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Sep 12, 2009 | 11:13 am

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MXM135

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Originally Posted by kinglobjaw

Apparently, if you cancel a points and cash stay, they don't refund you the $, but will credit you points back.

For example, if you have 90,000 pts and want to do 3 nights at an IC using 30K + $60 per night, if you cancel that reservation you will end up with 120,000 points in your account. I have to say, that is a cheap way of buying missing points- $180 for 30K pts. Not bad! But I don't think they count towards status anymore, even after canceling the reservation and re-depositing...

-Kinglobjaw

As mentioned before, in the first days of the 'Points + Cash' option, when the reservations were cancelled, refunded points apparently were counted towards status. This was quickly corrected by IHG to close the loophole.

mxm135

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