2019 Points Devaluation ***January 25th***
Jan 6, 2019, 5:12 am
#31
Join Date: Dec 2009
Programs: BA Gold Guest List, Concorde Room Card, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 728
For this promo I need three nights booked with bonus points packages.
However, none of the hotels I am looking at seem to offer them!
Have these bonus points packages been pulled? Can anyone provide an example of a hotel offering them?
Even if I book via https://www.ihg.com/content/gb/en/de...points-package I cannot see them on the 10 or so hotels I looked at.
Thanks.
However, none of the hotels I am looking at seem to offer them!
Have these bonus points packages been pulled? Can anyone provide an example of a hotel offering them?
Even if I book via https://www.ihg.com/content/gb/en/de...points-package I cannot see them on the 10 or so hotels I looked at.
Thanks.
Jan 6, 2019, 5:43 am
#32
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Hong Kong
Programs: AC,CX,KE,EK / IHG Spire, 1865 Gateway
Posts: 184
Jan 6, 2019, 5:43 am
#33
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Hong Kong
Programs: AC,CX,KE,EK / IHG Spire, 1865 Gateway
Posts: 184
For this promo I need three nights booked with bonus points packages.
However, none of the hotels I am looking at seem to offer them!
Have these bonus points packages been pulled? Can anyone provide an example of a hotel offering them?
Even if I book via https://www.ihg.com/content/gb/en/de...points-package I cannot see them on the 10 or so hotels I looked at.
Thanks.
However, none of the hotels I am looking at seem to offer them!
Have these bonus points packages been pulled? Can anyone provide an example of a hotel offering them?
Even if I book via https://www.ihg.com/content/gb/en/de...points-package I cannot see them on the 10 or so hotels I looked at.
Thanks.
Jan 6, 2019, 5:57 am
#34
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: UK
Programs: Mucci Chevalier de Actes Bénéfiques pour les Autres, BAEC Gold.
Posts: 1,485
For this promo I need three nights booked with bonus points packages.
However, none of the hotels I am looking at seem to offer them!
Have these bonus points packages been pulled? Can anyone provide an example of a hotel offering them?
Even if I book via https://www.ihg.com/content/gb/en/de...points-package I cannot see them on the 10 or so hotels I looked at.
Thanks.
However, none of the hotels I am looking at seem to offer them!
Have these bonus points packages been pulled? Can anyone provide an example of a hotel offering them?
Even if I book via https://www.ihg.com/content/gb/en/de...points-package I cannot see them on the 10 or so hotels I looked at.
Thanks.
For example the CP at MAN airport has the (extortionately priced) ' PSG DBB 2000 POINTS' rate still listed.
https://bit.ly/2AHCpNZ
BM
Jan 6, 2019, 7:58 am
#35
Suspended
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 4,477
For this promo I need three nights booked with bonus points packages.
However, none of the hotels I am looking at seem to offer them!
Have these bonus points packages been pulled? Can anyone provide an example of a hotel offering them?
Even if I book via https://www.ihg.com/content/gb/en/de...points-package I cannot see them on the 10 or so hotels I looked at.
Thanks.
However, none of the hotels I am looking at seem to offer them!
Have these bonus points packages been pulled? Can anyone provide an example of a hotel offering them?
Even if I book via https://www.ihg.com/content/gb/en/de...points-package I cannot see them on the 10 or so hotels I looked at.
Thanks.
Jan 6, 2019, 3:49 pm
#36
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Montreux CH
Programs: FB Platinum, M&M FTL, BA Blue
Posts: 11,619
I really think they should give more notice of these devaluations. That would be fair play. One place where I will need a hotel is a HIX in Valencia, and there will be a 5k point increase there. But I have declined to book a points rate now because it costs only EUR65 a night, so not worth burning 40,000 points (at the moment) for 2 nights. Getting increasingly difficult to get any value out of IHG points.
Jan 6, 2019, 6:23 pm
#37
Join Date: Dec 2018
Programs: Marriott Bonvoy LT Plat, AA Gold
Posts: 96
Most of Florida and good bit of DFW / HOU can’t be claimed as a rise in demand given softening hotel demand nationally.
Jan 6, 2019, 9:04 pm
#39
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: London
Programs: Hilton, IHG - BA, GA, LH, QR, SV, TK
Posts: 17,008
Those who qualify for the hand-outs are just about standing still in terms of overall benefit from the system.
Much more worrying is when they devalue the status-related benefits of the programme
Jan 7, 2019, 1:16 am
#40
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: India
Programs: Bonvoy Lifetime Titanium, IHG Plat, HH Gold, Trident Plat, DL Diamond, AI Maharajah
Posts: 29,668
not so bad....there are about half a dozen properties where i typically use points....only 1 has gone up by 5k points while the rest remain the same....
Jan 7, 2019, 2:07 am
#41
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Europe
Programs: Hilton Honors, Marriott Bonvoy, Accor, Hyatt, (Former IHG Ambassador)
Posts: 1,388
Yes...which they HAVE ALREADY been doing for years.
Other programs like Hilton and Accor have been adding benefits for higher tier members such as free freakfasts, lounge access, status matches, and free points transfers.
IHG is the only hotel loyalty program which has been removing benefits each year, rather than adding them.
Jan 7, 2019, 2:44 am
#42
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 4,477
Yes...which they HAVE ALREADY been doing for years.
Other programs like Hilton and Accor have been adding benefits for higher tier members such as free freakfasts, lounge access, status matches, and free points transfers.
IHG is the only hotel loyalty program which has been removing benefits each year, rather than adding them.
Other programs like Hilton and Accor have been adding benefits for higher tier members such as free freakfasts, lounge access, status matches, and free points transfers.
IHG is the only hotel loyalty program which has been removing benefits each year, rather than adding them.
IHG did add 'one free night' and 'guaranteed 2 breakfast in location without lounge' to RAs while removing others. So they did add something.
And so far, they have not removed any benefit for Spire yet (because there isn't any!!).
Jan 7, 2019, 2:53 am
#43
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Europe
Programs: Hilton Honors, Marriott Bonvoy, Accor, Hyatt, (Former IHG Ambassador)
Posts: 1,388
Most of us here are not RA level members...and those who are, have to constantly maintain & read a very long thread on flyertalk collecting and analysing endless cryptic mini clues as how much they have to spend to become (or stay) an RA member, because IHG refuses to publicy say what the exact spending criteria is.
Jan 7, 2019, 4:31 am
#44
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: UK
Programs: IHG
Posts: 1,316
I really think they should give more notice of these devaluations. That would be fair play. One place where I will need a hotel is a HIX in Valencia, and there will be a 5k point increase there. But I have declined to book a points rate now because it costs only EUR65 a night, so not worth burning 40,000 points (at the moment) for 2 nights. Getting increasingly difficult to get any value out of IHG points.
Jan 7, 2019, 6:02 am
#45
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Location: London
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, but in case it isn't......the breakfast was already in place at those club-less IC's I stayed at, either under the "something-or-other experience" initiative or simply as a gesture of common sense. Perhaps I was lucky.
And the way the "one free night" thing is structured, it's basically more points rather than a service perk.