IHG news: your Accelerate Q2 target viewable, and an interesting IHG / Avis deal
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IHG’s Accelerate promotion will be returning. This is probably not a major surprise to anyone, but as it is generally good fun and a decent deal I doubt many will complain.
The new version will run from 1st May to 31st July.
If you register via this page of the IHG website, you can see your points target. I will have nine targets with a maximum of 55,700 points available.
What you can’t see yet are what your targets are, as the site is not fully functioning. I will do a full article when it is working properly.
Interesting IHG Rewards Club and Avis promotion
Avis and IHG Rewards Club have launched a new offer which could be more interesting than it looks.
Via this page, any Avis booking:
made by 15th May
for rental before 31st December
across EMEA, Asia and the US
for a Group C or higher car
for 4+ days
….. will earn you 5,000 bonus IHG Rewards Club points. This is on top of the – pitiful – base earnings of 125 IHG Rewards Club points per day.
There is also a Spin To Win competition on the site. Enter your Avis rental number – which I don’t think needs to be booked via the IHG portal – and you can instantly win a car upgrade or some IHG Rewards Club points.
This is why the deal may be better than it looks. When I wrote this long article on which IHG points count for status and which don’t, the consensus from your comments is that points for car rentals DO count for elite status.
That is not 100% guaranteed. It is also not 100% guaranteed that the bonus points would count, even if the base points did. However, earning 5000 bonus IHG Rewards Club points which count towards elite status is a lot more interesting that just earning 5000 bonus IHG points on their own, which I only value at £20.
Full details are on this IHG / Avis microsite.
IHG One Rewards update – December 2024:
Get bonus points:
You will earn 3,000 bonus points for every two cash nights you stay between 19th September and 31st December 2024.
Nights to do not need to be consecutive. Read more in our article here and click here to register.
IHG is running a second promotion for stays at five of its smaller brands. You will receive triple base points between 1st October and 31st December 2024 on stays at voco, avid hotels, EVEN Hotels, Atwell Suites and Garner Hotels. Read more in our article here and click here to register.
New to IHG One Rewards? Read our overview of IHG One Rewards here and our article on points expiry rules here. Our article on ‘What are IHG One Rewards points worth?’ is here.
Buy points: If you need additional IHG One Rewards points, you can buy them here.
IHG One Rewards is offering a 100% bonus when you buy points by 13th December 2024. Your annual purchase limit is increased to 300,000 points plus the bonus. Click here to buy.
Want to earn more hotel points? Click here to see our complete list of promotions from IHG and the other major hotel chains or use the ‘Hotel Offers’ link in the menu bar at the top of the page.
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