IHG Status Challenge

[Richard Peters]

Help please

I’ve registred for the above but am busy picking up points with the 4 times bonus offer through to 31 August.

I need 5 qualifying night to keep Platinum through to 31/12 23 and a further 10 to trigger diamond upgrade.

My question, which IHG staff could not answer at last checkouit is: do the nights where I’m picking up bonus rewards ALSO qualify for my status challenge or not?

If not then that’s an addiotion 15 days to rack up which for me would not be possible

Thanks in advance

[wondrousnature]

Hi! For the status challenge, if I’m not mistaken, the 5 nights for Platinum and an additonal 10 night for Diamond (15 nights in total), will need to be paid nights. So I don’t Reward Nights redeemed using points or certificates can count towards the 5 or 15 nights for the purpose of the status challenge.

However, Rewards Nights redeemed using points do count towards the nights needed for the Milestone Rewards.

Hope the information above is accurate and of some help.

[Pangolin]

The two promos stack without any issues, since Qualifying Rate applies in both cases.

As long as you’re paying cash it will be fine. I qualified for Diamond this way and have also been receiving the 2-4x points

[wondrousnature]

So sorry, misinterpreted “bonus rewards” in my earlier post. If the nights were paid by cash, then yes, as Pangolin says, they will be considered qualifying rates / nights.

[Richard Peters]

wondrousnature wrote:

Hi! For the status challenge, if I’m not mistaken, the 5 nights for Platinum and an additonal 10 night for Diamond (15 nights in total), will need to be paid nights. So I don’t Reward Nights redeemed using points or certificates can count towards the 5 or 15 nights for the purpose of the status challenge.

However, Rewards Nights redeemed using points do count towards the nights needed for the Milestone Rewards.

Hope the information above is accurate and of some help.

Forgive me for not giving the whole picture! These are all PAID for nights so from comments so far it looks as though they will all count

[cornwallislovely]

Both my husband and I are Diamond Elite this year following the standard transfer from Spire Elite.

I have registered for the Status Challenge and to date have only stayed a couple of nights towards the 15 required. However, when I look at the App, my Diamond Elite Status clearly says it is until 31st December 2023.

My husband has not registered for the Status Challenge and on the App his account shows his Diamond Elite Status is (as expected) until 31st December 2022.

Has anyone else got this Diamond Elite extension showing already? Just wondering if it’s genuine or a glitch that will be reversed in due course. Would love an explanation if anyone has one?

[SGJNI]

Why register for the challenge if you are already Diamond? I thought you had to use a different loyalty scheme to register from???

It is nights that count, not points.

Have either of you renewed Ambassador recently, see the other thread about it also renewing Diamond!!!!

[cornwallislovely]

Brilliant, thank you. That’s it. I must have missed that thread.

I will now renew my husband’s Ambassador account also, which I had been procrastinating over.

P.S. I had registered for the Status Challenge as I knew I couldn’t maintain Diamond next year, and so far it’s been really fantastic benefits-wise. It let me register fine even though I am already a IHG member. Great tip re Ambassador upgrade as that’s made me really happy! Thank you.

[SGJNI]

@cornwallislo

You are most welcome.

[NorthernLass]

I can also confirm that rejoining Ambassador (even after letting it lapse) put a little extra sparkle in my Diamond recently 💎😁

[John]

Well a 15-night stay has posted a week after checkout (frustrating as I’m used to Hilton stays posting overnight, and as I haven’t paid for any other IHG stays since 2018, I forgot that IHG can take a long time) and I am now Diamond 😀

However I have only received the base points (and platinum bonus) but not the points from the 4X promo. Would these post separately or do I need to chase them? Should be 60k or more points…

[SGJNI]

John wrote:

Well a 15-night stay has posted a week after checkout (frustrating as I’m used to Hilton stays posting overnight, and as I haven’t paid for any other IHG stays since 2018, I forgot that IHG can take a long time) and I am now Diamond 😀

However I have only received the base points (and platinum bonus) but not the points from the 4X promo. Would these post separately or do I need to chase them? Should be 60k or more points…

The points will turn up between 5/9 days in my recent experience. As you note, IHG are a bit on the slow side.