This already being discussed in the following threads

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/inter...promotion.html


and the http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/inter...ad-2009-a.html

This is a duplicate thread.

irresistable
 

Ditto greg, this one is irresistable for the point slut

Not sure why you think this is a bad idea but certainly be interested in your feedback
Do you think they don't read what we say here?
They would have to be blindfolded by pirates not to read what is posted

I must say I'm also puzzled by this, but what I'm unable to rationalise is if they are unable to differentiate bookings made before they enroled what would be the advantage to IHG to pretend and say that they won't count?

I can see that they would hope those people would stick with points because giving away free nights for doing nothing would be cheaper, but then there would be wholesale upset when it starts to emerge that those members that enroled on free nights then started to get certs for bookings made before they enroled but for stays after they enroled. It would also further expose IHGs lack of sophisitacted systems which would give a degree of greater confidence to us points tarts in the future.

Wouldn't therefore the enrol first / book next mandate be self-defeating if it wasn't underpinned by a working IT policing system?

And will they be able to really cope with this:

What ticks off the most about this promo next to its poor implementation is that you cannot change the dates on your free nights. I know for sure that work commitments will creep up eventually and then I will have to chnage my plans and move private stays etc. In the current environment I can't really refuse a client such requests and then my earned nights are gone. This is the single point that renders this whole thing useless for me. I signed up for double points and that is that.

Most of my stays will go Hilton for the time being anyway where I will get some nice 9k BD miles for a 3 day stay in addition to my usual HHonors points.

Though it does talk about booking after registering, if past experience proves anything it is actual stay dates not booking dates that trigger promos. This one will take some logistical consideration. I have about a dozen nights booked through the promo period, but since the max nights earned is 4 this means I will have four surplus nights that would not earn base/elite points. Would it be possible to register after four nights during the period had posted, then have the remaining 8 go to this promo? Or would any points earned on those stays be retroactively clawed back? And do other promos during the period like the Stay X Get X Bonus points still get nights credited to them even if base/elite points aren't earned?

The inflexibility of these special award nights is not a real concern to me, but these other issues are indeed perplexing.

I guess we're all in this precise situation. That is precisely what I'd planned to try and do. Even trickier to act upon with contiguous multiple bookings over a few weeks!

But i've got-in My Offer Status:



Stay any 2 nights, then get 1 night FREE. Earn up to 4 FREE nights from NOW until 3 July 2009.:confused:

I am not able to sign up for other promotions that runs till 7/31

I think what we're waiting for is someone who has some bookings made before enrolment for "free nights" to tell us if they trigger the cert once they have the stay posted!

The terms are very clear that only stays starting May 4 will count. In fact, in my offer status you should also see " 04 May 2009 to 03 Jul 2009" listed in the Start Date/End Date column.

Can you be more specific?


It is certainly possible it's a matter of one team coming up with the set of rules and a different team being charged with implementing them in their IT system.

I rebooked all of my reservations as I am not willing to risk it. The terms are clear on that point, and that's enough reason for me.

I just think it's awfully mean that, under the terms, reservations booked prior to 48 hours prior to promo registration that occur during the promo period after member registration would be eligible for neither Free Night credit or normal Base/Elite point credit. That's not very fair.

Correct. It's also counter-productive as the people that IHG most want ie the most prolific travellers are savvy enough to split their stays across different hotel programmes.

So, if I stay 8 consecutive nights at the same hotel, this would get me 4 free nights. If I booked these using the ‘senior discount’ rate, would I still get the 4 free nights? If I don’t, do I still get my regular points? All it says is 'qualifying rates' are most business and leisure rates. Or is senior rate classified as travel industry discount rate?

My understanding is that "Qualifying rates" under the Free Nights Promotion are the same rates that would otherwise qualify for normal points.

I interpret travel industry discount rates as travel agent discounts, etc.