Old Dec 9, 2016, 9:04 am
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Copying over the usual promotion info to the new thread:

For newcomers to IHG promotions, note that Holiday Inn Express and Holiday Inn (including Holiday Inn Resorts) are two different brand categories for these things. If your dashboard says 'stay at a Holiday Inn Express' as one of the tasks and you stay at a Holiday Inn, it will NOT credit for the Holiday Inn Express task. (and vice versa)

At IHG, points + cash stays are simply points stays where you bought some of the points at the time of the reservation. Once you finish the reservation, a points + cash stay shows as a points stay. Thus points + cash stays only count for tasks where they are specified, and not other tasks.

https://www.ihg.com/content/us/en/offers/q1accelerate2017/dashboard

Some offers require booking within the promotion period in addition to staying during the promotion period.
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Old Dec 9, 2016, 11:45 am
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Spire member - based on my current travel patterns, mine is easy. 65,100 points on offer & I should get 63,800. I won't do the IHG app task as I get a better return from booking via Quidco. My last accelerate was pretty straightforward too.

Book and stay Once Get 5,000

Stay 24 night(s) and earn 48,000 bonus points.

Book 2 stay(s) with the IHG App and earn 1,300 bonus points.

Stay 2 time(s) using our Your Rate, and earn 2,800 bonus points

Pay for one stay at any IHG hotel using your IHG Rewards Club Premium Credit Card
and earn 1,500 bonus points.

Complete 4 of the 5 offers and earn (an additional) 5,000 bonus points.

Register for Accelerate and earn 500 bonus points

Book and stay once in January and get 1,000 bonus points.
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Old Dec 9, 2016, 11:50 am
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My Offers

5,000 Book and stay Once Get 5,000

10,000 Stay More, Earn More
Get closer to the rewards you want when you stay 5 night(s) and earn 10,000 bonus points.

2,200 Travel with the IHG App
Book 2 stay(s) with the IHG App and earn 2,200 bonus points.

4,000 A Bonus Weekend Stay
Stay with us for the weekend and earn 4,000 bonus points. A Friday and Saturday or Saturday and Sunday night stay required.

14,400 Globetrotter Bonus
Earn 14,400 bonus points for staying at 3 IHG hotel(s) outside of your country of residence. Youll earn for one hotel stay per country.

600 Eat, Drink and Earn
Spend $39 on food or beverages at IHG hotels and earn 600 bonus points. Terms

13,000 Your Achievement Bonus
Complete 5 of the 6 offers and earn (an additional) 13,000 bonus points.

1,000 January Bonus Offer
Book and stay once in January and get 1,000 bonus points.
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Old Dec 9, 2016, 12:07 pm
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Originally Posted by Uglook
Any combination of Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Resort and Holiday Inn Club Vacation.

Holiday Inn Express is different brand, so does not count.
OK, so if I stay at three different Holiday Inn's, I am OK ? I have no way to stay at a Resort or CV.
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Old Dec 9, 2016, 12:08 pm
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Originally Posted by nacho
Very likely to skip this:

My Offers

5,000 Book and stay Once Get 5,000

10,000 Stay More, Earn More
Get closer to the rewards you want when you stay 5 night(s) and earn 10,000 bonus points.

2,200 Travel with the IHG App
Book 2 stay(s) with the IHG App and earn 2,200 bonus points.

4,000 A Bonus Weekend Stay
Stay with us for the weekend and earn 4,000 bonus points. A Friday and Saturday or Saturday and Sunday night stay required.

14,400 Globetrotter Bonus
Earn 14,400 bonus points for staying at 3 IHG hotel(s) outside of your country of residence. Youll earn for one hotel stay per country.

600 Eat, Drink and Earn
Spend $39 on food or beverages at IHG hotels and earn 600 bonus points. Terms

13,000 Your Achievement Bonus
Complete 5 of the 6 offers and earn (an additional) 13,000 bonus points.

1,000 January Bonus Offer
Book and stay once in January and get 1,000 bonus points.
36K for 5 nights seems like a pretty good deal, no?
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Old Dec 9, 2016, 12:26 pm
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Originally Posted by Chinatrvl
"Spend $42,000 on food or beverages at IHG hotels and earn xxx bonus points"

Aha. Of course.
time to plan a wedding!
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Old Dec 9, 2016, 12:28 pm
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Originally Posted by CanuckFlyHigh
OK, so if I stay at three different Holiday Inn's, I am OK ? I have no way to stay at a Resort or CV.
That would be fine I guess.
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Old Dec 9, 2016, 12:31 pm
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Originally Posted by UA Apologist
One of my offers is as follows:
Explore with Confidence

Stay in any country in Europe, Greater China (China Mainland, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan), Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa and earn 12,000 bonus points
Is the requirement to stay in any country "in each of" or "in one of"?
Yours is simple. You just need any ONE hotel in ANY of those mentioned regions.
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Old Dec 9, 2016, 1:47 pm
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"Book and stay between 1 Jan and 15 April"....should this be taken as written or does it mean that the stay must be in that period but the booking can be before?
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Old Dec 9, 2016, 1:54 pm
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I don't have access to any corporate rate but it's one of my tasks.

What to do?
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Old Dec 9, 2016, 2:44 pm
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One of mine is the dreaded pay for a stay with the IHG card again. Think they'll manage to get it right this time?
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Old Dec 9, 2016, 2:58 pm
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Originally Posted by happychic
I don't have access to any corporate rate but it's one of my tasks.

What to do?
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Old Dec 9, 2016, 3:05 pm
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I have this:
Corporate Account Bonus
Stay 2 time(s) using your corporate rate and earn 2,500 bonus points. Terms

Anyone knows what is the meanings of corporate rate? Should I book through co pirate travel website or I can book with whatever corporate code I find on google? :-)

Thanks!
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Old Dec 9, 2016, 3:58 pm
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Old Dec 9, 2016, 4:21 pm
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Amazing! I got the same exact tasks for 1Q 2017 as for the current quarter:
  • Stay Once
  • Stay More (5 times)
  • Stay Smart (2 different HIXs)
  • Pay with IHG Credit card (ugh, more posting problem ahead again !)
except they also added a book-with-app task in the 1Q 2017 list. I can skip one of the tasks (as I could this quarter).

(Plus a separate January stay task, analogous to the separate September stay task this quarter.)

The task I'm skipping this quarter is the Stay More, and I only competed the 2nd Stay Smart task a week ago. So maybe they repeated because they though I wasn't going to complete my tasks this quarter?
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Old Dec 9, 2016, 4:46 pm
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I don't find mine so interesting this time. It's crept up to 9 nights (8 the last time), 5 app bookings (4 the last time), and so on. 67,900 points are in the pot:

2,000 Book and stay Once Get 2,000
Thank you for being a loyal IHG Rewards Club member. Book and stay once and earn 2,000 bonus points.

13,500 Stay More, Earn More
Get closer to the rewards you want when you stay 9 night(s) and earn 13,500 bonus points.

4,200 Travel with the IHG App
Book 5 stay(s) with the IHG App and earn 4,200 bonus points.

4,000 A Bonus Weekend Stay
Stay with us for the weekend and earn 4,000 bonus points. A Friday and Saturday or Saturday and Sunday night stay required.

17,600 Globetrotter Bonus
Earn 17,600 bonus points for staying at 4 IHG hotel(s) outside of your country of residence. Youll earn for one hotel stay per country.

4,000 Stay a Little Longer
Earn 4,000 bonus points when you book a single stay of 4 or more consecutive nights.

3,600 Earn More, Faster
Earn 3,600 bonus points when you book 2 Bonus Points Package stay(s) and get to your next reward faster.

18,000 Your Achievement Bonus
Complete 6 of the 7 offers and earn (an additional) 18,000 bonus points.

1,000 January Bonus Offer
Book and stay once in January and get 1,000 bonus points.
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