Even the Bali story about I don’t understand why 8 people needed to show 8 passes.
They needed 4 passes since each pass allows 2 people
You are totally right indeed!
Current affairs:
4 passes = 8 persons
However the passes must be shown to be junctioned to an eligable IHG-1rewards account number.
Aka the accountnumber + name that earned the personal 40/70N milestone : annual lounge pass
This happened in 2023 during the first introduction of the lounge pass.
The most curious case was that the 4 children <18 years presented their own lounge passes.
Which was revealed to me as being an impossibility.
As children < 18 years cannot become IHG-1rewards members and also cannot check into IHG hotels.
Hence unable to acquire the lounge pass.
So holding reservations with their 8 similair last names,
They only had the lounge pass as screenshots on their phones.
Yet none of the reservations did contain their personal IHG1rewardsaccount number,
The children & adults were unable to provide each their personal IHG-1rewards account number on + each their personal account name registeration that earned each of them their personal 40/70N milestone : annual lounge pas.