Originally Posted by
fumje
So is the procedure
1. make a booking through an 'official channel' (e.g., ihg dot com),
2. register preference for UA miles and add UA MP,
3. stay,
4. receive normal IHG points and some extra UA miles
?
I swore myself off of IHG for the near term because of a stupid, semi-insulting promotion offer, but I might choose to stay once if the above is correct.
I would assume 1 & 2 could be done in any order?
For 4), if I understand terms correctly, you'd receive half the normal IHG points (5x instead of 10x) and some extra UA miles.
Unless your current preference is already set up to earn UA miles during IHG stays. From that baseline, you'd receive the normal UA miles and some extra IHG points.