Coming at 1.01pm – a big hotel loyalty announcement

8 January 2018 By Rob

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I have been sent, under embargo, some big news about changes to one of the major hotel loyalty schemes.

It isn’t the end of the world, by any means, but if you pop back after 1.01pm today (Monday) you will discover some changes to one of the major programmes. And, for many of you, you won’t like them much, although it isn’t all bad news.

In the meantime, to fill the space in this article, here is a video of a chimpanzee ~~gorilla~~ falling over:

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Comments

czechoslovakia says:

8 January 2018 at 12:21

Coincidence that the IHG booking platform has changed? IC site won`t let me book for points….
- Scallder says:
  
  8 January 2018 at 12:33
  
  I can still book for points across both website and app…
Cate says:

8 January 2018 at 12:39

I’m wondering if IHG are changing Pointbreaks. To be honest the offering over the last few releases hasn’t been inspiring.
John says:

8 January 2018 at 12:49

New York time 8am? Ummm which hotels’s headquarter is in NYC ?
- moham aham says:
  
  8 January 2018 at 12:51
  
  could be ihg – same timezone – atlanta
  - John says:
    
    8 January 2018 at 12:53
    
    Still al,OST 20k points. Please. No change pls.
adey says:

8 January 2018 at 13:02

Apparently not (13:02)
Huan Li says:

8 January 2018 at 13:02

1.02 now
Mr(s) Entitled says:

8 January 2018 at 13:03

It’s 1:02!
Pedantic says:

8 January 2018 at 13:05

1305
- Rob says:
  
  8 January 2018 at 14:57
  
  Following our IT revamp we have aggressive cacheing in place. Most of what you see is not now served from our servers but is stored either in your browser or with Cloudflare. This means that changes to, say, the home page do not appear even though you click refresh as you are served a cached version.
Sergey says:

8 January 2018 at 13:17

16 min late
- Rob says:
  
  8 January 2018 at 14:53
  
  You are, or the news was? Your PC had probably cached the home page if you didn’t see it at 1.01!
Andrew says:

8 January 2018 at 20:25

Rob, Just back from Sainsbury.

They have signs up on their Gift Card section offering 20% off Uber Gift Cards.
- Rob says:
  
  8 January 2018 at 23:17
  
  Thanks. Someone mentioned that recently but it wasn’t in either of the Locals near us.
  - Gavin says:
    
    9 January 2018 at 08:59
    
    I’ve seen it at a few Sainsburys (larger stores).They had plenty of cards in stock.