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Old Nov 18, 2013, 12:04 pm
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MilesGator
 
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Question on earning very small amount of points

I have 29,973 points in my acct and want to redeem for a 30k/night room. As most of my stays are not IHG, I won't be accruing any more points from actual stays. I know I could transfer in 1k from my Chase UR acct, but would rather not "waste" the extra 973 UR pts I would then have left over in my IHG acct after redeeming for a 30k award night.

If I were to walk into a IHG property and buy some food from the little store near the check-in desk AND give the IHG employee my IHG number would the purchase be eligible for earning IHG points?

If I stop in my local Holiday Inn (10 IHG pts/$), I'd only have to buy ~$3 worth of stuff to earn the 27 points I need (and then not have to transfer in 1k Chase UR pts which is at least worth $10).

Last edited by szg; Nov 18, 2013 at 9:24 pm Reason: replaced "miles" to "points"
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