IHG offer - 6000 bonus Avios
Oct 12, 2016, 6:41 am
#17
Join Date: Jul 2009
Programs: BAEC Silver, IHG Diamond
Posts: 7,779
I got a similar email the other day but it was Marriott.
Basically, join their programme and get 1500 Avios (when selecting miles) for my first and second stays and then 3000? for my third stay up to 30000.
Already a member although I've never stayed with them so no idea if this will work with my existing account.
Basically, join their programme and get 1500 Avios (when selecting miles) for my first and second stays and then 3000? for my third stay up to 30000.
Already a member although I've never stayed with them so no idea if this will work with my existing account.
Oct 12, 2016, 6:49 am
#19
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 8,774
Agreed, completely misleading. I already have 120,000 IHG points so could convert those into a whopping 24,000 avios if I wanted... but I don't.
Oct 12, 2016, 7:27 am
#20
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: EXT
Posts: 477
Ouch! Sorry folks.
This is pretty poor on behalf of BA as well for letting this through, though,
Surely the headline is utterly misleading:
"Collect at least 6,000 Avios when you book and stay with IHG® before 15 December 2016."
Not least because accelerate usually means you have to dine, apply for a credit card and download an app as well as just staying with them.
This is pretty poor on behalf of BA as well for letting this through, though,
Surely the headline is utterly misleading:
"Collect at least 6,000 Avios when you book and stay with IHG® before 15 December 2016."
Not least because accelerate usually means you have to dine, apply for a credit card and download an app as well as just staying with them.
Accelerate gives you the rewards you deserve. Book and stay before 15 December and you can earn at least 30,000 bonus points to spend towards the things you love. Make travel more exciting and get closer to the rewards you’ve always wanted.
Oct 13, 2016, 5:21 am
#21
Join Date: Dec 2004
Programs: BA GGL, A3*G, Mucci de l'expertise des Apps
Posts: 3,367
The advert on the website without going into the T&Cs says "Book and complete your stay before 15 December 2016.", which clearly suggests just one stay is required, no the multiutude of challenges required by accelerate.
I have complained to BA and also to the ASA (not that that achieves much either).
I have complained to BA and also to the ASA (not that that achieves much either).
Nov 9, 2016, 7:41 am
#22
Join Date: Dec 2004
Programs: BA GGL, A3*G, Mucci de l'expertise des Apps
Posts: 3,367
Ouch! Sorry folks.
This is pretty poor on behalf of BA as well for letting this through, though,
Surely the headline is utterly misleading:
"Collect at least 6,000 Avios when you book and stay with IHG® before 15 December 2016."
Not least because accelerate usually means you have to dine, apply for a credit card and download an app as well as just staying with them.
This is pretty poor on behalf of BA as well for letting this through, though,
Surely the headline is utterly misleading:
"Collect at least 6,000 Avios when you book and stay with IHG® before 15 December 2016."
Not least because accelerate usually means you have to dine, apply for a credit card and download an app as well as just staying with them.
Nov 9, 2016, 7:58 am
#23
Community Director
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Norwich, UK
Programs: A3*G, BA Gold, BD Gold (in memoriam), IHG Diamond Ambassador
Posts: 8,480
I do wonder if this wasn't worded and driven by IHG, and it's just been cut & pasted without thinking or understanding (which wouldn't exactly be out of character for BA, would it?).
Relatively recently, IHG changed their survey company and invited all existing members to rejoin, promising 1000 points for taking the first survey - no conditions. That survey offer arrived, I started filling it in within minutes, only for it to perform the same trick as the old company and tell me my demographic had already been satisfied and I wasn't eligible. It then told me that I had been awarded the grand total of 25 points for completing the first section. That's not an enormous amount of use when you've already got in excess of 1m points that you struggle to know what to do with ...
I was tempted to complain to IHG just to make a point, but decided my time was worth rather more than the £5 points value.
In this instance, I'm therefore inclined to say that IHG and BA seem to complement each other rather well.
Relatively recently, IHG changed their survey company and invited all existing members to rejoin, promising 1000 points for taking the first survey - no conditions. That survey offer arrived, I started filling it in within minutes, only for it to perform the same trick as the old company and tell me my demographic had already been satisfied and I wasn't eligible. It then told me that I had been awarded the grand total of 25 points for completing the first section. That's not an enormous amount of use when you've already got in excess of 1m points that you struggle to know what to do with ...
I was tempted to complain to IHG just to make a point, but decided my time was worth rather more than the £5 points value.
In this instance, I'm therefore inclined to say that IHG and BA seem to complement each other rather well.
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Nov 9, 2016, 8:28 am
#25
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: somewhere north of London, UK
Programs: HH Gold, BA Silver, Accor Silver
Posts: 15,245
Thank you for doing that. I had some narrative with BA about this and they simply couldn't see what the issue was. Said I should take it up with IHG if I had a problem, wasn't their battle to fight etc. I politely suggested it was, they said it wasn't, I realised I had more important things to do with my time...