What is Priority Club playing at?

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• marqoos_pl says:

  1 Jan1 January 10:02

  C’mon. They are trying so hard to send these customers to other Frequent Guest Programmes and that way seems to be working, lol. So, dear fellow Headforpointers friends – Happy New 2013 Year – last year we have Platinum with IHG!

• Alan says:

  1 Jan1 January 10:19

  Quite agree, a shocking disregard for their customers. Mind you i still havent received official notification from Hilton about their changes either, but at least their website warns you when you login.

  Happy New Year 🙂

• Thunderbirds says:

  1 Jan1 January 11:36

  Shocking public relations I agree and pobably an over reaction to the ease with which it was possible to earn Platinum status. In my opinion they should have left base points and the additional status bonus to count for the following years status. This would have rewarded long term loyalty and would have allowed people who do not stay 50 nights to leverage their way up over a couple of years. My account reset last night. Interesting wording though it says “50 nights to retain Platinum Ambassador for next year”. I’m not an Ambassador at the moment so is this a wording glitch or is Ambassador being thrown in this/next year?

• Rich Spencer says:

  1 Jan1 January 12:14

  I’ve only got Platinum because of the credit card so was never likely to keep it but it does seem that the communication is less than other schemes.

  On a different note the bulk of my bonus point codes have now expired (as expected) and I have a couple of stays coming up in Jan as well as the £20.12 nights- if anyone can point me in the direction of current codes it would be appreciated.

  • Alan says:

    1 Jan1 January 12:16

    Hi Rich – this link should help with those – http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/intercontinental-hotels-priority-club-inter-continental-ambassador/1421922-ic-master-promo-thread-2013-a.html.

    Remember if you keep your PC VISA then you’ll retain the status – although whether it’s even worth £99/year depends on your stay pattern! (the 50% bonus points as Plat has some value, I’ve really had very little by way of upgrades).

  • Raffles says:

    1 Jan1 January 12:54

    There will be a post this week on the Quarter 1 ‘stay x’ codes, but there are on Flyertalk if you need them urgently.

    In theory the £20.12 nights are non-qualifying for points, but you’d be crazy not to register for the codes just in case.

    • Rich Spencer says:

      1 Jan1 January 18:29

      Thanks both- I found the FT link but most of them seem to be the same that expired at the end of Dec- I got the “new” one for stay X…

      Will keep hunting around to see if I can find any others.

• Pay says:

  2 Jan2 January 14:43

  Have just checked into a crown plaza in last hour. Charmless welcome, mechanical process and no reference to platinum status. In my case gained through hotel stays in US and Asia. I have come to expect no recognition in the UK but in the USA they have the decency to mention it, even in HIX properties.

  Have 1 further stay next week in IC Prague then time to reevaluate where to put by 20 plus nights till August. Not a lot of stays but tend to spend on room, especially in Asia. To be fair as I have retained p,actinium for this year may be worth sticking with ihg just for the points this year then move on

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