Huge fan of this sale! Booked a total of twelve 4-nighters at ICs Paris, London, Rome, Cascais, Lyon, Amstel, Geneva, and Kimpton Vividora. Not at all a bad deal at 27k points/night (after Chase 4NF and 10% points discount). Also finally a good use of those stupid 40k points certs! Not gambling on Japan opening up anytime soon, though -- had to cancel way too many speculative reservations in the past 2 1/2 years.

Made the mistake 10+ years ago of holding on to IHG (then: PC) points when the top hotels cost 40k points/night, so would be lovely to clear out a good chunk of my balance at these "original" rates ... especially becaue back then the argument was, no benefits on awards plus need to rack up qualifying nights for RA ... now Diamond should at least get some minor upgrades plus breakfast.