REGISTER NOW: IHG Rewards Club launches its new Accelerate hotel promotion

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• Hamilton says:

  30 Apr30 April 13:08

  I didn’t get any message about not being eligible, but I got just one earning possibility “Earn double points on every stay, starting with your second stay, up to 40,000 bonus points.” Maybe an anomaly or maybe that is the way IHG is going, similar to other chains. But it’s clear from what Rob posted that some people are still getting the more usual kind of offers seen with Accelerate in the past, so it’s a bit odd.

  • Tom says:

    1 May1 May 06:56

    Same for me. Which means another Accelerate period will pass by without me putting any of my stays through IHG.

• David says:

  30 Apr30 April 13:55

  Has anyone advised IHG of the registration issues, and enquired if all accounts will be eligible? I have noted that IHG typically send out an email advertising each new promotion a few days after it appears one here, so perhaps this one just isn’t quite ready for registration yet?

  • David says:

    30 Apr30 April 14:10

    They are now acknowledging people on twitter – confirming there are known issues with registration which they hope to fix for the start date.

    • Lady London says:

      30 Apr30 April 14:58

      *that start date being listed in the promotion as 29th April. In other words, yesterday.

      I’d make a cheap joke about may be they have hired some of British Airways’s ex – IT staff but I’m just too tired.

  • Alex Sm says:

    30 Apr30 April 15:46

    I asked above if Rob is willing to enquire with them on our behalf and give us an update – perhaps this will be more efficient and less annoying than us asking the same thing individually

    • Rob says:

      30 Apr30 April 16:32

      They know there is a problem, but there are no Rewards Club staff in the UK office unfortunately.

• Lady London says:

  30 Apr30 April 14:55

  Not eligible yesterday evening. Then each time when clicking through, sometimes it lets me sign in sometimes not. but nothing ever shows. the screen does not change IHG’s proposed offer does not come up.

  I did manage to log in then click offers and there is definitely an Accelerate offer there. Same result (Nada) when clicking though.

  Oh, and an offer that was not emailed to me, for 3000 points that was sent about 6 weeks before my birthday. I could have combined that with one of the previous Accelerate targets and got about 8,000 points for a night or two. I had no idea it was there. I had stopped logging in to IHG after the last two sets of Accelerate targets must have been meant for someone who stays 366 nights a year, So I missed it.

  As and when this Accelerate offer becomes visible to so many of us, it had better be pretty darn good to make up for this rubbish experience. What a launch!

  • Alex Sm says:

    30 Apr30 April 15:50

    This really depends… after a couple of unrealistic quarterly targets I got a decent set in Q1 2019 – four relatively easy targets which my partner and I covered by three stays (5 nights in total). All in London and all real (we are against mattress runs as they are lazy and unethical). 91,000 points for 335 pounds net spend – not bad!

• Dermott Beverley says:

  30 Apr30 April 15:53

  Truly garbage….Poor show IHG, not impressed /sigh

• Crafty says:

  30 Apr30 April 19:43

  Is this still not fixed?!

  • czechoslovakia says:

    30 Apr30 April 19:48

    Not here, anyway

• Gary says:

  30 Apr30 April 22:22

  Another data point

  77,100 points opportunity:

  16,000 – stay 8 night(s) and earn 16,000 bonus points
  12,000 – stay at 5 brands and get 12,000 bonus points
  16,800 – stay at 6 IHG® hotel(s) and earn 16,800 bonus points
  6,600 – book 2 Bonus Points Package stay(s) and get to your next reward faster

  BONUS: 25,700 – Complete 4 of the 4 offers and earn (an additional) 25,700 bonus points

• Ian M says:

  1 May1 May 07:00

  Still showing that I’m not eligible for the offer. Shame, I’ve earned a decent amount of points with Accelerate over the last few offers. Really not a fan of IHG though, I’m just a sucker for a good promotion! So it’s probably for the best, I’ll stick with Hilton and Marriott, at least they give decent elite member benefits

• Matt says:

  1 May1 May 07:23

  My offer has appeared now. All I got was double points starting from second stay (capped at 40k bonus).

  • Lyn says:

    1 May1 May 09:04

    My husband’s offers have been filled in this morning (they were still blank earlier). But I am still ineligible.

    • Susan says:

      1 May1 May 09:13

      Still ineligible – both myself and OH

  • DL says:

    1 May1 May 09:22

    Exactly the same for me ! Double points from 2nd stay.. hardly exciting !

    • john says:

      1 May1 May 09:46

      +1

      “Double Your Stay
      Earn double points on every stay, starting with your second stay, up to 40,000 bonus points. Terms”

      That’s the only one. Although I haven’t stayed with IHG for a while so that might be while.

      Although the text above that is a bit misleading…

      “Earn 40,000 total bonus points.
      Complete all of your Accelerate offers and earn 40,000 total bonus points.”

      That kind of implies I could stay once and get the 40K but clearly the text underneath says otherwise.

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