Feb 17 2016 Reward Night Points Changes
Jan 29, 2016, 11:32 am
#17
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: SFO
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There's some pretty clear trends:
Places with many properties increasing:
SF Bay Area
NYC
Florida
London
Paris
Places with many properties decreasing:
China
India
Indonesia
Brazil
Places with many properties increasing:
SF Bay Area
NYC
Florida
London
Paris
Places with many properties decreasing:
China
India
Indonesia
Brazil
Jan 29, 2016, 12:07 pm
#18
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So Americans can earn tons of IHG points through this dream surprises thing, plus the credit card, and yet the whole world has to spend more on award stays. Doesn't sound very fair.
Jan 29, 2016, 12:19 pm
#19
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Citi center hotels going up.
Hotels in distant suburbs going down.
Los Angeles goes up, Palmdale goes down.
Nashville goes up, Murfreesboro goes down.
Etc.
Jan 29, 2016, 12:30 pm
#21
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Jan 29, 2016, 12:48 pm
#23
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Well if you take a few very large and expensive cities like London, New York and Hong Kong, only one of the two IC's in each city is going up. So not quite the end of the world.
Jan 29, 2016, 12:53 pm
#24
Join Date: Sep 2008
Programs: IHG Platinum
Posts: 442
Can you book consecutive rewards nights at different times and ask for the two bookings to be linked?
Just deciding if to book a night now to save on the increase and the other night when I get the points coming my way
Just deciding if to book a night now to save on the increase and the other night when I get the points coming my way
Jan 29, 2016, 1:18 pm
#27
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Sliced up the data by:
- Brand
- Country
- Brand/Country
- State (US only)
All -10,000 point changes are in China, and all are Holiday Inn Express.
- Brand
- Country
- Brand/Country
- State (US only)
All -10,000 point changes are in China, and all are Holiday Inn Express.
Last edited by javabytes; Jan 29, 2016 at 1:24 pm
Jan 29, 2016, 2:35 pm
#29
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Can't say this is surprising, the last few IHG promos have been too easy and too cheap to rack of massive amounts of points. As long as they don't get rid of those these increases don't hurt too badly.
That said, wow did New York and San Francisco get hit pretty hard by this.
That said, wow did New York and San Francisco get hit pretty hard by this.
Jan 29, 2016, 2:44 pm
#30
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Given the pile of easy points from Priceless Surprises I was expecting a much worse spring devaluation. As I don't frequent Manhattan or San Francisco I personally escaped devaluation this year.
The 40k Candlewood did give me an eyeroll though.
The 40k Candlewood did give me an eyeroll though.