IHG’s 5-Day Flash Sale – save 30% this week on hotel bookings for stays in UK and Europe

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• Michael says:

  19 Mar19 March 11:36

  OT: Struggling to work out how to refer someone for the Free BA card from my gold charge card? When i go to refer it trys to only let me refer from my gold to a gold, or my SPG to an SPG.

  • Grant says:

    19 Mar19 March 11:44

    When you follow the link you’ll see an image of the card with two buttons underneath the bold text. Next to the blue ‘apply now’ button there is a button ‘view our other cards’ – click that and the page scrolls down to the other cards. Click the one you want and away you go.

  • Peter 64K says:

    19 Mar19 March 11:52

    When you refer it will only say gold from gold, spg from spg etc BUT when the person uses your link they will get the option to choose other cards and you still get the referral bonus.

    • Craig says:

      19 Mar19 March 13:19

      does this work even from Amex Plat? so i could get a 18k referral bonus even if the person i am referring only opens a free card?

      • Alan says:

        19 Mar19 March 13:24

        Yes

      • Craig says:

        19 Mar19 March 17:29

        madness (but excellent) – thanks

• Kevin C says:

  19 Mar19 March 11:59

  I also got an email offering my a 100 per cent bonus on IHG points if I bought 7000 or more before 22nd March. So is that targeted?

  • Grant says:

    19 Mar19 March 12:13

    I didn’t get the email but am able to access the same offer

• Michael says:

  19 Mar19 March 13:19

  OT: When you’ve used up your 2 free lounge passes to amex just bill your gold card for anything after that?

  • Peter 64K says:

    19 Mar19 March 13:39

    Yes. £20 per person per time I believe.

  • Alan says:

    20 Mar20 March 09:22

    Sorry, what’s this about?

• BJ says:

  19 Mar19 March 13:35

  OT: The Hilton sale appears to be nonsense yet again. Checked 5 hotels on 5 dates yesterday. Comparing them with sale prices today, one is £1 cheaper in the sale, the other four are more expensive today.

  • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

    19 Mar19 March 15:16

    Moan to the ASA. Only takes about three minutes to fill in the form and your case will be investigated.

• Chas says:

  19 Mar19 March 14:04

  Thinking of using this sale to make use of my free night voucher at InterContinental which I got for being an Ambassador member. But, I’ve got so many other trips planned that I doubt I’ll be able to take advantage of anything abroad, unless I can persuade my wife to have a quick jaunt to Paris. Which is the long way round to asking my question – “which would be best InterContinental property in London to stay at?”….

  • Rob says:

    19 Mar19 March 15:31

    https://headforpoints.com/2019/02/10/what-are-the-best-ihg-rewards-club-redemptions-in-london/

    • Chas says:

      19 Mar19 March 17:18

      Thanks Rob – will check it out.

  • Lyn says:

    19 Mar19 March 15:36

    Are you referring to the Ambassador free weekend night where you pay for the first (Friday or Saturday) night and the second night is free?

    If so, as far as I know it has to be booked at the special Ambassador rate, which is essentially a special fully flexible rate, so it probably wouldn’t work with the sale.

    • Chas says:

      19 Mar19 March 17:18

      Thanks Rob – will check it out.

    • Chas says:

      19 Mar19 March 17:20

      Lyn – I am. It’ll be my first time using that Voucher, so wasn’t aware of that….

      • Lyn says:

        19 Mar19 March 17:46

        Here is one of Rob’s fairly recent articles on IHG Ambassador, although there may have been a few changes since then

        https://headforpoints.com/2018/08/14/intercontinental-ambassador-review/

      • Chas says:

        19 Mar19 March 22:15

        Thanks Lyn – that’s really helpful

  • Leo says:

    19 Mar19 March 17:59

    Did an overnight at the IC O2 this weekend – solely to use up a free cert – I live in Central London so it really was a “staycation”. The O2 is a good hotel and the restaurants and bar are really good. You just might to want to check what’s on at at the O2 Arena though because that impacts on the demographic. This last weekend it was “questionable”. Anyway the Club lounge is very good and if you have Ambassador it’s £50 per night on top of a redemption. This gets you Tea 2-4pm. Free drinks and good canapes 5-7pm and breakfast the next day. It’s £65 if not an Ambassador. V good value IMHO.

• CC says:

  19 Mar19 March 14:34

  All the hotels I need have this message “Rooms are not available for EUROPE FLASH SALE MEMBER on one or more of the selected dates.” Then when I check “show available dates” the whole of 2019 and onwards are not available either!

  Will check later in case its a temporary issue but has anyone else successfully managed to book at an actual genuine discounted price?

  • Lyn says:

    19 Mar19 March 15:48

    I have just checked without actually booking. Using Rob’s link I can see the Europe Flash Sale Member Rate for the hotel I checked and it would be a genuine saving.

• Dimitri says:

  19 Mar19 March 21:49

  Rob, do you know why IHG always has these promotions in Europe as well as the usual 30% partner rate that they do, but you wouldn’t normally see these offers for the rest of the world? Or do they have promotions outside Europe that we don’t know of?

  • Rob says:

    19 Mar19 March 22:49

    There may be other offers I don’t see. Hilton is very big on making sure its APAC sales are promoted here – see the ad on this page – but IHG seems more of a silo, with the European people focused on promoting European hotels.

• Dimitri says:

  19 Mar19 March 21:53

  I just booked 3 nights in London and in Kings Cross without realising this offer!!

  Sometimes I really wish there were no offers like this at all on this world.

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