Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Barcelona, London, on a plane
Programs: IB+ Gold, TK E+, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott LTP, IHG Diamond
Posts: 14,185
At first I thought "wow! HfP has really hit the big time. A great deal with a major hotel chain".
Then I realised that IHG are back on the cashback sites like Quidco, so you'd be giving up 11% in cash to get 7% in points (assuming 0.7 cent P+C/cancel trick). And that requires the manual process to run properly.
Kudos to both Raffles and IHG for coming up with something a bit different, but it's still just affiliate marketing which we all know has its pros and cons for the end user.