GOOD NEWS: IHG Rewards Club is extending your hotel elite status to January 2022

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• Colin MacKinnon says:

  23 Apr23 April 10:09

  Excellent!

  Ps Creation charged me interest for Rev top ups last month. Direct rather than via Curve.

  • ashish says:

    23 Apr23 April 10:19

    Thought this is always happen?
    Have to pay this off very quickly.

    Does this work with any other cards would be interested?

    • Secret Squirrel says:

      23 Apr23 April 17:59

      No.

  • ashish says:

    23 Apr23 April 10:21

    Kindly tell me how I can get Curve limits increase?

    Kindly tell me the email address

    Thankyou

    • Genghis says:

      23 Apr23 April 10:36

      “Report a problem” in the app

  • The Urbanite says:

    23 Apr23 April 10:54

    If you follow the Revolut forum, they have changed their MCC several times over the last couple of months without any prior warning to customers. The consequence of this is being charged fees and/or interest by the credit card issuers to consider the MCC used as a cash like transaction.

    Given knowledge of this unpredictable behaviour, it might be wise to hold back on using a credit card to top up Revolut, unless you don’t mind any combination of paying the interest/cash advance fee/not getting any points!

  • TGLoyalty says:

    23 Apr23 April 12:53

    Using Curve serves no purpose as it passes the MCC directly to the credit card so you might aswell go direct

  • Secret Squirrel says:

    23 Apr23 April 18:51

    Same here, must remember to pay straight away!

• Paul Pogba says:

  23 Apr23 April 10:09

  I’m an existing Spire Elite and likely to re-qualify when I finish paying my tax, will I get 25,000 points x2?

  • Jonathan says:

    23 Apr23 April 10:35

    +1 was just going to ask the same question.

  • Scallder says:

    23 Apr23 April 11:33

    I re-qualified for Spire yesterday and claimed the 25k points, so certainly hoping this is an additional bonus on top for qualifying again this year!

    • Secret Squirrel says:

      23 Apr23 April 12:23

      Same here, only just redeemed this year’s 25k spire bonus points.
      Am I reading this article correct, will spire elites this year get 2 x 25k bonuses?

      • Rob says:

        23 Apr23 April 13:31

        Not clear if you already hit 55k and requalified.

        • Scallder says:

          23 Apr23 April 14:27

          Will definitely be having a word with them if it’s not awarded to those who have already hit. If it’s based on everyone who had Spire last year then great – just apply it that way! Otherwise their penalising people who have already got them!

        • Scallder says:

          23 Apr23 April 14:27

          *they are

        • Alan says:

          24 Apr24 April 00:59

          That would be a bit unfair if not!

      • luckyjim says:

        23 Apr23 April 14:31

        I will hit the Spire Elite 55k renewal target this month and the old 75k target in a couple of months time. I assume I will get three x 25k bonuses. Seems only fair 😉

  • Newbie A says:

    23 Apr23 April 13:53

    Hi, how do you use your IHG card to pay your taxes? As I understand it via curve incurs a 1.5% charge.

    • Rob says:

      23 Apr23 April 14:56

      Curve Metal allows unlimited free HMRC payments.

    • Paul Pogba says:

      23 Apr23 April 15:02

      You have to weigh up whether the points you get are worth the fee. If you’re using it with the IHG Premium and take Robs point valuation of £/0.8p you have to put £31,125 through it that you couldn’t as a straight credit card to get your money back.

      Although after two howlers this week I’d check my maths.

      • Genghis says:

        23 Apr23 April 16:13

        I don’t follow. The 1.5% charge is a variable cost and the 0.8% back is a variable benefit. As such, you’re losing 0.7%, in theory, with every £. This assumes you’d pay the underlying card fee regardless. Now the curve metal is a fixed cost but a variable benefit so you could run the numbers on that, less the alternative of say using a Tesco debit card, and see if that works.

        • Paul Pogba says:

          23 Apr23 April 16:42

          IHG Premium £99 + Curve Metal £150 = £249.00
          £31,125 (spending) x £0.008 earn rate per £1 = £249.00

        • Genghis says:

          23 Apr23 April 16:48

          Oh, I see you’re referring to curve metal. Thanks for clarifying. If you’re including the cost of the IHG card too, ie assuming a person wouldn’t use it but for paying their tax, then I’d also include the free night voucher on the earn side.

  • hotel stayer says:

    30 Apr30 April 16:46

    I agree, I qualified spire again in January for 2021 and am questionably likely to qualify for 2022. It would seem appropriate to just roll the extra year down the road for all.

• mutley says:

  23 Apr23 April 10:10

  Hurrah

• Anna says:

  23 Apr23 April 10:35

  Not showing yet but this will be very welcome as my current certificate expire April 1st and I’ve had to re-book my trip to April 2nd!

  • meta says:

    23 Apr23 April 10:44

    Over on Flyertalk somebody posted that they will first let your current certificate expire then issue a new one in line with your extended Ambassador membership.

    • Anna says:

      23 Apr23 April 13:04

      Thanks meta, I will have a look. At the moment the website seems to be allowing me to make a bogof ambassador booking even though it’s past the expiry date of my certificate.

      • meta says:

        23 Apr23 April 18:48

        You can book Amb rate even if you don’t have membership.

    • ChrisC says:

      23 Apr23 April 13:58

      My updated AMB expiry date came through yesterday

      I emailed about the free night sert and they sorted it out on a couple of hours

      They redeem your existing certificate (the one with your old exiry date on it) and issue you with a nrw one with the new expiry date on it

      The email worded it in a strange way but it’s all OK in my IHG account.

• Les Blake says:

  23 Apr23 April 11:01

  If you purchase additional points do they count towards status or just for free nights

  • Genghis says:

    23 Apr23 April 11:38

    No. But for the future buying the bonus points packages as part of a stay do count towards status.

• Heathrow Flyer says:

  23 Apr23 April 11:52

  My free night cert (which was due to expire on May 3rd) has now been extended to 31/12/20

  • TGLoyalty says:

    23 Apr23 April 19:09

    Same here. With no prompting from me either

• Andrew says:

  23 Apr23 April 12:04

  Finally a bit of good news – thanks IHG! Spire status now showing 31/12/2021 and AMB with a 3 month extension too. Now all we need is BA to do the same!

• Gavin says:

  23 Apr23 April 12:18

  Having had gold status locked in from the Barclaycard credit card since 2015, despite rarely visiting IHG hotels I guess mine will remain in perpetuity regardless of anything IHG do.

  It gets me a free pint every now and then when I do stay at an IHG hotel

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