Earn up to 301,000 bonus IHG Rewards Club points in their new Spring hotel promotion

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• Craig says:

  4 Feb4 February 04:52

  Thanks Rob, it’s currently asking for a promotion code so possibly targeted or not active yet.

  • Phillip says:

    4 Feb4 February 05:05

    The registration is not active yet.

    As a heavy IHG user and with a number of bookings in place for the promotion, this is certainly an improvement compared to Accelerate which over the last year has been extremely poor for me! As Rob says, Accelerate was designed to encourage those who weren’t big IHG users already – once you were more of a regular, Accelerate was at times painfully unrewarding. My last two didn’t even bother with multiple targets. Just a single poor target. Where’s the fun in that?

    • Craig says:

      4 Feb4 February 05:12

      It works better for me too Phillip, the last accelerate had a ‘stay 8 weekends’ target which I was never going to achieve. With this one I’ll be at 15 nights by the end of March. I made 90k from the last 4x which considering I didn’t have to do anything different was very lucrative.

  • Rob says:

    4 Feb4 February 08:16

    …. which may explain why it says ‘PREVIEW’ in the headline 🙂

• Tom says:

  4 Feb4 February 05:17

  Just a shame that most ihg hotels are rubbish!

  • Craig says:

    4 Feb4 February 05:24

    In the area where I work, it’s either a reasonable Holiday Inn within walking distance of a few decent restaurants, a pleasant Premier Inn in the middle of nowhere with one pub attached to
    it or a Best Western Plus which would better described as a Worst Western Double Minus!

  • ChrisC says:

    4 Feb4 February 11:41

    really? all of them are rubbosh? How about you give some particular examples of why they are rubbish

    Not had any major problems in any of the ones I have stayed in and the minor ones are soon rectified when I bring them to their attention.

    • Alex Sm says:

      4 Feb4 February 23:31

      HI Ariel Way is rubbish but the rub bushiest one ever was CP Dublin airport. Their Russian and European properties are good. US and Israeli ones are dated

      • Lynx says:

        5 Feb5 February 00:55

        I’m not sure why you thought the CP Dublin Airport was so bad. I’ve spent about 300 nights either there or in the attached HIX in the last 3 years (mostly in the CP) and am very happy with them both; especially since the extension to the HIX and the refurbishment to the CP bar and restaurant.
        The only problem I have with it is when it is overrun by hordes of Accenture consultants who are there to be trained – presumably in the most efficient way to fleece their clients. 😀

  • Charlieface says:

    4 Feb4 February 17:10

    Relative to the price I think he means. Either they are garbage 3-star HI or expensive but still not great CP or IC.

• James says:

  4 Feb4 February 05:20

  Don’t suppose anybody knows what the promotion code is??? Can’t register without this code.

• BJ says:

  4 Feb4 February 05:35

  Never going to cut it, who would want to rack up nights earning status on IHG when they could do so on Hilton? IHG trying to tempt idiots here or simply giving extra points to corporate customers they already have. Title of the article … 🙂

  • SP says:

    4 Feb4 February 06:08

    A very narrow minded response. I work in Andover a few days a week and the closest Hiltons’ in Newbury and Southampton are both pretty bad with terrible gyms where as the holiday inn in Winchester has a great new Gym and is nice and modern. As a Hilton diamond member I would always prefer Hilton but they aren’t always the best option!

    • BJ says:

      4 Feb4 February 06:28

      My point is that promotions are meant to encourage stays IHG otherwise wouldn’t get, not to provide giveaways on those they would, be it because of corporate agreements or lack of suitable alternatives like you say. I am not suggesting it is silly to take advantage of this promotion and will be doing so myself to add extra to any IHG stays I make. I am just saying that it is a badly designed promotion from IHG if they think it will encourage hoards of existing or new customers to stays loads more nights than they might otherwise have done.

  • Phillip says:

    4 Feb4 February 06:52

    We all have our priorities… despite having top tier with Marriott and Hilton, I still value IHG points for redemptions at their top end properties especially with their nicely expanding portfolio! Even with their existing portfolio, properties such as the IC Danang Sun put many luxury brands to shame! Plus, I’m a Kimpton fan!

  • Matt says:

    4 Feb4 February 06:55

    You sound lovely. Lots of idiots like me in the world I guess.

    • BJ says:

      4 Feb4 February 13:08

      Go easy folks, it’s tough being adorable every day. I apologise for any offense caused.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    4 Feb4 February 08:36

    Personal experience IHG has the better properties in the UK

    • BJ says:

      4 Feb4 February 09:29

      I would have agreed with you until Hilton group started opening lots of new hotel, now I think they are better. I actually left Hilton for years after one too many stays in old horror hotels like those SP refer too.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        4 Feb4 February 13:50

        Yet to stay in a Hilton which is better than the local Indigo/Kimption/IC or Principal.

        for Clarity I haven’t stayed in the Biltmore which is a Hilton LXR property.

        • Crafty says:

          6 Feb6 February 07:36

          But those aren’t the relevant comparators. Hilton is a brand competing with Crowne Plaza, not the higher end brands you’ve cited. Hilton group equivalent to those would probably be Conrad.

  • ChrisC says:

    4 Feb4 February 11:47

    I’m far from an idiot.

    I have found that IHG have hotels that are better for the location I want to stay and a price I am prepared to pay than Hilton.

    The points I earn are incidental to that. That applies to IHG, Hilton. Raddisson, Bonvoy, Accor

    • HAM76 says:

      4 Feb4 February 21:16

      Same here… I can pick the IHG hotel that is a ten minute walk from my client, or I can book a twice as expensive Hilton hotel that requires me to get up 30 minutes earlier every morning because it‘s further away. For occasional stays that might be irrelevant. As a regular I value convenience and sleep over points.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        4 Feb4 February 23:35

        Completely agree.

        However, the point of this promo is to drive incremental IHG business. We would be booking those convenient better priced properties regardless so all IHG is done is cost themselves some points.

        Personally I preferred the gaming aspect of accelerate but I fine with any extra points I can get 🙂

• Neil says:

  4 Feb4 February 06:21

  Registration is available through the app without the need for a code. Just got confirmation of my registration now…

  Do we think this is the official end of accelerate?!

  • Craig says:

    4 Feb4 February 06:34

    That worked for me thanks.

    • The Original David says:

      4 Feb4 February 06:51

      Perfect, good spot.

  • Crafty says:

    4 Feb4 February 10:44

    I’m pretty sure it is, I know some of the consultants who’ve been working with IHG on paring back loyalty benefits.

• John says:

  4 Feb4 February 06:38

  Link requires a promotion code.

  • Craig says:

    4 Feb4 February 06:50

    As previously mentioned!

  • Kenneth says:

    4 Feb4 February 06:57

    Just use the phone app. All you have to do is enter your membership number.

• Andrew says:

  4 Feb4 February 06:57

  You missed out a crucial rule Rob – stays must be booked by 15 April. Although IHG do have a tendency of extending that – but currently that’s the rule.

  • Rob says:

    4 Feb4 February 08:11

    Apologies, yes.

• CraigyC says:

  4 Feb4 February 07:16

  I’ve just booked an IC for June which claimed to be advance payment (terms and conditions also said that it needed to be paid upfront), but nothing has appealed on the card.
  I’m a platinum member so is the advance payment not required? This is a bit of an issue as the same thing happened with Hilton and I was counting on this to hit the spend for a sign up bonus!
  Or does it sometimes just take some time (I booked it last night).

  • Jonathan says:

    4 Feb4 February 07:29

    Advance payment just means the hotel will take payment between now and when you stay, some hotels will take payment when booked, but generally payment will be taken about 2 weeks before the stay so just plan for the charge to appear.
    Unfortunately you can’t predict when the payment will be taken, which could be an issue if you monitor credit card bills to stay within payment limits or something

    • Rob says:

      4 Feb4 February 08:10

      I was in a Hampton last night on an Advanced Payment rate and nothing was taken in advance. If you have elite status, in my experience, they are more likely not to bother charging you.

      • CraigyC says:

        4 Feb4 February 09:08

        Cheers, I’ll have to go on a spending spree then! One of them may still charge before the end of the period I guess, just can’t rely on it.

        • Chrisasaurus says:

          4 Feb4 February 11:53

          Call the hotel and they’ll happy charge it

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