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If The Who was ‘talking about your generation’ (see what I did there?) then IHG Rewards Club has some good packages to see the band at The SSE Arena at Wembley on 8th April.

Via the IHG Access platform, there are three ‘buy it now’ options available.  There is no auction involved.

You can redeem for:

VIP packages @ 50,000 IHG Rewards Club points: Two Terrace Seat tickets, fast track entry to the venue, casual 3 course set menu including drinks at the arena’s Empire Bar & Grill Restaurant, lounge access and 1x free drink voucher per person

Club packages @ 30,000 IHG Rewards Club points: Two Club tickets, fast track entry to the venue, lounge access with 2x drinks vouchers and 1x food voucher (choice of burgers, salad, sandwiches) per person

Standard packages @ 20,000 IHG Rewards Club points:  Two general admission tickets

If you are willing to take the risk of winning an auction, there is also a VIP package which comes with a night at the InterContinental Park Lane.  There are no bids so far.

You can redeem on the IHG Access site here.

PS.  If you missed it, take a look at our recent article on the top 10 reasons to get the IHG Rewards Club Premium Mastercard credit card.

IHG One Rewards update – April 2024:

Get bonus points: IHG One Rewards is offering 2,000 bonus points for every two cash nights you stay (not necessarily consecutive) between 1st April and 31st May 2024. You can read our full article here and you can register here.

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  • HayMow says:
    21 Feb21 February 09:32

    Marriott – Don’t forget their 5 nights for 4 deal on points bookings (cheapest points night free) – could make this significantly more worthwhile. Am looking at a cat. 3 hotel where that brings 5 nights in July down to 70-75k points when cash rate is EUR 880-950, so say GBP 740-800 rounding up (excl FX fees).

    • Anna says:
      21 Feb21 February 15:11

      Or a stay at a Cat 8 hotel where it’s $4k for 5 nights or 340,000 points would make it worth 2 people buying the maximum number of points and transferring one lot.

  • HayMow says:
    21 Feb21 February 09:38

    Marriott-related: staying at this new-to-Autograph Collection schloss among all the wineries in Germany’s Moselle valley on points this weekend – only cat. 3 (for now!) and looks amazing. DBB package at €60, or £52 allowing for 3% FX on Amex, seems a steal for what looks a fairly high end restaurant. Winery & spa on site too. We’ve passed by this building over the years when it wasn’t in use and then being renovated into we didn’t know what. Can report back!

    • Harry T says:
      21 Feb21 February 09:57

      That looks excellent, thanks for sharing. What’s DBB?

      • HayMow says:
        21 Feb21 February 10:01

        @HarryT Dinner, bed & breakfast 🙂 Breakfast alone is usually €28 per person!

        • Harry T says:
          21 Feb21 February 10:13

          Are you basing those prices on buying points? It’s 15-20k Bonvoy points a night when I’m looking, and cash prices are around £200.

        • HayMow says:
          21 Feb21 February 10:42

          Use 15-20k points per night for the room, Room Only. Then decide if you want to eat onsite à la carte/pay as you go, or take one of the packages (B&B €28pp or DBB €60pp), or eat elsewhere (more casual places in Lieser or 20min walk across the river to Mülheim where there are plenty of dining options – such as Culinarium 2.0 which looks of a similar level to the Schloss resto and offers wine pairing options with set menus, for a fixed price. Is that what you meant?

        • Harry T says:
          21 Feb21 February 11:09

          @hayMow
          My apologies, didn’t realise you could pay an additional fee on top of points for food. That’s a great idea. Looks like the category of the hotel isn’t going up this year either. With direct flights from Edinburgh to Frankfurt, I’m tempted to make a weekend of this later this year. Thanks for the idea!

      • Munch says:
        21 Feb21 February 11:31

        How do you book the DBB for a points redemption? I don’t see the option or do you contact the hotel directly?

        • HayMow says:
          21 Feb21 February 11:57

          @HarryT No probs, I didn’t either but noticed a half board option for cash rates so asked them and was pleasantly surprised. Sounds like a great plan esp.if Frankfurt Hahn as much nearer than FFT, under 40mins by car.
          @Munch Yes I did points booking online then emailed reception (address on schloss’s own website, googled) – really helpful, quick responses too; also sorted out the resto reservation for us and said they’d see if we can have a nice room as it’s for a birthday.

  • Harry T says:
    21 Feb21 February 09:55

    OT:
    Anyone stayed at the Excelsior, Hotel Gallia, Luxury Collection in Milan? Amex FHR has a very good rate for when I want to travel, so wondered if it was decent for a three night stay. Amex rate is £150 less than the Bonvoy breakfast rate and includes bonus food and beverage credit as well as the usual perks. Even hotels.com is over £100 more than AMEX if you want breakfast.

    • Rob says:
      21 Feb21 February 11:22

      Us, last year! We had a big suite so not exactly representative which is why we didn’t review it. However, the Qataris have spent a LUDICROUS amount on it and it looks beautiful. Very classy place and a classy breakfast too. Next to the train station so it’s a 15-20 minute walk into the city centre. We overlooked the Pirelli building too which was cool.

      • DB2020 says:
        21 Feb21 February 11:49

        Stayed there many years ago, pre refurbishment. It was good then and Rob has summed it up well for the post refurbishment view!

      • Harry T says:
        21 Feb21 February 14:01

        Thanks, Rob. I’ve booked a normal double room. Hopefully Bonvoy Gold and Amex FHR produces an upgrade.

        It’s £750 for three nights. Includes $325 of food and beverage credit (promotion), daily free breakfast, 4pm check out, possible upgrade etc. Will also earn Bonvoy points and elite nights. It’s £930 for the same three nights B&B on Hotels.com.

  • Darren says:
    21 Feb21 February 09:58

    OT,
    Any buy avios promotions around?

    Might fit with all the availability floating around.

  • Will says:
    21 Feb21 February 10:20

    YMMV but if you buy in anticipation of a Aadvantage bonus transfer at some point your buying AA points for 1.25p per point. YMMV but if you have a specific redemption it can be fantastic value.

  • Team Plat says:
    21 Feb21 February 10:38

    OT: Accor Related.
    I have 6000 points (that are expiring today) that I want to use for a non-refundable booking in March.
    2 rooms required – each costing 74€.
    My interpretation of the rules regarding redeeming accor points is that they are redeemable in 2000 point chunks (for 40€ off per chunk) on the TOTAL bill amount. My outlay should then only be 28€ (148-120).
    Spent 2 hours on the phone yday trying to get call centre to book. They say because the room rate is below 80€, I can only redeem 1 x 2000 point chunk against each room. Meaning I’d have to pay (74-40) x 2 = 68€ + 4000 points which leaves my other 2000 points to expire. Website only lets me use 4000 points too.

    Anyone had a similar experience? Any way to fix/get around this? I would much rather use up all 6000 points and only pay 28€ vs. lose 2000 points and pay 68€.

    • Rob says:
      21 Feb21 February 11:19

      You can move the spares to Iberia Plus Avios at 1:1 – don’t let them expire. And don’t move to BA as the ratio is 2:1!

      • Team Plat says:
        21 Feb21 February 11:25

        oops, forgot to mention I did realise (and was planning to do that!). I just wanted to maximise the value of the points where possible (120€ vs 6000 avios).

    • Lady London says:
      21 Feb21 February 11:49

      Add 1breakfast it will increase each cost to just
      over 89. Or look closely at what other extras this hotel charges for that would do it. Pretty sure you can phone hotel direct to book especially if there’s a charge you can’t pay online..good excusr for calling.

      If necessary book each room separately to make it work

      • Lady London says:
        21 Feb21 February 11:50

        Just over 89 mistyped meant just over80

      • Team Plat says:
        21 Feb21 February 12:35

        @Lady London, your mis-type was actually more accurate! Breakfast is an extra 14€. Prices have gone up today too, so adding breakfast to 1 room would mean my cash outlay is 50€ rather than 28€ as hoped. Thank you for the advice anyhow!

        Looks to be a (bad) quirk of the Accor IT. So in any case,
        PSA: Accor points are not redeemable against your total bill (as outlined in the Accor FAQ’s), but in fact on a room-rate basis.

        • EwanG says:
          21 Feb21 February 15:21

          If your points are expiring TODAY, is what you propose in your OP even possible? Will the points be deducted today from your booking, or will they be taken when you check out?
          If it is possible for the points to be taken today (2x 2,000 for 2x EUR40 off) my understanding is the remaining points will not expire for a further 12 months because there has been some activity on the account. Clearly not so good as getting EUR120 off for 6,000 points as you’d like to do!!

          • Team Plat says:
            21 Feb21 February 17:25

            I’m 99% sure what I proposed is possible, given the website and each of the 5(?!) agents I talked to quoted to me to redeem 2 x 2000 points.
            The final agent also assured me by making any redemption today, the rest of the points will extend the expiry of the remainder by 12 months just as you said, so there’s that.

          • Lady London says:
            21 Feb21 February 17:53

            Yes he’s ok if expiring today. Points are taken when you book leaving the amount of cash left to pay or guarantee according to rate type booked

            If booking was refundable then points are also returned if cancelled

            Be careful with Accor’s language : when they say a booking is non-refundable they also mean it’s not modifiable.

            Also just a reminder that using points for any part of an Accor booking means the stay won’t count for any promotion. Whether the terms say this or not. These days that is in the promotions I see but trust me even if they’d left it out, Accor would still refuse to credit you.

  • fivebobbill says:
    21 Feb21 February 10:45

    O/T Tesco double points offer.
    Think I read a few days ago that some were wondering where their bonus clubcard points were with the current double points promo, and when they might hit their Clubcard accounts.
    Just to say that all of my bonus points from the last week or so shopping hit my account overnight.

    • maccymac says:
      21 Feb21 February 11:31

      Same here. Shopping from Last Wednesday and Sunday both hit overnight.

    • DB2020 says:
      21 Feb21 February 11:32

      Yes, I had previously commented that I had not received any of the double points, but thanks to your post, I just checked and I can see that I have had 2 out of the four expected transactions credited with double points overnight. Still have individual line items with zero points for each of those four transactions, which is confusing.

  • Matthew says:
    21 Feb21 February 10:52

    W Abu Dhabi available on points for the F1 in November if anyone interested. 120,000 points for 5 nights plus mandatory fee of about £280pp for access pass etc. Rates are about £1000 per night. Did it last year and the hotel was buzzing all weekend…albeit a little loud til the early hours!

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