Another IHG Rewards Club 24-hour “flash sale” on Monday – some VERY good deals

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• EvilGazebo says:

  21 Oct21 October 13:26

  I take it if I haven’t got enough IHG points in my account for a flash sale redemption, I’m not going to be able to correct that in time?

  i.e. assume neither Virgin or Amex UK MR transfers to IHG are instantaneous?

  • Rob says:

    21 Oct21 October 14:08

    No they’re not. And Amex doesn’t transfer to IHG anymore, unfortunately.

    You can buy points instantly at $7 per 1000. You need 5000 to start with. You then find a 15,000 point hotel, do a redemption booking, and select the ‘5000 points plus $70 option’. Book the hotel then immediately cancel it. You don’t get the $70 back, but you get the full 15,000 points back in your account. Repeat as necessary.

    Do NOT do this for the Indigo deal, though, as I reckon it won’t be bookable. It is a 64 room hotel with 3 reward rooms per night (5%, the contractual limit IHG forces on hotels). That is 90 rooms over the 30 day booking period, of which possible a third will already have been booked at full rate. Your chance of getting one of the others is not great.

    • EvilGazebo says:

      21 Oct21 October 14:17

      Brilliant as ever, you managed to tell me 3 separate things I didn’t know in that reply! Although it was dawning on me about no more AMEX > IHG literally as the email reply notification hit 🙂

      And you correctly guessed my intention was Indigo so I won’t chance it – thanks. Although the points+cash purchase trick is very good to know for future use…..

      • DrTom says:

        21 Oct21 October 16:30

        Yes, I’ve had a wasted afternoon trying to book the Paddington Indigo.

        Wrong information displaying about room availability, rooms booked all the way through the process at 11,250 points, but 45,000 points taken out, slow systems and lots of confusion.

        The consensus, incidentally, is that at most only 1 of the 3 reward rooms per night was discounted to 11,250. I did a pretty thorough scan and check of dates, and I’m convinced that some nights weren’t discounted at all (possibly where reward nights were already sold out).

        I did manage to grab a single night I needed, but this put paid to any idea of a cheap vacation.

        Tom

        • Rob says:

          21 Oct21 October 16:33

          HIX Croydon is not a bad hotel, you know! Relatively short stroll to East Croydon station which is 20 minutes into Central London. Only 50% off, so 7500 per night.

        • Smiley miley says:

          22 Oct22 October 15:00

          I had a go at buying 5,000 points in the hope of doing a 5,000 redemption booking and then cancelling it but am still waiting for the points to be credited to my IHG account. Having missed out on this sale can anyone tell me how long I am likely to have to wait until I get another opportunity?

        • Rob says:

          22 Oct22 October 17:23

          This was the 2nd of these sales, so if they are becoming a regular feature then it will be same time next month.

          A new list of general PointsBreak properties should be out soon as well, all at 5000 points per night, but these are less exciting hotels.

• avstar says:

  21 Oct21 October 16:37

  lets say you book a rewards night using this flash sale or the normal process. is there anything you can do to make it a qualifying stay, like charge something to the room or breakfast? apols if this has already been answered before

• MB3000 says:

  21 Oct21 October 22:19

  Note that the flash sale is for stays up until 22nd November, not 23rd. Makes a difference if you were hoping for a getaway that weekend (like I was :().

  Sure it said 23rd November on the IHG message board when I first looked, but it definitely doesn’t now!

  • Rob says:

    21 Oct21 October 22:23

    Odd stuff happening with Indigo Paddington. If you couldn’t get a room before, try now – lots has opened up.

  • DrTom says:

    21 Oct21 October 22:36

    I booked the night of 22nd to 23rd at Indigo London Paddington (albeit, they only had standard rooms available). After that, rooms are back up to full price.

    And thanks to Raffles for alerting me that lots more availability in the hotel has opened up.

• Elena says:

  21 Oct21 October 22:59

  I booked one for 31st and it worked fine. Tried again now for Saturday-Sunday and they are all gone 🙁
  It was a very good deal considering that i booked non refundable for double the money for the whole week with Accor hotels, i was well upset.

  Btw can you help please,is it better to keep the Accor promotion on Air berlin x5points or 3x Avios points? I have 10 days of stays coming up with them and would like to maximise my avios

  • Rob says:

    21 Oct21 October 23:03

    Depends if you have a plan to use the AB miles. Better to earn 3x Avios and redeem them than earn 5x topbonus but not have enough for a redemption …

• will says:

  22 Oct22 October 16:30

  Well with only 10125 IHG points in the bank I thought I was going to be out of luck here, but I managed to scoop 4 rooms at the Hotel Indigo Paddington for the 1st and 2nd of November for 1125 points + $70 per night!

• limelight says:

  23 Oct23 October 00:37

  If you did book Indigo Paddington, worth checking your reservations. I booked 2x Deluxe room nights, got confirmations, showed online. Someone has gone into the online reservations a few hours ago and downgraded them both to Standard. I’d be surprised if I was the only one….

  • Rob says:

    23 Oct23 October 06:06

    Still showing Exec King for me, not sure if Platinum status protects me?

    • limelight says:

      23 Oct23 October 13:31

      Very glad to hear you’re not affected. I’m Platinum too, so goodness knows what they’re up to. They do always find a way to keep it interesting…

    • xcalx says:

      23 Oct23 October 15:21

      I don’t think it will. As a Plat I was once upgraded to an overwater villa then downgraded to a duplex villa. On arrival they offered me the duplex, luckily I had printed the booking showing the upgraded room. Which they honoured. I keep an eye on my IHG point bookings as they do tend to change room types up and down prior to check in.

  • will says:

    23 Oct23 October 12:08

    Only standard left by the time I got to the party, I’ll flip at least 2 of the rooms just to scale up my points balance in any case.

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