Coronavirus: IHG Rewards Club & InterContinental Ambassador membership extension
 

Seen this in passing on a couple of other threads but thought it was worth one of its own due to its significance.

Changes in earning requirements for Gold, Platinum and Spire

There is then a link to this table https://www.ihg.com/content/gb/en/cu...ravel-advisory I've just listed the new 2020 figures

Revised criteria

Gold - 7 qualifying nights or 7,000 qualifying points
Platinum - 30 nights or 30,000 points
Spire - 55 nights or 55,000 points

Extention of Ambassador Membership by 3 months

55 nights... possibly doable... well except for the fact that I can't travel abroad now due to Covid-19. Ugh.

I wonder if they'll also extend the validity of the AMB Weekend certificate

My wife is at 64000 points but still Platinum so I guess the changes haven’t propagated through IHG IT yet. Still it’s good that they’re showing some flexibility

Further information on the website says please allow up to four weeks for the systems to be updated.

+1

There's still a lot of domestic IHG properties for most of us eh? I'm at an IC now and should hit 50 nights this weekend.

Me too. We have one expiring May 1 and if Thailand tightens restrictions and quarantine regulations further we won't be able to use it at IC Hua Hin as planned and can't really change to other place. IHG should definitely extend them for 6+ months / end of year like Hyatt did with it's free nights and Suite Nights awards and such.

In the US maybe, over here in Asia not so much , but then loyalty status doesn't really matter that much in the current situation in my book at least.

Domestically I lean towards Marriott and Hilton... IHG is my tertiary chain as it doesn't have properties in good locales in many of the cities I visit. Abroad however, IHG is much more commonly used (by me at least).

Aren't there more IC's in China than the US? Several in Thailand and Japan too.

And you would gladly hop over to China in the current situation to gain loyalty status? YMMV, not me.

If I had a business reason of course I would go. From what I've read, China is now the safest place to be with few new cases. I have not slowed down my travel at all. I few to the US 6 days ago and have been on the move every day.

As per today probably better than Europe and for sure better than the US in terms of Corona.

Yep... if it weren't for the fact that I could possibly be carrying the virus with me without showing symptoms, I'd have no problems heading to Hong Kong, South Korea etc. Safer than Europe / US with more hospital capacity if needed.

It's certainly time for people to recognise that this is long past being a "China virus".