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Update 2023: - it seems no new RA have been invited by IHG - criteria for RA requalification are still unknown - geographical location of member / country account registration seems of some impact due of covid19(restrictions/availability) - RA is processed in weekly batches starting december 2022 - proof by nicolas75 shows RA qualification for 2024 seems to be strictly based on IC hotels only (not Regent, Kimpton, SixSenses anymore) As per Tim O'Brien's post about IHG-corporate explaining RA criteria: As you are aware, Royal Ambassador is our invitation only tier with the number of members invited each year limited to ensure our hotels are able to consistently deliver on the benefits promise, elevating your stay experience at InterContinental Hotels & Resorts. Although we do not currently have a published criteria for Royal Ambassador, consideration is determined by variable activities within a members account such as - qualified paid room nights & spend across our luxury brands (, 2023 EDIT: Post-Pandemic from 2024 InterContinental only : Pre-Pandemic also Kimpton & Regent ) , - member region, - primary hotels, - category (of the hotel class / €$¥£ price levels compared to currency rates / competition / city / region / country / continent ) - tenure (repeat custom / average spend at hotel) Accompanying or adjoining reservations, such as the additional rooms of your family etc are not included for Royal Ambassador consideration but are included in determining Spire Elite status within IHG Rewards Club. * FT:IHG forum community group consensus / empirical evidence shows - that members must have stayed at different unique hotels per city / country / region / continent the amount of uniques needed for RA qualification is unknown but generally extended long stays at just 1 hotel do not qualify - IHG-corporate showing keen interest in how much guests are spending €$¥£ at hotel's own operated F&B / Spa / transport / extra services / other venues atacama40 has given us insights that extra spend at the hotel charged to the hotelfolio generates EQP but also flags the database as high valued spending guest - one must have AMB to get considered for RA invitation by IHG as they seem to evaluate over a longer period the length of one's tenure / devotion / spend / undisclosed criteria at stayed IC-hotels 2024 Royal Ambassador 2024 (Re)Qualification - statistics Thank you everyone who graciously shared their status and statistics. I took the liberty to compose an overview. The common factor that is instantly recognisable is:
IC: 69 N - 4 unique IC - $17400 - 2 unique country AndyMick IC: 96 N - 10 unique IC - 7 unique country - 164778 EQP Ithink IC: 78 N - 10 unique IC - £27000 Richelieu ~ ProjectSunburst 15 unique IC (USA) - $35000 Kimpton spend: $11000 Milleage Millionaire IC: 100 N : 58 revenue & 42 award - 166514 EQP Raynyan ~ Nicolas75 ~ ILS2 $20000 HadesNL IC: 41 N - 8 unique IC (2x USA, 1x UK, 3x EU, 1x Indonesia) 250458 EQP Marlin1978 IC: 40 N - 9 unique IC (USA + EU) - $13000 HClee01 IC: 30 N - 6 unique IC - $8700 2x Kimpton / 1x Regent : 22 N - $7400 VAbeachgirl IC: 88 N - 14 unique IC - 8 countries 2x Kimpton : 7 N total $20000 (IC + Kimpton) PremexecSNA IHG : 85 N - 147000 EQP of which 90% revenue stay 85 % IC + Kimpton 10 unique IC 15 unique Kimpton Darby1970 IC 100 N : 59 revenue of which 37 N : 11 unique IC (USA)& 4 (non-USA) 187682 EQP Atacama40 IC + Kimpton : 40 N : UK, ME, Asia Roomrate > £1000 EmeraldLady 11 unique IC : 4 continents IHG: 87 N $20000 Dmac1418 IC: 3 N - 2 unjque (IC Houston MC & IC San Diego) 6S Fiji $22000 (room: $10000 + spend $12000) Smythmeister ~ Additional statistics can be found in the comments of LL https://loyaltylobby.com/2023/12/03/...4-share-yours/ The only other place on the whole interweb that has an interest in Royal Ambassador. ============================ 2023 Below our FT-members from the IHG forum with RA status some of whom have graciously shared their statistics to shed some light ----------------------- Mileage millionaire: 155359 EQP - IC nights 58 - total nights 108 - unique IC 15 Shoven : $16000 - IC nights 49 - Kimpton nights 8 - total nights 57 - unique IC 5 - unique Kimpton 2 - [unique countries UK/Thailand] Stimpy: overall stats higher than Shoven Nicholas75 : 230236 EQP - 93 EQN Raynyan : 190000 EQP - IC/Kimpton nights 90 - unique IC/Kimpton 10 Vsevolod4 : $24000 - IC nights 67 - total nights 87 Vabeachgirl : $17500 - IC nights 75 - Kimpton nights 4 - total nights 79 - unique properties 13 [unique countries 7] Hclee01: >$12600 - >156K EQP - 54 EQN - unique IC 3 - unique Kimpton 1 - unique Regent 2 [unique countries Singapore/Thailand/Taiwan/Japan] Chinatrvl : Ithink : 220.000 EQP - 47 EQN Ninjalad : 150000 EQP - IC nights 34 Andymick : 145000 EQP - IC nights 100 Gentleman adventurer : Marlin1978 : Pseudo nim : Hadesnl : 250000 EQP - Kimpton/IC nights 30 - 44 EQN - unique IC 3 - unique Kimpton 2 [unique countries UK/NL/FRA/Indonesia] Itadakimasu : 120000 EQP - IC nights 12 - 51 EQN Atacama40 : >£25000 - IC nights 60 - unique IC 8 - unique Kimpton 1 Eein : corporate rates global & local Raynyan's friends : RA extension because their account is Japanese registered Tim O'Brien: after own friendly persuasion effort : $8,500 - IC nights 79 of which 49 at pres.suite - unique IC 4 [unique countries US/AUS/CAN] ---------------- The only other place on the internet that has an interest in RA (re)qualification statistics is at the comments at Loyaltylobby, more 2023 RA datapoints can be found there: https://loyaltylobby.com/2022/12/09/...re-your-stats/ https://loyaltylobby.com/2023/01/18/...re-your-stats/ ============================================== Update 2020 / 2021: RA status was extended due to the global pandemic of covid19 ================================================== ======= Update 2019: The RA status granted at the start of the calendar year 2017 and 2018 has been based on IC revenue. As from 2019 criteria again have become vague. RA is not achieved through IC spend only. Other, unknown elements are taken into account as well. (Fact: Some users with very high +25k IC spend were not renewed in 2019.) Update December 2018: it looks like some accounts are proactively being renewed in December 2018, well ahead of the stated expiration of Jan 31, 2019. It is currently unknown what criteria were used, but previous years appeared to indicate around $10K++ in IC spend only. As before, please Divide EQPs by 10 to get $$$ Spend ================================================== ===== December 2019 / January 2020 Link to RA Renewals & Upgrades ================================================== ===== ================================================== ===== JANUARY 2019 RA RENEWAL STATS [put total IHG vs. IC if you can] ================================================== ===== NAME.... IHG total (paid)/IC/EQP, break out IC spend if you can Pseudo Nim 73 IC nights, $14.6K IC spend ($17.7K total), Shoven 70 (50) IC nights, $17.3K IC spend ($17.3K total), Unterwegs 52 IC nights, approx $12K net IC spend. No other brands this year! No more mediocre HIs to make status. Kaix 63 IC nights, $14.4K IC spend ($15.1K total) Tim O'Brien 26 IC Paid Nights as at Dec 27, when notified of RA renewal, 140,171 EQP, IC Net Spend 14, 017. Vsevolod4 IHG total 132, IHG total paid 101, IC nights 85, IC Qualified Spend $16.5K, total EQP 398,800, Kimpton nights: 3, RA Ambassador Kit renewed Dec 27, RA renewal (again) and Kimpton Inner Circle upgrade Jan 4. kaka(mom) 34 nights 1 country (all IC), IC spend:23k USD Lewis42 / 81 Total (unknown IC) / $16k IC / $2k Kimpton / 4 Continents 81 nights total $18k Kimpton / IC (about $2k kimpton) stays in 4 continents been Ra for ~3-4 years ID;Name;Confirm;Kit msg; Revenue ;Nights;Challenge?;Additional Info 40;stimpy;+;none; $9,000.00 ;50;?;RA since 2001 - exceptional renewal 38;turner32;-;none; $9,000.00 ;?;?;8/9 years as RA 49;hannes08;+;01/16/2019; $9,990.00 ;52;2000;renewal probably because of challenge 17;Lewis42;+;12/27/2018; $10,000.00 ;?;2000;renewal probably because of challenge 27;scienm;+;none; $10,032.00 ;32;?;8 years RA 25;hclee01;+;none; $10,142.16 ;37;?;current RA since 2014 - manual renewal 18;annihilation;-;none; $10,605.00 ;39;?; 51;crosskonaftw;?;none; $10,700.00 ;35;?;not yet RA 30;Land-of-Miles;+;none; $10,999.00 ;19;?; 16;Kimsbrand;-;none; $11,297.88 ;5;?;not RA yet. 13,532.92 USD total? 48;Urby38;+;12/27/2018; $11,300.00 ;47;?;Royal since 2012 42;SAWorldVoyager;?;12/21/2018; $11,391.52 ;?;?; 14;Cielito_;+;none; $11,511.00 ;62;no;77/62/8 with 12042 USD after batch 45;whimike;+;none; $11,700.00 ;?;?;RA for about 7 years 10;Unterwegs;+;12/27/2018; $12,000.00 ;52;yes; 44;serendipity1211;+;01/16/2019; $12,300.00 ;45;no;first-time RA 28;cazane;+;12/27/2018; $12,600.00 ;61;no;4 prepaid nights not posted until 27th 11890 -> 12600 11;VaBeachGirl;+;12/27/2018; $12,750.00 ;68;no; 50;lukah;?;none; $12,800.00 ;80;?;3 years RA 15;336;-;none; $12,900.00 ;16;2000;NOT completed challenge / Lots of adjusted stays 1;DonPedro;+;12/21/2018; $12,971.00 ;49;no; 47;SD2019;+;none; $13,000.00 ;35;no;stays erroneously adjusted or marked as overlapping 36;BRUSS;+;01/16/2019; $13,001.00 ;?;?; 13;Tim O'Brien;+;12/27/2018; $14,017.00 ;26;?; Kimpton; 33;marlin1978;?;12/27/2018; $14,182.00 ;46;no; 26;Kaix;?;12/27/2018; $14,400.00 ;63;?; 9;Pseudo Nim;+;12/27/2018; $14,600.00 ;73;?; 41;PMMMDL;?;?; $15,000.00 ;50;?; 23;nicolas75;?;12/27/2018; $15,000.00 ;81;?; 5;sharps1337;+;12/21/2018; $15,200.00 ;79;no; 3;Raynyan (friend2);?;12/21/2018; $15,500.00 ;69;no; 22;pantanal;+;12/27/2018; $16,000.00 ;?;?; 24;vsevolod4;+;12/27/2018; $16,319.00 ;84;no; 34;boekel;?;12/27/2018; $16,950.00 ;60;no; 21;ILS2;+;none; $17,000.00 ;40;?; 8;skaya (2x);+;12/27/2018; $17,000.00 ;?;?; 7;shoven;+;12/27/2018; $17,304.00 ;50;?; 51;EmeraldLady;+;12/27/2018; $18,000.00 ;47;?; 32;Mr. Chan;?;12/21/2018; $19,582.00 ;45;yes;completed challenge 46;kaka;+;12/21/2018; $20,001.00 ;34;no; 31;christenlabelle;?;none; $22,000.00 ;51;1k + Kimpton; 39;marcel.baden;?;12/27/2018; $22,000.00 ;77;?; 35;Flying Lawyer;?;12/27/2018; $22,135.00 ;70;?; 37;Roey007;?;none; $25,000.00 ;42;?;9 years RA - 9k adjustment: no kit message with 11k before 12;IThink;+;12/27/2018; $25,000.00 ;85;no; 19;HadesNL;+;12/27/2018; $28,273.90 ;52;?; 4;Raynyan (friend3);?;12/21/2018; $30,000.00 ;73;no; 29;btravers33;?;12/27/2018; $30,000.00 ;98;?; 2;Raynyan (friend1);?;12/21/2018; $32,000.00 ;75;no; 20;Raynyan;+;12/27/2018; ? ;70;?;~30 nights not counted somehow 6;samjnz;?;12/21/2018; ? ;?;2000; 04 JAN 2018 RA RENEWAL STATS [put total IHG vs. IC if you can] ================================================== ===== NAME.... IHG total (paid)/IC/EQP, break out IC spend if you can Pseudo Nim 139 (116)/85/192K, of which $18K in IC Boekel 85 (70)55/170K, of which $15K in IC Tim O'Brien 29 IC Nights 2 Non IC IHG nights, 341,976 EQP scubaccr 55 paid IC Nights , us$13,000++ / 4paid non-IC nights us$900++ (plus 8x IC reward nights, 20x non-IC reward nights) <== Sorry.. forgot to cop exact EQP values before 1/1/2018 acct zeroing Cielito_ 81/77/5 - $7,353 F&B + $11,656 Room = $19,009 IC net spend - EQP 468,000 (First Time RA) hclee01 50 IC us$13k++ Land-of-Miles ?? IC us$10.5k++ cazane 60 IC us$11.8k++ VaBeachGirl 54 IC us$13k++ PiffPaffPuff 60IC us$25k++ ??????? 35 IC us$10.2k++ <== first time RA ref PiffPaffPuff colleague Spitcool 40 IC us$15k++ Eltham 40 IC us$12k++ shoven 43 IC us$15k++ <== first time RA skaya (partner) ?? IC us$10.2k++ <== renewed darby1970 62 IC us$13k++ The Mileage Millionaire 102 paid IHG nights / 100 paid IC nights / 229k EQP / $22.7k++ IC spend Orion_1 8 nights at IC, spent at 2 properties - USD 10,200 in total at ICs (honeymoon...) HadesNL Elite qualifying points: 239,095, Qualifying nights: 39 Aussielori 50 IC us$8k++ 9.2k overall renewed on 16 jan 04 JAN 2018 RA LOSS STATS [put total IHG vs. IC if you can] ================================================== ===== tarek.h ?? IC us$9.1k++ sharps1337 IC us$9.9k++ (and 129 non-IC us$17k++ ) 04 JAN 2017 RA RENEWAL STATS (Please include 2016 y/end EQP count) ================================================== ===== NAME.... IHG/IC/IC's EQP $$$$s SCUBACCR 80/56/13 EQP=14,979 (Split $12864 + $2115) HANNES08 76/46/10 EQP=11,200 OZ_CATALYST 75/63/8 EQP=14,700 (first Time RA) ($12414 at ICs) TAREK.H 46/37/4 EQP=14.500 ($10,917 IC Spend) TravelTheWorld66 147/33/11 EQP=27.972 ($8500 IC Spend) HCLEE01 67/50/6 EQP=14880 ATACAMA40 82/56/10 EQP=??,??? VaBeachGirl 84/42/12 EQP=15,000 Land-of-Miles 87/73/10 EQP=40,000 SSH4POOH 132/99/28 EQP=50,000 ???????? 75/35/8 EQP=??,??? (First Time RA, ref SSH4POOH) iThink 82/36/11 EQP = 18,200 aussielori 75/45/5 EQP =15,100 1010101 50/48/4 = 12,500 MYSTERY7 63/45/? EQP=25,000 (First Time RA) EmeraldLady 68/42/10 EQP=15,500 NKU 86/80/5 EQP=20,000 Petrus 110/40/3 EQP=20,000 ($8500 IC Spend) JOHHENRIK 74/65/10 EQP=16,800 SyLance 76/76/4 EQP=17,500 (RA again after 3years missed) Pseudo Nim 90/58/15 IC spend $9,500, $17K across chain (175K EQP) Tim O'Brien 58 nights, EQP 474,576 , July 31, 2017 Year End, renewed to Dec 29, 2017 HadesNL 22/20/7 and us$20,000 ref two posts. PROTEOME 53/36/? $25,000 (Plus further 30x IC Non-qual nights and 18 IC Award nights) <== nb Maybe/Maybe-Not the IC Non-qual $$'s count as about half EQPs spend, probably > 10k IC qual spend Chinatrvl 88 nights (in all brands, but c. 75 in ICs), 300,000 EQP, ADR c. 115 USD as I stayed mostly on a locally negotiated rate (spend c. 10k USD) Unterwegs 78(my count 86)/63/10/285.000 (according to email, I would have expected less. my spending estimate is 15-20K$) Lewis42 77/39/10 EQP=16010 Whimike 88/35/12 EQP=14220 04 JAN 2017 RA Demotion to xxx Ambassador stats (if > 75/30/3) ================================================== NAME IHG/IC/IC's EQP $$$$s [Archived - no longer valid] New (Royal) Ambassador Criteria A document was unintentionally available in the internet about changes to the (Royal) Ambassador Qualifying and Re-Qualifying criteria. The document is available on http://viewfromthewing.img.boardinga...Ambassador.pdf Older discussion There was an ongoing discussion about the criteria for some time. This thread is now closed. update from Executive Liaison Sept, 2023, spend at other IHG luxury brands does count for RA, and Renewal. Brands weren't stated, but reasonable to assume Six Senses, Regent, and Kimpton. |
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