REGISTER NOW: IHG launches its new Accelerate-style points hotel promotion

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• Scott s says:

  5 Jan5 January 14:37

  I’d already booked The Met, Leeds to stay in late January. I take it this counts as one brand , so say I booked a holiday inn as well, I would have met the target of “stay at two ihg brands”?

  • Scott s says:

    5 Jan5 January 14:38

    Also, I’d booked it before this offer started but it will still count won’t it?

    • Alan says:

      5 Jan5 January 16:17

      Double check the T&Cs for your offer but historically it’s really just been the app booking bonuses that have required the booking to take place within the offer period.

• Lady London says:

  5 Jan5 January 14:49

  Personally I’d move the 4 nights whole Barclay stay to another hotel group then. You can do better with Hilton right now. 5 nights would get you 20,000 Hilton on current promo. I think they are counting reward nights in too. 20,000 Hilton would give you a spendable value that’s not much different from IHG points spending at mid- to lower levels of hotel.

  2,000 for 4 nights is pathetic. Would be better if they hadn;t offered you anything!

  It’s a pity IHG doesn;t seem to be tracking how many nights and stays are cancelled as soon as people sign in and see their “new Accelerator” offer !!!

  • Lady London says:

    5 Jan5 January 15:19

    apologies to get the full 20,000 with Hilton the 5 nights would have to each be split into a separate stay per night. (so migrate hotel each night. this might not be what your companion has in mind :-).

    Even not splitting them though you’d still get 10,000 Hilton points.
    Which has about the same value at the lower end as IHG points. However IHG is offering you a miserable 2,000 points for 4 nights. Whereas Hilton is offering you 10,000 for 5 nights that can include a (free?) reward night.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      5 Jan5 January 22:57

      12,000 as 2,000 for a stay and 10,000 for 5 nights?

      • Lady London says:

        6 Jan6 January 14:47

        Er…Yes@TGLoyalty. You can tell I’ve not taken the step of migrating my stays to Hilton yet!

• Jay H says:

  5 Jan5 January 22:51

  OT

  Does Radisson honour elite benefits when booked through third party (e.g. Amex travel) I found that you don’t earn points but couldn’t see anything about status benefits

  Thanks

  • TGLoyalty says:

    5 Jan5 January 22:59

    AFAIK the only hotel group that did was Marriott and that stopped with the merger in August.

    • Genghis says:

      6 Jan6 January 07:53

      Shangri-La

• The Original Nick says:

  6 Jan6 January 07:15

  This is one of my offers,
  Stay at 2 Holiday Inn® hotel(s)—including Holiday Inn Resort® and Holiday Inn Club Vacations®—and earn 8,400 bonus points.

  Does this mean I can stay at a HI one night and then a HIX another night and achieve the 8400 points or does it mean 2 x HI hotels?

  • John says:

    6 Jan6 January 08:14

    No, HIX and HI are separate brands.

    • The Original Nick says:

      6 Jan6 January 08:43

      Thanks for that John.

• Angk1214 says:

  6 Jan6 January 07:54

  O/T

  Best Priority Pass lounge or Oneworld lounge in SIN? Have a 3h layover (landing in T4 and leaving T1) and am BA silver but also have PP through Amex Plat.

  Not sure which of the (many options) is the best! Any help appreciated.

  Thanks.

  Angk12

  • The Original Nick says:

    6 Jan6 January 08:03

    I’ve used the Plaza Premium lounge in T1 and it was nice and quiet with a very good spread of food. Some of the alcohol was chargeable I think though.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      6 Jan6 January 15:32

      Strange policy too full price rather than a supplement.

      I might be willing to pay £1-2 extra for a more premium drink but I’m not paying £6-7 instead.

• RussellH says:

  6 Jan6 January 16:31

  Does anyone know if either the Leeds Met, or the Manchester Principal actually qualify for this promotion? The Ts+Cs only refer to Kimpton, which these are supposed to turn into at some stage, but if they are not branded as such???

  • Rob says:

    6 Jan6 January 18:09

    I would guess, as they now earn points, that they WON’T count for brand challenges but WILL count for nights challenges. Can’t be sure though.

    • RussellH says:

      6 Jan6 January 19:49

      Thanks, Rob.

      My partner has a 4 brands challenge AND is interested in the Free Night offer for two nights in the hotels of the Principal group, and hoping that a cheap stay at the Leeds Met would work on both offers at once.

      I do not have any challeneges, just double points after the first stay, so with an expensive stay at an IC in early Feb I needed a cheap stay after 15 Jan to trigger double points at the IC. £44/night cash or £43.25 + 5000 points made me laugh, though. (Makes possible sense though the night before, where the cash price is above £100/night.)

• Craig R says:

  7 Jan7 January 16:45

  Apologies, i’m a relative newbie to accelerate. I have my set of targets jan-apr, but must I book direct with IHG to qualify as having hit the target? I will be staying in an IHG hotel for a night in Feb with work (worth 3,000 points) and will be required to book through our corporate travel agent as opposed to directly. Thanks in advance.

  • Alan says:

    7 Jan7 January 16:56

    Do you normally receive points on bookings made via your work TA? If so then should probably be OK.

  • Genghis says:

    7 Jan7 January 16:58

    Should be OK.

    • Craig R says:

      7 Jan7 January 17:19

      Thanks both. Yes I have received points in the past through my work’s TA bookings so sounds positive

• JB says:

  7 Jan7 January 18:32

  Hi
  New to these offers but I’ve got my IHG account set up to earn Avios. Two questions if anyone can help much appreciated..
  1..Is earning avios rather than IHG points better value?
  2. If I’m earning Avios – will I qulafy for the bonus points as points or do they get converted to avios too? I realise this may be a question for CS but your thoughts on Avios over IHG Points would still be interesting to hear.

  Cheers J

  • JB says:

    7 Jan7 January 18:40

    My offer is Earn 42,800 total bonus points. It looks straight forward –

    Is this possible with two 2 night stays at weekend with bonus points package; Each at a different hotel?

    Points Value Offer Description Status
    12,000 Saturday Stays Bonus
    Stay 2 weekend(s), including a Saturday night and another night, and earn 12,000 bonus points.

    2,800 Stay at 2 IHG® Hotels
    Stay at 2 IHG® hotel(s) and earn 2,800 bonus points. Terms

    6,600 Earn More, Faster
    Earn 6,600 bonus points when you book 2 Bonus Points Package stay(s) and get to your next reward faster. Terms

    21,400 Your Achievement Bonus
    Complete 3 of the 3 offers and earn (an additional) 21,400 bonus points. Terms

  • Rob says:

    7 Jan7 January 18:49

    These bonuses only pay in points. However, if your account is set to Avios then you may invalidate yourself from the offer – check the small print. There are two options – a) you get nothing, b) you get the bonus but as points. You will NOT do c) get the bonus and see it automatically converted.

    • JB says:

      8 Jan8 January 16:07

      Thanks Rob. I also signed up for Amazon Business last night too. Great site. Cheers.

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