‘The Big Win’ from IHG Rewards Club returns in January

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• Simon says:

  15 Dec15 December 19:48

  I have recently taken up the points collecting hobby and so have started to target my business stays to collect points and so in November changed my earning preferences for IHG from miles (United used to keep my miles active) to points. A stay in November and one in December netted me 42,000 points. The original Big Win was set to miles so didn’t try to achieve – I was shocked to see that on the new Big Win offering mine was still set to miles. I have fairly easy targets but am not interested in the United miles but want the points, so I contacted customer services who have said there is nothing they can do. I even asked if they could swap to BA miles but no. Really not very impressed with this!!

• Tom says:

  15 Dec15 December 20:36

  Does anyone know if Staybridge Suites / HIExpress (where breakfast is included) count toward the Best Flexible rate + Breakfast target/?

  I assume not…. but you never know.

  • Rob says:

    15 Dec15 December 20:40

    Unlikely, because it is based on the way the rates are coded.

• Robert says:

  15 Dec15 December 21:00

  I had the stay four brands in my present big win – I was about to give up on it but saw a good opening rate at the Staybridge Suites in Birmingham (just over £60). Throw in a £50 Crowne Plaza weekend night near LHR and it suddenly became achievable

• toddy0011 says:

  16 Dec16 December 17:31

  Really disappointed with mine. I’m a Platinum Elite member, who completed the 2013 big win (68k points).

  My 2014 goals are:
  Stay 1 night: 1,000
  3 Saturdays: 8,000
  3 nights: 3,000
  3 brands: 7,000
  Book direct: 2,000
  Win Big: 10,000

  Total: 31,000 points.

  I won’t even be bothering with this.

  • Will says:

    16 Dec16 December 18:52

    that’s the default. even my mums account has this (she’s never credited a single stay to date)

    both 2013 and 2014 offers for you have been pretty poor. are you a plat via staying or credit card?

    • toddy0011 says:

      17 Dec17 December 09:07

      I’m a plat via the credit card but I still would stay approx 20 times a year.

• What's the Point says:

  16 Dec16 December 21:07

  OT – next set of Golden Circle points just posted – up to 800 now

  • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

    17 Dec17 December 10:54

    Ditto for me

• Phil Welch says:

  16 Dec16 December 21:26

  Quick question on the previous Big Win promotion:

  I collect IB Avios and my IHG account shows that I have ‘earned’ 4,000 Avios from the Big Win promotion yet none of these promo Avios have posted to my IB account – the standard Avios from the stays have.

  Can anyone else confirm that their bonus Avios/miles are yet to post? I wondered whether they would post at the end but am wondering whether there is an issue.

  Phil

• jason says:

  16 Dec16 December 21:58

  Anyone got a non premium phone number for the customer service centre need to chase a stay that is not showing. thanks jason

• Lee Thornton says:

  16 Dec16 December 23:18

  Hello,

  So it seems that the broken 20,000 points link that a few of us have received is a bonus for getting the priority club rewards visa card from Barclays. Not sure if I’ll bother to be honest.

  Lee

  • Will says:

    17 Dec17 December 07:11

    Yup just seen that “Get the Priority Club Rewards Visa, brought to you by IHG® Rewards Club, use it to book and pay for 1 stay and earn 20,000 points. 18.9% APR Representative (variable)”

    Used to have the card (over a yr ago). Was thinking of getting the fee based card next yr but assume this is the standard freebie one?!

    • cmcbugg says:

      17 Dec17 December 08:11

      Yep – my description text under “views.dashboard.offer.dd.header” has now changed to
      Get the Priority Club Rewards Visa. Damn. Didnt want that as I’ve just applied for the Hilton one, and getting approved for that was a real pain. While AMEX & MBNA seem happy to throw multiple credit cards at me, Barclays wouldn’t even give me one.

      • Rob says:

        17 Dec17 December 09:23

        Big spanner in the works for me, then! Not sure they will give my Mum one.

        This is also a blow for people who opened loads on IHG accounts under false names and were doing lots of cheap nights at hotels in the North which always treated the 241 rates as ‘qualifying’!

        • cmcbugg says:

          17 Dec17 December 10:50

          Not sure it has to be a total spanner. Sure you’d miss out on the 20000 for the VIsa application – but to complete my big win I only need 6 out of the 7 challenges – so at least for me I can skip one. Not sure about everyone else of course.

        • Wesi says:

          17 Dec17 December 10:56

          I have to complete all 7 for the bonus, including the Visa card. The husband and I decided to go for it anyway, use the card the once, pay it off and cut it up. With the 65k in bonus points and us planning a trip to NYC, wanting to pay for the hotel with points only, it’s too tempting.

        • Rob says:

          17 Dec17 December 11:07

          Doh! Silly me.

          I never actually read the terms of the final bonus, I simply assumed I had to trigger all 7! That puts Mum on 80,000 points plus whatever the stays generate. I think I’ll see how many stays we do anyway between now and Easter (if any) and then decide in April whether to go for the full bonus or not.

        • will says:

          17 Dec17 December 13:54

          both wife and I got the 20k visa card challenge and have to do all 7. means only one of us is going to do this one

        • Rob says:

          17 Dec17 December 15:16

          You’ll see (if you check the ‘Win Big’ one) that you only need 6/7 to get the final bonus, if one of your targets is the credit card.

        • Simon says:

          17 Dec17 December 22:17

          Thanks, I didn’t read the terms of my final bonus either! I only need to complete 5 to trigger my big win bonus,

        • Alan says:

          17 Dec17 December 22:27

          @Raffles nope, sadly not true – I’ve got the credit card as part of mine (although it’s still called “views.dashboard.offer.dd.title”! although the detail says 20k for the IHG card), but my ‘Win Big’ says “Complete 7 of your offers and earn 48,000 points” 🙁

          I’ll probably give it a go and if rejected will raise it with IHG that they’ve made it unobtainable. The question is – will the Black PCR Visa be valid for the offer too? If so I’d be keen to try the 40k/£99 one and make use of that!!

        • Rob says:

          17 Dec17 December 23:48

          Good question. Black is probably OK but who knows what IHG’s IT will recognise?

        • Will says:

          17 Dec17 December 23:25

          Yup we are both 7/7 and have the 20k credit card requirement 🙁

          So many more qns with this one than the last!

      • Alan says:

        17 Dec17 December 22:23

        Yep Barclaycard-run IHG and Hilton cards can be very difficult to get approved for – I’ve managed 2x Hilton and 1x IHG but took quite a few goes. They don’t seem that keen on folk with good credit scores who are going to pay off in full every month 😉

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