Fancy a discounted break in Marseille?

InterContinental is launching a brand new five-star hotel in Marseille in on May 1st.

It looks very impressive, being a conversion of a historic building overlooking the port.

The reason I mention this is that – as often happens with new Priority Club properties – it is currently being offered for points redemptions at a heavily reduced rate.

At present, you can book a room for any date after May 1st for just 30,000 points per night. This is a 40% reduction from the usual rate of 50,000 points per night.

For comparison, at least until the new points structure kicks in on January 18th, a dumpy Holiday Inn Express in London will cost you 25,000 points per night!

There are up to 3 flights per day on British Airways from Heathrow to Marseille, and on Avios they will cost you only 9,000 Avios plus £30 in Economy. As the gateway to Provence, there should be plenty to explore in the nearby area.  The official hotel website is here.

I have been looking for other interesting Priority Club hotels with pre-opening discounts but have come up blank.

However, there are some to watch. This webpage, whilst branded as Crowne Plaza, covers opening across all of the Priority Club brands. Upcoming European hotels that jumped out at me were the Crowne Plaza in Edinburgh (June 1st), Hotel Indigo in Barcelona (February 1st), Crowne Plaza in Berlin (May 1st) and a Holiday Inn in Cannes (August 1st).

A couple of London discounts from last year are still live – I will recap those tomorrow.

IHG Rewards update – December 2021:

Get bonus points: You can earn up to triple IHG Rewards base points with IHG’s new Autumn promotion. It runs from 1st October to 31st December. You can register here and our full article on the offer is here.

New to IHG Rewards?  Read our overview of IHG Rewards here and our article on points expiry rules here. Our article on ‘What are IHG Rewards points worth?’ is here.

Buy points: If you need additional IHG Rewards points, you can buy them here.

You will get a 100% bonus when you buy IHG Rewards points by 4th January 2022. Click here to buy or learn more.

Want to earn more hotel points?  Click here to see our complete list of promotions from IHG and the other major hotel chains or use the ‘Hotel Offers’ link in the menu bar at the top of the page.