Priceless Surprises Promotion
 

US Residents only, must pay with a Mastercard, Nov 15, 2015 – Feb 15, 2016.

The rewards are surprises, 1K points for the first stay, and post that it's a mystery.

You can enroll here:

www.pricelesssurprises.ihg.com


www.ihg.com/surprises

Official rules here:
https://d2ukkex5d6aodv.cloudfront.ne...f?v=243OLzRXsv

Section 9 lists all the prizes. Most (~85%) will win 500 points. Another 7% will get 1000, and 3.5% will get 2000, and 2.3% get 5000. That leaves about 2% getting something bigger.

Darn it. I have a stay Nov 14 and checking out Nov 15. Looks like checkout starts Nov 16 for the promo.

you may get it, checkout date cld kick in for you.

Hmmm... IHG sent me an e-mail a couple of weeks ago which offered 500 points if I made MasterCard the form of payment in my profile before 10/31. I wonder if that was in anticipation of this promotion.

For a change, the promo terms actually remove all ambiguity about stays right at the start and end. ^

"you must book one (1) or more consecutive night reservation Qualifying Stay with a check-in date between November 15, 2015 and February 15, 2016 and a check-out date between November 16, 2015 and February 29, 2016."

i remain optimistic based on past experience dealing with IHG:)

Another us only promo!....oh well!

Very interesting.
Are those points elite-qualifying?
If they should be, we could get about 60000 points by playing the mail game. That would be really close to 75000 SPIRE ELITE for 2017.

That is, of course, if I Have No Life.
Indeed, I Have No Life.

https://d2ukkex5d6aodv.cloudfront.ne...AL.pdf?v=4Swf5

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/inter...00-points.html

From what I read, you can only enter up to 94 times. So worst case scenario: 94 plays x500 points = 47,000 points. But simply going by the published odds, you would almost be certain to hit a larger prize at least once.

Postage, index cards, and envelopes should come to about $50. Not bad for 47,000 points - especially if they're elite qualifying.

Food for thought for those of you traveling alone and far away on business with nothing to do :-)

Wondering if they will accept international mailing in from foreign countries with cheaper airmail costs (i.e. those countries with lower airmail-to-USA postage than current US domestic postage rate)... of course my IHG account is based in the US and I do have a US phone number, which I will provide on the 3" x 5" paper inside the 94 individual envelopes

I'm in the exact same situation. If you find anything out please let me know! I'll try contacting them also. I'm going to have A LOT of free time on my hands soon and would have no problem sending these out...

Unless specified in the T&Cs, they are not elite qualifying (just as previous promotional bonus points weren't).

Does each entry actually have to be handwritten?

+1 you would think being listed in UK we would have the "favouritism"