The Big Win returns - Spring 2014
#286
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Barcelona, London, on a plane
Programs: BA Silver, TK E+, AA PP, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott LT Plat, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 13,069
#287
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Canada, Eh?
Posts: 294
I would think they wouldn't, buy those brands are listed in the T&Cs for the breakfast promo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And if you do a search around Santa Ana, CA on the link you provided for Jan 2 (1 night), even though the link says it's BestFlexWithBreakfast rate, it finds HIXs, Staybridge' and Candlewoods!!!
So where is all that certainty you're referring to?
And if you do a search around Santa Ana, CA on the link you provided for Jan 2 (1 night), even though the link says it's BestFlexWithBreakfast rate, it finds HIXs, Staybridge' and Candlewoods!!!
So where is all that certainty you're referring to?
"No rooms exactly matching your preferences were found. The following room types are available."
And any rate you select will only be a simple best flexible.
#288
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: DXB
Programs: AA EXP IC RA Marriott Plat
Posts: 75
I dont think somebody got a worse offer than me:
Stay a total of 65 nights and receive 46,800 POINTS
Stay at 4 different IHG brands and receive 19,200 POINTS
Stay 4 Saturday nights and receive 6,400 POINTS
Complete a simple survey and receive 100 POINTS
Spend $40 on food or beverage at any IHG™ hotel and receive 300 POINTS
Stay at 3 Holiday Inn™ hotels and receive 5,600 POINTS
Book 1 stays through the Best Flexible Rate with Breakfast and receive 2,000 POINTS
Complete 7 of your offers and receive 80,000 POINTS
Stay a total of 65 nights and receive 46,800 POINTS
Stay at 4 different IHG brands and receive 19,200 POINTS
Stay 4 Saturday nights and receive 6,400 POINTS
Complete a simple survey and receive 100 POINTS
Spend $40 on food or beverage at any IHG™ hotel and receive 300 POINTS
Stay at 3 Holiday Inn™ hotels and receive 5,600 POINTS
Book 1 stays through the Best Flexible Rate with Breakfast and receive 2,000 POINTS
Complete 7 of your offers and receive 80,000 POINTS
Stay more and earn
Stay a total of 30 nights and earn 12,000 points
Explore our brands
Stay at 3 different IHG brands and earn 11,200 points
Start the day off right
Book 2 stays through the Best Flexible Rate with Breakfast and earn 2,400 points.
Book with IHG
Book 4 separate stays through an IHG® hotel website or mobile device to get our Best Price Guarantee and earn 2,600 points
Win in a weekend
Stay 12 Saturday nights and earn 9,600 points
Change your view
Stay at 2 Holiday Inn® hotels and earn 4,800 points
Authentic experiences
Stay at 3 InterContinental® Hotels and Resorts and earn 11,200 points.
Win big
Complete 7 of your offers and earn 54,000 points
Total possible points 107,800.
It ain't gonna happen.
#289
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Miami, FL
Programs: UA 1MM, AA Plat, Marriott LT Titanium, Hyatt Glob, IHG ♢ Amb, Hilton ♢, Hertz Pres
Posts: 6,026
This is ridiculous. Why can't IHG just tell us the terms in advance? I have tried to contact them via email and Facebook. But they don't respond with any answers. I just can't understand why they won't tell us whether one hotel 2x will do, or if we're required to stay in 2 different hotels.
#290
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 16
Code:
Offer 2014 2013 Stay more and earn: 42 nights 31200 33 nights 19500 Explore our brands: 4 brands 19200 5 brands 26000 Win in a weekend: 2 Sat nights 4800 2 Sat nights 4800 Book with us/IHG 2 stays 3200 2 stays 2400 Try one and done 1 stay 1000 Live the city life 2 locations 7200 Start the day off 1 stay 2000 Change your view 2 stays 4800 Survey the win 100 Big Win 65000 61000 -------- -------- Total 130300 121900
110 qualifying nights
five qualifying brands
~98000 qualifying points earned
~223000 points total earned
Only 1000 points for 2013 was from the Big Win ("Try one and done" ). five qualifying brands
~98000 qualifying points earned
~223000 points total earned
Of the Big Win offers for 2013, I came closest on the brands offer, I was able to stay at four different brands during the Big Win qualification period so I missed that by one.
#291
Join Date: Feb 2012
Programs: Priority Club
Posts: 110
Best Flex Rate With Breakfast
just booked - this was the wording
Rate Description: Exclusive Savings for our IHG Reward's Club members staying over the weekend. 10% off our standard Best Flexible Rate with Breakfast when your stay includes a Friday or Saturday night. Includes breakfast for up to 2 Adults sharing a room
Should be ok - not till late Feb - so time to find out on this board and cancel if need be.
UKD
#292
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: ヒルトン大阪
Programs: ゴールデングローブ
Posts: 1,982
Take your chance! Whilst I am not a big supporter of HHonors (anymore) I must say that HHonors gold gives you MUCH better value than the (more or less useless) Priority Club Platinum status.
#293
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: OOL
Programs: VA Gold, QF Nothin' Bronze, IHG Plat AMB, Europcar Privilege Elite
Posts: 59
Does anybody have anything further on the following offer?
IHG mobile app booking
Book 4 separate stays through our IHG® app and earn 6,400 points.
As the T+C's state
Bonus points or bonus miles listed above will be rewarded after required number of qualifying stays are booked on any IHG web or mobile apps between January 1, 2014 and April 30, 2014
What does an IHG Web or mobile app consist of? if I make a booking through the website on a mobile device will it still count? I've a few upcoming stays booked on Priority Privilege rates and I can't get them through the app.
Thanks!
IHG mobile app booking
Book 4 separate stays through our IHG® app and earn 6,400 points.
As the T+C's state
Bonus points or bonus miles listed above will be rewarded after required number of qualifying stays are booked on any IHG web or mobile apps between January 1, 2014 and April 30, 2014
What does an IHG Web or mobile app consist of? if I make a booking through the website on a mobile device will it still count? I've a few upcoming stays booked on Priority Privilege rates and I can't get them through the app.
Thanks!
#294
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: San Juan, PR
Programs: MR AMB/LT, AA EP, TK EP, DL D, B6 M4, F9 100K, IHG AMB/D, HH D, CZR D, FndCd, Sixt D, NTL E, Hz PC
Posts: 428
I'm an SPG person, and joined Ambassador due to an annual conference at the IC Kuala Lumpur (club lounge access, double upgrade, etc. for the conference once per year is totally worth the $200).
Did Big Win after learning about it in 2013, but only the bare minimum -- the IC 4 days, 1 saturday night at a HI, one saturday night at a HIX, ~90k points due to the promo and stacking promos.
2014:
stay more and earn (total of 4 nights) - 12000
explore our brands (stay in 2 diff brands) - 24000
win in a weekend (2 sat night) - 12000
change your view (2 HI hotels) - 12000
Authentic experience (2 IC hotels) - 24000
Win Big (6/6) - 36000
So I guess I'll do a 2 separate HI, 2 separate IC, on 2 saturday nights. 4 nights for ~120000 points (plus whatever else I can stack on top).
This kind of feels like an *anti* loyalty program. I love IC and have work reasons to stay at HI/HIx/etc. sometimes, so I'm not complaining, but giving much better offers to people who stay the least doesn't seem like a great plan.
Did Big Win after learning about it in 2013, but only the bare minimum -- the IC 4 days, 1 saturday night at a HI, one saturday night at a HIX, ~90k points due to the promo and stacking promos.
2014:
stay more and earn (total of 4 nights) - 12000
explore our brands (stay in 2 diff brands) - 24000
win in a weekend (2 sat night) - 12000
change your view (2 HI hotels) - 12000
Authentic experience (2 IC hotels) - 24000
Win Big (6/6) - 36000
So I guess I'll do a 2 separate HI, 2 separate IC, on 2 saturday nights. 4 nights for ~120000 points (plus whatever else I can stack on top).
This kind of feels like an *anti* loyalty program. I love IC and have work reasons to stay at HI/HIx/etc. sometimes, so I'm not complaining, but giving much better offers to people who stay the least doesn't seem like a great plan.
#295
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: ヒルトン大阪
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Posts: 1,982
I see it the same way. The program should not reward people like you but rather dudes who spend more nights at their hotels and dudes who are longstanding and trustworthy clients.
#296
Join Date: Aug 2011
Programs: Hilton Honors Diamond, IHG Spire, Marriott Titanium, Wyndham Diamond, Caesar's Diamond
Posts: 536
They aren't trying to reward anyone. This isn't about saying thank you. It's about incenting people to stay. They have apparently determined that people who already stay a lot are likely to continue, so they're going after those who haven't been staying as much. You may think that's unfair, but it's marketing.
#297
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Amsterdam, Asia, UK
Programs: IHG RA (Spire), HH Diamond, MR Platinum, SQ Gold, KLM Gold, BAEC Gold
Posts: 5,072
a)why waste points on loyal elites
b)offer loads of points, but make loyal elite do more than historic number of stays that quarter. (which may not be possible if elite only stays at IHG and not a competitor chain, so possibility to switch nights to IHG)
No point complaining direct to IHG, but IHG should easily have learnt by checking my 4Q2013 BigWin stays to see I had been mis-targetted on the individual tasks and that I stayed far far less in 4Q2013 than 4Q2012.
I am learning for first time not to have just one loyalty option (IHG), hence my recent and continuing investment in Hilton nights.
Maybe 2Q2014 IHG will win me back but I am not sure, and am even ready to abandon RA status renewal in 2014.
Trouble is grass is never greener on the other side, so no doubt HH will in future create reasons to go back to IHG, eg Airline Miles change from Jan2014 which I had only just started to really accumulate.
My BigWin promo earnings will earn a less then impressive
4Q2013 => 1100/97,000
1Q2014 => 100/196,000
#298
Join Date: Mar 2009
Programs: LT NoN REV
Posts: 566
Here ıs my sprıng 2014 wın BIG offer 24K.
A) change your vıew -2 stay HI 7,200
B) Start the day rıght - 1 stay best flexıble rate wıth breakfast 3,000
C) stay more and earn - 7 nıghts 13,000
I mıght do 2 nıghts but not 7 for thıs lousy offer.
Thıs offer ıs worse than the prevıous.
Platınum
2013 completed 25 nıghts.
A) change your vıew -2 stay HI 7,200
B) Start the day rıght - 1 stay best flexıble rate wıth breakfast 3,000
C) stay more and earn - 7 nıghts 13,000
I mıght do 2 nıghts but not 7 for thıs lousy offer.
Thıs offer ıs worse than the prevıous.
Platınum
2013 completed 25 nıghts.
#299
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Crewe, UK
Programs: IHG Spire
Posts: 152
My offer is slightly better this time, only need to stay 75 nights compared with 88 for the current promo!
Another impossible target for me, looks like I might use Q1 next year to look at alternative chains
Another impossible target for me, looks like I might use Q1 next year to look at alternative chains
#300
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 4,431
I'm going to try to get my Big Win Q1 2014 and also want to redeem my IHG free certificate within the next several months. I'm going to take a short trip to Vegas in Feb or March and want to kill 2 birds with 1 stone. I think award or certificate stays don't count toward Big Win, but my plan is for a 2-3 night stay, and redeeming my free night for 1 of the nights, and pay for the other night(s). Should I book a single stay and use my certificate to pay for 1 night, or should I book 2 separate stays for this trip (1 free, 1 paid)?
The second question is regarding the brands. For Big Win, I need 4 brands. On the IHG website, the Palazzo and Venetian are both "Intercontinental Alliance Resorts". Will this count as a regular Intercontinental hotel? Will it count as an IHG brand at all? I don't know what "alliance" means in this situation.
The second question is regarding the brands. For Big Win, I need 4 brands. On the IHG website, the Palazzo and Venetian are both "Intercontinental Alliance Resorts". Will this count as a regular Intercontinental hotel? Will it count as an IHG brand at all? I don't know what "alliance" means in this situation.