mrsjon01

I know this is the IHG PB thread but Club Carlson has a Park Inn Vilnius for only 9K points, maybe that could help.

FlyerTalker688786

Oh well the hotel shows redemption available but at normal rate...Gee...you can not win.

Middle_Seat

My guess is the last week of July.

NBSPGMEMBER

It's not very convenient for someone planning a trip in the first few days of August. They should put June, July and August together in one block, and since we don't get a preview anymore...
I hope we get something on Monday the 28th of July or something, I think a preview on the 24th and 25th is out of the question with all the stir of the previous PB...

Tex0322

This kind of sucked for me too. I've got a trip from the beginning of the last week of July until the end of the first week of August. It would have been nice to have these on the same points break.

nacho

There was no preview of the full list in the recent PB. Don't expect too much.

scubaccr

If advance notice was deemed by IHG to lead to giving rogue people time to create scripts to grab best hotels, then better no notice is given so we all have equal chance if a convenient (or good value) hotel pops up on the PB List.

PB list also then gets blogged multiple places and spoonfeeds people who hardly ever stay at IHG the PB hotel names and they then rush to logon and cherrypick the best PB deals, whereas if they have to logon mid afternoon to check when list comes out if they like any PB hotels, they will mostly not bother.

I am happy if it goes back and I need look on the day and get a nice suprise if I can use any of the newly released PB hotels.

NJUPINTHEAIR

Of course, the individual planning a trip in early September would voice your same complaint -- someone will always get the short end of the stick with respect to their release dates.

I agree with Scubaccr, I much prefer to be surprised and have availability than lick my chops and then come up short!

FlyerTalker688786

The script is designed to notify the programmer changes in redemption rate. So in your scenario, those programmer will be the first to know. I have seen the screen shot of one of the scripts. It was specifically designed to catch the changes of redemption rate change to 5,000. The value was set at 5,000 point value. So the programmer was always the first to know the change as soon as IHG released it.

Then there is the second script to scoop the night they want...

I would prefer IHG to add a regional lock. i.e. you can not book the PB hotel if it is in the same state of member's address for last year (and it would be country for some of our dear friends).

scubaccr

OK with enough time any coding is possible including to scan the worldwide stock of IHG hotels though I would not want to give these China programmers loads of ideas.

There is a big difference in coding a first script to repeatedly scan for a specific hotel (or small set of known hotels) already pre-published as being on new PB list and notify programmer as soon as 5k rate is available....as against programming to scan all IHG hotels for 5K

If programmer is looking to only book hotels in their immediate area they could code for all interesting hotels in their immediate target area/state/country though.

IHG in March knew something was up right away, due to impossible speed with which the China IC PB allocation was exhausted, and IHG took, to me, reasonable measures to prevent the profiteering by revoking many of the suspect bookings.

sdsearch

I would not. California is a big state, and I would not like to be locked out of PointsBreaks in San Francisco or Sacramento just because I live a 7 hour drive away in Los Angeles.

Without the least bit of scamming, I have used PointsBreaks within my state before (even much closer than a 7 hours drive), because they matched up with my weekend travels.

But isn't there already a restriction to only 2 reservations per member per PB cycle?

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/inter...n-changes.html

skaya

Yes. Have anyone run into problems/limitations here yet?

FFlash

I have been able to book 7 rooms for a weekend stay of a group = 7 different reservations with pointbreaks, and I asked the hotel "is everything OK", they replied OK.
Stayed 2 weeks ago, all went fine.

skaya

Sounds like another audit option for IHG whenever they feel like.

frank_10b

IHG is one of the most aggressive in this way, like suddenly you can login to your acct and points are missing or indeed the whole acct is goine. Like who would make IHG your primary program if there is no warring no advance notice... nothing...