(DEAL DEAD) BE QUICK: Most IHG hotels showing at half price or less for points!

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• Robert says:

  8 Aug8 August 07:13

  Not sure if the same deal is still on as I tested the Kimpton in Paris and it’s gone up to 89,000/night, but the IC Dubai Marina is an astonishingly cheap 21,000/night, so there’s still bargains available. Can anyone recommend le royal meridian jumeirah for Dubai, or something good in that area?

• Alan says:

  8 Aug8 August 07:22

  Only heard about this offer this morning – thought IHG very good value when booking US stuff yesterday vs Hilton, although most seem the same price today so can’t have been because of this 🤷 Either way have got quite a few IHG bookings made!

• DJ says:

  8 Aug8 August 07:25

  Managed to have two nights (including New Year’s Eve) booked at IC Park Lane for only 40K a night.

  Looks like a bargain since the cash price is £688 a night for the chosen date.

  • Jeff says:

    8 Aug8 August 12:12

    Gosh …. it looks like we may have a quorum for a party. If we all upgrade to Club …… do they have the courge NOT to keep the bubbly open?

• Chrisasaurus says:

  8 Aug8 August 08:39

  So with the dust settled (and me along with everyone else wishing I’d made more of it) do we have any sense what that was all about yet?

  If it was meant as a sale for today or thereabouts onwards then if the locusts bought up all the inventory a day early then it’s not been a huge success…

  • Rob says:

    8 Aug8 August 09:04

    No idea at all.

    It would be easier to explain if it had been all hotels, all dates and not most hotels, most dates but with gaps.

• will says:

  8 Aug8 August 08:58

  Did anyone try and look at six senses properties while this was on?

  • Rob says:

    8 Aug8 August 09:03

    No – but only a handful are bookable on points.

    • NorthernLass says:

      8 Aug8 August 09:23

      Douro Valley didn’t seem to have any award nights at all when I looked yesterday (though it might have been Creation free nights at that one!)

      • meta says:

        8 Aug8 August 09:39

        I looked at Six Senses and none of them were available at low cost. In general, the reward inventory for SS has dried out anyway.

        Astonishingly there were a few odd nights available in Bora Bora and Maldives when I looked, but nothing to make a five/seven day trip. I suspect since this was published on FT that most of the inventory was gone by the time I looked.

        • meta says:

          8 Aug8 August 09:40

          * IC Bora Bora and Maldives

• SGJNI says:

  8 Aug8 August 09:54

  Are we entirely 100% sure that yesterday’s bookings are going to be honoured before I start to dismantle my previous bookings? I now have email confirmations for each but I don’t entirely trust IHG even in ordinary times!

  • ChrisC says:

    8 Aug8 August 10:13

    I have a good case to keep mine if I do.

    One booking was made before any publicity on this. A couple of others are for a hotel / destination I regularly stay in and a few rebookings made because the rates have changed and I do that on a regular basis anyway.

    Plus I think the column of complaints would overwhelm them.

    • ChrisC says:

      8 Aug8 August 10:14

      And before the spelling police start yes I know I made typos!

  • NorthernLass says:

    8 Aug8 August 10:23

    I’m going to hang on to my original bookings for a week or 2 to see if there are any further developments. I’ve decimated our household points stashes but realistically there’s no way I can fit any more stays in for the next 12 months!

  • Rob says:

    8 Aug8 August 10:47

    I think you’re fine.

    The hotels won’t lose out because they get a fixed sum from IHG for redemptions irrespective of the points used.

    IHG isn’t going to risk massive pushback by cancelling rooms.

    When people bought points to redeem yesterday, I reckon IHG will still make a profit on those people. Indigo Bath got about £70 from IHG when I stayed there on a reward (I got their invoice by mistake) and if you’d bought 35k points yesterday to book that, even with the 100% bonus, you’d have paid £140.

    • Jeff says:

      8 Aug8 August 16:40

      Hi Rob,

      i understand that redeemed points for stays are independent of the cash hotels receive from IHG, but wouldn’t a hotel prefer to receive say the normal £700 for say an IC Park Lane New Year’s eve booking? Is there any experience of hotels cancelling points bookings directly`?

      • Rob says:

        8 Aug8 August 17:12

        That reward night was already there – all that happened was that the cost to you was reduced. The hotel is obliged to put up 5% of rooms each night for redemption.

        • Jeff says:

          8 Aug8 August 18:52

          Thanks Rob.

• Jim lee says:

  8 Aug8 August 10:03

  Booked six senses Ibiza and 150k points vs current 300

• Damien says:

  8 Aug8 August 10:31

  Jeez that was mental yesterday. I’d 5 nights booked in IC Hayman Island @ 95k each. Once rebooked at 35K, I’d enough points left over to book my entire holiday with points, and also a weekend at Kimpton Mallorca for next year. Hope they honour these.

  Contacted IC Sydney to find how much to get club access. Wanting 380 AUD per night. Might have been tempted, but with breakfast included with Diamond, it’s not as enticing. Really just paying £220 quid extra for the view and a few glasses of nice wine.

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