Hello!

I am a *very* newbie traveler and have a very silly question for you.

My boyfriend and I are planning our FIRST EVER international trip to Europe and we were able to pay for most of our trip with reward points from the SPG Amex and Chase Sapphire. Earlier last month I opened an IHG rewards credit card to get the signup bonus and now that I've finally received those points, I was ready to book and discovered that the hotels we were eyeing in Dublin, Ireland have no reward nights available for the time we're staying in May!

We've booked pretty much everything in our trip. Dublin is our second to last stop on the trip. From there we fly to Paris and then fly back home and that flight from Dublin to Paris is already booked.


Does anyone have any advice on how we can use our 70k IHG points in Dublin if the online reservation system says there are no reward nights available? Can we call them and maybe talk our way into it?

Thanks in advanced!!