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)
Aug 1, 2017, 6:14 am
#392
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: SIN
Posts: 1,098
As an added datapoint, right after my final Accelerate task posted (stay 5 nights), I actually got a new e-mail, with all the yada about being an over-achiever, and offering me the 3-night, 5000 points to the end of August e-mail.
Aug 1, 2017, 7:35 am
#393
Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 2
Hi, apologies if this is a dumb question - but can I book a cheap IHG hotel (eg. Bali) just in order to complete my Accelerate, even if I don't turn up to check into the hotel? Or will the fact I didn't check in mean it doesn't count?
Thanks in advance if anyone knows...
Thanks in advance if anyone knows...
Aug 1, 2017, 9:40 am
#394
Join Date: Mar 2009
Programs: Hilton credit card Diamond, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 2,653
This is just like airline frequent flyer miles. Buying an air ticket does not earn you the miles - you have to sit on the airplane.
Aug 1, 2017, 12:53 pm
#396
Join Date: Jun 2007
Programs: ROP Gold
Posts: 1,292
Dear all
I recently booked two rooms on the same date (two nights per room).
When I checked my IHG account today, this booking was classified as "Overlapping Stay". Henceforth, one of the rooms had 2 Qualifying Nights.
HOwever the other has 2 non-qualifying (with reason Non-Qualifying overlapping Stay).
Do anyone knows, given the above, would two or four nights be considered for "Stay More, Earn More".
Thank you.
I recently booked two rooms on the same date (two nights per room).
When I checked my IHG account today, this booking was classified as "Overlapping Stay". Henceforth, one of the rooms had 2 Qualifying Nights.
HOwever the other has 2 non-qualifying (with reason Non-Qualifying overlapping Stay).
Do anyone knows, given the above, would two or four nights be considered for "Stay More, Earn More".
Thank you.
Aug 1, 2017, 1:24 pm
#397
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Los Angeles, California
Programs: IHG Diamond Elite, Hilton Diamond, Hertz President's Circle
Posts: 3,531
Dear all
I recently booked two rooms on the same date (two nights per room).
When I checked my IHG account today, this booking was classified as "Overlapping Stay". Henceforth, one of the rooms had 2 Qualifying Nights.
HOwever the other has 2 non-qualifying (with reason Non-Qualifying overlapping Stay).
Do anyone knows, given the above, would two or four nights be considered for "Stay More, Earn More".
Thank you.
I recently booked two rooms on the same date (two nights per room).
When I checked my IHG account today, this booking was classified as "Overlapping Stay". Henceforth, one of the rooms had 2 Qualifying Nights.
HOwever the other has 2 non-qualifying (with reason Non-Qualifying overlapping Stay).
Do anyone knows, given the above, would two or four nights be considered for "Stay More, Earn More".
Thank you.
Aug 2, 2017, 8:06 am
#398
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Middle of Nowhere
Programs: Lowly BAEC Bronze, VS, IHG Platinum, HHonors Gold, Hotels.com Gold
Posts: 231
When are we expecting details of the next Accelerate promo, any ideas? Have some September travel plans that I could to with organising, but the targets might drive which bookings I make!!
Aug 2, 2017, 1:08 pm
#399
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,933
The current promo was announced about 2.5 weeks before it started. The previous promo about 3 weeks before it started. The promo before that 2 weeks before it started.
Aug 3, 2017, 3:25 am
#401
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: North West UK
Programs: IHG Plat Visa IHG Plat Mastercard
Posts: 87
IHG app
I haven't had a laptop since May 2017 so solely use my phone and tablet to use the internet. One of the current Accelerate offers is to book 4 stays with the app which I completed on 23 July.
After asking why I haven't been awarded the points for completing the task, and expecting the usual "wait 3 weeks" I was surprised to be told I hadn't used the app on my fourth booking.
Really? How do we check if this is correct? On the confirmatory emails, as far as I can see, there is nothing to distinguish whether the booking was made on a pc/laptop or a mobile device. The emails confirming the first 3 bookings that IHG do accept were made on my mobile look no different to the 4th disputed one. Can anyone advise?
Thanks.
After asking why I haven't been awarded the points for completing the task, and expecting the usual "wait 3 weeks" I was surprised to be told I hadn't used the app on my fourth booking.
Really? How do we check if this is correct? On the confirmatory emails, as far as I can see, there is nothing to distinguish whether the booking was made on a pc/laptop or a mobile device. The emails confirming the first 3 bookings that IHG do accept were made on my mobile look no different to the 4th disputed one. Can anyone advise?
Thanks.
Aug 3, 2017, 12:20 pm
#402
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,933
I haven't had a laptop since May 2017 so solely use my phone and tablet to use the internet. One of the current Accelerate offers is to book 4 stays with the app which I completed on 23 July.
After asking why I haven't been awarded the points for completing the task, and expecting the usual "wait 3 weeks" I was surprised to be told I hadn't used the app on my fourth booking.
Really? How do we check if this is correct? On the confirmatory emails, as far as I can see, there is nothing to distinguish whether the booking was made on a pc/laptop or a mobile device. The emails confirming the first 3 bookings that IHG do accept were made on my mobile look no different to the 4th disputed one. Can anyone advise?
Thanks.
After asking why I haven't been awarded the points for completing the task, and expecting the usual "wait 3 weeks" I was surprised to be told I hadn't used the app on my fourth booking.
Really? How do we check if this is correct? On the confirmatory emails, as far as I can see, there is nothing to distinguish whether the booking was made on a pc/laptop or a mobile device. The emails confirming the first 3 bookings that IHG do accept were made on my mobile look no different to the 4th disputed one. Can anyone advise?
Thanks.
I don't know how they tell which reservations were booked with the app. They've had such "book with the app" tasks for many cycles of Accelerate and similar promos over the last few years, and no one has ever seen any indication they can see themselves showing how their reservations were made. So if there is indication, it's only visible somehow to IHG (maybe in the reservation itself, or may they have to cross-check with some other database?), not to you.
Aug 3, 2017, 12:38 pm
#403
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Rochester, MN
Programs: UA Silver, Hilton HHonors Diamond, IHG Plat
Posts: 1,830
My completion bonus points are contingent upon the following task:
Book and pay for one stay with your IHG MasterCard. Which I have done. Anyone know how long it takes to show this task as completed? Does the MC statement need to close first? It has been almost three weeks since the qualifying stay.
Book and pay for one stay with your IHG MasterCard. Which I have done. Anyone know how long it takes to show this task as completed? Does the MC statement need to close first? It has been almost three weeks since the qualifying stay.
Aug 3, 2017, 3:39 pm
#404
Join Date: May 2016
Programs: BAEC - Gold, IHG - Spire Ambassador
Posts: 577
Ok, but are you sure you used the app and not the mobile website (and you didn't modify the reservation on the mobile website either)? Both work on a mobile device, but the promo specifically requires the app.
I don't know how they tell which reservations were booked with the app. They've had such "book with the app" tasks for many cycles of Accelerate and similar promos over the last few years, and no one has ever seen any indication they can see themselves showing how their reservations were made. So if there is indication, it's only visible somehow to IHG (maybe in the reservation itself, or may they have to cross-check with some other database?), not to you.
I don't know how they tell which reservations were booked with the app. They've had such "book with the app" tasks for many cycles of Accelerate and similar promos over the last few years, and no one has ever seen any indication they can see themselves showing how their reservations were made. So if there is indication, it's only visible somehow to IHG (maybe in the reservation itself, or may they have to cross-check with some other database?), not to you.
Aug 4, 2017, 1:20 am
#405
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: South West England
Programs: BA exec club, Flying Blue, VFC, IHG Rewards, EasyJet Plus
Posts: 233
My completion bonus points are contingent upon the following task:
Book and pay for one stay with your IHG MasterCard. Which I have done. Anyone know how long it takes to show this task as completed? Does the MC statement need to close first? It has been almost three weeks since the qualifying stay.
Book and pay for one stay with your IHG MasterCard. Which I have done. Anyone know how long it takes to show this task as completed? Does the MC statement need to close first? It has been almost three weeks since the qualifying stay.
It seems from other posts on this thread that this often doesn't post.