watery

A one-night stay in Japan plus breakfast added at the premise (slightly more than breakfast rate) have checked the 35,000 points I have targeted about 10 days after. Without intervention I call this a miracle. Actual (bonus) points not posted yet but I'm not worried for now.

Btw my untouched "book and stay once in January" have been silently changed to "book and stay once in March". That stay didn't trigger it though, coz it was a prepaid rate booked in Feb. Just saying, can't complain.

gobears293

I had a similar situation. Was completing three tasks with one stay.

First one got the green check in a few days. Second task about a week later. And finally the "Pay with IHG cc" took two weeks from the day I checked out.

watery

Update: everything just posted today, 2 weeks after checkout and 3 days after tasks checked. Also, points for "book and stay once in March" posted despite not being checked in Accelerate listing. What a day.

EDIflyer

Finally had recent stay show up on Accelerate page and (as I feared might be the case) - isn't showing up as app booking, thus 4/5 task bonus points also not showing. Hotel had pre-upgraded (after previous customer service issues) to Exec room, but as a result I'm pretty sure this wiped whatever was on the booking that said it was an app booking. Had discussed the previous service issues with IHG Care as well as hotel though and clear at that point it was an app booking so am hoping they see sense...

nicolas75

Like last year, obvious errors appear on my “Fast forward” promotion dashboard : for example, the week-end bonus does not appear, despite numerous stays on week-ends.

Same story for stays booked through the IHG app.

EDIflyer

Well full credit to IHG Care email team! I sent an email this evening and had a reply one hour later saying they have verified the stay in question to be a qualifying night and said that should mark the sub-offer 'Travel with the IHG app' complete. They said to allow three weeks from today for the points to be posted and for the dashboard to be updated and to contact them if it doesn't happen.

Wow! ^ ^

Enigma368

Did anyone get a definitive answer from IHG whether the night of April 15th/16th would count towards promo?

The terms are not 100% clear. I have previously received the January bonus for checking in on January 31st and out on February 1st during Accelerate Q1 2016 so guessing it is OK..

floridatraveler90

I've heard that the difficulty of your challenge depends on if you accomplished the previous quarters challenge. I guess that make sense. Anyway, my offer includes "stay 20 nights get 40,000 points" which is obviously the big ticket reward I want but with how many nights I have right now isn't possible. I can however get the achievement bonus by getting 4/5 offers complete. I would need to book a bonus points package which would net me 9,600 points(3,600 for the offer and 6,000 for the achievement bonus). What are everyones thoughts on if this would be worth it? 9,600 points would be okay but if that screws me over for the Q2 2017 promotion then probably wouldn't be worth it I guess.

EDIflyer

Sadly their IT doesn't seem that consistent so it's difficult to predict. I've had some quarters where I've earned zero in Accelerate and still had rubbish offers the next quarter (when you'd expect them to have been easier). I've got for all except stay bonus thus time as I got 36,000 for two one-night stays so thought it was a decent return. Will see what they give me next time. Just have to make a value call really on whether you feel the offer is decent and easy enough to achieve...

Saral

I'd heard the difficulty of your challenge relates to the same time frame the previous year...but who knows

sdsearch

There's a time lag between when they calculate what your tasks will be for a given cycle and when it's announced. That was clear to me when they gave me the exact same tasks for 1Q 2017 as for 4Q 2016 because I didn't complete my 4Q 2016 tasks until December 2016 at which point they had to already calculate my 1Q 2017 tasks.

So they look back at your past activity in general, but I don't think it's predictable with a fine-tooth comb exactly how far back they start and stop looking.

What is clear is that if you consistently stay "very little" (paid) at IHG, because you're just barely maxing out the "easiest" 3/4 or 4/5 tasks on each promo and not doing much of any other paid IHG stays, you tend to get very easy promos cycle after cycle, while if you consistently stay "a lot" (paid) at iHG, your promos tend to "push" you to do even more.

It's very hard to get enough clear datapoints (with enough detail) for people whose paid IHG stay patterns are very inconsistent to figure out how exactly it might work in those cases.

CMK10

Glad to see things are updating fasted than they used to, at least in my experience. My stay from 3/13-3/15 is now showing as completed on the Accelerate Page for the March Stay Bonus, Book a Stay and Get 3,000 Bonus and use the IHG Card bonus (which I might add did not post last time).

beachmouse

Booked about March 2 directly on the web site for a March 13-16 stay. I'm showing 'in progress' for the 'Stay More, Earn More' and 'stay Smart Tasks' but neither the 'Book and Stay Once' task nor the March booking 1K bonus points seem to have been triggered. Think this will resolve on its own over the next few days or am I going to have to chase it?

scubaccr

I think that a real difference exists accelerator wise to IHGers staying < 20nights a year, and able to complete accelerator tasks with eg 3stays=5nights, often those nights only during accelerator promomos, versus guests who have high status from 80-100+ nights a year.

I have found whether I complete all tasks or x of n tasks to trigger final bonus or not doesn't seem to make a difference to the next accelerate targets

Historically my stay pattern is far from equal number of nights per month/quarter.
My accelerator targets as such are more or less aligned to my stay history for the same period 12months earlier.
I say more or less aligned, as the big earner is always "stay more nn nights" and is always stretched, eg stay 30nights 12months ago , I need 33-35 or stay 40nights 12months ago accelerator sets 45nights target.

citygourmande

After an email chaser for an update on the status of my query, IHG have credited me the missing points (1,500 for credit card spend and 25,400 for achievement bonus).


The dashboard still shows these tasks as incomplete though. Not complaining since I've now got the points!