REGISTER NOW: IHG One Rewards launches its new spring bonus points hotel offer
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IHG One Rewards has announced a new global promotion following a fallow two months when only targetted offers were made available.
IHG One Rewards is the loyalty scheme covering InterContinental, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Crowne Plaza and Hotel Indigo among other brands.
You can learn more about IHG One Rewards in our overview article here.
How does IHG’s new bonus points promotion work?
The offer runs from 1st April to 31st May.
You must register in advance via this link. Registration is now open.
What will you earn?
As you can see:
…. you will earn 2,000 bonus points for every two cash nights you stay during the offer period.
Reward stays do NOT count.
Existing bookings DO count so there is no need to rebook anything. Only one room per stay counts towards the offer, so if you are booking multiple rooms you should put each in a different name.
Your nights do not need to be back to back.
What is the bonus worth?
The standard earning rate in IHG One Rewards is 10 points per US$1 (79p) excluding taxes. I value an IHG One Rewards point at 0.4p although you can often do better, which means your base return is 4p per 79p spent, ie just over 5.0%.
Of course, most HfP readers will have some sort of IHG One Rewards status. This comes with a status bonus (applies to base points only):
- 20% bonus for Silver Elite
- 40% bonus for Gold Elite
- 60% bonus for Platinum Elite
- 100% bonus for Diamond Elite
Under this offer, and assuming you do an exact multiple of two nights, you get an extra 1,000 points (£4) per night.
This means that the offer is heavily geared towards people doing low value stays at, say, Holiday Inn Express-style hotels. There isn’t much here for anyone planning a week at InterContinental Maldives.
Conclusion
£4 of bonus points per night is unlikely to move your needle much, even if your nights are all at a Holiday Inn Express.
That said, clearly you’d be silly not to register – click here to register – if you will do the nights anyway.
The offer kicks in for stays from 1st April but you can register today.
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IHG One Rewards update – April 2025:
Get bonus points: IHG is not currently running a global promotion.
New to IHG One Rewards? Read our overview of IHG One Rewards here and our article on points expiry rules here. Our article on ‘What are IHG One Rewards points worth?’ is here.
Buy points: If you need additional IHG One Rewards points, you can buy them here.
Want to earn more hotel points? Click here to see our complete list of promotions from IHG and the other major hotel chains or use the ‘Hotel Offers’ link in the menu bar at the top of the page.
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