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IHG Rewards Club, the loyalty scheme covering InterContinental, Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza etc, has launched its new Summer promotion.

It is another version of the long-running Accelerate offer, although this time it is called “Make Every Stay Count”.

You can find out your targets, and register, on the IHG website here.

It is valid for stays between 1st May and 31st August.

At present, there is a bug which seems to be stopping some people – including me – from registering.  You get a message saying that you are ineligible, but that seems unlikely given that ‘Accelerate’ offers are open to all.

I had no issues on my wife’s account.  Once I had registered my wife, she got the following targets:

10,000 bonus points for staying five nights

14,400 bonus points for staying at three different IHG brands 

5,600 bonus points for 2 x 2-night weekend stays (Saturday plus another night)

4,500 bonus points for booking one ‘points and cash’ stay

2,800 points for staying at two different IHG hotels

Unusually, there is no additional bonus for completing all or most of the separate targets.

This isn’t a bad deal for my wife.  The first, second and fifth ones cut across each other, so a total of five nights, which takes in three different brands and two different hotels, will trigger (10,000 + 14,400 + 2,800) 27,200 bonus points.

Based on my 0.4p valuation of an IHG Rewards Club point, that is worth £109 or (divided by 5 nights) £22 back per night.  This assumes she does exactly five nights across three brands.  It isn’t worth doing a mattress run to hit this, but if we can point a few nights in IHG’s direction over the next four months it will be worthwhile.

As usual with IHG promotions, existing stays will count and do not need to be rebooked.  The only exception in the past has been for any target you have which insists on booking via the IHG app.

Conclusion

The new IHG Rewards Club promotion is OK.  My wife has a less generous target than she did in the spring, and of course I can’t even see my target yet.

Hilton Honors is offering ‘double base points’ as we wrote about here (you can register here).  If you do a lot of short, low cost stays then the new IHG offer may work out better, whilst Hilton might be better for short, expensive trips.  It is all down to your personal IHG Accelerate targets though.  We don’t yet know what Marriott Bonvoy will be offering for the Summer.

I strongly recommend signing up now given that the new IHG promotion is valid for stays from Wednesday night.  Even if you have no stays planned I would still register as 31st August is a long way away.

You can register for the new IHG Accelerate promotion here.

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IHG One Rewards update – April 2025:

Get bonus points: IHG is not currently running a global promotion.

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  • chris1922 says:
    29 Apr29 April 13:57

    Mine is meagre, only three deals, but at least number 2 is already in the bag with my Florida summer holiday L)
    Stay at 3 brands and get 21,600 bonus points
    Stay at 2 Holiday Inn® hotel(s)—including Holiday Inn Resort® and Holiday Inn Club Vacations®—and earn 8,400 bonus points
    Stay 4 time(s) using your corporate rate and earn 6,800 bonus points. Stays booked through your corporate portal count toward the promotion

  • Russ says:
    29 Apr29 April 13:57

    I’ve got ‘Double Your Stay, Earn double points on every stay, starting with your second stay, up to 40,000 bonus points.’

    Looks like the second stay requirement is gaining momentum….

    • The Original Nick says:
      29 Apr29 April 14:47

      This is the worst offer I’ve had for this promotion so my stays will be put through my partners account once again.
      40,000 Double Your Stay
      Earn double points on every stay, starting with your second stay, up to 40,000 bonus points.
      And that’s it….

    • Nick says:
      29 Apr29 April 18:02

      +1

  • Graham says:
    29 Apr29 April 14:12

    This was mine. Unlikely to achieve much of it as I rarely make cash bookings.

    Earn 93,000 points:
    Stay 5 nights and get 10,000 bonus points
    Stay at 3 brands and get 14,400 bonus points.
    Stay at 2 Holiday Inn® hotel(s)—including Holiday Inn Resort® and Holiday Inn Club Vacations®—and earn 5,600 bonus points
    Book 1 stay(s) using Points & Cash and earn 4,500 bonus points.
    Earn 12,000 bonus points when you book 2 stay(s) of 4 or more consecutive nights.
    Your Achievement Bonus
    Complete 5 of the 5 offers and earn (an additional) 46,500 bonus points

  • Nick says:
    29 Apr29 April 14:22

    Earn 84,800 total bonus points.
    10,000 – Get closer to the rewards you want when you stay 5 night(s) and earn 10,000 bonus points.
    21,600 – Stay at 3 brands and get 21,600 bonus points.
    10,800 – Stay 3 weekend(s), including a Saturday night and another night, and earn 10,800 bonus points.
    42,400 – Complete 3 of the 3 offers and earn (an additional) 42,400 bonus points.

  • thehornets says:
    29 Apr29 April 14:26

    Does anyone know if reward night stays count?

    (Assuming the answer is No, although the web page says in very large letters ‘MAKE EVERY STAY COUNT’)

    • Mike Wilson says:
      29 Apr29 April 14:45

      No. From the T&Cs:

      Bonus points are not issued for Non-Qualifying Room Rates or Non-Qualifying Stays. “Non-Qualifying Room Rates” or “Non-Qualifying Stay” include the following: net wholesale individual and group rate, certain package rates, employee discount rate, friends and family rate, crew rate, special discounted contract rates, seasonal worker/crew rate, 50% travel club discount rate, travel industry discount rate, distressed passenger rate, IHG® Rewards Club Reward Nights/Airline Hotel Reward rate, rates booked through third-party web sites, complimentary hotel Stays and any other rates not defined as a Qualifying Room Rate at IHG’s sole discretion.

    • Rob says:
      29 Apr29 April 15:38

      It’s No, unless you get a target like my ‘book a ‘points and cash’ deal. Even then, it won’t count towards any other target than that particular one.

  • Chilangoflyer says:
    29 Apr29 April 15:06

    same bug as you, can’t register 🙁

  • CV3V says:
    29 Apr29 April 16:09

    Cant register, so cant yet complain about how rubbish my offer is.

  • Third Passport says:
    29 Apr29 April 16:24

    Meh.

    Earn 36,800 total bonus points:
    5,000 – Get closer to the rewards you want when you stay 5 night(s) and earn 5,000 bonus points.
    8,400 – Stay at 2 brands and get 8,400 bonus points.
    4,500 – Book 1 stay(s) using Points & Cash and earn 4,500 bonus points.
    6,600 – Earn 6,600 bonus points when you book 2 Bonus Points Package stay(s) and get to your next reward faster.
    12,300 – Complete 4 of the 4 offers and earn (an additional) 12,300 bonus points.

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