Elizabeth line staff to strike on Thursday

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• Andrew J says:

  10 Jan10 January 06:12

  Isn’t the current ‘stay 2 nights, earn 3k, and repeat’ offer open to all?

  • Rob H not Rob says:

    10 Jan10 January 07:47

    Targeted.

• memesweeper says:

  10 Jan10 January 06:55

  As a *former* card holder I got the IHG offer. Check now if you used to have the card!

  • Don says:

    10 Jan10 January 08:15

    Same here…and my first check to rebook an existing booking showed that the points required had gone up by 10000, even after the new discount.

    • Dace says:

      10 Jan10 January 08:27

      This is the problem with dynamic pricing. If the hotel rate goes up, it equally goes up. I have been lucky in this has saved me around 15k in points but having such a short window does mean it isn’t likely to be much of a benefit to people who have booked well in advance.

      • Rob says:

        10 Jan10 January 08:31

        Oddly, it might be. I see prices softening for 2023 as recession kicks in – was looking at New York for Easter and some posh hotels are actually looking reasonable now. If you booked too early you may be able to rebook for less.

  • Rob says:

    10 Jan10 January 08:25

    IHG doesn’t know you a former cardholder due to data sharing rules.

    • Andrew. says:

      10 Jan10 January 09:10

      There’s data sharing and there is data sharing.

      Creation must provide a monthly report to IHG detailing active accounts and the points earned from 0 to whatever. If the account drops off the list, then it will surely be closed?

      Not to forget that Creation probably pays IHG some kind of ongoing commission as introducer for each account – so there will be some form of data sharing there.

      Have a close look at the T&Cs for your MBNA Horizon card. I remember being surprised at the last printed one I had (post Lloyds) still had a reference to sharing data with British Midland.

      • Rob says:

        10 Jan10 January 09:52

        Except they don’t. I know (from our work with Virgin Atlantic on the new Virgin Money cards) that they didn’t know who held the old MBNA cards. They know, obviously, which accounts have received miles from the card but they had no idea if someone who stopped receiving miles had closed the card or simply put it in a drawer.

  • Bagoly says:

    10 Jan10 January 15:46

    I have never had an IHG credit card.
    But I did get the email with the offer (saying that it is limited to those with IHG credit card)
    I did get the ?8 week “mistake” Diamond upgrade last year.

• Jordan D says:

  10 Jan10 January 07:40

  Bah, George Ezra shoes already gone.

• Richard B says:

  10 Jan10 January 08:12

  I used this offer yesterday to rebook a stay I’d booked about a fortnight ago. The underlying price has gone down 1k points to which the 20% was then applied, so a genuine saving which was nice

• Alan says:

  10 Jan10 January 08:14

  The IHG sale is superb, I saved over 40k points rebooking some hotels for the next couple of weeks yesterday!

  • G says:

    10 Jan10 January 08:16

    Same 🙂

• G says:

  10 Jan10 January 08:16

  I booked a night at InterContinental Singapore for 38,000 points. Not too awful!

• ianM says:

  10 Jan10 January 08:47

  Yes IHG points sale is good, and excellent that they actually show you the discount on screen.
  Too bad nothing for USA

  • Rob says:

    10 Jan10 January 08:49

    USA is there, I looked up some NYC pricing yesterday via my wife’s account.

• John says:

  10 Jan10 January 09:24

  Wish I could get a definitive answer on integrated ticket options for National Rail + Elizabeth line for Heathrow. Thameslink ticket machines don’t even list Heathrow; advance online tickets have a variety of seemingly identical station/destination codes; while a ticket office sold me ask off peak NR+Zone 6 Underground which didn’t open the EL gate barrier at T5! And how to avail of that integrated Zone6 ticket type for journeys starting at T5, and changing at Farringdon for example?

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