Well, not sure if 10K ist the line. Year end I was at 76/51/6 and had 111K EQP (~11K USD, mostly at ICs). My account is still Spire RA, but no renewal notice - expiry is 31 MAR. So I guess I did not make it - or they haven't done all acounts in one run or what ever ;) Datapoint: rollover nights and spire elite choice benefit still missing in my account.

Anguished scream!

Checked today and seem to have qualified for Royal (spire) Ambassador.
My stay pattern for 2016 was and booked:
IC Paris LeGrand 3n club room
IC Vienna 1n junior suite
IC Parklane 2n superior room with bogo
IC O2 3n superior room
IC Frankfurt 1n juniorsuite
IC Miami 4n executive suite
IC Toronto Yorkville 6n juniorsuite
Thrown in are stays at Indigo Edinburgh / Crowne Plaza Amsterdam.

Admittingly we spend some extra $ at hotel's signature restaurants etc .

Seriously? 20 nights at IC?

Was hoping to qual for the first time.

Stats:

60/26/10

Total spend ~$12.5k
Spend at IC ~6K

Pretty obvious why I didn't qual.

Money talks and BS walks. I guess.

If you requalify as RA , seems strange and some uneven treatment is taking place with 2017 RA renewals..... Your IC spend can only be circa $6750 so maybe you qualified on your nights instead (or the missing Venetian spend)??

Taking your 89/44/13 us$10,370 ihg+ic spend, if you allow for 45 non-IC nights roomrate at low average $80/night which is $3600, then your IC spend is only us$6770++
Question/thought... Is your missing Venetian spend 9nights circa us$3500++ to get you to $10k IC spend?

just look at one failure, PseudoNim totals, has all of more nights, more IC Spend, more total spend???
Pseudo Nim 90/58/15 IC spend $9,500, $17K across chain (175K EQP)

Do you mean Android App Card updated to EXP 30 Dec 2017for you?

What was your IC spend, did it exceeds us$10,000 ++ due to pricier suite bookings and restaurant dinners?

But in that case not solely spent in ICs

I've also been renewed with 96/72/11 - 17800 EQP

But honestly after this management/communication disaster I'm undecided if I should continue with IHG. I will most likely also increase my SPG stays to become Plat there

New RA
 

As i am one of those who qualified with a limited number of nights, i went thru my past stays history in order to summarize the Qualified spend of every stay (and omiting the bonus points i usually avail).

I qualified (for the 1st time as i am member since Sep. 2015) with the below stats (this supersedes my previous post):

IC:
33 Nights (Thru 27 Stays) / 4 IC / Q.Spend 10,917$

CP:
7 Nights (Thru 4 Stays) / Q.Spend 1,071$

HI:
3 Stays / 3 Nights / 288$

30 IC / 3 IC / 10k IC Spend looks like the new RA criteria to me

Except my eqp's were limited to 2000 at the Venetian,whereas my spend was quite a lot higher.

Non RA
 

So my status shows Ambassador, which means I did not requalify for RA. Shame, I liked the status the last three years.
A quick call to the Ambassador line said they only got new info this morning and everything needs to go to a central place. I assume this means Saltlake.

I did a quick analysis of my stay patters last year:
The high number of non-qualifying stays are due to some stays being listed with incorrect check-in, check-out days which could possibly be corrected and bring me something like 3 to 5 more nights and a booking for two rooms at the same hotel.

It looks to me as if this should have requalified as RA if I look at some others here but it seems the new rules are not very clear-cut...

In case anyone wants to run the same data, I have a super hackish python script that does the analysis.
Go to the ihg page to the "Account Activity" field. Select "All activity" and "365 days". Then click on "Print my account activity". This should open a new window, copy and paste everything into a text file called ihg-data.txt.

Then run the python script ihg-data-parser.py which you can find at https://gist.github.com/ixs/7276435c...fe74a08594eef4. Super crappy parser, super crappy code. But seems to do what is needed.
The logic to differentiate between IC and non-IC hotel is simple: If the hotel name is the same as the city name, it's an IC. For the ICs where this is not the case there's a list at the top of the file that can be used to add more hotel names that should be seen as ICs.

If you got any question or need help, PM me.

Reference point:
I have contacted Ambassador service centre via email to just question my status (A man's gotta do what a man has gotta do). As part of this they responded with the following...

"Furthermore, our records show that your status was downgraded from Royal Ambassador tier to Ambassador. We wish to inform you that the Royal Ambassador status is systematically extended to the top one percent of InterContinental Ambassador guests, based on the number of InterContinental properties they have visited and qualifying nights they have completed during the past year"

My spend was in/about 20.000 usd via private account. I don't have a corporate rate and book always under leisure profile. For example last IC Miami stay was total room rate $3000.

We did some "expensive" dinners hosting friends at Parklane/LeGrand/Miami/O2 so that might have tipped it - we charge everything to the room.

Ambassador service center is staffed by muppets who have outdated mail templates and often also do not know...
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