Here are some hotels where you can redeem your points for suites

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• TripRep says:

  29 Jan29 January 06:30

  Wow, the Rangali deal is still running? I thought that was a temporary price glitch. Cash upgrades for those can be $300-400 a night.

  That’s terrific value for 76k HH pts (5 or 10nights) if you are Gold/Diamond. Bargain redemption of he year IMHO.

• MarkNewstart says:

  29 Jan29 January 07:07

  Hi Everyone, …. Looking for advice on IHG, I tried to complete my first accelerate but they are saying I did not complete one of my offers
  Which was book a stay with points and cash? They are saying – wherein you have an option to purchase points towards a Reward Night when making reservations online. Rewards Night is a non-qualifying, thus, it was not counted towards the Travel with the IHG App even though it was booked through the App.
  If I recall you can’t make a booking unless you select the Terms and conditions which ask you to do this …
  Are IHG correct in what they are saying?

  • Brian says:

    29 Jan29 January 07:42

    Bookings with points (or points and cash) are always non-qualifying for earning points, so don’t count towards any Accelerate targets EXCEPT if you have one for booking with points (or points and cash)! Sorry…

    • MarkNewstart says:

      29 Jan29 January 08:00

      thanks for your reply Brain ……………… the offer was Stay for less and earn 1 stay using points and cash which I booked on the App as well

      • Rob says:

        29 Jan29 January 08:33

        It is a weird way of doing it, but they are right – your P&C stay fails to accelerate any other, erm, Accelerate targets except for that specific one.

      • MarkNewstart says:

        29 Jan29 January 09:13

        ok thanks for your help

      • Brighton Belle says:

        29 Jan29 January 14:47

        Yes, IHG did the same to me, I have never got through an Accelerate promo without getting stuffed by IHG in some obscure detail and losing the end bonus.

        What with the points inflation they have driven me away to Hotels.com

  • Fenny says:

    29 Jan29 January 20:04

    Exactly the same thing happened to me last Q1. It’s in the T&C, but buried well so that you don’t notice it. I had to make another booking to hit my targets. Since then my Accelerate deals have been rubbish and I haven’t stayed in an IHG property. Not my loss! I have a load of points to use up at some stage, but I’m not busting a gut to do it.

    • AlanC says:

      29 Jan29 January 20:45

      I got shafted for 7000 points and a 12000 completion bonus. It was stay 3 times at an Express hotel. However hidden in the t and c’s it was 3 different hotels.
      Moaned and moaned and a supervisor in Philippines gave me 15000 points gesture.

• barry cutters says:

  29 Jan29 January 08:42

  in florida the holiday inn resorts orange something…..2 bedroom suiite for 30k ihg points.
  Pretty decent too

• Dan says:

  29 Jan29 January 08:45

  Any news on the full Points Break list?

  • Andy says:

    29 Jan29 January 09:50

    Going to be released at the same time as the sale goes live, I think, which is probably going to lead to a lot of speculative bookings being made and later cancelled.

  • Rob says:

    29 Jan29 January 09:51

    Noon Eastern, so 5pm here. Which is annoying as I need to collect my daughter from hockey at 5.45 🙂

• Doug M says:

  29 Jan29 January 09:05

  OT: Anyone got the Hilton 50% bonus from transferring Amex Rewards yet?

  • Andrew M says:

    29 Jan29 January 09:16

    Plenty from December seemingly. Anyone who transferred in January?

    • Doug M says:

      29 Jan29 January 09:24

      Transferred 2 Jan and nothing yet. Waiting on booking 🙁

    • trickster says:

      29 Jan29 January 12:55

      Did a speculative transfer a couple of days ago, which has now arrived at Hilton, but no bonus. I assume it would show immediately and not be applied separately by Hilton x days later?

      • Andrew M says:

        29 Jan29 January 13:07

        It was a targeted offer. No email received = unlikely to get bonus. Bonus applied at a later date. Looks like those with transfers in December received their bonus points around 22 January. Those with transfers in January still waiting. Perhaps they’re doing it as two monthly sweeps.

      • TripRep says:

        29 Jan29 January 14:52

        Ah shame its targetted, dont remember seeing that one, would have jumped on it otherwise

• Nick says:

  29 Jan29 January 09:35

  Not achieved just yet but if I get two Hilton vouchers for free nights I want to use for my wife and four year old. I assume I have to look for standard reward room types when searching? If so how do people get round it using the vouchers for two adults but want to take a third?

  I wanted to book Conrad London but just wondering how I can get round it and also other hotels…

  • Heather says:

    29 Jan29 January 09:43

    We were able to use the park lane Hilton with our voucher. It has to be a hotel that will fit 3 in a standard room, most of the DoubleTree’s and the Hamptons work also.

    • Rob says:

      29 Jan29 January 09:47

      Do a search on the Hilton site for ‘2 plus 1’ for a random date long in the future. You will instantly see which can take 3 in a standard room. Park Lane, surprisingly, is good for this – I put my brother in there once with his eldest.

  • Nick M says:

    29 Jan29 January 10:52

    When our eldest was a bit younger than that, I would just book for the two adults and then contact the hotel directly asking if it’d be possible for a roll-away to put in the room… if there is an issue you should be able to cancel without penalty if using certificates?

    Admittedly I haven’t done this since she was about 2 as we then had a second child and thought that might be pushing it a bit too far… we have booked 2+1 and then emailed to ask for a crib too

    Other option is to take your own bedding option for the child? (Still message to let them know whilst you can still cancel, just in case they are strict on occupancy numbers – the Hilton US call centre are quite strict, whereas I’ve found most hotels to be quite accommodating)

• Kathy says:

  29 Jan29 January 10:15

  OT: flying to AKL via HKG next week, LHR-HKG on BA and HKG-AKL on Cathay – separate avios tickets, because of using a Lloyds voucher on the LHR-HKG leg. I take it I will still need to collect bags at HKG, go through immigration and re-check in for the Cathay flight?

  I’ve got 7 hours between flights, so it should be fine to do that.

  • Scallder says:

    29 Jan29 January 16:28

    Afraid you will have to collect and re-check the bags Kathy. However Cathay may well do it for you on the return leg from AKL all the way through to London.

  • Lyn says:

    29 Jan29 January 19:16

    Kathy, it could be worth a try at check-in, as long as you don’t get your hopes up. Or even to call BA customer service this week and see if they will link the bookings in a way that allow you to through-check luggage. You could explain why you had to book 2 separate avios tickets, and therefore weren’t able to book a through ticket, and ask if they could perhaps make an exception in your case.

    Oneworld airlines will sometimes do this if you have no choice, for instance if you have to add a revenue connecting flight if no award flights are available to get you to the long haul starting point for an award ticket. However, BA do seem to be the worst in this regard.

• JOhn Thompson says:

  29 Jan29 January 10:18

  The suite at John Lennon is lovely. It’s a duplex with spiral staircase that’s in the former control tower!

  • Andrew M says:

    29 Jan29 January 13:18

    There’s seemingly 4 suites…

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