Originally Posted by
BladesInk
It seems that it's very difficult to find points availability on the Preferred Hotels website, only a handful of hotels out of the hundred of properties show up as available. Seems that even booking through choice hotels have more points availability than I Prefer, which doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. Has anyone had experiences with booking Preferred Hotels with I Prefer points not choice hotels points?
I've been playing around with the site a lot to try to figure it out, and feel like I should be close, but can't quite get there. Regardless, there are many properties that offer points + cash rates. Even these rates offer decent value for points, but it's only defraying about 25% of the cash cost of the stay, so you're still going to be paying a lot of cash. There's definitely something to do with the Corporate Codes IPPOINTS and IPRNP: IPPOINTS is the code that the site uses to search for 100% points availability, and IPRNP is the code it uses to search for "Rewards Night Plus", which is their name for points + cash. I was playing around with substituting this into links to hotels that weren't showing up with just points availability and thought I was able to get one to show points availability, but I can't seem to replicate it now. Feels like their site is janky but maybe people end up figuring out how to book some more properties over time?