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IHG Rewards Club has current promotion where you earn 100% bonus points when you purchase more than 7,000 points. If you buy 26,000 or more points than the cost comes down to 0.5 cents/point. This promotion is valid till 12/30/2019. Also IHG has increased the purchase limit to 150,000 points for time being. Here is the link to the promo and you will need to be logged in to your rewards account to see the cost of purchase.  IHG 100% Rewards Points Purchase Promo IHG has a popular PointBreaks promo where you can stay at participating hotels for 5k, 10k or 15k points. The current PointBreaks promo expires on 01/31/2020. We have written about that promo here. The points purchased can provide great value if the location your have plans to visit have IHG hotels that participate in this promo. Do note that there are limited rooms available in PointBreaks promo and the list of hotels and availability dwindles towards the end of PointsBreaks promo period.
In general you can always buy IHG points for 0.6 cents/point if you have 5k points already available in your account. So buying at 0.5 cents/point is only useful if you have firm plans on using those points. Below are the terms of the 100% points purchase promo: "Offer available for purchases made between 12:00 AM ET Nov 22, 2019 and 11:59 PM Dec 30, 2019 inclusive. This is an exclusive, non-transferable offer for intended recipient only and may not be forwarded. Bonus points will be awarded upon completion of the transaction. Bonus points will be awarded to the recipient of the points purchase. Offer is subject to change. Offer cannot be combined with any other offer. Price includes all applicable fees. Purchased Points are not refundable and are applicable toward all IHG® Rewards Club awards. Members may purchase a maximum of 150,000 points per calendar year and receive as a gift a maximum of 150,000 points per calendar year. Please allow 72 hours for points to post and appear in the recipient's account. All other IHG® Rewards Club Terms and Conditions apply." So hopefully you can utilize this promo to get discounted stay rather than paying the full cash rate. Note that IHG points expire after 12 months of inactivity, so again buy them only if you have firm plan to use them. Happy Holidays!! Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website.
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 Priority Club (IHG) has released the PointBreaks list for hotel reservations on award night for stay till Jan 31st, 2020. The PointBreaks now provide category of hotels which can be booked for 5k, 10k or 15k IHG Priority club points. Since you can always acquire IHG Priority club points for 0.6 cents/points or even less at times the PointBreaks allow for stays at a discounted price compared to the cash rates. Since the number of rooms available in participating hotels on PointBreaks rate are limited it may be better to book it early and cancel if needed rather than wait for concrete plans. Below are the hotels available currently at just 5k points.  Small list of hotels available for 5k Priority Club points You have longer list of hotels available in PointBreaks list for stay at 10k and 15k points and all the hotels which currently have room available can be found listed here.
So go ahead and book the hotel which is participating in this promo and available in the location where you have plans of visiting in upcoming holidays now!! Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website.  IHG has launched the Q4 2019 Accelerate promo valid for stays from Sept 1st, 2019 to Dec 31st 2019. You can register for the promo here. The promo provides for bonus points for completing various tasks which includes booking stays at various hotel brands, staying X number of nights or booking special rates or booking via their IHG App. The promotion is targeted with folks having different points earning offer based on their past stays and/or having IHG Credit Card from Chase. This offers could be useful in racking up Priority Club points if you already have planned stays coming up and can align some of them for this promotion. You can effectively use the points on some of "PointBreaks" hotels at discounted points rate of 5k, 10k or 15k IHG points. Below are few of the offers available on our family accounts: Offer on Account A: Stay a total of 5 nights and earn 22,900 IHG points: This offer has interesting aspect of earning 4,500 IHG points for staying 1 night on points+cash. If done correctly all tasks can be completed by staying 4 fully paid nights and 1 points+cash night. Offer on Account B: Stay a total of 7 nights and earn 40,000 IHG points: This offer requires total of 7 nights. 3 stays has to be Weekend nights (Fri+Sat or Sat+Sun) thus 6 nights plus an additional night to get the complete points of 40,000. Do remember you can complete only some of the tasks and still earn partial points. None of the offers below are mattress run worthy, but if you already have stays coming up you would want to register for this promo and take advantage of the bonus/extra points offered.  Offer on Account A for 22,900 points!  Offer on Account B for 40,000 points! So, go ahead and register for this promotion right now and it might earn you some extra/bonus points for any of you upcoming stays with IHG.
Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website.  Priority Club, International Hotels Group (IHG) have their popular PointsBreaks rewards now bookable for stay till Aug 31st 2019. IHG now has 3 tier of rewards bookable at 5k, 10k, and 15k IHG points. IHG also keeps selling the points with bonus points where the most recent offer which ended on June 8th, 2019 was with 100% bonus bringing the cost down to 0.5 cent/point. So, if you are interested in any of the PointsBreaks hotel but do not have enough points it might be worth to look into the purchase option for the points.  IHG most recent purchase points promotion with 100% bonus, getting the cost down to 0.5 cent/point. Below is the list of hotels available at the time of writing. You can find the current list here. Hotels Available for 5k points per night: United States: MONTANA Holiday Inn Express & Suites Sidney TEXAS Holiday Inn Express & Suites Corsicana I-45 Candlewood Suites Georgetown Candlewood Suites Dallas Plano East Richardson Candlewood Suites Wichita Falls @ Maurine St. Worldwide: ALBERTA, CANADA Holiday Inn Express & Suites Bonnyville Holiday Inn Express & Suites Drayton Valley URUGUAY Holiday Inn Montevideo GERMANY Holiday Inn Leipzig - Günthersdorf KAZAKHSTAN Holiday Inn Almaty TURKEY Holiday Inn Gebze - Istanbul Asia QATAR Holiday Inn Doha - The Business Park SOUTH AFRICA Holiday Inn Express Durban - Umhlanga Hotels Available for 10k points per night: United States: ARIZONA Holiday Inn Express & Suites Phoenix East - Gilbert Staybridge Suites Phoenix East - Gilbert Holiday Inn Express Sierra Vista ARKANSAS Staybridge Suites Hot Springs Crowne Plaza Little Rock Holiday Inn Express & Suites White Hall CALIFORNIA Holiday Inn Palmdale-Lancaster Holiday Inn Express & Suites Porterville Holiday Inn Express & Suites Twentynine Palms- Joshua Tree COLORADO Holiday Inn Express & Suites Grand Junction FLORIDA Staybridge Suites Gainesville I-75 Holiday Inn Tallahassee E Capitol - Univ GEORGIA Holiday Inn Express Atlanta W (I-20) Douglasville Holiday Inn Express & Suites Atlanta Airport NE - Hapeville Holiday Inn Express Atlanta SW - Newnan ILLINOIS Holiday Inn Express & Suites Bloomington - Normal INDIANA Staybridge Suites South Bend-University Area KENTUCKY Holiday Inn Express & Suites Ashland Staybridge Suites Lexington LOUISIANA Holiday Inn Express & Suites Lake Charles MARYLAND Holiday Inn Express & Suites Cumberland - La Vale Holiday Inn Express Waldorf MICHIGAN Crowne Plaza Auburn Hills Holiday Inn & Suites Farmington Hills - Detroit NW Holiday Inn Detroit Northwest - Livonia Holiday Inn & Suites Mount Pleasant Staybridge Suites Lansing-Okemos MISSOURI Holiday Inn Columbia-East NEW HAMPSHIRE Holiday Inn Express Keene NEW YORK Holiday Inn Express & Suites Batavia - Darien Lake Holiday Inn Express & Suites Malone OHIO Holiday Inn Express & Suites Ashland Crowne Plaza Dayton Holiday Inn Express & Suites Cleveland-Richfield OKLAHOMA Holiday Inn Express & Suites Blackwell Holiday Inn Express & Suites Jenks Staybridge Suites Oklahoma City - Downtown OREGON Holiday Inn Express & Suites Portland Airport PENNSYLVANIA Holiday Inn Express & Suites West Chester TENNESSEE Candlewood Suites Murfreesboro TEXAS Candlewood Suites Buda - Austin SW Candlewood Suites Galveston Holiday Inn Express & Suites McAllen - Medical Center Area Holiday Inn Express & Suites Fort Worth North - Northlake Holiday Inn Express & Suites San Antonio - Brooks City Base UTAH Holiday Inn Express Heber City WISCONSIN Holiday Inn Express Milwaukee-West Medical Center WYOMING Candlewood Suites Casper Worldwide: ALBERTA, CANADA Holiday Inn Express & Suites Edmonton South Holiday Inn Express & Suites Medicine Hat Transcanada Hwy 1 MÉXICO, MEXICO Crowne Plaza Mexico Norte Tlalnepantla NUEVO LEÓN, MEXICO Holiday Inn Express & Suites Monterrey Valle PUEBLA, MEXICO Crowne Plaza Puebla EL SALVADOR Crowne Plaza San Salvador-Conference Center PANAMA Holiday Inn Express Panama Distrito Financiero ARMENIA Holiday Inn Express Yerevan GERMANY Holiday Inn Express Essen - City Centre ITALY Holiday Inn Rome - Aurelia RUSSIA Holiday Inn Kaliningrad UNITED KINGDOM Holiday Inn Aberdeen - West Holiday Inn Ashford - Central Holiday Inn Basingstoke Holiday Inn Express London - Dartford Holiday Inn Express Dunstable Holiday Inn Express Manchester - East OMAN Crowne Plaza Sohar QATAR Crowne Plaza Doha - The Business Park SAUDI ARABIA Holiday Inn Al Khobar Holiday Inn Riyadh - Al Qasr INDIA Crowne Plaza Chennai Adyar Park Crowne Plaza Jaipur Tonk Road Crowne Plaza Kochi INDONESIA Holiday Inn & Suites Jakarta Gajah Mada LANZHOU, MAINLAND CHINA Holiday Inn & Suites Lanzhou Center TIANJIN, MAINLAND CHINA Holiday Inn Tianjin Xiqing Hotels Available for 15k points per night: United States: FLORIDA EVEN Hotel Miami - Airport GEORGIA Holiday Inn Express & Suites Augusta West - Ft Gordon Area INDIANA Holiday Inn Express Indianapolis - Southeast MARYLAND Crowne Plaza Greenbelt - Washington DC MICHIGAN Holiday Inn & Suites Ann Arbor Univ. Michigan Area Holiday Inn Ann Arbor-Near The Univ. Of Mi MINNESOTA Holiday Inn Express & Suites Minneapolis-Dwtn (Conv Ctr) NEBRASKA EVEN Hotel Omaha Downtown NEVADA Holiday Inn Express & Suites Carson City NORTH CAROLINA Holiday Inn Express & Suites Charlotte-Concord-I-85 PENNSYLVANIA Hotel Indigo Pittsburgh - Technology Center SOUTH CAROLINA Crowne Plaza North Augusta Holiday Inn Express & Suites Charleston Arpt-Conv Ctr Area TENNESSEE Holiday Inn Express & Suites Mt. Juliet-Nashville Area TEXAS Crowne Plaza Suites Arlington - Ballpark - Stadium Holiday Inn Express & Suites Seguin UTAH Holiday Inn Express & Suites Cedar City Holiday Inn Express & Suites Kanab WISCONSIN Holiday Inn & Suites Madison West Worldwide: FRANCE Crowne Plaza Lille - Euralille GERMANY Crowne Plaza Frankfurt Congress Hotel UNITED KINGDOM Crowne Plaza Birmingham City Centre The Met Hotel Leeds KENYA Crowne Plaza Nairobi Airport SAUDI ARABIA Crowne Plaza Riyadh Palace UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Crowne Plaza Abu Dhabi JIANGXI, MAINLAND CHINA Crowne Plaza Nanchang Wanli ZHEJIANG, MAINLAND CHINA Crowne Plaza Taizhou This list will shrink with time as hotels provide only limited capacity for PointBreaks promotion. So book your reward now if you are interested any any of the participating hotel rewards. Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website.  IHG Rewards Club has their new promotion available starting May 1st 2019 for stays from May 1st 2019 to Aug 31st 2019. They are again naming this as Accelerate promotion and It is similar to their past promotion where they have targeted stay offers to various individual based on their past stay with IHG Rewards Club program. The terms of this promotion can be found here. Do note that some of the folks (including myself) are getting error message when trying to register for this promotion. It could either be some glitch in the roll out of the promotion or IHG has come up with new way of targeting this promotion :(. I was able to register one other family member account which I manage and below are the bonus offers on that account.  IHG Accelerate 2019 Promotion Offers Since the offers are targeted they would be different for different folks (Some might have less stay requirement which others might have more and would get different total amount of points). Based on the past promotions if your stay satisfies more than one task requirements you would earn points for both of them based on the total requirement.
For e.g. from above staying 4 separate nights where 3 nights are with different brands and 2 of those nights being booked with "bonus points package" would satisfy all the requirements of the offers for the targeted bonus promotion and can earn 30,800 IHG Rewards Points!! Also these points are in addition to the base points and any other promotions points which you would have registered for. The points can be used for one of the well known PointBreaks promotion where you can stay at participating hotels for either 5k, 10k or 15k IHG Rewards Points. You can read more of the regular PointBreaks promotion here. So if you have upcoming plans to stay with IHG Hotels do make sure you register for this promotion. Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website.  If you are looking for hotel stays at any of your upcoming trip, do not forget checking out IHG PointBreaks list. IHG made changes to the PointBreaks to have three categories of redemption instead of just having one redemption at 5k IHG points. The New Redemption has hotels at 5k points, 10k points and 15k points. Although it might look like devaluation of PointBreaks program but having more hotels are different lower cost tiers is better than few hotels at one low tier of 5k points.
IHG Points can be easily earned or bought at about ~0.5 cents/points to ~0.7 cents/points based on various promotions so even if you are short of points it would be worth buying them if the stay on points is working out cheaper than paying for the hotel in cash. Do remember that staying at hotel on revenue rate would also add taxes/fees which otherwise is not present on award nights so that also adds to the saving. Alternatively IHG runs promotion for accelerated earning of points every 4 months. Here is the one for Jan 1st to April 30th 2018. It might be useful to register and check your points earning offer as you might earn bunch of points for a cheap stay and occasionally 500 points just for downloading and logging in from IHG App. These points can certainly make PointBreaks stay cheaper. Here is an example of how the promotional offer looks like. The current PointBreaks list is valid from January 29th to April 30th and most of the reward stays have reasonable cancellation policy till almost a day or two before the stay. So even if you have tentative plans, check the cancellation policy and based on your comfort book those PointBreaks award as these awards are limited by hotels and the hotels may be removed from the PointBreaks list any time before the promotion ends. They are about ~150+ hotels in the list so go ahead and see if any of those fit your current travel plans and save some money on those stays. Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website.  IHG is out with their accelerate promotion for Q1 2018 which runs from Jan 01 to April 30. Here is the link to register for the offer. As earlier quarter offers the baseline offer is to earn 30,000 IHG points by completing various stay challenges/activities. Below is the snap shot of the baseline offer.  Baseline IHG Offer to earn 30,000 points As you can see the standard baseline offer requires minimum of 4 night stay to earn 30,000 bonus IHG points. Interestingly, if you notice you can earn easy 500 bonus IHG points by just downloading and logging in the IHG App on your mobile device. This is good enough for extending the validity of your IHG points without any stay activity on your account.
Alternatively folks have been targeted with much better promotional offer based on their stay pattern and thus can earn much higher amount of bonus IHG points. IHG routinely lists certain properties for redemption for just 5k points. Here is the last list being published. So you can certainly score some cheap stays. Also IHG has points+cash feature which can be useful for generating points at ~0.5 cents/points. You can find more details on a very old post here. So, go ahead and register for this offer even if you do not plan to stay and see if there are any easy bonus IHG points available for grabs. Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website.  Groupon recently announced loyalty program partnership where you can earn Airlines miles or Hotel points with participating airlines and hotels by using a airline/hotel specific promo code. The current earning for Airlines and Hotels are as below: Airlines
 Participating Airlines and Hotels When you click the link here you need to login and select the partner program in which you need to earn miles/points as and enter your membership number on the screen as shown below:  If you want to earn Alaska Airlines Miles, you will need to enter your Mileage Plan number above. After confirming your membership number you will be given the airline/hotel specific promo code. For e.g. below is what you would see for Alaska Airlines.  Specific promo code for Alaska Airlines While on the surface the program looks interesting you might be better off getting discount using frequently provided Groupon promotions for 10% to 20% off using a promotion code. Also you can earn miles or cashback today by going through various cashback site. Using the special promo code for airline miles/hotel points would potentially invalidate the cashback earning through cashback sites. Still at times it might be useful to earn valuable miles with Alaska Airlines or American Airlines by using the promo code with this new Groupon feature.
So, remember this additional feature when you are looking to bank on useful miles and there are no other handy promotions available at that time. Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website.  IHG Rewards club points use to never expire. But that has changed and now the points expire with 12 months of no activity. There are many usual ways to avoid the points expiration and few of them are listed below:
The other two interesting ways to extend the life of your IHG points is to:
 Earn 500 IHG points for downloading the IHG app and logging in.
So if you are close to points expiration and do not have any upcoming stays but have at-least 5000 points in your account you can easily extend the life of your IHG points. Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website.  IHG PointBreaks hotel are once again here and they are live for your booking. You could book the hotels for just 5k points per night. You could easily buy points from ~0.6 cents/points or less by either going through Daily Getaways IHG Points purchase if you do not have any IHG Points or by booking and cancelling cash + points booking provided you have atleast 5k points in your IHG account. You can refer here on how to purchase IHG points using cash+points booking.
Although there are certain restrictions on how many nights per hotel each member can book, it is rarely enforced in practice. Below is the sample list of hotels in "United States of America" available for booking at 5k points per night and there are smaller lists for other countries. So go ahead and make your reservations NOW!! UNITED STATES AlabamaArkansasArizonaCalifornia
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