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

It is another version of the long-running Accelerate offer, and for the second time in a row 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 September and 31st December.

The list of targets is shorter than we have seen in the past.  I got just four:

25,200 bonus points for staying at four different brands

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

2,800 bonus points for staying at three different hotels

8,000 bonus points for four stays using the corporate rate of the company I haven’t worked at for nine years and which very few hotels accept

Since I would have to trigger the 2,800 ‘three hotels’ bonus in order to trigger the ‘four brands’ bonus, I will be getting 28,000 bonus points for four stays.  I value IHG Rewards Club points at 0.4p so that is a bonus worth £112.  If those four stays are just one night each, that is an extra reward of £28 per night.  Not bad.

I also looked at my wife’s account.  Once I had registered my wife, she got the following targets which are even easier:

21,600 bonus points for staying at three different brands

2,800 bonus points for staying at two different hotels

4,000 bonus points for booking a stay of 4+ nights

Again, the first two would trigger together.  She would earn 24,400 bonus points, valued at £97.60, for just three one night stays.  This is £32.53 of bonus points per night plus the value of the base points from her stays.

(It looks like any family stays this Autumn will be booked as two rooms, one per account, rather than taking a suite!)

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.

Note that some people are getting a very weird offer of ‘1000 bonus points for one stay’ – and nothing more.  This seems to be an IHG IT issue and not actually your final selection.  If you have this, I would continue to check online over the next few days and see if it changes.

IHG Rewards Club Accelerate Make Every Stay Count bonus points promotion

Conclusion

The new IHG Rewards Club promotion is good, at least for us.  Given that it covers a four month period, I would go so far as to say it is generous.  Given the proliferation of IHG brands these days, hitting three different ones is fairly straightforward.  Hitting four is a bit trickier, but let’s see.

We don’t yet know what Hilton Honors or Marriott Bonvoy will be offering for the Autumn, of course, although we will find out in the next couple of weeks.

I strongly recommend signing up now given that the new IHG promotion is valid for stays from 1st Sepember.  Even if you have no stays planned I would still register now as 31st December is a long way away and a lot can change.

Note that there is a deadline for registration of 18th October which is not something I like to see – why should someone who unexpectedly finds themself in an IHG property in November or December lose out?

You can register for the new IHG Accelerate promotion here.

IHG One Rewards update – April 2024:

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Comments (141)

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  • Philip Walsh says:
    22 Aug22 August 12:22

    I have an existing weekend booking in September do I have to cancel and re-book to get it to qualify for ‘stay 2 weekends’ offer I have received or will it qualify immediately now I have enroled?

  • Neil says:
    22 Aug22 August 12:35

    I got one target , stay 1 night and get 1000 points. Hardly exciting ….

    • Mark M says:
      22 Aug22 August 13:22

      Same here 🙁
      But my OH got nothing at all!!

    • Flyerstarter says:
      22 Aug22 August 13:33

      Same here, worst accelerate yet.

    • Jonny Jonny says:
      22 Aug22 August 15:08

      Ditto

    • Mr. AC says:
      22 Aug22 August 17:49

      Got a response from their helpdesk: “Please know that we have just launched the offer: Accelerate III 2019 and still under review so sub-offers are not yet final. Rest assured that the final list of offers will be updated on 1st of September.”

  • John says:
    22 Aug22 August 13:22

    You don’t get any points when booking via a third party.

  • Jane says:
    22 Aug22 August 13:31

    I have stay 2 x 4 or more nights, we are about to stay 6 nights but on points. Anyone know if this will count for one stay??

    • Roy says:
      22 Aug22 August 13:52

      No, for most offers only ‘qualifying’ nights/stays count – i.e. stays that earn points.

  • sohan says:
    22 Aug22 August 13:49

    Do they leave some people out? My wife logged in via the link above and got this message:

    “We appreciate your loyalty. Please see IHG® Rewards Club offers available now.”

    There isn’t any Accelerate offer showing up…

  • TripRep says:
    22 Aug22 August 13:50

    Must be me but I’ve never really found my offers that attractive incentive for a mattress run.

    1,000 Go Places with the IHG® App
    Earn 1,000 bonus points when you download, sign in and book 1 stay(s) with the IHG® App.

    2,000 Stay More, Earn More
    Get closer to the rewards you want when you stay 4 night(s) and earn 2,000 bonus points.

    3,000 Stay at 2 IHG® Hotels
    Stay at 2 IHG® hotel(s) and earn 3,000 bonus points.

    4,000 Saturday Stays Bonus
    Stay 3 weekend(s), including a Saturday night and another night, and earn 4,000 bonus points.

    10,000 Your Achievement Bonus
    Complete 3 of the 4 offers and earn (an additional) 10,000 bonus points.

    20,000 Your Achievement Bonus
    Complete 4 of the 4 offers and earn (an additional) 20,000 bonus points.

    • TripRep says:
      22 Aug22 August 13:52

      Grateful for any tips if any one sees the above as generous (I normally use Hilton for majority of my bookings)

    • Lady London says:
      22 Aug22 August 15:33

      @Triprep it’s basically 40,000 for 6 nghts. you’d have to book 3* 2 weekends each being 1 Saturday night plus either Friday or Sunday.

      so could be about £26 incentive per night? Depends if you’d be staying any weekends in an IHG property anyway. If not, then it’s useless to you. As it’s weekend nights they are nights out of your own pocket (most probably). Whereas if it wasn’t all weekend nights that are required, but weeknights, then presumably the cost would be being offset by being expensed.

      so not ungenerous, just potentially completely unuseable 🙂

      I could, and would, be able to use that offer and hoover up the full 40,000 (as compared to what IHG keeps offering me – they seem to think I live in hotels 366 days per year).

      • ankomonkey says:
        22 Aug22 August 18:23

        I have the same as @TripRep and one of the targets requires a stay of 4 nights, so it’s more than your suggestion, @LadyLondon.

        I won’t be bothering as I tend to only use the chains that give me free breakfast. Some call it gastro-tourism, some call it gluttony!

        • Lady London says:
          22 Aug22 August 21:03

          Yes you’d need to keep tour strength up with all that stripping wouldnt you @ankomonkey.

          Still laughing about that one 🙂

  • ChrisC says:
    22 Aug22 August 13:54

    What a joke! My targets would get me 18,400 points. Yep that’s it.

    My last one was 90 odd k

    7.2k for 3 weekend stays

    2.8k for staying at 3 brands

    6.6k for 3 bonus points package stays

    1.8k for spending $198 on food and drink

    NO achievement bonus.

    It’s like they don’t want me to book any extra stays with them this coming quarter over my current 2 bookings.

    • ChrisC says:
      22 Aug22 August 14:03

      Wonder if my buying Ambassador status in July and getting IHG Plat via that has resulted in the lower offer?

      Though reading comments it appears my offer verges on the positively generous compared to some!

      • sohan says:
        22 Aug22 August 14:19

        I had the same thought!

      • Lady London says:
        22 Aug22 August 15:39

        Not as bad as the ones I’ve had at least the last four times now. IHG seems to think I must be spending a lot of nights currently with someone else and that I can move huge numbers of nights over to them. I have no idea why. Have not very many points stashed and managed Gold last year. But that was by accident.

        Personally if I had 2 stays booked with them ChrisC then faced with this type of target, those stays wouldn’t necessarily stay with IHG! However I understand you bought Ambassador status. So that might not work for you. At least it tells us not to buy Ambassador unless we are sure to really need it, if that is what happened to you, ChrisC !

        • ChrisC says:
          23 Aug23 August 13:07

          My two current forward bookings are on non refundable rates but suit my travel plans both hotels being close where I need to be.

          Buying Ambassadore suited me as it saved me money on a stay at an IC by getting upgraded to the room I wanted and the cost of the lower room plus buying status was less than buying the better room at the start plus the 4pm check-out was very useful and I wouldn’t have got that otherwise

  • Michael says:
    22 Aug22 August 14:21

    Looks like I got lucky…. my 4 targets would get me 93,000 points!

    However a word of warning for anyone with a Points & Cash target, these do NOT count towards any of your other targets.

    So for example my target of:

    4,500 Stay for Less and Earn – Book 1 stay(s) using Points & Cash and earn 4,500 bonus points. Points & Cash allows you to book Reward Nights with fewer points.

    So if I make a Points & Cash booking it meets this target (obviously) but doesn’t count towards any other target e.g. stay at different brands.

    I know this because I was in a dispute with IHG recently as I thought this was disingenuous and not at all clear to customers, but I had no luck in convincing them of this.

    • Roy says:
      22 Aug22 August 19:06

      Most of the targets only apply to qualifying stays – i.e. stays that earn points.

    • Darran says:
      23 Aug23 August 06:47

      I currently am having the same issue had a points & cash booking target which I used to double up with a stay twice at Crowne Plaza. The points & cash target triggered but not the Crowne Plaza. This has meant missing the 12800 points for the CP achievement and the final 18500 for completing 5 of 5 achievements. With only a few days to go and currently on a non ihg stay I have no hope of completing this. IHG just say that the whole process is automated and they can’t add the points even though they would like to help me. The terms don’t specifically state points & cash bookings under ‘non qualifying’ nights.

      • Michael says:
        23 Aug23 August 12:47

        I can imagine how annoyed you must be Darran, I was the same.
        I don’t think these Accelerate promos should include Points & Cash targets as it’s not clear the bookings don’t count towards other targets which you would reasonably assume.
        You’re completely right that the terms don’t specifically state Points & Cash bookings under ‘non qualifying’ nights (they consider these bookings reward bookings even though you’re paying some cash!) and I am sure that legally IHG couldn’t reasonably argue their position in a court of law as it is not clear in the legals.
        In my experience the IHG Customer Service ‘robot’ agents are completely useless and unwilling to help resolve the problem satisfactorily. Given that customers like you and I have clearly tried to hit the targets and then missed out due to their lack of clarity you’d think they’d be more understanding, but no, they’re not.
        It doesn’t exactly make you feel valued as an IHG customer!

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