Apr 27, 2017, 4:09 pm
Last edit by: beachmouse
Copying over the usual promotion info to the new thread:
For newcomers to IHG promotions, note that Holiday Inn Express and Holiday Inn (including Holiday Inn Resorts) are two different brand categories for these things. If your dashboard says 'stay at a Holiday Inn Express' as one of the tasks and you stay at a Holiday Inn, it will NOT credit for the Holiday Inn Express task. (and vice versa)
At IHG, points + cash stays are simply points stays where you bought some of the points at the time of the reservation. Once you finish the reservation, a points + cash stay shows as a points stay. Thus points + cash stays only count for tasks where they are specified, and not other tasks.
Doing a points + cash booking and then cancelling it does NOT trigger a 'buy points' task completion.
The 'pay with your IHG credit card' task has typically been very slow to post. If it does within about two weeks of completing a stay, that's relatively quick, and it will often be several weeks beyond that, depending on when your statement closing date is and how IHG's system sweep is timed.
Some offers require booking within the promotion period in addition to staying during the promotion period.
Registration & dashboard link:
https://www.ihg.com/content/us/en/offers/q2accelerate2017/registration
For newcomers to IHG promotions, note that Holiday Inn Express and Holiday Inn (including Holiday Inn Resorts) are two different brand categories for these things. If your dashboard says 'stay at a Holiday Inn Express' as one of the tasks and you stay at a Holiday Inn, it will NOT credit for the Holiday Inn Express task. (and vice versa)
At IHG, points + cash stays are simply points stays where you bought some of the points at the time of the reservation. Once you finish the reservation, a points + cash stay shows as a points stay. Thus points + cash stays only count for tasks where they are specified, and not other tasks.
Doing a points + cash booking and then cancelling it does NOT trigger a 'buy points' task completion.
The 'pay with your IHG credit card' task has typically been very slow to post. If it does within about two weeks of completing a stay, that's relatively quick, and it will often be several weeks beyond that, depending on when your statement closing date is and how IHG's system sweep is timed.
Some offers require booking within the promotion period in addition to staying during the promotion period.
Registration & dashboard link:
https://www.ihg.com/content/us/en/offers/q2accelerate2017/registration
IHG Accelerate 2Q 2017 (15th MAY to 31st AUG)
Jul 4, 2017, 7:04 pm
#331
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 4,519
Thanks. I will wait and see how my BOGO stay connect count before I committed for this promo as two my tasks are to have a weekend stay and a stay outside of N.A. My IC BOGO stay will be at IC Dublin, so if it will mark these 2 tasks as complete, I will go for the rest of the tasks.
Jul 4, 2017, 8:38 pm
#332
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Amsterdam, Asia, UK
Programs: IHG RA (Spire), HH Diamond, MR Platinum, SQ Gold, KLM Gold, BAEC Gold
Posts: 5,072
Thanks. I will wait and see how my BOGO stay connect count before I committed for this promo as two my tasks are to have a weekend stay and a stay outside of N.A. My IC BOGO stay will be at IC Dublin, so if it will mark these 2 tasks as complete, I will go for the rest of the tasks.
Task requires stay 2x qualifying nights , and BOGO is officially 1x qualnight
a)If IC hotel incorrectly posts BOGO as 2x qual night stay, then your weekend task will get completed (however 50% of IC's tend to post incorrectly most times)
b)If IC hotel correctly posts BOGO as ONLY 1night qual night stay, then your weekend task will fail
c)If IC hotel incorrectly posts BOGO as totally 0nights qual, your weekend task will fail, and contacting IHG to fix retrospectively 99% ends up with correct 1night qual night posting, so task fails still.
Jul 4, 2017, 8:50 pm
#333
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Auckland, NZ
Posts: 929
According to IHG CS - "Your Rate" needs to be a cancellable Your Rate in order to trigger this Accelerate promotion.
I stayed at an IC, booked Your Rate Advance Purchase. Apparently this rate is ineligible and did not trigger trigger Your Rate points. Other points triggered the Accelerate promotion.
Could not find any reference about cancellable rate in terms and conditions, neither can CS pointed out.
I stayed at an IC, booked Your Rate Advance Purchase. Apparently this rate is ineligible and did not trigger trigger Your Rate points. Other points triggered the Accelerate promotion.
Could not find any reference about cancellable rate in terms and conditions, neither can CS pointed out.
Jul 4, 2017, 11:44 pm
#334
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: LGB
Programs: AA Platinum Pro, Marriott Platinum, Hyatt Discoverist
Posts: 241
Jul 5, 2017, 11:16 am
#335
Join Date: Sep 2008
Programs: IHG Platinum
Posts: 442
According to IHG CS - "Your Rate" needs to be a cancellable Your Rate in order to trigger this Accelerate promotion.
I stayed at an IC, booked Your Rate Advance Purchase. Apparently this rate is ineligible and did not trigger trigger Your Rate points. Other points triggered the Accelerate promotion.
Could not find any reference about cancellable rate in terms and conditions, neither can CS pointed out.
I stayed at an IC, booked Your Rate Advance Purchase. Apparently this rate is ineligible and did not trigger trigger Your Rate points. Other points triggered the Accelerate promotion.
Could not find any reference about cancellable rate in terms and conditions, neither can CS pointed out.
Jul 5, 2017, 3:13 pm
#336
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Auckland, NZ
Posts: 929
The supervisor agreed to give me one-time only expectation for "Your Rate" promotion, but I can not see any different progress under my Accelerate promotion.
Jul 5, 2017, 5:00 pm
#337
Join Date: Sep 2008
Programs: IHG Platinum
Posts: 442
Neither can CS nor his supervisor can point that out where it stated in the Ts & Cs, all they said that it has always been a cancellable rate in order to trigger the promotion.
The supervisor agreed to give me one-time only expectation for "Your Rate" promotion, but I can not see any different progress under my Accelerate promotion.
The supervisor agreed to give me one-time only expectation for "Your Rate" promotion, but I can not see any different progress under my Accelerate promotion.
Jul 6, 2017, 11:13 am
#339
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Great Britain
Programs: Air: QR Silver. BA Silver Emirates, Hotels: CC Gold, IHG Spire AMB, Hilton Diamond.
Posts: 1,487
Hello everyone !!
Buying the same number of points as I'd earn from completing Accelerate will cost me £231 with a current 100% bonus offer I've been sent (shocking that they'd usually cost twice that !).
I've worked out that to get this out of Accelerate I essentially need three 2 night weekend trips (inc. a Sat night), with at least two of them abroad.
Now that's £38.50 per night I could spend and I'd be 'buying' them.at the same rate as a direct points purchase.
With that in mind I'm setting myself a little challenge to see if I can achieve this within Europe, excluding travel expenses as I can write that off against the experience of having visited somewhere (in my mind anyway !!).
Anyone got any good suggestions of IHG hotels which might come in under the £38.50 per night threshold for a Sat&Sun or Fri&Sat night within Europe ?
I of course might not go ahead and do it but thought it was interesting to see what the options were.
I'll start looking.
Buying the same number of points as I'd earn from completing Accelerate will cost me £231 with a current 100% bonus offer I've been sent (shocking that they'd usually cost twice that !).
I've worked out that to get this out of Accelerate I essentially need three 2 night weekend trips (inc. a Sat night), with at least two of them abroad.
Now that's £38.50 per night I could spend and I'd be 'buying' them.at the same rate as a direct points purchase.
With that in mind I'm setting myself a little challenge to see if I can achieve this within Europe, excluding travel expenses as I can write that off against the experience of having visited somewhere (in my mind anyway !!).
Anyone got any good suggestions of IHG hotels which might come in under the £38.50 per night threshold for a Sat&Sun or Fri&Sat night within Europe ?
I of course might not go ahead and do it but thought it was interesting to see what the options were.
I'll start looking.
Jul 6, 2017, 11:20 am
#341
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Great Britain
Programs: Air: QR Silver. BA Silver Emirates, Hotels: CC Gold, IHG Spire AMB, Hilton Diamond.
Posts: 1,487
According to IHG CS - "Your Rate" needs to be a cancellable Your Rate in order to trigger this Accelerate promotion.
I stayed at an IC, booked Your Rate Advance Purchase. Apparently this rate is ineligible and did not trigger trigger Your Rate points. Other points triggered the Accelerate promotion.
Could not find any reference about cancellable rate in terms and conditions, neither can CS pointed out.
I stayed at an IC, booked Your Rate Advance Purchase. Apparently this rate is ineligible and did not trigger trigger Your Rate points. Other points triggered the Accelerate promotion.
Could not find any reference about cancellable rate in terms and conditions, neither can CS pointed out.
I have heard that some rates discounted by over 30% aren't qualifying but that's not explicitly stated in the Ts&Cs either so might be total BS too.
I'd argue your case further if I were you.
Jul 6, 2017, 11:36 am
#342
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Somewhere in Europe
Posts: 3,362
Its a two minute walk walk from the terminal and if you can get the bus into town if you want. If you fancy pushing the boat out the CP next door to it is as low as £41 a night.
Both hotels are under three years old so are still pretty decent.
Those are the cheapest I've seen recently.
Jul 6, 2017, 2:19 pm
#344
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 610
Hello everyone !!
Buying the same number of points as I'd earn from completing Accelerate will cost me £231 with a current 100% bonus offer I've been sent (shocking that they'd usually cost twice that !).
I've worked out that to get this out of Accelerate I essentially need three 2 night weekend trips (inc. a Sat night), with at least two of them abroad.
Now that's £38.50 per night I could spend and I'd be 'buying' them.at the same rate as a direct points purchase.
With that in mind I'm setting myself a little challenge to see if I can achieve this within Europe, excluding travel expenses as I can write that off against the experience of having visited somewhere (in my mind anyway !!).
Anyone got any good suggestions of IHG hotels which might come in under the £38.50 per night threshold for a Sat&Sun or Fri&Sat night within Europe ?
I of course might not go ahead and do it but thought it was interesting to see what the options were.
I'll start looking.
Buying the same number of points as I'd earn from completing Accelerate will cost me £231 with a current 100% bonus offer I've been sent (shocking that they'd usually cost twice that !).
I've worked out that to get this out of Accelerate I essentially need three 2 night weekend trips (inc. a Sat night), with at least two of them abroad.
Now that's £38.50 per night I could spend and I'd be 'buying' them.at the same rate as a direct points purchase.
With that in mind I'm setting myself a little challenge to see if I can achieve this within Europe, excluding travel expenses as I can write that off against the experience of having visited somewhere (in my mind anyway !!).
Anyone got any good suggestions of IHG hotels which might come in under the £38.50 per night threshold for a Sat&Sun or Fri&Sat night within Europe ?
I of course might not go ahead and do it but thought it was interesting to see what the options were.
I'll start looking.
Availability was good using avios with BA, cheap flights with the budget carriers (Blue Air were great OTP - FCO £14 all in was shocked to be served complimentary soft drinks and a sandwich).
Made for a very enjoyable weekend city break, can highly recommend.
Jul 6, 2017, 2:30 pm
#345
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: BKK
Posts: 6,741
For the purposes of Accelerate, and other promotions with IHG, is the validity period determined by the check in or check out dates? For example if this promotion ends on 8/31, would the night of the 31st count for the promotion, even if the check out is in September?