hi,

if points + cash stay counts as points bought only and not as a stay-can you tell me what it will show on credit card statement?
will it not show hotel name etc?

Same here. No dashboard update after I finished 4 nights and 3 stays at 3 different IHG hotels/brands.

Dashboard not updating
 

See reply from my report to IHG Help desk

As per checking your stay, I see that your stay at Holiday Inn Express St. Albans - M25, Jct.22 was qualified and should count towards your sub offers: Stay More, Earn More and Discover Our Brands.

Kindly allow 2 to 3 weeks for the stay to reflect on your promotion dashboard.

If after the given time frame stay did not post, kindly reply to this email so we can update your offer.

Same issue and identical reply.

Usually, I contact them via [email protected]

I didn't get the email but thought I could join the promotion via the website link in the wiki (tick tick, register).
After two weeks waiting for something other than "we appreciate your loyalty", yet buoyed by others having eventually got an offer, I contacted IHGrewards via chat today.

Result is that I am told it's a targetted promotion - a private offer not available to everyone, and via email invitation only:
"As we continue to develop programs and offers that most benefit our IHG Rewards Club members, our Accelerate program is now a private offer personalized for our members' individual stay preferences. Our current Accelerate promotion is for eligible IHG Rewards Club members."
"I am sorry but the Accelerate promotion is not for everyone."
"I am sorry but I do not have the information on the basis. What I know is it is through email invitation only."
As you may see IHG on chat were of course unable to say why I was not eligible.

I had mistakenly construed that it was general offer, and only the scale of the benefits were targetted. So i guess I am missing out this time - no idea if i will be eligible for the Sept-Dec promotion either really. But if it's hit and miss as to whether these (what I supposed were general) promotions will be offered, it will cause me to refocus how long it will take to accumulate e.g. a free night. For context the previous promotion was my first, the total was 40,000 and completed it.

Anyhow - I wonder if it would be helpful for others to add a bit to the wiki to the effect that not everyone will get offered this and it won't work if you don't - unless it's so obvious that i should just hide in the corner for a few weeks....

good luck with your accumulating

My first task was completed and both the bonus points and task completion posted at the same time as the points for the stay.
My second one hasn't posted yet, although the points for the stay have.

When I attempt to register for this offer the registration page just throws an error message - "We appreciate your loyalty. Please see IHG® Rewards Club offers available now."

Anyone else have this issue? Could it be related to having other active offers associated with the account? Is there a known fix?

yes, many people reported it. Read the thread.

I have read the thread and I am not new to IHG shenanigans. There are a number of posts where IHG members having trouble signing up have received identical boilerplate responses from IHG. Historically things IHG employees say about their promotions have not been accurate enough to rely on so I'd say there is still a 50%+ chance that this is an issue that can be resolved once the appropriate actions to do so are determined by the community.

Has anyone successfully signed up for the May - August Accelerate promo after initially being unable to signup? If so what if any actions did you take that enabled you to do so?

Hello
 

One stay has worked for me for multiple tasks in past promotions. I intend to combine a "buy a bonus points package" (first task) with my only stay at a Candlewood during this period (which will get me another brand in the "stay at three separate brands" task) while paying for it with my old Chase IHG Select card (another of my tasks) and staying for four nights (one of the two stays I need to complete a "stay longer" task).

After doing a couple of these, it becomes easier to figure out up front the minimum number of nights necessary to complete the assigned tasks by finding stays that will combine various tasks.