for completing 6 of 7 offers. the other one was 4000 points for booking and staying 4 consecutive nights. Not a good promo for me this time.

      • Lady London says:

        26 Jan26 January 20:03

        Er… seen the rest of what you’ve been offered now.
        I got something similar last year, and gave the promo a miss that time.

  • Lady London says:

    26 Jan26 January 20:02

    Do England Ireland Scotland and Wales count as different countries, perhaps?

• Mark says:

  26 Jan26 January 09:01

  Can you earn more than one of your targets within one stay?

  For example, I have two targets: – “Stay once in January”, and “Stay for three nights” I have booked a three night stay 29/01- 01/02, so will this trigger both?

  • Alan says:

    26 Jan26 January 09:20

    yes, you can hit multiple targets with one stay
    wish I had some decent ones – haven’t bothered with it thanks to such rubbish targets this time (and the last time!)

• Gavin says:

  26 Jan26 January 09:04

  Sunday nights seem to be the sweet spot in my area. Waiting to know my travel pattern / March commitments before booking

• Guy says:

  26 Jan26 January 09:13

  My wife’s booked a work trip through BA – flight and hotel was competitive. She’s going to an Intercontinental, and isn’t signed up to IHG yet – would this stay be eligible, as not booked direct. If it is (beginner’s question) how do you link the booking to an IHG account?

• Ian says:

  26 Jan26 January 09:36

  Mine are:

  Stay More, Earn More
  Get closer to the rewards you want when you stay 3 night(s) and earn 2,000 bonus points

  and

  Book with IHG
  Book 2 stays directly through IHG and earn 2,000 bonus points. From our website, your mobile device or through our Central Booking Office, book with us for the best rate.

  and

  Discover Our Brands
  Stay at 2 number of brands and get 2,000 bonus points.

  So will all these only need me to make bookings for the future and cancel them?

  Or will some / all need physical stays?

  • Simon says:

    26 Jan26 January 09:39

    All will need physical stays, but you could hit all 3 with one 3 night stay in one brand and a 1 nights stay at another brand.

    • Gary M says:

      26 Jan26 January 10:17

      I have a “Get closer to the rewards you want when you stay 5 night(s) and earn 10,000 bonus points” challenge

      Having read the T&Cs, I can see anywhere it says they have to be consecutive or in 1 brand. I had assumed, and still assume from what I have read, that this is just a requirement to accumulate a total of 5 nights over the time period the Accelerate runs for.

      Does anyone interpret this differently?

      • YL says:

        26 Jan26 January 18:03

        I had exactly the same one and interpreted the same as you.
        I had successfully completed similar targets in the past by just accumulated X nights by staying different hotels over the specified period of time.

        • Kevin says:

          26 Jan26 January 22:07

          I have the same challenge.
          May I know if consecutive stay 2 nights in a hotel will count as 2 nights or just 1 night as it is indictaed as “night” rather than “stay”

• John says:

  26 Jan26 January 10:14

  I hit all my targets about 3 weeks ago – but the offer status page states I’ve done zero. This is the first time I’ve tried one of these accelerate offers; is it normal for it to take this long for the system to recognise when you’ve hit the targets?

  • Alan says:

    26 Jan26 January 10:19

    Sadly IHG IT is absolutely atrocious. Have the stays all posted with points OK? Assuming that’s happened then they should still eventually show up – failing that email IHG Care and ask them to speed it up a bit, but I know in the last pre-Christmas offer it took about a month after the 2nd stay for my Mum’s free night to post (it was the new customer offer)

    • John says:

      26 Jan26 January 10:27

      Yes, the points posted for the stays just has not registered with the accelerate targets. I’ll give them a week and then send an email I think.

      • Leo says:

        26 Jan26 January 10:33

        Took ages last time – well over a month. I wouldn’t panic.

  • Relaxo says:

    26 Jan26 January 11:41

    Yeah I think updates to your targets are only loaded at the end of each month. Or at least thats what happened for Accelarate 2015

    • Me says:

      26 Jan26 January 11:52

      It’s not that straightforward. I already have two showing as completed and one at 16%. But no bonus points have posted yet.

      • Gavin says:

        26 Jan26 January 12:07

        Same here

      • stu says:

        26 Jan26 January 12:28

        It takes at least 2- 4 weeks to show on your targets, only after that will the bonus be sent over, and then its another 4-8 weeks. They will land, sit back, relax and enjoy the ride!

  • Fenny says:

    26 Jan26 January 18:24

    Yes! When I did my first IHG promotion in 2014, it took a couple of months after the programme ended before I got any points.

• Gary M says:

  26 Jan26 January 10:26

  Just a reminder that if you buy 1000 points , you will rule yourself out of any potential future offer of 100% bonus on 100,000 purchased, which have often appeared at some point each year. To get the 100% offer you typically have to buy the full 100K , which is your annual allowance.

  • Liz says:

    26 Jan26 January 10:42

    Last year I bought when it was a 60% bonus – I was new then and didn’t know any better! Then later in the year I was able to buy a further 50k + 50K bonus in the June offer so hopefully we won’t get penalised for having to buy 1000 pts now!

• Nerock says:

  26 Jan26 January 10:34

  Do Rewards stays count towards your Accelerate target?? I would assume not but I can’t see this stated explicitly in T&Cs?

  • dgsupersonic says:

    26 Jan26 January 10:46

    Not sure if they can be more explicit than this…

    “Non-Qualifying Room Rates” or “Non-Qualifying Stay” include the following: any stay at a Kimpton Hotel, net wholesale individual and group rate, certain package rates, employee discount rate, friends and family rate, crew rate, special discounted contract rates, seasonal worker/crew rate, 50% travel club discount rate, travel industry discount rate, distressed passenger rate, IHG® Rewards Club Reward Nights/Airline Hotel Reward rate, rates booked through third party web sites, complimentary hotel Stays and any other rates not defined as a Qualifying Room Rate at IHG’s sole discretion.

    • Rad says:

      26 Jan26 January 12:08

      … and just to be clear, points + cash is also a reward stay

    • Nerock says:

      26 Jan26 January 12:41

      ah ok thanks.. i was looking for it under the “accelerate” t&cs but i found it in the generel t&cs now..

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