Originally Posted by
pointshogger
IHG points are very lucrative if you can take advantage of the Pointsbreak promotion (5,000 points each reward night). 60,000 points can come out to 12 hotel rooms. If you manage to book rooms, conservatively at $100 each, you can get well over $1,200 in value.
When the point break program was first introduced, there were a lot of hotel options in both the US and Canada. Over the years the list of available hotels keeps getting shorter and shorter and I can rarely find a hotel in a big city.