Here is a bumper bunch of new IHG Rewards Club bonus point codes

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• Leon says:

  16 Jan16 January 13:53

  FYI. I had my first 2014 night in an IHG property last weekend. I just noticed in my account that the 21 days in advance saver rate + the additional 10% IHG member discount is not a qualifying stay. As a gesture he offered 500 points.

  After a long discussion with the helpdesk they changed it into an adjusted stay and I still got the points. Next time I will not use the rates including the additional 10% off. My wife had a similar stay for the same rate last year where the helpdesk also changed it after a Phone call in an adjusted stay. I referred the IHG helpdesk employee to the exception they made at that time, and that may have helped (probably also because she is platinum).

  • Rob says:

    16 Jan16 January 14:14

    They should qualify. More likely that the hotel is putting these through as non qualifying by mistake.

    • CV says:

      16 Jan16 January 19:33

      I’ve checked 3 upcoming reservations, one of which used the 10% off rate, all are points earning.

      • Tom says:

        16 Jan16 January 21:21

        How do you check?

        • CV says:

          16 Jan16 January 22:07

          Look on the reservation on IHG website, it stated the points to be earned (doesn’t count promo codes)

        • Trevor says:

          16 Jan16 January 22:09

          Login to your IHG account and check your upcoming reservations, then select the desired reservation and see if it shows points earned for the booking. It’ll also always show what points should be earned (though in reality the amount always differs for me when posted) at the top when you do the booking so you know then if it’ll be qualifying. Always take a screenshot of your upcoming reservation details, as after the stay you’ll never see that again, and hence have no proof that it was a qualifying stay if/when the points don’t post. I’ve kept screenshots for each booking (call me paranoid, but…) and needed them twice in the past 6 weeks to prove stays were in fact qualifying!

        • Tom says:

          16 Jan16 January 22:13

          Groovy – mine is showing as qualifying (one of the 10% discount adv. rates..).

          Thanks!

  • xcalx says:

    16 Jan16 January 15:12

    I have just booked 3 Holiday inns using that rate and all show as point earning.

    • James67 says:

      16 Jan16 January 17:51

      It may be additional 10% discount that caused problem. I had a single paid stay for whole of 2013 to pick up my stackable pointz (26k) for £37. I declined to add the extra discount to remove any risk. So Im 2.5 nights Wembley for £37 🙂

      • Erico1875 says:

        16 Jan16 January 19:10

        This is a point that needs clarifying. I thought the 10% off is just to reward you for being a member. If it doesnt qualify for any points then its not much use.

        • John says:

          16 Jan16 January 19:31

          You should usually get the points if the rate is more than 70% of the flexible rate, not that anybody knows what that is..

      • Leon says:

        16 Jan16 January 22:28

        The additional 10% discount was indeed the problem. At the time I booked it showed that I would get points (which did not at the end, untill I called). So at the time of booking I thought it was ok. I was told today that the advance saver rate on itself is ok, as long as you do not opt for the additional 10%..

  • Isolde says:

    16 Jan16 January 20:20

    Just to add another confirmation: I also used the 10% offer and the points have posted to my account.

• Frequent Flyer Top Stories: IHG Promo Codes, United Miles with Hotel Booking and Delta Awards to Asia says:

  16 Jan16 January 20:07

  […] Link – Head for Points […]

• davef says:

  16 Jan16 January 21:33

  Just took out the PC Black card to help with the big win, 30k points for taking the card, 20K on the big win for taking the card and using it once, then probably 20K+ with assorted bonuses including completing another 3 of the 8 big win challenges for this qtr, all for a 1 night stay costing £20.70.

  Is 70k a points to pound record for a single night? 🙂

  • CV says:

    16 Jan16 January 22:11

    I used Raffles link last October, got 40,000 IHG points for taking out the card. Then received 35,000 points on first IHG stay, then the big win points on completing it (51,000 for me), plus further promo points along the way. All these points are paying for my hotel stay in Hong Kong!

    • Trevor says:

      16 Jan16 January 22:19

      A great haul and one I’m thinking of doing too. Anyone know if the 40k IHG link is still working for new applications?

      • Alan says:

        16 Jan16 January 22:48

        Yes it is – at least it was a month ago, 40k showed up on my statement, just need to wait for them to post across now. They also said the Plat status with the Black card would be sent across at the same time.

        • Trevor says:

          16 Jan16 January 22:56

          Good to know, that’s for reply. I could be joining the PC Black club shortly…

      • Rob says:

        17 Jan17 January 09:26

        Someone emailed me last week to say they had just got 40k, so it was as of a few weeks ago.

        • davef says:

          17 Jan17 January 09:45

          The link you gave me a couple of weeks ago said 30k. I made my 1st booking last night so will wait and see what posts.

  • James67 says:

    17 Jan17 January 05:24

    No, no record at all. You got about 20k for £20 but paid £100 for the other 50k via the card as I understand it. No worries though, you are still a winner because those 50k points will get you an IC night worth way more than £100 or if the right pointsbreak comes along 10 nights that could be worth as much as £500-1000. I have booked ICs in Japan this year but I’m hoping I may still strike lucky and get them as pointsbreaks.

    • davef says:

      17 Jan17 January 09:43

      50K is the tip of the iceberg. OK I didn’t factor the card cost in as I was getting that for platinum requalification anyway, I was saying more that 1 single night for 20 quid posted all those points at once.
      The final Q4 big win night for me posted 87000 points but it cost me £125 for the indigo for that final night.

      This time, I only have to spend around £250 all in (including the CC cost) to complete my challenge and it’ll gain around 185,000 in total this quarter.

      I value those based on my fave hotel in NYC at just under £1000. Probably just over actually as you don’t get stung for sales/room tax on points bookings.

      • james67 says:

        17 Jan17 January 11:20

        Yes, I got a good big win this quarter too, probably because I just made one stay during last which was rubbish for me. This time I’ll be getting 89k big win plus other stackables for around £160 at 2 HIE and 2 HI. Two of those can be necessary preflight sleepovers and the other two can be a Saturday night away. They renewed my platinum for me last autumn for this year despite no paid stays to that point in 2013. In previous years I had racked up a decent number so I guess they just hoped I’d stay and be more active again. That saved me on the black visa which I had been planning to reapply for.

        • davef says:

          17 Jan17 January 11:32

          Watch your status carefully.

          I checked in at a property on last Saturday and was greeted as a platinum member. By Tuesday this week I’d dropped to gold and when the points posted today they were posted as Gold.
          My Black card arrived this week, so it should go back to platinum shortly but I’m not going to quibble about the missing platinum bonus points as I don’t want to attract attention having been awarded things like ‘new member’ and ‘win back’ promotion codes for the stay.

          I see on the PC Connect site that people have had their accounts cancelled recently so I’m staying under the radar rather than moan about 400 points.

        • james67 says:

          17 Jan17 January 13:54

          Will do although I actually got a letter from them through the post saying my platinum was being renewed for 2015 so hopefully no problems.

• Akhil Gupta says:

  16 Jan16 January 22:43

  Will these post on a stay that I have booked via Hotels.com. The booking is showing in my IHG account as I asked the hotel to put my IHG rewards number onto the booking? Thanks

  • John says:

    17 Jan17 January 18:04

    Probably not but maybe.

• whiskerxx says:

  16 Jan16 January 22:56

  Well I got quite excited when I read the title, and I’m pleased that some people reading this have had some success, but this is rather old news Rob.

  • Tom says:

    16 Jan16 January 22:59

    Fortunately – as you say – not to everyone! As illustrated by nearly 100 comments.. and my observation is that hotel threads often don’t get that much pick up!

  • CV says:

    17 Jan17 January 09:12

    New codes only became available a couple of weeks ago, with no-one knowing what they would earn. So it needed someone to use codes, stay at hotel, then have the points post to account. Would say the news is very current (with codes verified) and applicable for rest of the year.

  • Rob says:

    17 Jan17 January 09:24

    I won’t run them until someone has proved they work, which generally means John at Loyalty Lobby as he literally lives in hotels, mainly IHG.

    We only had confirmation of some of these earlier this week.

    We are, what, Janaury 17? The majority of these codes only got released in various mailings after January 1. Stays take 5 days to post after you check out. Not sure how it could have been much quicker!

    • Stuart McIntyre says:

      17 Jan17 January 11:26

      Wow, someone is being pretty negative. I for one was thoroughly grateful for you publishing these, Raffles…

      • whiskerxx says:

        17 Jan17 January 18:32

        Apologies if it sounded negative.
        I have benefited hugely from the information provided by Raffles and Headforpoints.
        But usually I read stuff on here and think – how the hell does he find out about all this stuff?
        On this occasion I’d already signed up and points had been posted, so it was greed and gluttony on my part which led to my disappointment that it wasn’t a whole new batch of codes, along with my astonishment that I had gained a benefit before it was posted on Headforpoints.

        So I’ll end more positively, with a thank you for the fairly recent reminder about the opportunity to get a 40,000 bonus for the PC Black Visa.
        I signed up a couple of weeks ago, used the card for a stay last night and am awaiting the points to post, and the card should provide further benefit as part of my Big Win 2014.

    • davef says:

      17 Jan17 January 11:35

      New Stay Bonus 1500
      Anniversary Bonus 1000
      NEW MEMBER BONUS PROMOTION 3000

      All just posted for me. Weekend Stay and 5000 point platinum bonus didn’t post despite being sat/sun night and platinum.

      • Rob says:

        17 Jan17 January 12:39

        Weekend Stay tends to require a US address in your profile.

        Platinum Bonus requires you to be Plat and posts in arrears – my wife got it last week but hasn’t done a stay in 2 months.

• Jason says:

  17 Jan17 January 06:22

  Got declined for priority club credit card looks like a common problem for those with a hilton credit cards anyone successful cancelled hilton card and reapplied for priority card successfully?

  • Phil says:

    17 Jan17 January 09:19

    Ditto Jason, yet getting the IHG credit card is part of the criteria for my big win.

    It is therefore impossible for me to win!

  • davef says:

    17 Jan17 January 09:32

    I was accepted for the PC Black last week and I currently hold a Hilton card as well. They gave me twice the limit on the Hilton.

    I have to say though, I think it’s appalling of IHG to make the CC application part of the big win. Lots of people don’t want or need that card.

    It’s also a poor challenge for those who get all their company travel booked for them as I do. There’s no way I could fulfil it on company travel alone as ours aren’t booked direct and that’s one of my targets too.

• Thunderbirds says:

  17 Jan17 January 10:55

  After sending in my two pieces of ID by post I was accepted for the Black IHG card at the beginning of this week. No problems for me as I only have cards via AMEX and MBNA. I too have the additional 20k offer on my big win so I used the old 40k application link mentioned above and will post when/if a bonus comes through.

  • james67 says:

    17 Jan17 January 14:28

    Thanks for trying the 40k link. The thread may be closed by the time you know so please email Raffles what happens so he can keep us informed. After reading these latest replies I was curious so rechecked my Big Win and sure enough the cc was there for me too. This is somewhat odd as I’m absolutely certain it wasn’t there before because I recall something else being there that I didn’t understand so I made a mental note to study it later. That something else has now been replaced with the black visa! Obviously I would prefer to use the 40k link if it tracks for big win so I will await results of your application.

• paul says:

  21 Jan21 January 10:00

  3007 not working for Gold with UK address.

  The code you entered is invalid for your membership. Please check the qualification requirements for your country, region or program. For further assistance please visit the IHG® Rewards Club Customer Care Center page.

  • Rob says:

    21 Jan21 January 10:11

    Thanks. I only added that yesterday, it wasn’t in the original post. Only seems to work for a few people looking at comment elsewhere.

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