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BOOK NOW: 165 new PointBreaks hotels for just 5,000 to 15,000 IHG Rewards Club points

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IHG Rewards Club (the Holiday Inn, HI Express, Crowne Plaza, InterContinental etc group) has just published its new list of heavily discounted PointBreaks redemptions.

You can book these hotels for stays until 30th November.

These hotels are bookable NOW via ihg.com.  Popular hotels will use up their allocation of reduced price rooms quickly, so book soon if you are interested.  As with all IHG Rewards Club reward nights, you can cancel without penalty at any time and get your points back.

PointBreaks has changed …..

Historically all PointBreaks rooms cost a flat 5,000 IHG Rewards Club points per night.

This was a great deal, except for the teeny tiny fact that the selection of hotels had been getting progressively worse for the last couple of years.  If you were looking for a good deal in a major tourist centre then you were going to be disappointed – although it was handy if you wanted a weekend break in Doncaster.  This has now changed.

The 165 hotels on the list below are priced at between 5,000 and 15,000 IHG Rewards Club points per night.  In general the quality of hotels included has gone up since the 5,000 point cap was removed, although at the end of the day it always depends on how the list fits around your travel plans.

What are the highlights?

Not surprisingly the better deals are at the 15,000 points level.

  • The QO in Amsterdam, an unbranded IHG hotel, looks interesting as does Crowne Plaza Potsdamer Platz in Berlin
  • Given we are heading into high season there, Crowne Plaza Abu Dhabi would be a cheap Middle East break.  There is also a Muscat option.
  • In London, the Holiday Inn Express Wandsworth is surprisingly central although not on the tube.  There is a National Rail station a couple of minutes away and it is a short taxi ride into Battersea or up to Kings Road for entertainment.
  • The Venice hotel is NOT in central Venice so I’d be a little wary of that one
  • The two St Petersburg options look good although Russian visas are always painful to get
  • We reviewed the brand new InterContinental Ljubljana here and at 15,000 points it must be worth trying out a new European city if you’ve never been to Slovenia
  • InterContinental Kiev is also on the list

Booking

PointBreaks availability is limited so book ASAP if you are interested.

You can book via the IHG PointBreaks page here or via the standard booking page here.

You are able to book these hotels for dates up to 30th November.

You allowed a maximum of two bookings per individual hotel. Each booking can be for as many nights as you want.  Remember that if you attempt to amend your booking later by dropping a night or two the whole booking may reprice at the full rate.

Click through the link to learn more about any specific hotel:

(The hotel list has been deleted as many links are now dead)


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.

Comments (88)

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  • Paul says:

    Am I alone in thinking IHG have rather lost the plot. Ascspure there are few in house benefits and Hilton’s free breakfast trumps just about anything. I have had just 2 nights in IHG this year. This list of hotels does not encourage s return.

    • Rob says:

      Given the trend of IHG bookings vs Hilton and Marriott being driven off HFP I think you are not alone. IHG has even approached me to ask why bookings are down from readers.

      • Crafty says:

        Shall we help them with that one?

        • Lady London says:

          If even Accor’s promo is looking better than anything IHG have offered me in the past two years, and that includes the ridiculous targets I’ve somehow been given for Accelerate that in no way relate to my stay pattern…. well if IHG don;t know they’re doing something wrong when even Accor is offering something better then they really are missing the point.

      • Daftboy says:

        This is not a bad list, and I have speculatively booked the IC Sao Paulo for a date I know I will be there – but I am definitely weighing up a paid for stay at one of the many other luxury options in the city as ultimately I am expecting the IC to be a little second rate.

    • RussellH says:

      It really depends on **where** you need a hotel. Hilton seems quite good for airports, but I can only think of one near a motorway junction; IHG has loads of HI’s and HIE’s just off motorway and usually at sensible points prices if the place is in demand.
      Again, I can only think of one Marriott that is convenient for a motorway junction, and that is too near home to be really useful. Their airport hotels mostly seem to be quite some way from the airport and their MAN hotel no longer offers a shuttle service, which sort of negates the whole point, to my mind.

  • John O'Sullivan says:

    I’ve not been there but the Antalya 5k looks modern and reviews look good. Exchange rate currently 8ytl to the pound. Very cheap break for a bit of Autumn sun??

  • jarvester says:

    The QO Amsterdam is a good redemption. Brand new hotel by the Amstel, very high tech and sustainable building, some things still need to be ironed out. Room controls out of an ipad: good idea on paper, but poorly executed. This makes simple things as shutting facade blinds painful. My 4yo ordered three portions of smoked salmon and scrambled eggs at 6am whilst everyone else was sleeping, since the ipad has no security controls whatsoever, which was quite hilarious. Not city centre but a nice side of town and well communicated, 10 minutes by underground or a 20 minute bike ride into Centraal. Also good for a day trip heading south on the bikes and exploring the countryside and nearby towns. Cocktails at the 21st floor bar are excellent and included in your free drinks vouchers if you are Spire!

    • ankomonkey says:

      Sounds like your 4 year old made a pretty good choice!

      • Rob says:

        When my son was 4 he dialled 999 by accident and then left the phone open, leading to a police car swiftly arriving at our house ….

      • Lady London says:

        Your 4 year old is obviously going to be an HfP reader… 🙂 just has to learn how to order the champagne as well!

  • john P says:

    Slightly OT but a query around the IHG free night voucher through the credit card – can you call a hotel and reserve a particular room with the voucher? I am thinking of the penthouse suite at the CP Battersea that sleeps 4 – or is it pot luck what room is allocated?

  • ah says:

    OT but anyone still not getting SPG Amex points posting?

    • chris says:

      I had a welcome bonus of 11k and a referral of 5k points that should have been tripled. I was just told by a representative who was looking into it that these will not triple as “that was the offer at the time you took out your card”!! Am waiting to hear from the customer service reps line manager now…

  • Craig Vassie says:

    CP Quarto d’Altino is a very pleasant hotel out in the sticks some 25 minutes by train from Venezia. Train station next to hotel. Frequent service. Nice large but slightly old rooms. lovely friendly staff. Great restaurant for breakfast and dinner – so good we ate there every evening which we wouldn’t normally do! Free shuttle to / from VCE Marco Polo. Hope this helps.

  • Nick says:

    The crowne plaza Potzdamer Platz is good. I stayed there a few weeks ago – I was in Berlin solo for 2 nights and so booked into a cheap B&B, but it was awful and so walked out and straight to the nearest IHG hotel. I stayed on points but they upgraded me (Spire) to a club room with lounge access and breakfast. The lounge is nothing to shout about but the breakfast was pretty decent. All told it was certainly a solid upgrade. The only problem is that it is not at Potzdamer Platz. It is at Anhalter Bahnhof, which is a good 10-15 walk away.

  • Dougie Forde says:

    I stayed earlier this year at the CP Potsdamer Platz on a pointsbreak. When I ordered a large beer in the bar the barman swapped it for a small one when he saw I was using my Gold member free drinks voucher.

    • Lady London says:

      cheap. the kind of thing that will cost them more than they saved by being so cheap. I’d have left it on the bar and told them obviously they needed it more than me (my favourite line for handing back the pathetic little chocolate bar British Airways has been handing out as a “second meal” on the 11 hour flight back form SFO!!.

      • Lumma says:

        Especially when you consider how cheap beer is in Berlin.

        I remember my first visit, I went to get a kebab and it was €5 with a bottle of Coke. I asked how much it was with a beer instead and it was €4.50

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