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IHG Destined launches 3-4-2 and 4-4-3 deals at 120 of its upscale hotels

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IHG, the group behind Kimpton, Regent, InterContinental etc, launched a new programme for luxury travel agents last year to encourage them to book for their clients.

‘IHG Destined’, as it is called, has now rolled out a substantial number of 3-4-2 and 4-4-3 deals. These are valid until 30th June 2026.

As usual, our booking partner Emyr Thomas (contact him here) can book these packages for you. You CANNOT book them on ihg.com.

IHG launches 3-4-2 and 4-4-3 via IHG Destined

What is IHG Destined?

IHG Destined is a special benefits plan which can only be accessed by invite-only luxury travel agents.

It covers selected Six Senses, Regent, InterContinental, Vignette, Kimpton and Hotel Indigo properties.

You can download a PDF with the full list here, albeit this list is from earlier in 2025.

What benefits do you get with IHG Destined?

All bookings will receive the following:

  • $100 hotel credit per stay (not valid against room rate)
  • full breakfast for two guests
  • room upgrade, subject to availability
  • welcome amenity
  • early check-in and late check-out, subject to availability

Is there a minimum stay requirement?

Some cheaper properties may have a minimum stay requirement, potentially two nights, but there is no list we can share. Many will give the benefits on a one-night stay.

What rate do you pay?

You pay the equivalent of the Best Flexible Rate showing on ihg.com. This means that you will be paying more than you would if you were happy to book a non-refundable rate, but even then the benefits should more than make up the difference.

You receive your IHG One Rewards points and night credit as usual.

IHG launches 3-4-2 and 4-4-3 via IHG Destined

Here are the hotels offering special IHG Destined deals

These hotels are offering 3-4-2 deals via IHG Destined:

  • Six Senses Kyoto
  • Regent Beijing
  • Regent Hong Kong
  • Regent Phu Quoc
  • Regent Santa Monica Beach
  • Regent Shanghai On The Bund
  • Regent Shanghai Pudong
  • InterContinental Al Ahsa
  • InterContinental Athens Palace Bucharest
  • InterContinental Auckland
  • InterContinental Bangkok Sukhumvit
  • InterContinental Beijing Sanlitun
  • ANA InterContinental Beppu Resort & Spa
  • InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta
  • InterContinental Chantilly Chateau Mont Royal
  • InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile
  • InterContinental Dominica Cabrits Resort & Spa
  • InterContinental Dubai Festival City
  • InterContinental Dubai Marina
  • InterContinental Fujairah Resort
  • InterContinental Geneve
  • InterContinental Grand Seoul Parnas
  • InterContinental Hangzhou Liangzhu
  • InterContinental Hayman Great Barrier Reef
  • InterContinental Hua Hin Resort
  • InterContinental Jeddah
  • InterContinental Kaohsiung
  • InterContinental Khao Yai Resort
  • InterContinental London Park Lane
  • InterContinental Madrid
  • InterContinental Managua At Metrocentro Mall
  • InterContinental Muscat
  • InterContinental Osaka
  • InterContinental Pattaya Resort
  • InterContinental Phu Quoc Long Beach Resort
  • InterContinental Phuket Resort
  • InterContinental Ras Al Khaimah Resort And Spa
  • InterContinental Residence Suites Dubai FC
  • InterContinental Residences Abu Dhabi
  • InterContinental San Antonio Riverwalk
  • InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland
  • InterContinental Singapore
  • InterContinental Singapore Robertson Quay
  • InterContinental Sydney Double Bay
  • InterContinental The Strings Tokyo
  • InterContinental Washington D.C. – The Wharf
  • InterContinental Yokohama Pier 8
  • Vignette Collection Aldhafra Resort
  • Vignette Collection Dinso Resort & Villas Ko Chang
  • Vignette Collection Hotel X Brisbane Fortitude Vly
  • Vignette Collection Moire Hoi An
  • Kimpton Clocktower Hotel Manchester
  • Kimpton De Witt Amsterdam
  • Kimpton Epic Hotel
  • Kimpton Gray Hotel
  • Kimpton Harper Hotel
  • Kimpton Kitalay Samui
  • Kimpton Las Mercedes
  • Kimpton Los Monteros Marbella
  • Kimpton Maa-lai Bangkok
  • Kimpton Pittman Hotel
  • Kimpton Qiantan Shanghai
  • Kimpton Santo San Antonio – Riverwalk
  • Kimpton Shinjuku Tokyo
  • Kimpton The Forum Hotel
  • Kimpton Vividora Hotel
  • Hotel Indigo Bintan Lagoi Beach
  • Hotel Indigo Hakone Gora
  • Hotel Indigo Inuyama Urakuen Garden
  • Hotel Indigo Jabal Akhdar Resort & Spa
  • Hotel Indigo Karuizawa
  • Hotel Indigo Nagasaki Glover Street
IHG launches 3-4-2 and 4-4-3 via IHG Destined

These hotels are offering 4-4-3:

  • Six Senses Krabey Island
  • Six Senses Rome
  • Regent Taipei
  • InterContinental Amstel Amsterdam
  • InterContinental Barcelona
  • InterContinental Bora Bora Resort Thalasso Spa
  • InterContinental Chiang Mai The Mae Ping
  • InterContinental Costa Rica At Multiplaza Mall
  • InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort
  • InterContinental Dhaka
  • InterContinental Doha Beach & Spa
  • InterContinental Edinburgh The George
  • InterContinental Houston
  • InterContinental Koh Samui Resort
  • InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown
  • InterContinental Maldives Maamunagau Resort
  • InterContinental Miami
  • InterContinental Miramar Panama
  • InterContinental Nanjing
  • InterContinental Paris – Champs-Elysees Etoile
  • InterContinental Presidente Mexico City
  • InterContinental Presidente Monterrey
  • InterContinental Real Guatemala
  • InterContinental Real Santo Domingo
  • InterContinental Rome Ambasciatori Palace
  • InterContinental San Salvador-metrocentro Mall
  • InterContinental Sanctuary Cove Resort
  • InterContinental Seattle Bellevue
  • InterContinental Shanghai Pudong
  • InterContinental Sofia
  • InterContinental Sydney
  • InterContinental Tashkent
  • InterContinental The Willard Washington D.c.
  • ANA InterContinental Tokyo
  • InterContinental Xiamen
  • Vignette Collection Rihga Royal Hotel Osaka
  • Vignette Collection Shanghai Snow World Hotel
  • Kimpton Angler’s Hotel South Beach
  • Kimpton Atlantico Algarve
  • Kimpton Bem Budapest
  • Kimpton Blythswood Square Hotel & Spa
  • Kimpton Charlotte Square
  • Kimpton Fitzroy London
  • Kimpton Grand Roatan Resort And Spa
  • Kimpton Hotel Palomar Beverly Hills
  • Kimpton Hotel Palomar Philadelphia
  • Kimpton La Peer Hotel
  • Kimpton Margot Sydney
  • Kimpton Riverplace Hotel
  • Kimpton Sawyer Hotel
  • Kimpton Shorebreak Resort
  • Kimpton Virgilio
  • Hotel Indigo Grand Cayman
  • Hotel Indigo Guadalajara Expo
IHG launches 3-4-2 and 4-4-3 via IHG Destined

These hotels are offering 5-4-4:

  • Six Senses Kaplankaya
  • Six Senses Samui
  • Regent Bali Canggu
  • Regent Porto Montenegro
  • InterContinental Athenaeum Athens
  • InterContinental Bahrain
  • InterContinental Bangkok
  • InterContinental Berlin
  • InterContinental Dongguan
  • InterContinental Dublin
  • InterContinental Lisbon
  • InterContinental Perth City Centre
  • InterContinental Porto – Palacio Das Cardosas
  • InterContinental Presidente Cozumel Resort Spa
  • InterContinental Residences Dubai Business Bay
  • InterContinental Shenzhen Dameisha Resort
  • Vignette Collection Dinso Resort & Villas Phuket
  • Vignette Collection Sindhorn Midtown Hotel Bangkok
  • Kimpton Seafire Resort + Spa
  • Hotel Indigo Bali Seminyak Beach
  • Hotel Indigo Bangkok Wireless Road
  • Hotel Indigo Brisbane City Centre
  • Hotel Indigo Dubai Downtown
  • Hotel Indigo Melbourne On Flinders
  • Hotel Indigo Rome – St. George
  • Hotel Indigo Singapore Katong
IHG launches 3-4-2 and 4-4-3 via IHG Destined

These hotels are offering 7-4-6:

  • Six Senses Yao Noi
  • InterContinental Amman
  • InterContinental Bali Resort
  • InterContinental Chengdu Global Center
  • InterContinental Citystars Cairo
  • InterContinental Hangzhou ICC
  • InterContinental Indianapolis
  • InterContinental Malta
  • InterContinental Phoenicia Beirut
  • Vignette Collection Convent Square Lisbon
  • Vignette Collection Souma Hotel
  • Kimpton Main Frankfurt
  • Hotel Indigo Florence
  • Hotel Indigo Tokyo Shibuya

How do you book?

You need to contact our luxury hotel booking partner, Emyr Thomas, by filling in the form on this page of HfP.

Emyr will come back to you to confirm the rate (which should match Best Flexible Rate), the extra benefits and any minimum stay requirement. ‘IHG Destined’ cancellation rules should match those for a Best Flexible Rate booking.

Remember that all IHG Destined bookings, even with a free night attached, come with:

  • $100 hotel credit per stay (not valid against room rate)
  • full breakfast for two guests
  • room upgrade, subject to availability
  • welcome amenity
  • early check-in and late check-out, subject to availability

You don’t pay Emyr. You pay at check-out as usual (except for any deposit which is required) which also means that you will trigger any American Express / IHG cashback offers which may be running when you stay. He will need to take a card number for guarantee purposes.

Unlike some luxury travel advisors, Emyr charges NO booking fees and NO amendment fees. You only pay the hotel.

You can download the PDF list of IHG Destined hotels here (early 2025 version). ‘Free night’ offers are only available at the hotels listed above.

You can contact Emyr here.

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Comments (79)

  • Talay says:
    21 Jul21 July 06:08

    $100 per stay is fine if you’re staying a day or two but pales into insignificance if you stay a week.

    Perhaps a couple could do alternate days and get 6 or 7 x $100 over a week ?

    That used to work.

    Reply
    • BlairWaldorfSalad says:
      21 Jul21 July 07:00

      It could but equally the hotel would be within its rights to stand on ceremony if you are treating every 2 nights as a separate stay, e.g. settling the bill every 2nd day, changing rooms every 2nd day

      Reply
    • JDB says:
      21 Jul21 July 07:35

      I would be amazed if any IHG Destined agent would agree to do this for you at risk of being chucked out of the programme and, even if they did, the hotel should still only offer one credit.

      Reply
    • Ian says:
      21 Jul21 July 08:03

      Do people who can afford to stay in an IC hotel for five nights really need to worry about whether they get one or two $100 credits?

      Reply
  • memesweeper says:
    21 Jul21 July 06:53

    Notably absent are the two excellent IC’s in Marseille and Lyon, nor the lovely Cascais-Estoril. Are there any similar standout hotels in Europe on this list? I’ve already stayed at the Kimpton De Witt.

    Reply
    • Nick G says:
      21 Jul21 July 07:00

      Just about to type the same! It’s on the pdf list attached, just not on the HfP list in the article. Guess you could email Emyr and ask?

      Reply
      • Rob says:
        21 Jul21 July 07:40

        The list of hotels offering free nights is shorter than the full list of hotels in Destined.

        Reply
    • Nick G says:
      21 Jul21 July 07:03

      I was interested in Crete but can’t see that on the list above either. Looking for a last minute 5 day break in about two weeks…..

      Reply
      • BlairWaldorfSalad says:
        21 Jul21 July 07:04

        Are you familiar with the location of that new Crete property? Unless I am being led astray by Google Maps, it is a conversion of a quite ugly hotel on a bucket and spade street.

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        • TJ says:
          21 Jul21 July 07:30

          Having seen it being built – which seemingly took forever – I can can confirm it’s a major re-build. The one exterior photo I’ve seen on Google Maps is what was there years ago. And it’s got great views out to sea. There’s not much of a beach there though. You’d head off a short way along the promenade for those. I hope to return to stay there.

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        • memesweeper says:
          21 Jul21 July 08:44

          I popped in during the soft opening and the communal areas looked fabulous. The SLH property up the road is probably better.

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    • BlairWaldorfSalad says:
      21 Jul21 July 07:03

      I recall getting sunburnt while having lunch on the restaurant’s terrace in Estoril in the first week of February. It is in effect a boutique hotel with barely 50 rooms so perhaps the capacity just isn’t there.

      Not sure how Kimpton De Witt managed to get mentioned in the same sentence as “standout hotels in Europe”. Especially when the IC Amstel is in the same city.

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      • memesweeper says:
        21 Jul21 July 08:43

        I liked it, and I’ve never been able to afford the Amstel. Granted, it’s not in the same league as the others I mentioned.

        Reply
  • Matt says:
    21 Jul21 July 07:01

    Good to know thank you. Will a suite upgrade voucher work on these rates?

    Reply
  • aseftel says:
    21 Jul21 July 07:13

    Is 30th June 2026 ‘book by’ or ‘stay by’ or both?

    Reply
  • Paul says:
    21 Jul21 July 07:18

    Bali resort is on the 7 4 6 rate but best flexible rate is now $100 a night more than I have secured for an upcoming two week stay. That is more than the cost of the upgrade to full club benefits. Much as I like Emyr that’s never going to work!

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    • JDB says:
      21 Jul21 July 07:41

      The nature of Destined, FHR, Virtuoso etc. is rarely going to give the guest a good deal. You get a few bones thrown at you because you have paid a very high rate which leaves lots of scope to pay some benefits plus a commission to the agent.

      I notice from US friends who visit that their travel agents (and there’s just no way they will book any other way) are offering bigger and more exclusive benefits than these much more public agency offers as well as a more comprehensive service.

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      • BBbetter says:
        21 Jul21 July 10:23

        I always take these claims with a pinch of salt. Did they compare against the BFR at the time of booking or are they simply comparing vs the rate before checkin?
        Seen many Brits claiming they bagged a great deal and when you ask them how they know that, they say the agent told them it was the best deal!

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        • JDB says:
          21 Jul21 July 11:44

          I regard the BFR similarly to the price label in an antique shop – just a reference point and even when they are contractually bound to show public rates consistently across platforms, there’s an awful lot more happening underneath whether it be corporate rates, event rates, local guest rates, travel agency group rates. Local hotel reservations teams have massive scope to offer good deals both on rates and benefits that often cost them little to provide but are valuable to the guest.

          An agent is bound to say the client has got a great deal safe in the knowledge that client isn’t particularly well informed.

          The comment I made re US agents is that with the proliferation in Europe of agents who book hotel only via Virtuoso, Destined, Hilton for Luxury etc. those US agents need to offer more, so hotels recognising the type of guest they are booking, are offering those full service agents more.

          There’s a lot happening in this space with the bigger groups having reduced the commissions they pay to the likes of Booking.com who now increasingly share some of that reduced commission with the customer.

          Reply
    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:
      21 Jul21 July 11:19

      Emyr is only the agent he doesn’t set the prices!

      Previously I did do some bookings with Emyr but once I knew about the railcard rate and Diamond got me breakfast the value proposition, for me, just isn’t there anymore.

      There are rates that include breakfast but these are usually fully non cancelable or you lose the cost of one night if you do cancel so depends on how fixed your plans are.

      So if you want a cancellable rate and don’t have access to a rate which allows a free cancellation these rates can be a value proposition

      Reply
  • Sun7 says:
    21 Jul21 July 07:28

    What is 342, 746, 443? What do these deal numbers mean? Apologies a novice here

    Reply
  • NorthernLass says:
    21 Jul21 July 08:02

    If you don’t need as much flexibility, there are some very good “Stay Longer” rates around at the moment. At the IC Madrid next month, this rate is £75 pn night cheaper than the best flexible.

    Reply
  • meta says:
    21 Jul21 July 08:06

    Booking with travel agent also removes an option of rebooking BAR if prices drops which with IHG is quite often. Since pandemic, I always book best flexible rates but then usually re-book couple of times before times. It would be a pain to do that with a travel agent.

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    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:
      21 Jul21 July 11:22

      If you book with Emyr you have full control of the booking as it shows in your IHG account so don’t need to go through him to cancel.

      I’ve also changed the date of one of Emyr’s bookings online with no issues retaining the special rate and benefits.

      Reply

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