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Set Your Sights promo 2015

Promo website: https://setyoursights.ihg.com

Promo Terms and Conditions: https://setyoursights.ihg.com/amer/us/en/terms/index

Dates: 1 January 2015 and 30 April 2015 (both dates inclusive)

FAQ:

What stays and nights qualify?

Q. If I book a stay using IHG points, does that count as a "stay" or "night" towards my offers?
A. No.

Q. If I book a stay using a cash and points rate, does that count as a "stay" towards my offers?
A. No.

Q. Will stays booked via a consolidator (like TravelPony) or other public travel portal or points portal count towards this promo?
A. No. Your stays must be booked directly with IHG on their website or on their app. However, if you are booking through your corporate portal at work, this may post if such stays usually earn you base points.

Offer-specific Questions:

Q. Does a Holiday Inn Express stay count as a Holiday Inn stay?
A. No
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Old Mar 23, 2015, 11:57 am
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Spend More on your IHG rewards premium Club Visa
Book and pay for your next getaway at an IHG hotel using your IHG® Rewards Club Premium Visa® card and earn 1,500 bonus point

Has anyone else had this offer in the latest promotion? If so has it been completed.


I have used my IHG card at least 5 times to book and pay for a hotel, Still nothing.

I have emailed IHG but they just keep telling me to wait

The main page says 2300 points, But the smaller writing says 1500 points.

Also i have noticed in the terms it says:

"Number of bonus points listed above will be awarded when you use your IHG® Rewards Club Premium Visa® to purchase the number of Qualifying Stays as listed between 1 January 2015 and 30 April 2015"

But now i am wandering how many qualifying stays they actually mean
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Old Mar 23, 2015, 1:45 pm
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Originally Posted by stanontour
Spend More on your IHG rewards premium Club Visa
Book and pay for your next getaway at an IHG hotel using your IHG® Rewards Club Premium Visa® card and earn 1,500 bonus point

Has anyone else had this offer in the latest promotion? If so has it been completed.


I have used my IHG card at least 5 times to book and pay for a hotel, Still nothing.

I have emailed IHG but they just keep telling me to wait

The main page says 2300 points, But the smaller writing says 1500 points.

Also i have noticed in the terms it says:

"Number of bonus points listed above will be awarded when you use your IHG® Rewards Club Premium Visa® to purchase the number of Qualifying Stays as listed between 1 January 2015 and 30 April 2015"

But now i am wandering how many qualifying stays they actually mean

Has your credit card bill been paid and processed yet?
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Old Mar 23, 2015, 2:32 pm
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good point. yesterday I received the statement.

But its the "number of Qualifying Stays" bit i am now concerned about
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Old Mar 23, 2015, 2:36 pm
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Originally Posted by TravelTheWorld66
Just my $0.02. I'm really happy with the way the SYS promotion has been going. Although I won't be able to complete all my offers, the ones I have completed have tracked correctly in the dashboard, and I've received my points. It's a breath of fresh air not to have to call IHG to get points to post.

It looks like after two failed attempts with the Big Win, IHG has finally figured this thing out!
Unbelievable. For me too, those few tasks which I opted for. Oh well, I might give another shot, so the question becomes, when will they roll out the next promo?
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Old Mar 23, 2015, 3:37 pm
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Originally Posted by stanontour
good point. yesterday I received the statement.

But its the "number of Qualifying Stays" bit i am now concerned about
I had this one and your terms match mine to the letter. It is only one stay, however it was a little bizarre.

I received an email saying that I had achieved the task but it never posted to the dashboard until about a fortnight after I received the email. After it posted to the dashboard it was the standard ten days or so to post to my account.
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Old Mar 24, 2015, 12:50 am
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Thats good to hear its one stay.... It will enable me to get my 65000 bonus points once it posts :-)
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Old Mar 24, 2015, 6:11 am
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Originally Posted by stanontour
Thats good to hear its one stay.... It will enable me to get my 65000 bonus points once it posts :-)
The reason I inquired is because I finished my ITN promotion very late and I had this task for the SYS promotion.

However, I have yet to stay at an IHG for SYS and yet my SYS dashboard for this very task shows that it is completed. The completion date shows during the current promotion even though it actually was completed during ITN -- this says to me that at the very least, it is when the bill appears on your credit card statement -- and perhaps only when that charge actually shows as paid, so there could be a fairly long lag time for the dashboard to actually show as completed.

I will note, however, that unlike apparently some of you, I have yet to receive points from this dashboard bonus -- I simply concluded that at the end of the current promotion they would be added to my account like last time.

I am not worried that I will ultimately see these bonus points for although I have no intention of completing all of my SYS tasks, I do intend to complete one of them wherein I will use my IHG MC, thus earning me the bonus during the actual time-frame of the current promotion.

However, given my premature crediting of this task in the current promotion from what was a stay during the last promotion, I have concluded that unlike other tasks, this one might involve a potentially considerable time delay.
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Old Mar 25, 2015, 2:50 pm
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Originally Posted by stanontour
Spend More on your IHG rewards premium Club Visa
Book and pay for your next getaway at an IHG hotel using your IHG® Rewards Club Premium Visa® card and earn 1,500 bonus point

Has anyone else had this offer in the latest promotion? If so has it been completed.


I have used my IHG card at least 5 times to book and pay for a hotel, Still nothing.

I have emailed IHG but they just keep telling me to wait

The main page says 2300 points, But the smaller writing says 1500 points.

Also i have noticed in the terms it says:

"Number of bonus points listed above will be awarded when you use your IHG® Rewards Club Premium Visa® to purchase the number of Qualifying Stays as listed between 1 January 2015 and 30 April 2015"

But now i am wandering how many qualifying stays they actually mean
I have the same issue - paid with IHG card at Crowne Plaza Antalya Turkey. The Globe Trotter bonus posted together wth stay credit but the 1500 pts using IHG card is a no show. I thought it was the issue because the charge was from the Franchisee's name, not the name of Crowne Plaza hence I also miss the 4x bonus from Chase. I called Chase which the rep reluctantly sent a request to the marketing to manually post the 4x which do not amount to much as the total bill is about $65.

I sent a missing bonus pts message on this 10 days ago. Got a reply a few days later saying the request was forwarded to the project coordinator to review. That was March 19. Haven't heard anything back so I followed up yesterday. No response yet.
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Old Mar 25, 2015, 6:07 pm
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Next Big IHG Promo for Q1 - 50K Pts or More

My IHG stay with a credit card posted quickly for an HIX...and, the stay was actually on my spouses IHG number not mine. It was the only thing on my dashboard for over a month.
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Old Mar 25, 2015, 9:04 pm
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IHG response

<<Please accept our sincere apologies as we are experiencing delays in updating the dashboard for completed offers. We are aware of the issue and are working round the clock to resolve this the soonest possible time. One of my colleagues will get back to you as soon as we have an update from our contacts.

We apologize for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you as we value your patronage. Should you require further assistance, please feel free to contact the IHG Rewards Club Service Center again.>>

No idea whether it is caused by Chase not sending the correct info because it is not billed in Crowne Plaza name or IHG actually knows I have used IHG card to pay for the CP stay but just because of dashboard updating issue... That the latter does not seem true because the Globe Trotter bonus posted promptly the moment the stay posted.

Then I got TWO not just one, IHG Surveys on how the agent was doing, as if I made a phone call... what an idiotic IT programming.
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Old Mar 26, 2015, 12:59 pm
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Very happy with both ITN and SYS everything posted correctly and quickly. Points for finishing SYS were in my account 4 days after the final stay I needed. Maybe I just got lucky but it worked well for me.
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Old Mar 27, 2015, 11:19 pm
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For the SYS promotion, I have one task which reads:

Getaway Bonus - 6,000 bonus points
Stay at 1 Holiday Inn Resort® or Holiday Inn Club Vacations® destination, and earn 6,000 bonus points.

When I read the English T&C, the list of participating resorts listed as follows:


Holiday Inn Resort Aruba-Beach Resort & Casino
Holiday Inn Resort Grand Cayman
Holiday Inn Resort Los Cabos All Inclusive
Holiday Inn Resort Acapulco
Holiday Inn Resort Puerto Vallarta
Holiday Inn Resort Daytona Beach Oceanfront
Holiday Inn Resort Fort Walton Beach
Holiday Inn Resort Orlando-Lake Buena Vista
Holiday Inn Resort Panama City Beach
Holiday Inn Resort Pensacola Beach Gulf Front
Holiday Inn Resort Waikiki Beachcomber
Holiday Inn Resort Bar Harbor - Acadia Natl Park
Holiday Inn Resort West Bay Beach
Holiday Inn Resort Wilmington E-Wrightsville Bch
Holiday Inn Resort Lake George-Turf
Holiday Inn Resort The Lodge at Eagle Crest
Holiday Inn Resort The Lodge at Running Y Ranch
Holiday Inn Resort Beach House
Holiday Inn Resort Deadwood Mountain Grand
Holiday Inn Resort Galveston-On The Beach
Holiday Inn Club Vacations Orlando - Orange Lake Resort
Holiday Inn Club Vacations At Lake Geneva Resort
Holiday Inn Club Vacations Ascutney Mountain Resort
Holiday Inn Club Vacations At Bay Point Resort
Holiday Inn Club Vacations Las Vegas - Desert Club Resort
Holiday Inn Club Vacations Galveston Beach Resort
Holiday Inn Club Vacations Panama City Beach Resort
Holiday Inn Club Vacations Williamsburg Resort
Holiday Inn Club Vacations Cape Canaveral Beach Resort
Holiday Inn Club Vacations Myrtle Beach-South Beach
Holiday Inn Club Vacations Marco Island - Sunset Cove Rst
Holiday Inn Club Vacations Gatlinburg-Smoky Mountain Rst
Holiday Inn Club Vacations Orlando–Int’l Drive Resort
Holiday Inn Club Vacations Anaheim-Resort Area

But if I login using this SYS link for the Chinese version of this website, the listing of participating resorts changes to another listing. So which listing is the "exact" listing of participating resorts? Can i rely on the one provided in the Chinese website given that the listing of resorts are large in Asia Pacific which makes it easier for me to do so:

https://setyoursights.ihg.com/gc/cn/...ghts14_DEFAULT


InterContinental Sanctuary Cove Resort
Crowne Plaza Hunter Valley Resort
InterContinental The Palace Port Ghalib Resort
Crowne Plaza Port Ghalib - Sahara Oasis
Crowne Plaza Port Ghalib - Sahara Sand
InterContinental Taba Heights
InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa
InterContinental Bora Bora Resort & Thalasso Spa
InterContinental Le Moana Bora Bora Resort
InterContinental Resort & Spa Moorea
InterContinental Tahiti Resort
Holiday Inn Resort Goa
InterContinental Bali Resort
Holiday Inn Resort Baruna Bali
Holiday Inn Resort Batam
ANA InterContinental Manza Beach Resort
ANA InterContinental Ishigaki Resort
InterContinental Aqaba (Resort Aqaba)
Holiday Inn Resort Dead Sea
Crowne Plaza Petra
InterContinental Mzaar (Mountain Resort & Spa)
Holiday Inn Resort Penang
Holiday Inn Resort Kandooma Maldives
InterContinental Mauritius Resort
Crowne Plaza Salalah
Holiday Inn Resort Half Moon Bay
InterContinental Alpensia Pyeongchang Resort
Holiday Inn Resort Alpensia Pyeongchang
InterContinental Hua Hin Resort
InterContinental Samui Baan Taling Ngam Resort
Holiday Inn Resort Krabi Ao Nang Beach
Holiday Inn Resort Phuket
Holiday Inn Resort Phuket Mai Khao Beach
Holiday Inn Resort Phi Phi Island
Holiday Inn Resort Vanuatu
InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort
Holiday Inn Resort Dead Sea
Holiday Inn Resort Goa
Holiday Inn Resort Half Moon Bay
Holiday Inn Resort Alpensia Pyeongchang
Holiday Inn Resort Beijing Yanqing
Crowne Plaza Hailing Island
Holiday Inn Chaohu
InterContinental Heilong Lake
Crowne Plaza Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan
Holiday Inn Hangzhou Thousand- Island Lake
InterContinental One Thousand Island Lake Resort
Crowne Plaza Hangzhou Xanadu Resort
InterContinental Huizhou Resort
Crowne Plaza Resort Xishuangbanna
InterContinental Resort Jiuzhai Paradise
Holiday Inn Jiuzhai Jarpo
Crowne Plaza Lijiang Ancient Town
Indigo Ancient Town LiJiang
InterContinental InterContinental Lhasa Paradise
Holiday Inn Express Changbaishan
Holiday Inn Holiday Inn Changbaishan
Holiday Inn Changbaishan Suites
Crowne Plaza Anting Golf Shanghai
Crowne Plaza Lake Malaren Shanghai(MeiLan Lake)
Crowne Plaza Shanghai Xiayang Lake
Crowne Plaza Shanghai Harbour City(Di Shui Hu)
Holiday Inn Sea View Qinhuangdao
Crowne Plaza Suzhou
InterContinental Suzhou
Holiday Inn Resort Hainan Clear Water Bay
InterContinental Sanya Resort
InterContinental Sanya Haitang Bay
Holiday Inn Resort Sanya Yalong Bay
Holiday Inn Sanya Bay Resort
Crowne Plaza Huangshan Yuecheng
Crowne Plaza Huangshan Taiping Lake
Indigo Xiamen
Crowne Plaza Paragon Xiamen
Crowne Plaza Xuzhou Dalong Lake
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Old Mar 30, 2015, 9:15 pm
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Still no resolution on the non-posting 1500 bonus pts for using IHG card to pay for IHG stay.

Was told by phone rep that it would be 2 to 3 weeks after check out. Well, I asked him to use a calculator, today is 30th, the stay was 8th - 21 days have just passed and still not points. He said it was generated by system automatically and nothing he could do now however if still not posting by next week, call back.
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Old Mar 31, 2015, 4:43 am
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Next Big IHG Promo for Q1 - 50K Pts or More

So are we expecting to get new promos starting tomorrow? I have a few possible bookings for the next quarter and have been waiting to group them...if I make any of the bookings before being sent my offers will they still count for the relevant quarter I stay in (ie quarter 2)?
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Old Mar 31, 2015, 5:47 am
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Originally Posted by morepointsplease
So are we expecting to get new promos starting tomorrow? I have a few possible bookings for the next quarter and have been waiting to group them...if I make any of the bookings before being sent my offers will they still count for the relevant quarter I stay in (ie quarter 2)?
Very doubtful you will get anything tomorrow as the current promotion still has a month to run.
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