I’m standing at 69 IHG nights for 2023, but 20 to 30 of those were booked during the award Flash Sales last year (at great point rates), and my overall cash spend is less than half what would be required for the Royal Ambassador.
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InterContinental Royal Ambassador used to be one of my favorite top tier status levels.
Royal Ambassador members could nominate someone else to Royal Ambassador status, and going back several years even referred Royal Ambassador members received referral certificates, so there was an almost never ending chain of Royal Ambassadors.
Those certificates have been eliminated in the meantime.
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Unsurprisingly, since Royal Ambassador status is no longer accessible through
referral certificates, professional picnickers no longer have this status. 🙄🙄