Originally Posted by mowake

One card is called The Priority Club Rewards Visa and the other is called The Priority Club Rewards Black Visa. The headline offers refers to the Black Visa but in the T&C's it refers to just visa. Very confusing - I have now accidentally applied for the Visa and not the Black Visa.

If I apply for the Black Visa and cancel after 3months - will I only pay the annual fee pro rata?

Originally Posted by quitecontrary

Did you get accepted on the spot EDIflyer or are they writing to you as in Mr qc's case? It's worth getting the card in my opinion as you get the 20,000 points from the big win and 30,000 following your first purchase for taking out the card.

Originally Posted by mowake

When I applied for the normal card - I was accepted on the spot! When I realised it needed to be the black card and applied - it said they were writing to me - we all know what that means - NO

Originally Posted by djp98374

My promo......
1 night = 1,000
3 Nights= 3,000
3 brands= 7,000
Book 2 online = 2,000
3 Saturdays = 8,000
2 HI stays = 3,000
All done = 10.000
Can I change promos.......3 Saturday stays means mattress runs for me....by April 30 I see a max of 2 Saturdays I would be out of town staying in a hotel on a Saturday night.

Originally Posted by Concerto

Folks, I have a bit of what could be valuable input here. I haven't read a single post on this thread yet, only just finished reading the 2013 Big Win thread, plus catching up with one or two other threads over the holiday season. It's quite a challenge staying abreast of everything.

One of my challenges includes having to book a Best Flexible Rate with Breakfast. I thought I had managed to book this at HI Dusseldorf Ratingen, which also happens to be one of my City Life cities. I would also be knocking out one of my two Saturday night stay challenges with this stay.

Here's the deal: while booking it, I was offered a 10% discount because of it being a Saturday night stay. But when I looked at the print-out (I always make a pdf of these reservations and print them out) I was a bit worried that I didn't see 'Best Flexible Rate' written anywhere. What was written was IHG® Rewards Club Member Exclusive –Flexible with Breakfast.

So I called the hotel, and they were clueless and frankly unhelpful, as was the international call center. Finally, through the chat function on the IHG website I established that the above was not a Best Flexible Rate or anything of the sort, but a different rate code altogether. So, if you are tempted by the 10% discount that staying a Saturday night would offer, then bear in mind that booking it will trigger a different rate code completely, even if it says Flexible somewhere and you end up ticking the Breakfast box.

The chat function offered a much higher rate for the desired Best Flexible Rate with Breakfast, but I managed to book a rate online that worked out 8 Euros higher than my original reservation. You just have to avoid the 10% discount offered if booking a weekend stay, and go for the full Best Flexible Rate with Breakfast, not forgetting to check the box for Breakfast.

By the way, there's seems to be no way to get out of the 20 Euro extra charge for a second person in the room, although the room is sold as a double. It's annoying, but that's the way it is in Germany and Switzerland.

Originally Posted by Amyrlin

I have the same, and it is also scuppering the deal for me. The points may have been an incentive to move more nights over, but I really do not like the idea that they have made the need to take out a credit card part of the requirement. I could have understood it if I had get 6/7 and get the bonus, but needing 7/7 it means I will focus elsewhere. It's a shame really, with a different target there, they may have got more rather than less business from me.

Originally Posted by zoobenny

I have the Visa card as one of my challenges but only have to complete 1 less than the total number of challenges. I didn't think they could make getting the card compulsory to complete, because you may not even be eligible for the card. I remember when they ran a similar promotion a year or so back you didn't have to complete every challenge if the credit card was one of them.

Originally Posted by EDIflyer

For once I was accepted on the spot - previously with Barclaycard-issued cards (PCR and Hilton) I had problems with this (cf Amex where there were no such issues!) I applied via the link on Raffles' blog, which should hopefully get me 40k, plus 20k Big Win - at £99 that's 0.165p/point

Originally Posted by Amyrlin

Mine is def compulsory (need 7/7).

If it were 6/7 I would not object.

Originally Posted by pazza2000

So there is no requirement to apply via the Big Win link?