IHG launches “The Big Win”, a potentially very generous Autumn promotion

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• Craig says:

  25 Aug25 August 13:27

  Interesting stuff… I wonder why my personal version is for bonus miles instead of IHG points (Iberia is my preferred earning method), but at the same time I’ve got the North American hotel list instead of the European one, so I can’t really see how I can pick up the full amount as it’s hardly worth a trip unless I decide to do a TP run…

• DontLikeFruit says:

  25 Aug25 August 17:37

  My offer total is 127,500 points:

  Try one and done – 1,000.
  Stay more & earn more – 32 nights – 19,200
  Explore our brands – 4 different brands – 24,000
  Survey – 100
  Live the city life – 2 locations (many London & Birmingham properties listed) – 7,200
  Win in a weekend – 7 Saturday nights – 12,000.
  Win big – 64,000 Points

  Seven Saturday nights looks like my trickiest challenge, followed by 4 different brands.

• Ian says:

  25 Aug25 August 17:50

  Excellent
  The Live the city life offer includes numerous Birmingham hotels. I should be able to complete most of the challenge with my normal business trips. The weekend stays will prove more difficult.

• Eric OMara says:

  25 Aug25 August 20:26

  I am looking for help here please 🙂

  We were looking to book a long weekend somewhere anyway , mid Sept, when this promo came up.
  I have no status (yet) with ICH but this is my plan

  Friday – Preston South hIx £44
  Saturday – Preston HI £50
  Sunday – Liverpool Indigo £67

  I’m registered for the following offers
  “Try one and done”
  1 stay is 500 miles
  As I am booking 3 nights in separate hotels, is that 1500 miles?
  Explore our brands”- stay in 3 different brands
  2000 miles – think I’m ok with that
  “Book direct 500 miles”
  2 online bookings to get 500 miles- ok with that

  5000 bonus points for staying at Indigo Liverpool (£67) ok with that

  2000 bonus points x 3 nights for 2013 promotion ok with that.

  Now that we have reverted our earning preference back to points from BA,
  What’s a mile worth?

  FINALY
  what other stackable codes can we apply, and do they count for each night, or just as a one off?
  Your help would be much appreciated

  • Rob says:

    25 Aug25 August 21:19

    You need to be careful. Switching back to points may be an issue – will they give you miles or points when you hit your targets? The ratio is usually 5 to 1 so theoretically if they let you take points you’d get 5x the number of miles.

    The stackable codes – I listed most of the working ones in a recent post – may (I think) require your account to be set to points to pay out. Most are one offs, but some offer x points for every stay in y days.

    • Eric OMara says:

      26 Aug26 August 00:06

      Thanks Raffles.
      Managed to register another couple of codes that should get us another 4500 points

      • Eric OMara says:

        26 Aug26 August 00:31

        By my calc. Thats nearly 30K points for the weekend if they convert my miles to points at the 5:1 ratio

    • Craig says:

      26 Aug26 August 10:24

      If you collect miles, you will still receive points using those codes…

• John says:

  25 Aug25 August 20:33

  Mine seems the easiest to achieve out of all posted so far!!

  I haven’t stayed in IHG since last November, but I think I’ve got to go for this one.

  Basically it’s 22600 points for 2 separate nights. Now, if one of them was at Heathrow and one in a certain European city, then I just need another 3 nights anywhere to get the remaining 79100 points!

  (1000 for first stay, 3600 for booking 2 stays, 18000 for 2 brands, 18000 for 2 of the following European, 10100 for 5 nights, and 51100 for completion/survey)

  • John says:

    25 Aug25 August 20:36

    5 nights with this promo could get me nearly a month of free nights at Point Breaks rates…

• VV says:

  26 Aug26 August 00:55

  Are the promotion codes from your previous posts and those from flyertalk are targeted and region specific? I heard someone has the account suspended because registering the codes not in the account holder region.

  • Rob says:

    26 Aug26 August 14:29

    They are targeted to the extent that they only send them to some people, but they work for anyone. Never heard of any issues if people use them who don’t get them, and I have been doing this for YEARS. I recently changed my account to a US address for a couple of days to get a 5k bonus to hit, as I will post later this week.

• flibbly says:

  26 Aug26 August 06:40

  My ‘Live the city life’ offer only includes hotels in Australia and Japan, presumably because I stopped at a HI in Sydney last year. Makes the bonus impossible too, so unfortunately very little incentive to change my current plans.

• Scott says:

  26 Aug26 August 09:47

  My offers aren’t too bad especially if they include reward stays as I’ve a few in sydney later this year. Got bookings with Hilton and Accor due to better rates / locations but one could be changed to an IC to get a third brand stay – either that or a really cheap night at a UK Indigo.

  As for my “city life” hotels, got London LHR HI, CP Amsterdam South, somewhere in Paris etc. Apart from maybe London, nothing really useful and the Amsterdam hotel seems a bit far out from the Dam Square touristy area.

  • davefl says:

    26 Aug26 August 11:20

    Click the “view all” button next to the hotels and you should see

    AMSTERDAM
    INTERCONTINENTAL, AMSTEL AMSTERDAM
    HOLIDAY INN, AMSTERDAM
    CROWNE PLAZA, AMSTERDAM CITY CENTRE
    CROWNE PLAZA, AMSTERDAM – SCHIPHOL
    HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS, AMSTERDAM – SCHIPHOL
    HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS, AMSTERDAM – SLOTERDIJK STATION
    HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS, AMSTERDAM – SOUTH
    CROWNE PLAZA, AMSTERDAM – SOUTH

  • Alan says:

    26 Aug26 August 11:35

    You need to click ‘view all’ to see the full list 😛

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