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

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• Nick M says:

  23 Apr23 April 12:35

  Just as a data point – my IHG free night certificate from CC spending hit my account today… expiry Nov 2021 – 18 months as promised. (It also shows in the IHG app – not sure if this is a new feature?)

  • JImbob says:

    23 Apr23 April 19:24

    How long did you have to wait from the anniversary of your credit card to get the free voucher? My anniversary was the end of February , but no sign yet of my free night voucher. Not sure whether to chase or give it longer?

    • H says:

      23 Apr23 April 20:18

      My anniversary was 8 April and I got my voucher yesterday

    • Nick M says:

      24 Apr24 April 16:19

      This month’s statement (with the annual fee) and the certificate were both generated yesterday… not sure when my year starts but I would chase if your year started in Feb. I didn’t think I received my certificate until a bit later last year though – so perhaps they do them in batches?

      • Kevin says:

        24 Apr24 April 20:38

        Recheck again tonight and it showed the expired date has just been extended For 18months now vs 12 months last night 🙂

  • Kevin says:

    23 Apr23 April 21:21

    Nick, where IHG indicated a new free night voucher last for 18months?
    I got my last month and only last 12 months.

    • Nick M says:

      24 Apr24 April 16:22

      Within the IHG app, click on profile and it shows your number, available points and free night certificates. Click on the free night certificate and it shows you the certificates you have – under here mine says “booking dates April 22 2020 – November 8 2021”

• onlysuites says:

  23 Apr23 April 13:17

  My points are still showing as expiring next month. I thought they were going to extend them for everyone? Do I need to email them?

  • Rob says:

    23 Apr23 April 13:27

    They said they were. Is it not on the advisory page?

  • ChrisC says:

    23 Apr23 April 15:52

    Just wait a couple of weeks to give them chance to sort the IT out

    Patience is a virtue.

• berneslai says:

  23 Apr23 April 14:41

  Slightly OT: When booking IHG points and money rates, where the refund is only in points, are the refund rates fixed?

  I know this can be an easy way to ‘buy’ IHG points (book a points and money rate and cancel immediately) at a cheaper rate than what IHG sell but is it worth looking for cheap points and money rates across the world or are they all the same?

  • Rob says:

    23 Apr23 April 14:49

    There are some variations, or at least used to be – this was down to IHG trialling different combinations. Not sure if it still exists.

• E says:

  23 Apr23 April 14:43

  I know this is a stupid question to which I should know the answer…but I can’t find where the expiry date for my IHG account is on the website. Can someone tell me where I should see it? Thanks in advance for any help.

  • Chrisasaurus says:

    23 Apr23 April 18:44

    Always calendar year

    • E says:

      23 Apr23 April 20:11

      Thanks Chrisasaurus.

• Sina says:

  23 Apr23 April 15:50

  I had Spire Elite for 90 days and I wasn’t able to achieve the 10 stays required last year and my account was supposed to go back to Platinum Elite, but after the new year it stayed Spire, but still my spire expiry is 31/12/2019?! I have no idea what’s going on? Anyone seen this?

  • ankomonkey says:

    23 Apr23 April 17:42

    Haven’t checked mine in a while, but I had exactly the same (and possibly still do!).

    • The Original David says:

      24 Apr24 April 04:43

      Shhh, nothing to see here…

      • ankomonkey says:

        24 Apr24 April 07:48

        🙂

• happeemonkee says:

  23 Apr23 April 16:28

  They have give me back a free night voucher that expired in March (Had used it for a IC Hong Kong stay for Sep this year but it’s closed for 2 years now). Extended to December 20 now which i’m happy about.

  • Scallder says:

    23 Apr23 April 19:15

    Is this from the Creation CC? I was told they couldn’t extend expired vouchers so they gave me points for the night I should have had. Not the worst result but would have preferred a voucher back as could have used it on a higher price hotel later in the year!

    • happeemonkee says:

      23 Apr23 April 19:40

      No it was IHG who re-instated it after me contacting them via their ambassador email address. They tend to sort thing out quite quick although have been taking a bit longer of late.

      • Alan says:

        24 Apr24 April 00:58

        I was impressed with them this week – two missing 10% AMB rebates, emailed them and sorted within an hour!!

• Lewis42 says:

  23 Apr23 April 18:07

  Any idea what this means for Royal Ambassadors? When does it expire?

  • hap[peemonkee says:

    23 Apr23 April 18:25

    Mine was supposed to expire 31/03 but the have extended to 1/07

    • Secret Squirrel says:

      23 Apr23 April 18:35

      Is the IHG not working today?

      • Secret Squirrel says:

        23 Apr23 April 18:35

        **app**

  • ChrisC says:

    24 Apr24 April 14:36

    RA is individual invitation.

    Friend of mine got an email yesterday about his RA and he is happy with what they have done for him.

    It would depend on your value to them as to what they will do for you so no hard and fast answers.

• Bob says:

  23 Apr23 April 19:19

  So, as a spire who earns most points via cc spend, is there any point in earning 55K points this year (to renew Spire), or shall I just wait til next year?

  • Paul Pogba says:

    23 Apr23 April 21:04

    This is what I was thinking… but hotel points are probably safer than airline points.

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