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Buy IHG Points at 0.5 cents/point till 12/30/2019

12/24/2019

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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. 
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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!!

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IHG PointBreaks - Book through Jan 31st, 2020

11/3/2019

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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. 

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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!!
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Register for IHG Accelerate Q4 2019

8/25/2019

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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.

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Offer on Account A for 22,900 points!
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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.
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What is your IHG Accelerate Offer for Q1 2018?

12/17/2017

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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.

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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.

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DAILY GETAWAYS FOR NEXT 3 WEEKS IN JUNE

5/31/2014

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In my earlier post on Daily Getaways Return, I mentioned about the offers for the first 2 weeks of this sale. There are still few of those deals available specifically The Diamond Resort Stay, CityPass, IHG Points and Wyndham Rewards points. Although they are not great deals, they might be useful for someone's particular travel or stay scenario. Daily Getaways has announced the remaining deals for next 3 weeks and there are few hotels points and Car rental deals I want to highlight in this post. The deal which most traveler are interested would be the Hyatt Stay Deal. Let me list down these here:
  • June 4th - Buy Hyatt Gold Reward Points ranging from 0.933 cent/point to 0.99 cent/point (with Amex 10% discount): These got sold out last year within seconds, so expect the same this time around although Hyatt has done some devaluation since the last year. But compared to its peers the value of Hyatt gold points have reduced by a very small margin from last year redemption levels. The reason these points are so valuable is because the high end hotels in Hyatt chain still costs 30,000 points for standard room redemption which compares quite favorably to the revenue rates for these properties. In addition Hyatt has forayed into all-inclusive properties and they are priced quite reasonably for stay of up to 2 persons. You can find the new award chart for Hyatt here. On top of the great pricing of the Hyatt points sales there are extremely small number of these packages that go on sale, so there is high demand for them.
  • June 5th - Buy IHG Club Rewards Points ranging from 0.567 cent/point to 6 cent/point (with Amex 10% discount): As mentioned in my previous post it is quite easy to purchase these poinst at 7 cent/point whenever you need it. To top it, there are still packages available for sale from Week-1 of the Daily Getaways and thus these do not seem to get sold out. But, if you are looking at specific properties such as Intercontinental Le Moana Bora Bora that sells for $500+ but requires only 50,000 points/night this purchase would still make sense.
  • June 9th - Buy Marriott Gift Cards for 81% of the actual value: These could be useful for folks who mostly stay at Marriott Hotel chains and thus can pay during the check-out using the Marriott Gift Card. Note that you cannot book the nights using the gift cards so most non-refundable prepaid nights will still be charged to your credit card on file and you would not be able to use these gift cards during the hotel check-out. Still 19% discount on regular refundable rate is quite a bargain for regular stayers at Marriott. These also gets sold out pretty quickly so if you are looking for one of these make sure you are online at the time when these go on sale.
  • June 10th - Best Western Reward Points for 5.85 cent/point (with Amex 10% discount): Since there is no simple way of knowing in general how many points are required for award night for Best Western properties most people do not purchase these. Usually the points required to stay at most properties are in the range of 16k to 30k points. Again, Best Western is a mid-range hotel chain which has lot of presence in U.S.A as well as Australia and some of those locations could be quite expensive. So, if you are looking to stay at one of those locations or want to top up your account for that kind of stay then you might be interested in this deal.
  • June 12th - Avis One Day Car Rental Certificate for $30 (with Amex 10% discount): This deal is similar to the one they had last year and if you are one of the guys/gals who plan to rent out at expensive locations around the U.S.A, Canada, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin island then this could be the deal for you. I have written about this deal in the past and you can access my analysis for Car Rental Daily Getaway deal here.
  • June 17th - Club Carlson Reward Points from 4.44 cent/point (with Amex 10% discount): Club Carlson do not have lot of great properties in the U.S.A. but they have really good presence in the Europe. Their reward night starts from 9,000 points in category-1 and recently they have added the 70,000 points category-7 which currently has 11 properties, most of which are in Europe. Also due to their Club Carlson Visa Credit Card in the U.S.A it's always easier and lower cost to accumulate points through their credit card rather than buying from the Daily Getaway. On top of that the credit card features 1 free night on redemption of points for a stay of 2 or more nights. Still the Daily Getaway deal is for folk's who do not have this credit card and who have specific stay planned where buying points at 4.44 cent/mile makes sense.

Note - None of the credit card links in the post earns me any revenue. Thanks for reading!

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IHG BIG WIN.. IS IT WORTH?

9/15/2013

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You would have seen the mention of "IHG BIG WIN PROMO" all around the web. IHG Club is basically re-branding of Priority Club which includes brands such Intercontinental Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn, Hotel Indigo, Staybridge Suites etc ( the full list of brands under IHG can be found here). The promo is open to all the members and is tailored to each individual member having a slightly different version of the promo. But if you are NOT a member of IHG club you can create a new account and then register for this promo you would see a standard 50k points offer as shown below.
  • Try one and done: Stay at any IHG hotel and receive 1,000 Points
  • Stay more and earn: Stay a total of 4 nights and receive 4,000 Points
  • Explore more brands: Stay at 3 different IHG brands and receive 10,000 Points
  • Book with us: Book 2 separate stays through an IHG hotel website or mobile device to get our best price guarantee and receive 2,000 Points
  • Win in a weekend: Stay 2 Saturday nights and receive 8,000 Points
  • Finish all the offers above and you will earn 25,000 additional bonus Points

As you can see "Only 4 separate stays or nights" could earn you potential 50k points assuming 2 out of those 4 stays are on Saturdays and 3 of them are at different IHG brand hotels. 

Back to the question.. Is it Worth?

Well, the answer depends on how are you going to use the points. You can convert IHG points to the partner airlines at the ratio of "10k points = 2k miles" and the various airline partner list can be found here. Thus converting 50k points would give you 10k miles which depending on my valuation could be worth $100 to $150. If I had to spend an average of $60/night on each of the stay that would mean spend of $240 in total and assuming I am just staying for the sake of getting the points I personally would not do it. You could also buy 10k points for $70.  The way this works is as long as you have 5k points in your account you could book any hotel that requires 15k points by using so called "points+cash" option which is essentially "5k points + $70 for remaining 10k points". Once you make the booking and later cancel it you do not get the "cash" portion refunded rather will have 10k points deposited to your account in lieu for it. So if you are doing it for the sake of points (also known as mattress run) do it only if your total cost would be less than $350 ($70x 5 for 50k points).

On the other hand you could redeem the points for the "PointBreaks" which has changing list of hotels each quarter that can be booked for only 5k points/night. This option would mean I could potentially get to stay for 10 nights and assuming the average cost of $60/night could be an awesome value proposition. The other option would be to redeem the points for high value properties such as Holiday Inn Maldives for 35k points/night which otherwise goes for ~$250 in peak season.

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Holiday Inn Resort - Maldives for 35k points
As you can see from above the only good reason to go for this promotion would be to use the points to make actual stays at Holiday Inn rather than converting to "miles". Hope this helps you to make the decision to go for this promotion or no.
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