Suggestion: make pointbreaks an elite only promotion
Jul 12, 2015, 9:27 pm
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When they're previewed, or when they're beyond-preview? This whole "preview" business makes it murky to declare when PointsBreaks actually come out.And besides, haven't some people reported some hotels bookable at PointsBreaks before they were on the list, and others not yet not bookable at PointsBreaks immediately after the list appears (or is that the preview?
).My #1 suggestion, therefore, is start by getting rid of this preview garbage. Decide when to put out the list, and then put it out all at once, and enable the PB rate on all those hotels at the very same time!
But doesn't that require as much of a competent IHG IT as any other of the suggestions in this thread?
Jul 12, 2015, 9:30 pm
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And when exactly is that??? When they're previewed, or when they're beyond-preview? This whole "preview" business makes it murky to declare when PointsBreaks actually come out.
And besides, haven't some people reported some hotels bookable at PointsBreaks before they were on the list, and others not yet not bookable at PointsBreaks immediately after the list appears (or is that the preview?).
My #1 suggestion, therefore, is start by getting rid of this preview garbage. Decide when to put out the list, and then put it out all at once, and enable the PB rate on all those hotels at the very same time!
But doesn't that require as much of a competent IHG IT as any other of the suggestions in this thread?
When they're previewed, or when they're beyond-preview? This whole "preview" business makes it murky to declare when PointsBreaks actually come out.And besides, haven't some people reported some hotels bookable at PointsBreaks before they were on the list, and others not yet not bookable at PointsBreaks immediately after the list appears (or is that the preview?
).My #1 suggestion, therefore, is start by getting rid of this preview garbage. Decide when to put out the list, and then put it out all at once, and enable the PB rate on all those hotels at the very same time!
But doesn't that require as much of a competent IHG IT as any other of the suggestions in this thread?
Jul 12, 2015, 11:55 pm
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I had never actually heard of point breaks until this thread. Correct me if I'm wrong, but from the website it looks like limited discounts for IHG hotels in the middle of nowhere?
IF you restrict it to elites, are the people who spend a significant portion of their lives in hotels as it is really going to want to go out of their way to stay in the Holiday Inn Express Woodward Highway 270 because its a bit cheaper??
IF you restrict it to elites, are the people who spend a significant portion of their lives in hotels as it is really going to want to go out of their way to stay in the Holiday Inn Express Woodward Highway 270 because its a bit cheaper??
Jul 13, 2015, 1:01 am
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It's normally random hotels at the side of the motorway/highway although on each round there are usually a few decent ones make their way onto the list but the majority are like that.
Think of them as either a saving on somewhere you were going to go anyway or a cheap getaway to somewhere new and it's great.
You have learned about them at the right time though as a new list should be coming towards the end of this month I think
Jul 13, 2015, 2:21 am
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I had never actually heard of point breaks until this thread. Correct me if I'm wrong, but from the website it looks like limited discounts for IHG hotels in the middle of nowhere?
IF you restrict it to elites, are the people who spend a significant portion of their lives in hotels as it is really going to want to go out of their way to stay in the Holiday Inn Express Woodward Highway 270 because its a bit cheaper??
IF you restrict it to elites, are the people who spend a significant portion of their lives in hotels as it is really going to want to go out of their way to stay in the Holiday Inn Express Woodward Highway 270 because its a bit cheaper??
Jul 13, 2015, 2:25 am
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Jul 13, 2015, 3:13 am
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You have it spot on!
It's normally random hotels at the side of the motorway/highway although on each round there are usually a few decent ones make their way onto the list but the majority are like that.
Think of them as either a saving on somewhere you were going to go anyway or a cheap getaway to somewhere new and it's great.
You have learned about them at the right time though as a new list should be coming towards the end of this month I think
It's normally random hotels at the side of the motorway/highway although on each round there are usually a few decent ones make their way onto the list but the majority are like that.
Think of them as either a saving on somewhere you were going to go anyway or a cheap getaway to somewhere new and it's great.
You have learned about them at the right time though as a new list should be coming towards the end of this month I think
Kiev
Vienna
Rome
Spain
Mexico
Hua Hin
Bali
Vietnam
Johannesburg
Athens
Paphos
Stockholm
Santiago Chile
Argentina
Atlanta (not sure if it was, someone pls correct me)
Beijing
Hangzhou
Shenzhen (very nice IC by the way)
Jakarta
Doha
Toronto
Phnom Penh
India
Fiji
Mauritius
Tahiti
...
And we had CPs in
Beijing
Shanghai
Prague
Bratislava
Istanbul
Lots lots of USA/Mexico locations
And we had HIs in
Panama
Maldives
Vanuatu
......
The list only started to get worse and worse when bloggers told it to the world and people from a certain country started to benefits from using the script to book the rooms once the great hotel on preview list open for booking and some even sell the rooms for profit...
Jul 13, 2015, 4:00 am
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I believe the poster was referring to the current pointsbreak lists which is also what I refer to rather than historical lists from years ago.
That would probably explain the "Normally" and "Although on each round there are a few decent ones make their way onto the list". I didn't indicate it was all crap.
I agree we had a good run years ago however it is not indicative of current trends, whether bloggers are to wholly to blame is another debate altogether, part of it will be them but then you also have to factor in an improving economy in some markets where rates are back to pre-recession levels. And yes the behaviour from some in a particular market definitely didn't help.
That would probably explain the "Normally" and "Although on each round there are a few decent ones make their way onto the list". I didn't indicate it was all crap.
I agree we had a good run years ago however it is not indicative of current trends, whether bloggers are to wholly to blame is another debate altogether, part of it will be them but then you also have to factor in an improving economy in some markets where rates are back to pre-recession levels. And yes the behaviour from some in a particular market definitely didn't help.