Originally Posted by
joe_ETF
Just curious to see if anyone has tried this strategy to keep points from expiring. My points are expiring in March and I can't seem to make any redemptions through the IHG digital rewards site.
- Redeem points for a hotel stay in the future (say Dec 31, 2020)
- Make an actual hotel stay in April or May 2020 (ie. after my current points expiry date of March 2020)
- Cancel the redemption booking from item 1 in May 2020.
I've noticed that the "points expiring" message does go away immediately after booking a room redemption.
READ THE WIKI , it has the below.
In summary booking+using award night validly extends expiry BUT abuse/loophole ie if you book award/cancel , means the expiry extension is automatically lost as are the points that would have expired if no award had been booked automatically lost
New IHG T+C FEB2018 !
https://www.ihg.com/content/gb/en/cu...-tc.html#terms <-- see point 24.
24. Point Expiration. CLUB LEVEL MEMBERSHIP POINTS (SEE MEMBER BENEFITS, INCLUDING LEVELS OF MEMBERSHIP, HERE) WILL EXPIRE IF YOUR MEMBERSHIP ACCOUNT BECOMES INACTIVE FOR ANY PERIOD OF TWELVE (12) MONTHS OR LONGER, WHICH MEANS YOUR POINTS WILL BE REMOVED FROM YOUR ACCOUNT AND WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE FOR REDEMPTION. To maintain the Points in your membership account, you must have at least one “earn” or “redeem” transaction posted to your account every twelve (12) months. Use of the one night per year provided to IHG Rewards Club credit card holders does not constitute an “earn” or “redeem” activity to prevent Point expiration. If you redeem Points for a Stay and subsequently cancel that Stay, the redemption activity does not prevent Point expiration. Points do not expire for current Elite Members, although Points may expire twelve (12) months after an Elite Member’s account moves to Club level if there is no “earn” or “redeem” activity during those twelve (12) months.