Originally Posted by
Jaimito Cartero
If you do a lot of single night stays, it's not really that hard to get top tier in a few programs. I had top tier with IHG for a number of years, and for international locations it was quite worthwhile.
The rules at IHG have changed this year. Bonus points (often so easy to "stack" up on just a few stays for FTers at the start of each year) no longer count toward qualification. So you can no longer use a small number of stays to get IHG Platinum:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/inter...-platinum.html
It's far easier now (for those in the US at least) to simply get IHG Platinum from the credit card. Unfortunately, that's not available in most other countries, so for most places outside the US it has indeed gotten more difficult to get IHG Platinum compared to even just a year or two ago.