IHG Rewards Club has launched a 100% ‘buy points’ bonus, which is as generous as you ever see. Should you jump in? There are two extra tweaks which make this better than similar deals: IHG has increased the maximum number of points you can buy […]
IHG Rewards Club (Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza)
IHG Rewards Club is the loyalty scheme for InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express hotels amongst others. You earn points which can be used for free nights or transferred into frequent flyer miles including Avios points.
I published an extensive two-part review of IHG Rewards Club which can be found here and here. The latest promotions can be found on our 'Hotel Promos' page.
Get a 100% bonus when you buy IHG Rewards Club hotel points – limit raised to 500,000 points!
7 May 2020 By
How to do a hotel mattress run – and what can go wrong
3 May 2020 By
What is a hotel mattress run, and how do you do one? I thought I would take a look at the concept of ‘mattress runs’ today. A ‘mattress run’ involves booking a hotel room without the intention of spending the night, purely for the purpose of triggering […]
GOOD NEWS: IHG Rewards Club is extending your hotel elite status to January 2022
23 April 2020 By
IHG Rewards Club has finally seen the light and is joining Hilton and Marriott in extending your elite status automatically by 12 months. Your elite status will automatically be carried over for the whole of 2021 and your benefits will carry on until January 2022 when […]
Oddities: live at InterContinental Berlin, Microsoft Teams backgrounds, Avios and BST, who is C F Frost?
20 April 2020 By
Some slightly odd news in brief: Move in to InterContinental Berlin! Hotels are having to be creative to generate revenue at the moment. A friend sent me this advertisement from Facebook, translated by Chrome hence the slightly broken English. InterContinental Berlin is letting out its […]
Nooooo …. IHG has withdrawn the IHG Rewards Club Premium Mastercard, the UK’s best Visa / Mastercard credit card
8 April 2020 By
On Monday, IHG and Creation Financial Services withdrew the IHG Rewards Club Premium Mastercard from the market. You would imagine that the credit card industry would be in a better place than most at the moment. Compared to owning an airline, hotel, restaurant or retail […]
Coronavirus: IHG Rewards Club scraps Advance Purchase prepaid rates – all hotel bookings can now be cancelled
6 April 2020 By
IHG has been badly lacking in its response to coronavirus. Hilton has been leading the pack by a long way, extending Hilton Honors status by a year and reversing status drops. It also guaranteed that any bookings you make by 30th June can be cancelled […]
InterContinental Hong Kong hotel closes, to re-open as a Regent hotel in 2022
5 April 2020 By
InterContinental Hong Kong, one of the flagship hotels in the chain, has decided to finally push the button on its top-to-bottom refurbishment. The work has been promised, but delayed, for a while but the collapse in business due to coronavirus means that this is a […]
Which good miles and points deals are ending today?
31 March 2020 By
We have temporarily suspended our fortnightly ‘deals ending soon’ feature. The majority of the deals were flight and hotel related and there isn’t much of that going on at the moment! We are keeping the list going in the background, and we’ll continue to let […]
Review: how is the InterContinental Porto hotel?
31 March 2020 By
This is our review of the InterContinental Porto hotel. Readers with good memories (we’re talking 10th February here!) will remember a review of my £5 Ryanair flight to Porto. I promised to do a review of the InterContinental Porto as well, but life got in […]
The Holiday Inn London Mayfair hotel has permanently closed
28 March 2020 By
You certainly can’t file this one under hot news, because it took place immediately after New Year. It happened totally under my radar, which is additionally embarrassing because I walk down Piccadilly on a regular basis and we often have HFP client meetings on Dover […]
IHG turns over two London hotels to the homeless for self-isolating
23 March 2020 By
The Mayor of London has secured a deal with IHG to take over two of its London hotels for the next 12 weeks. Rough sleepers in London will be encouraged to move into the hotels, with FreeNow and Gett offering free transfers to those who […]
IHG reduces the Spire Elite qualifying points target – making the IHG Rewards Club Premium credit card interesting
16 March 2020 By
As we wrote on Friday, IHG Rewards Club has reduced the qualification threshold for its top tier Spire Elite status. Spire Elite usually requires you to earn 75,000 base points in a calendar year. For 2020, this is reduced to 55,000 base points. Alternatively, you […]
IHG opens a new Hotel Indigo in Madrid – Hotel Indigo Madrid Princesa
15 March 2020 By
With unfortunate timing, given that the Foreign Office is now recommending you avoid ‘all but essential’ travel to Madrid, IHG has opened the Hotel Indigo Madrid Princesa. This is the 3rd Hotel Indigo in Madrid, situated next to Parque del Oeste. To quote: “The hotel has […]
Rebook your IHG and Hilton rooms NOW – both chains will refund cheaper ‘Advance Purchase’ rates
12 March 2020 By
Both IHG Rewards Club and Hilton Honors have made positive announcements about removing the restrictions on Advance Purchase bookings. This means there are unintended consequences: if you have a Hilton or IHG hotel booking made at the Best Flexible rate, it makes sense to cancel […]
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