Originally Posted by
jacisme
I'm looking at booking four nights for August using:
1st - cash for intercontinental harbor view room
2nd - free weekend night from royal ambassador status purchase
3rd - Chase free night certificate
4th - 50,000 IHG points
Any idea how this collection of nights will be treated for upgrades? Will they let me stay in the harbor view for all the nights?
I'm currently IHG platinum and will be Platinum Ambassador after the ambassador status purchase.
Thanks in advance!
You can't purchase RA, you can purchase regular Ambassador though which also provides a bogo cert.
IC HK treats RA award nights same as paid, this ex-gratia RA treatment does not get applied to Ambassador status Award nights also, to my (limited) knowledge
Nights 1+2 with Bogo, First night Paid, second night free as Ambassador give upgrade 1-level each night, without problems. Nights 3+4 you have no entitlement to upgrade from booked rooms.
Not sure how Chase is treated, it is similar to award and like award nights there is no upgrade entitlement.
At the end of the day ymmv dependent on IC-HKoccupancy rates those 4nights.
You could be unlucky and need to either move room on nights 3+4 or pay an upsell fee (IC-HK allow a 30% discount on rate difference at checkin)