REGISTER NOW: IHG One Rewards launches a new double, triple or quadruple hotel points offer

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• ChrisC says:

  5 May5 May 05:38

  Rob do what I’m doing before an expensive heavy earning stay and book a cheap night before – though cheap is relative at the moment!

  I do need a LHR hotel anyway before that trip and I’ll switch it to cash rather than points.

  • Rob says:

    5 May5 May 07:59

    The maths doesn’t work unless I actually NEED a hotel on the 18th or 19th though. I’m losing £50 or so of points but I can’t book a mattress run for that little.

    • Craig says:

      5 May5 May 08:50

      A mattress run also means that your actual 5th night planned becomes the 6th (so more points) and your 14th becomes the 15th. A bit extra for the mattress run calculations…

      • ChrisC says:

        5 May5 May 09:28

        I’m running the calculations but my head hurts due to lack of sleep. Still no rush to actually change anything!

        But yes if I switch an earlier points booking for cash then an IC 7 night stay will count for 7 not 6 nights for this offer.

        Then later I have a points booking for August and a cash booking for December (for the same hotel)

        If I swap the two so pay cash in August I’ll save 24k points but will pay about £95 extra

        So I need to calculate if the triple points bonus is worth it (because by that stage I’ll be in triple points nights and maybe in quadruple for a couple of nights.

        I also then need to factor in if I’d rather have the chance of using the suite upgrade voucher for August rather than December because those can only be used for cash bookings.

        This could form the basis of someones thesis!

    • chrism20 says:

      5 May5 May 14:45

      That’s one of the benefits of living in the regions. Finding a sub £50 a night room for a mattress run is usually easy to do.

• Scott says:

  5 May5 May 05:49

  Annoying thing about trying to register is, that if you’ve got the app installed on your (Android) phone, clicking on the link in an email or in the app, just opens the app and does not take you to the registration page.
  I have to go via a desktop link every time.

  • John says:

    5 May5 May 07:00

    Open your email in a browser on your phone

  • CC says:

    5 May5 May 07:30

    I was just thinking that myself when I saw the app open after using the link in article, but then the promo appeared at top of the page. Tapped it and it opened promo page to register despite it doesn’t look tappable.

    • PB says:

      5 May5 May 08:01

      Clear your default IHG app settings on your phone. Then access the link in the email. You will be prompted ‘browser or app?’ Respond browser ‘just once’ or ‘ask every time’

      • Scott says:

        5 May5 May 11:08

        I just forwarded the email to my desktop pc and clicked through the link there.
        Worked fine.

        • RussellH says:

          5 May5 May 16:30

          Do you not use IMAP?

  • ChrisC says:

    5 May5 May 08:49

    In the IOS app (and I don’t know if it’s the same as the android) it appears in the offers section and if you click on the offer there the registration page opens already pre populated with your name and membership number

    • Matt says:

      5 May5 May 10:20

      It appears in the ‘Offers’ section of the Android app too. That is how I registered for it.

• Paul says:

  5 May5 May 08:14

  Do these bonus points count towards status… now we need to get 120k points year!

  • ChrisC says:

    5 May5 May 08:46

    No.

    • Paul says:

      7 May7 May 08:04

      That’s a shame, they did for the Q1 promo.

• Matt says:

  5 May5 May 08:56

  In case anyone is interested, stayed at IC PL last week on reward night (creation free night) and recognition of diamond elite was rubbish. Last year we got an upgrade to bigger room with great view of Wellington arch and 2 drinks vouchers (good for cocktails). This time, no upgrade (not too bothered about) and the drinks vouchers were limited to only house beer, house wine or a coffee. You got the same voucher whether you were gold, plat or diamond. The staff were adamant on this point. Are they really suddenly going to willingly offer free breakfast next month if they wouldn’t give me a cocktail in April?!

  • John says:

    5 May5 May 10:05

    I don’t think any hotel will *willingly* be offering free breakfast where they weren’t already, they will be doing it because they think IHG may impose consequences on them for not following the rules (though IHG may not do anything)

    • Rob says:

      5 May5 May 11:48

      IHG will be paying the hotels, or it is netted off vs scrapping welcome gifts for Golds.

      It was interesting that IHG was stressing that the ‘better upgrades’ policy was simply them now enforcing rules that already existed. This is IHG saying to hotels via the press ‘you signed up to this, we let you off doing it but now we’re not, don’t expect any payment from us’.

• Sal says:

  5 May5 May 09:20

  In the new ihg app, my free ambassador wkend night is showing again as available (although already redeemed 2 months ago). Has anyone experienced this before and would it maybe work for a second time?

  • Ian says:

    5 May5 May 10:45

    And on a similar note, does the voucher stay have to be completed by the expiry date, or just booked?

    • Rob says:

      5 May5 May 11:46

      Stay completed.

• meta says:

  5 May5 May 12:11

  I don’t understand the need to post about it…

• Bill says:

  5 May5 May 14:06

  I currently have a stay booked from August 29th – September 2nd. Will I get double points for 2 of my nights? Or does the whole stay need to be completed by August 31st?

• xcalx says:

  5 May5 May 14:33

  I recently stayed in 2 IHG properties in Florida and was told the only welcome gift option were the points, I would have preferred the drink and snack.

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