Originally Posted by
pa3lsvt
A stay is defined as any number of consecutive nights at a hotel, regardless of check-in and check-outs. Verbiage nearly identical to that is found somewhere in the T&Cs of the program.
IOW, they already thought of that and, no, you can't scheme the system that way. Go to a different hotel on night #2 .
The problem with that is the IHG system doesn't recognize their own rules. As long as each folio is separate, it will identify them as two different stays.