Hi there!

This is my first post to this thread and after reading through all of the posts, a couple of thoughts crossed my mind.
However, to clarify my position, I have been an Amb for a couple of years. Only this March I got a referral certificate from a friend (didn't have to pay for it!!!) and am now enjoying the RA benefits. Never bothered about RA so much before, but now I don't want to loose it.
My problem was that I used the referral in March with half of my Amb year already gone. So I only got "promoted" for the period March-November 09. However, I am making the most of it now and it works pretty well.
But now here comes my thoughts:

a) will they only count my nights/stays in the period from March to November 09 (RA period)? Or the period Nov 08 to Nov 09 (A/RA year)?

b) I can't recall the nights I had in Nov and Dec 08 and the activity page only shows the total nights in 09 and the detailled list only the nights/stays of the last 180 days.

Currently I can only recall the following activity in this A/RA period:

IC: 38 nights, 9 locations
CP: 9 nights, 2 locations
HI: 5 nights, 2 locations
HIX: 5 nights, 3 locations
TOTAL: 57 nights

already planned until end of Nov:
IC: 7 nights, 2 locations
HI: 2 nights, 1 location
TOTAL 9 nights

I wonder, whether this will be enough or not...





However, since there was the discussion of economic crisis and number of travellers being lower. Has anyone ever considered that the prices for rooms within the IHG have gone down tremedously? Just look at Dubai: You get good rooms at IC Dubai for around 100USD per night.
If the whole system is based on number of nights, than somebody who couldn't book IC because of corporate price guidelines, now is able to book it and get a good number of nights for a much better price.
So, accumulating nights can be easier than before with a much better price.