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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.

IHG Rewards Club

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 – April 2024:

Get bonus points: IHG One Rewards is offering 2,000 bonus points for every two cash nights you stay (not necessarily consecutive) between 1st April and 31st May 2024. You can read our full article here and you can register here.

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.

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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Avis and Avis Preferred, IHG One Rewards

Comments (149)

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  • Lucy T says:
    13 Apr13 April 16:24

    O/T:

    Hi Raffles/Anyone,

    If I get USD from Moneycorp using my personal AMEX, is this still classified as a purchase as opposed to a cash advance please?

    Thanks!!

  • Clive says:
    13 Apr13 April 16:46

    Expect Rob will be covering this over the weekend:

    http://metro.co.uk/2018/04/13/british-airways-launches-long-haul-flights-america-175-7464391/

    • Chris A says:
      13 Apr13 April 17:05

      ‘Boston from £175 each way’.
      Meanwhile, I can see plenty of Virgin rtn tickets, including luggage and presumably seat selection for £278.

  • paul says:
    13 Apr13 April 17:16

    Sorry for OT- British Gas Amex
    Do I need to request a bar coded bill to pay via Paypoint using Amex?
    or do I need to request any prepayment card to be able to use Amex?

    • Genghis says:
      13 Apr13 April 17:20

      When we were on BG I requested a Paypoint card. You most likely will want to stay on a DD for the cheapest tariff but ask them to set it low.

      • KBuffett says:
        13 Apr13 April 19:08

        I recently took my council tax into Asda to pay in amex and they scanned it and said the paypoint terminal says cash only

  • Alan says:
    13 Apr13 April 17:56

    Can’t seem to see my new offers, only the one that expires 30/04/18.

  • Craig Strickland says:
    13 Apr13 April 19:24

    Managed 70700 in Q1, Q2 is harder for 42000. Five of the seven are easy, I would need to book 2 additional stays to make one of the other 2. During this period I have 6 Hilton stays booked towards 8 for a status match. Planning 2 stays at Sheffield park and a bit of walking in the Dales to make up the difference. So it looks like around 25000 this time for me, not a huge problem as I’m about to smash through half a million points!

  • Mikee says:
    13 Apr13 April 20:29

    O/T: Added my Amex Platinum to Google (Android) Pay and tried to top-up my Revolut account using the Google Pay option but the transaction declined. Anyone had any luck with this?
    Top-ups using credit cards have worked fine but this is the first time I’ve tried using an Amex charge card via Google Pay to top-up.

    Mikee

  • Jtz says:
    13 Apr13 April 20:30

    Got 34000 for staying 18 nights..made up of stay 3 nights,3 more, 3 more…
    Not really worth it, had similar last quarter too

    • giggle says:
      14 Apr14 April 22:56

      I have the same offer as you too Jtz and not worth it for me either in the last three sets of offers.

  • Craig Strickland says:
    13 Apr13 April 20:47

    Anyone have any suggestions for cities other than London that have two decent HI’s? Not Express.

    • David says:
      13 Apr13 April 21:33

      If it needs to be a single city for both, and if they need to be central (and assuming UK) then Manchester is the only one that springs to mind. It has multiple HI.
      Edinburgh also if you are wiling to be in Corstophine by the zoo (and on bus route from the airport) but the other HIs are similarly away from the city centre (the HIXs are in the centre).

      If they can be out of town, then probbaly loads more.

    • Matt says:
      15 Apr15 April 18:12

      Norwich is quite small but has 3 HIs and 1 HIX.
      Though I’ve only stayed in the central one which is walkable to the train station and football ground.

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