IHG UK flash sale underway – rooms from £39, guaranteed to count for Accelerate promotion

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• Dean says:

  6 Nov6 November 07:20

  Shame that this starts in December trying to get the holiday inn at Gatwick in November for the accelerate program. It’s £60 but don’t want to pay that. Has anyone stayed at the ones further out?

  • Simon says:

    6 Nov6 November 07:58

    Stayed in the Crowne Plaza Gatwick recently – this was even cheaper (£53 for a standard) and seems to have a lot of rooms at sub-£60.

    To be honest I am not sure that it is worth that much more, the rooms are a little nicer but the hotel location isn’t particularly great for the airport – you still have to catch a bus in the morning or take an over-priced taxi-ride.

    • Concerto says:

      6 Nov6 November 08:48

      Thanks for this feedback, it’s helped me choose which hotel I stay at in Gatwick. With a 09h30 departure Holiday Inn is better. There is a £3 charge for the airport shuttle, apparently.

• Brian says:

  6 Nov6 November 07:38

  One thing to note – you can get better-quality rooms for a cheap rate, too. The Crowne Plaza Heathrow, for instance, has deluxe rooms with lounge access for £69. That’s not a bad deal.

• Simon says:

  6 Nov6 November 07:55

  I am two nights short as well. Annoying one of these nights has to be on the bonus point package, which doesn’t seem to be combinable with the cheap rate.

  HIX Hemel Hempstead is a good one, very near to the train station, had this in the sale last year, looks to be more expensive this year.

  HIX Redditch, HIX Bradford also used to be pretty cheap.

  Another other hotels that are close to train stations?

  • AndyS says:

    6 Nov6 November 08:05

    HIX Slough is right next door to the station, and Derby Pride Park is 5 mins walk. Not quite so close, the HIX in Croydon is within 10 mins walk of East Croydon station

  • Me says:

    6 Nov6 November 08:16

    HIX Hull is next to the station

  • trickster says:

    6 Nov6 November 12:55

    I’m in the same boat – need one 1 night, and a bonus point rate.
    I have a booking for next weekend that is flexible that I’m considering upgrading to the bonus rate, but it’s a decent uplift from £62 to £85 for a HIX. but this is probably best as I am sure I can find a £39 room for the last night I need.

• Mark Phillips says:

  6 Nov6 November 08:09

  I managed to book the Crowne Plaza Manchester Airport on a Monday night in December for £39. The previous day it was selling at £99!

• Eleanor says:

  6 Nov6 November 08:41

  Got excited for a minute as the search box on the flash sale page is headed ‘Search IHG hotels worldwide’ …..as I’ve been looking at the IC’s in San Francisco and LA for a December trip. Unfortunately though it’s only UK & I according to the T’s & C’s.

  Raffles – is a similar sale likely to run in other regions do you know, accessible to UK residents?

  • CV3V says:

    6 Nov6 November 08:51

    IHG run a lot of regional sales, but they are restricted to residents of that locale. You can read about them elsewhere on t’internet, it’s quite annoying for a global travel brand to target residents of specific countries. But then airlines do the same.

• Simon says:

  6 Nov6 November 08:45

  Went for the Crowne Plaza Heathrow – the £59 for two with breakfast is not too bad.
  Any ideas for the cheapest hotel on standard rate for the bonus points package? Not seen cheaper than the HIX Northampton and that is £55.99.

  • Nigel says:

    6 Nov6 November 09:07

    HIX Rotherham North is £50 for the 1000 bonus package.

    As I said in an earlier post, watch these “bargain” rates as they can be easily beaten by many a hotel advnace purchase rates which need only be bought at maximum 21 days out.

    Not sure why Hotels have to be near train stations as if this is a matress run it could be done for you 🙂

    • Simon says:

      6 Nov6 November 09:41

      Cheers Nigel. I suppose it’s just easier for me to tag on to the end of the day, if I am on the train already. For instance, the Hemel was good as you could just turn around and go back to the station (have had it for £2x in previous sales). If I told someone to do it they would probably think I had gone mad. Unless, of course you mean calling the hotel up and explaining?

      24-26 Dec looks pretty good for rates across a lot of them, so will probably get one done then.

• Liz says:

  6 Nov6 November 08:55

  OT: But IHG related. I’ve just received my new Barclaycard IHG credit card bill with the points to be transferred. Every month though the points gained do not tally the spend and I can’t for the life of me work out how they get the points number. Amex’s system is nice and easy but with IHG you just get a number. I only had one foreign transaction with my Supercard at 4 x and all the rest were straightforward UK purchases at 2 x. Is there somewhere on the credit card page that I can’t see that gives you the breakdown of points? Thanks

  • Rob says:

    6 Nov6 November 09:08

    I know there have been huge issues with this, mainly over IHG stays not counting double as they should. Wasn’t aware of issues over FX spend though.

    • Liz says:

      6 Nov6 November 09:13

      It’s not an issue with FX – it’s just the points don’t tally with the spend and I can’t work out how they get to the total figure. It’s always in my favour by a hundred or so points but I would still like to know how they get to the total figure. Was hoping It was listed somewhere like the Amex ones are.

    • Nigel says:

      6 Nov6 November 09:15

      Their maths has never been good

      http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/intercontinental-hotels-ihg-rewards-club-intercontinental-ambassador/1296884-ihg-premium-visa-card-uk-pc-rewards-black-visa-card-61.html

      • Chris says:

        6 Nov6 November 20:33

        Yeah most of the ranting about it on FT has been me tbh.

        Drop them a secure message detailing what you should have and if you have an idea where they have went wrong let them know. If you get no joy with the first response ask for it to be escalated straight away to the reward management team that normally gets them to look at it a bit closer.

        • Alan says:

          7 Nov7 November 01:58

          Haha was waiting to see if you’d see the Batsignal go up in this thread, Chris 😛 I’ve been active on that FT thread too – remember the web relations team (WR at Barclaycard.co.uk) are helpful at escalating things too. In general though MBNA are much more reliable than Barclaycard at correct points calculations and posting them promptly. I had lots of issues with my Barclaycard-issued Hilton card, as well as the IHG one.

  • Nigel says:

    6 Nov6 November 09:10

    They never do 🙂

    Only sure way is to work it out yourself, send them a secure message as to how may points they owe you (show your working out !) and they usually agree and psot them the next month.

    On your IHG account the points do appear as a split group of three so you can see their maths.

    Never had a correct month yet.

    • Liz says:

      6 Nov6 November 09:15

      OK – it’s not just me then. As long as it’s in my favour then that is fine. If and when it’s not I shall query it. Thanks

  • JQ says:

    6 Nov6 November 10:49

    I have just checked and always received exactly the correct number of IHG points for my spend, except for once when I made a manual payment…. I received points (or shall we call it a free night) on the amount of the manual payment!!! From now on I shall be paying manually!

    Points are received on the total amount per statement, rounded to the nearest £, unlike Amex and Tesco which round individual transactions

    Various transactions count as overseas, because they are processed outside the UK for reasons only known to the retailer. These earn 4 points per £, and in my case include paypal, east midland trains and admiral car insurance

    • JQ says:

      6 Nov6 November 10:51

      and just to add, Supercard is processed in the UK, so doesn’t count as foreign.

      Barclaycard shows quite clearly where the transactions are processed, if you read carefully

      • Liz says:

        6 Nov6 November 14:04

        Thank you JQ for explaining it. i just checked back on previous statements and they are correct based on your explanation. i can’t get this months one to tally though. i have recalculated taking out the super card transaction and I forgot we had a Holiday Inn X booking paid for with IHG card so that should be 4 times. So even taking everything else at 2x I have been short changed! Will wait to see how it appears on my account first then raise a query with them.

  • wetboy1uk says:

    6 Nov6 November 12:20

    Barclaycard are completely useless and have had to phone them a number of times. Also just done one of their so called deals for a purchase plan where you are supposed to split the payment over the next 6 months yet my statement is showing that the full amount (including the purchase plan and the fee for this) will all be taken by direct debit at the end of the month. Their customer service is useless too. Have told them if its not sorted this time I will take my custom elsewhere.

    • JQ says:

      6 Nov6 November 18:00

      If you need to use “purchase plan” you shouldn’t be bothering with reward credit cards….

• Phil says:

  6 Nov6 November 08:56

  Disappointing to see no City Centre Manchester options.

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