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Copying over the usual promotion info to the new thread:

For newcomers to IHG promotions, note that Holiday Inn Express and Holiday Inn (including Holiday Inn Resorts) are two different brand categories for these things. If your dashboard says 'stay at a Holiday Inn Express' as one of the tasks and you stay at a Holiday Inn, it will NOT credit for the Holiday Inn Express task. (and vice versa)

At IHG, points + cash stays are simply points stays where you bought some of the points at the time of the reservation. Once you finish the reservation, a points + cash stay shows as a points stay. Thus points + cash stays only count for tasks where they are specified, and not other tasks.

https://www.ihg.com/content/us/en/offers/q1accelerate2017/dashboard

Some offers require booking within the promotion period in addition to staying during the promotion period.

IHG Accelerate 1Q 2017 (1st JAN to 15th APR)

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Mar 28, 2017, 6:37 pm

#511

WannaTheater

Join Date: Sep 2009

Programs: AA Executive Platinum, Marriott Lifetime Titanium, IHG Platinum

Posts: 1,450

Quick question about the following offer:

1,500 Spend on your IHG® Rewards Club Credit Card. Book and pay for one stay with your IHG® Rewards Club Credit Card and earn bonus points.

I also had a "Stay for less and earn." So I completed the "stay for less and earn" by purchasing the points with my IHG rewards club credit card, and completed the stay (points plus cash). I did receive the points for "stay for less and earn," but not the 1500 pts for the credit card purchase.

I called customer service, and was told the point+cash night doesnt count as a "stay," but the purchasing of the points portion with the IHG credit card would count.... but he really didnt sound sure.

Can anyone confirm? If you buy the points with your IHG card, will it count? ....if not I need to pay for my room tomorrow night with my personal vs. corporate card.

Thanks!

Mar 29, 2017, 6:49 pm

#512

sdsearch

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Join Date: Jan 2005

Location: home = LAX

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Quote:

Originally Posted by WannaTheater

That's been discussed many times within this thread.

Book and pay requires you pay the room rate with your card. Points + cash stays at IHG are just a disguised way of buying points: You buy the points in one step, and then it turns into a pure points reservation after that. So there's nothing you paid the hotel, and thus it doesn't qualify for the "use your card for a stay" task, since all you used your card for (if you did a cash + points stay) was to "buy points" from IHG itself.

Mar 30, 2017, 2:42 pm

#513

travellingtechie

Join Date: Jan 2013

Location: South West England

Programs: BA exec club, Flying Blue, VFC, IHG Rewards, EasyJet Plus

Posts: 233

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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!

Good result. Reminds me I must contact the service centre. I've stayed in at least 3 different IHG properties all paid with my IHG credit card and still this task hasn't triggered! It's just that and 2 nights I need to finish, but the last two nights aren't until 12/13 April which is dangerously near the end of the period, after which the dashboard disappears and there's no way to see what has and hasn't tracked and complain accordingly !!

Mar 30, 2017, 2:49 pm

#514

travellingtechie

Join Date: Jan 2013

Location: South West England

Programs: BA exec club, Flying Blue, VFC, IHG Rewards, EasyJet Plus

Posts: 233

Oh yes, meant to ask - is there any consistency to the number of "welcome bonus" points you get? Since being platinum I normally get 500 but the last stay was only 300 ! It seems much better value to claim a free drink instead, which I will do from now on

Mar 30, 2017, 3:12 pm

#515

Saral

Join Date: Sep 2008

Programs: IHG Platinum

Posts: 442

Quote:

Originally Posted by travellingtechie

does it not depend on the hotel chain you stay in, being platinum as well, I get 300 at HIX and 600 at CP, Indigo

Mar 31, 2017, 2:08 am

#516

rhivolution

Join Date: Sep 2016

Location: Middle of Nowhere

Programs: Lowly BAEC Bronze, VS, IHG Platinum, HHonors Gold, Hotels.com Gold

Posts: 231

Are we expecting another accelerate for Q2 or do they skip this one? Thanks.

Mar 31, 2017, 2:25 am

#517

ba_cityflyer

Join Date: Dec 2009

Programs: BA Gold Guest List, Concorde Room Card, Hilton Diamond

Posts: 728

Hi,

I have received bonus points, with the description:

"Accelerate KNR Double Points"

Which matches the base spend at an IC stay from a week ago.

This is weird as, while I am registered for Accelerate and have completed 6/7 offers, NONE of them offer double points!

Anyone know what this offer is?

Thanks,

Apr 1, 2017, 3:35 am

#518

Hannibal Lecter

Join Date: Oct 2009

Posts: 5,041

Quote:

Originally Posted by rhivolution

Are we expecting another accelerate for Q2 or do they skip this one? Thanks.

Who knows, there wasn't any last year.
I don't think there was any promo at all during the month of May last year
and the next accelerate started June 1st.

Apr 1, 2017, 7:29 am

#519

CasaDeTony

Join Date: Mar 2011

Location: London

Programs: BA Silver, Hilton Gold, IHG Platinum

Posts: 59

Just completed 7 of 8 tasks (excluding the credit card offer), gaining 57,400 out of 59,400 points.

One of the tasks - booking through the mobile app - was a bit fickle. Only 2 out of 3 stays booked through mobile were correctly detected by the accelerate tracker.

Apr 1, 2017, 7:41 am

#520

sdsearch

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Join Date: Jan 2005

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Hannibal Lecter

Who knows, there wasn't any last year.
I don't think there was any promo at all during the month of May last year
and the next accelerate started June 1st.

It depends where you're based.

See, while in Jan-Apr and Sep-Dec IHG runs the same Accelerate promo worldwide, in the summer they split promos with different names and different dates for different regions:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/inter...icas-only.html

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/inter...16-non-us.html

(They've done such a summer split for two years now IIRC.)

So while outside the Americas the next Accelerate may have started in June, in the Americas it didn't start until September:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/inter...er-2016-a.html

but the Share Forever promotion started in May.

Apr 1, 2017, 1:29 pm

#521

kevino

Join Date: Sep 2001

Location: SFO

Programs: UA1k3.00mm;AAex-EXP;Hy Glob;Acc Plt;HH Dia;Onyx Plt;Mar LT Tit;IHG DiAm;RR P;RRA G;BW D;Hcom G

Posts: 2,760

Quote:

Originally Posted by ba_cityflyer

I got the same bonus points with the same description and don't know why.

My extra points correspond to the base points for my two night stay that I did for the MC Priceless Experiences promo. I did not get it for any other stays in the first quarter.

I'm not complaining, just happy.

Mb it's tied to the promo inserts we get with our room keys at some hotels advertising the Accelerate Promotion? The inserts tell us to log in, but usually nothing happens for me when I do.

Apr 2, 2017, 8:24 am

#522

MegatopLover

Join Date: Dec 2004

Location: ATL

Programs: DL SkyMiles PM/2MM, AA Plat, IC Diam. Amb., Peninsula regular, amanjunkie

Posts: 5,848

I didn't get the email about Accellerate until Feb. 4 or so, registered right away. I had a stay on Jan. 29 that would satisfy another task and get me a bonus, if it counts. Dashboard not showing it counts. Should I call IHG and plead with them?

Apr 2, 2017, 10:02 am

#523

sdsearch

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Quote:

Originally Posted by rhivolution

Are we expecting another accelerate for Q2 or do they skip this one? Thanks.

If you're based in the Americas (except not Quebec

), and don't care that it's not called "Accelerate", here you go:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/inter...icas-only.html

(The current thread title says "2 stays" but it's actually "2 nights". Hopefully that will soon be corrected.)

It runs from mid-April to mid-May, ie the month after the current Accelerate ends.

Last edited by sdsearch; Apr 3, 2017 at 7:03 pm Reason: updated link since linked thread's title had been changed

Apr 2, 2017, 10:06 pm

#524

kevino

Join Date: Sep 2001

Location: SFO

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Posts: 2,760

Quote:

Originally Posted by MegatopLover

Yes, you should call. You will get the Philippines call center probably. You have a chance.

Good luck.

Apr 3, 2017, 9:22 am

#525

hclee01

Join Date: Aug 2003

Location: Singapore

Programs: SIA Solitaire PPS, IHG Royal Amb, Hyatt Globalist, Bonvoy Gold, Hilton Hhonor Gold

Posts: 2,208

Quote:

Originally Posted by rhivolution

Are we expecting another accelerate for Q2 or do they skip this one? Thanks.

There is one small promotion for those in Asia (exclude Greater China), Middle East and Africa:

Earn your free nights faster with up to 40,000 bonus points