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Old Oct 19, 2017, 6:43 am
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Originally Posted by chongcao
If a hotel offers 1,000 Bonus Points per night Package and Your Rate, then Your Rate 1,000 Bonus Points Per Night Package is offered too. There is no exception. If there is no Your Rate offered to the hotel, that is because your Rate is not a universe rate yet, it is still being progressively rolled out in the IHG system. You do not need to know the difference. It is either offered or not. Book with the hotel offer such rate or not.
My point is precisely that - when there is no Your Rate offered by the hotel, it is easy to waste money on a bonus rate package without knowing that it won't count for Accelerate.
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