Aug 8, 2017, 12:23 pm
Last edit by: beachmouse
Another quarter, another Accelerate. Answers to some Frequently Asked Questions below:
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)
An award stay only counts toward a task that specifically requires an award stay and will not count toward other tasks and night requirements for the purposes of the promotion. (Award stays do count toward general elite qualification, but that's outside this promotion)
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. A 'buy points' task is a points transaction that is processed through points.com
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/q3accelerate2017
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)
An award stay only counts toward a task that specifically requires an award stay and will not count toward other tasks and night requirements for the purposes of the promotion. (Award stays do count toward general elite qualification, but that's outside this promotion)
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. A 'buy points' task is a points transaction that is processed through points.com
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/q3accelerate2017
IHG Accelerate Q3 2017 (1st September to 31st December)
Aug 29, 2017, 11:32 am
#152
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Aug 29, 2017, 11:58 am
#153
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Aug 29, 2017, 12:01 pm
#154
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Checked my current Q2 promo and the qualifying dates listed are always checkin date based.
For example if his stay was 8/31 to 9/2, that would credit 1-night to each Q2 AND Q3 in my understanding.
Last edited by Tony300S; Aug 29, 2017 at 12:08 pm
Aug 30, 2017, 1:28 am
#155
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In the past I've had a stay where I checked out on the day that accelerate started and it counted one night for that promotion, so staying 31/8 to 1/9 could count as a stay for Q3 . Of course we've not had two schemes back to back before so I don't know if on this occasion the check in in Q2 will take precedence.
Aug 30, 2017, 8:45 am
#159
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Aug 30, 2017, 10:21 am
#160
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Aug 30, 2017, 2:29 pm
#161
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All the times I have had a stay the night before a promo started it has in fact been counted in both promos if one ended just as the other started, having said that past performance is no indication of future performance so to speak, I have a stay checking out Sept 1 ironically.
Aug 30, 2017, 9:25 pm
#162
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Aug 31, 2017, 1:50 am
#163
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Since I can hit the 5 nights this quarter easily, I suppose I'll collect the points on this promotion. It might be different if my crystal ball told me of easier tasks in the future if I only stayed one night this time, but I can't see things getting much simpler than 36,500 points for 4 nights now.
Aug 31, 2017, 3:27 am
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Aug 31, 2017, 7:07 am
#165
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That's assuming anything with IHG is consistent and uniform.
