Originally Posted by
craigthemif
I always laugh when people use "pro tip" for a hack that is very amateur.
Some hotels don't want to bother with making you move rooms - this is true. Others will definitely make you move, especially at higher occupancies. Book a suite or lounge-access room as an IHG nobody and you are moving rooms for your award nights. Book a slightly preferred room as a Diamond and you'll be fine - except you would have been upgraded throughout so you just pi$$ed some money away.
Agreed on your points. However, there's a middle ground. Don't book a suite and expect for that to hold, even as a Diamond. Booking on points doesn't always mean you'll get an upgrade, so perhaps pissing money away isn't really the case. Book somewhere in between the top and bottom for your first night.