Another 24,000 points-worth of IHG Rewards Club bonus codes

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• Sarah G says:

  11 Oct11 October 08:51

  I’ve got a stay coming up at HI B’ham City Centre for two nights. Can I split the stay into two bookings and get the “per stay” points? Or will they rumble me?

  • Thunderbirds says:

    11 Oct11 October 08:57

    They will rumble you! Last time I looked a single stay is defined as all consecutive nights regardless of check-in and check-out activity…

  • Rob says:

    11 Oct11 October 09:15

    Won’t work. All you could do, if with someone else, is book one night in each name and each person gets the points. Hotel would need to check you out and back in next day, but no need to pack up!

• cmcbugg says:

  11 Oct11 October 08:53

  Got 35,000 for Friday night at Luton airport 🙂 I had bought Ambassador Gold (Intercontinental) status the week before, so that certainly helped with some of the Elite bonuses. But then, my Sat & Sun nights in Madrid posted as Non-Qualifying. Damn – very p***ed off about that. Only stayed in the dingy Madrid HI for the Big Win bonus and if didn’t qualify. No idea why. It was 21 Day advance purchase rate.

  • Rob says:

    11 Oct11 October 09:14

    21 Day Adv Pur counts just fine. Any rate you get via the website without using a code will count. Email them via the IHG Rewards Club site and the service centre will adjust

    • cmcbugg says:

      11 Oct11 October 09:45

      Phoned them up and they corrected it into a qualifying stay and apologised. Phew – that’s another 8000 in the bag (without any bin win points taken into consideration). Although corrected it now has a description of Overlapping stay. Not sure if the system got confused with the previous night in Luton or something – but there were all different nights. Anyway, thanks for confirming.

• Thunderbirds says:

  11 Oct11 October 08:54

  By the way, on a related topic, a big thank you to IHG for changing the rules so that Reward Nights count towards Elite Status.
  I recently purchased Rewards Points in the double points offer so 120,000 for $690 (£430). So far I’ve had 12 nights at the point break rate of 5,000 per night saving £50 per night so I have my money back already. Another two Point Break nights to go and I still have 50,000 points left for a proper stay!
  All 12 Reward Nights have now registered on my account and I’m Platinum for next year as a result. It will be interesting to see what difference the recent changes make to next years number of Platinum members as purchased points no longer count towards elite status.

• Jude says:

  11 Oct11 October 12:36

  Just to clarify do you physically have to check in to the room that you book or can you just pay and receive the points?

  • Thunderbirds says:

    11 Oct11 October 13:21

    You have to show up and check-in otherwise you are classed as a no show, hence no points and probably no refund as they will generally charge the first nights stay as a “fine” beacuse they were not able to re-sell the room. Check the small print on your booking.

  • Rob says:

    11 Oct11 October 13:52

    You need to turn up. All of the hotel programmes do this.

    The reason, I think, is that they don’t want people to book mattress runs. Imagine what would happen if the Holiday Inn Express Rotherham was booked out completely for a Friday night at £31 with Big Win mattress runs. They wouldn’t be able to sell longer stays (because Friday was full) and , more importantly, they wouldn’t make a penny in the bar, restaurant, vending machines, TV movies etc.

    • Tom says:

      11 Oct11 October 23:48

      We just need to find someone in Rotherham who is good enough to check us all in 🙂

      • Rob says:

        12 Oct12 October 07:51

        I’ll give my brother a call!

    • GUWonder says:

      12 Oct12 October 12:46

      Wyndham Rewards may still not require checking-in, but there most frequently have been problems that required pursuing a manual posting for credit or with some of the hotels simply not charging and thus messing up people pursuing a promotion.

      I can’t think of any other hotel programs that have a recent history of phantom stays that worked that way.

    • erico1875 says:

      12 Oct12 October 18:04

      Does the account holder have to check in Raffles?
      Can AN other check in and stay without the acc holder present, if they are named as an extra guest on the booking?
      We have booked a stay for my son and his GF thru my wifes acc. It was an advance purchase rate.

      • Rob says:

        13 Oct13 October 08:10

        No, account holder does not need to check in. What you suggested works fine.

        However, the hotel DOES usually need to see the credit card used for payment. I had this issue in Spain on Wednesday. As it happens, I had brought the card with me.

        Note that it is possible that there are certain countries where you may have more trouble. In Spain, for example, the law requires that hotels take copies of passports or ID cards from all guests, so you couldn’t pretend to be someone else – you’d need to be named as ‘additional guest’ (someone of a different sex to the account holder has to do this anyway, of course). Always best to say that the main guest is coming later / tomorrow and, if they push you the next day, say they had a travel issue and couldn’t make it.

        In general, though, I have done this probably 5 times and never had trouble. No-one blinked an eye at a UK Holiday Inn last month when I turned up and declared that I was my wife (whose account isn’t even in the same surname as mine).

        I won’t know until Thursday if my 3-day phantom stay at a HIX in Madrid worked out OK – I did ruffle the bed sheets on the first day, ran the shower, wet a towel, made some coffee, put some paper in the bin. Longer stays can be more problematic because you could be checked out early when housekeeping realise the room is not being used and there is no clothing there.

• MaltapointsTom says:

  11 Oct11 October 14:18

  I like this one, but my options are limited to, er, one. The Intercontinental St Julians (Malta).

  The best rate I can get is €79 in December. Given that I’ve not used any of these codes before, is it worth the full suite of points for €79? (I won’t get much value out of the hotel stay itself, indeed I probably won’t stay overnight.)

  Apologies for the fairly basic question, but i) I’m not at all familiar with IHG Rewards and their value and ii) I have no idea how many of the plethora of bonus codes I’ve added will actually give me points.

  • Rob says:

    11 Oct11 October 14:24

    Technically, you would probably come out ahead. If you got 30,000 points that should get you £150 of free stays or 6000 Avios (as long as you hit 30k, otherwise 4k for 20-29,999 points.)

    However, unless you have firm plans to use them, it probably isn’t worth it. I would expect these codes to last 6 months at least so plenty of chance for a real stay.

• CV says:

  11 Oct11 October 15:52

  Staying at Holiday Inn Stratford this weekend for 2 nights. Will be interesting to see what points post.

  Also, wish I had booked one night in Holiday Inn, checked out, then gone upstairs to the Staybridge Suites for the second night and additional stay bonuses. Then next day, after a late checkout, gone over to the HI Express and checked in, before heading home!

• Rda says:

  12 Oct12 October 08:19

  I have a two night stop in stevenage next weekend

  Using the 35% off code holiday inn is £33.50 per night, and says that I will earn 530 points for the stay

  Should I be confident that all the bonus points will be added to my account as well?

  • Rob says:

    12 Oct12 October 09:40

    Yes, they never show the bonuses on those summaries

• SBZ says:

  12 Oct12 October 09:32

  Do you happen to know if stays booked online directly with IHG, but using a corporate discounted rate, can collect points and count for the promotions?

  • Rob says:

    12 Oct12 October 09:39

    Usually OK unless the rate is massively discounted – rule of thumb is more than 35 per cent off Best Flex rate will not get points

    • Rda says:

      12 Oct12 October 09:56

      Thanks raffles

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