IHG’s ‘Set Your Sights’ promotion is the one to beat for Spring 2015

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You can earn up to triple IHG Rewards base points with IHG’s new Autumn promotion. It runs from 1st October to 31st December 2021. You can register here and our full article on the offer is here.

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

Following the success of its ‘Into The Nights’ promotion, which appears – at least anecdotally – to have succeeded in driving a lot of incremental business this Autumn, IHG Rewards Club is following up with ‘Set Your Sights’.

IHG Rewards Club is the loyalty scheme for Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, Indigo, InterContinental etc. ‘Set Your Sights’ will run January 1st to April 30th 2015 so you will have plenty of time to hit your target.

To find out your personalised target, you need to visit the ‘Set Your Sights’ website here and log in. This is what I was offered:

Effectively, I need to stay eight nights. I must include two countries outside the UK and at least four different IHG brands.

In return I will receive 105,700 bonus points which I would value at £500.

At the moment this does not seem credible, albeit the deal does represent a good return on my spending. I have three Holiday Inn nights booked for January through the ‘Flash Sale’ last month – if they happen to post as qualifying nights, which I doubt, then I will look at this again.

For comparison, this is what my wife got:

It is not easier or harder …. it is just different.

Her target is 53,800 points for five nights. This is a lower ‘per night’ average than I got. However, there is no requirement to stay outside the UK and no requirement to stay at a specific number of brands. Five cheap weekend nights at a Holiday Inn Express would do it.

However, with a bonus worth no more than £250, the numbers don’t make sense unless I actually need those nights. I can pick off three of these bonuses with just one night though – 5000 points for one stay, 1500 points for using my IHG Visa to pay for it and 2000 points if I book a Bonus Points package. This is 8,500 bonus points for one night – I will definitely try to hit that with a stay we would need to make anyway.

It is worth noting that if you are not already an IHG Rewards Club member, you can join up via their site and then immediately go over to the ‘Set Your Sights’ site and see what target you have. It will be a very easy one – probably even more generous than the one given to my wife.

You can look up your own target at the ‘Set Your Sights’ website.

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.

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Trickster says:

21 Dec21 December 16:28

I need it decide whether to accept a free night from the into the nightd promo, or let it auto-convert into 20k points.

Has Anyone used a free night from the current promo yet, are theta easy to use as say the credit card free night?
- Rob says:
  
  21 Dec21 December 18:14
  
  Seems to be that they work exactly the same as the credit card nights, ie one year validity but same reward pool as points nights. If you are heading to anywhere expensive next year, the free night would be a far better deal.
Martin Clarke says:

21 Dec21 December 16:59

I wish mine were as easy, I need to make 17 stays before the end of the period for part of the promo and my max achieved points is 53k, given I do 40 stays a year I find this too much. I have yet to hit the max points on offer on any of these type of promos and yet the still make it harder for me, I’m feeling very uninspired by this promotion
davidecp says:

21 Dec21 December 17:10

The Into the Night promotion did not run well for me. Completed four of my five targets, but my spend on black visa card has never tracked. First stay paid for over 12 weeks ago, have contacted IHG help desk several times, and am still waiting. Very much doubt if I will be taking part in the new promotion.
- Rob says:
  
  21 Dec21 December 18:13
  
  They will get there eventually, if the 2013 version of this is anything to go by.
Vitali says:

21 Dec21 December 20:30

Does anybody know if points + cash are considered qualifying rates for “Set your sights”/ “Into the nights”, etc.? I checked their terms&conditions and it wasn’t mentioned anywhere.
- Peter says:
  
  21 Dec21 December 21:51
  
  No. If you don’t earn points, then it won’t be a qualifying rate.
  - Vitali says:
    
    21 Dec21 December 21:54
    
    Thank you. I just thought that some hotel chains allow you to earn points on the cash part of the rate but apparently IHG is not one of them.
    - Rob says:
      
      21 Dec21 December 21:56
      
      Hyatt does this, unfortunately IHG does not
Neil says:

22 Dec22 December 13:29

One of my 4 targets is apply for the IHH credit card – though the link it takes you too doesn’t award you the triple bonus (30k points) – just 10k – I won’t be participating as I’ll make more via the normal sign up link.
- Alan says:
  
  22 Dec22 December 14:15
  
  Last year I still got the Big Win bonus points even though I used a different sign up link with a higher bonus so you may still be in luck 😉
HayMow says:

22 Dec22 December 15:41

Anyone have a view on which of the 2 Paris InterContinentals to pick (ie. Le Grand vs Ave Marceau) for a free night redemption?
– V happy the free nights from ItN seem to have good & broad availability: I can get either the above on my free night in mid Jan for a room valued at €355 or €379 respectively, which I consider a huge result for a couple of cheap-ish HIE stays!
Having only joined IHG to participate in Into the Nights (thanks Raffles!) my targets were q easy, though the goalposts (i.e. what I needed to complete) did change once or twice & in fact didn’t even appear for c.1 month. Hence I’ve missed out on a 2nd free night as I put a Crowne Plaza stay thru Hotels.com instead of IHG as I initially had no faith ‘my offer’ would ever be populated with a target (esp. since I was a new member), so thought I might as well start working towards the 1night free after 10nts with hotels.com
Also IHG customer services tell me by email that my 2nd goal isn’t what’s still showing on the website version of my targets so I have no idea who to believe!
- Rob says:
  
  22 Dec22 December 16:01
  
  Le Grand, whilst having small standard rooms, is almost certainly the most suitable unless you need to be up by the Eiffel Tower. Great location – 30 secs from the department stores, opposite the Opera, walkable to the Louvre etc, the airport bus stops directly opposite from CDG. Stunning interior following the refurbishment.
  
  Breakfast is expensive as you’d expect but plenty of options outside. Alternatively, if with your partner, the Euro 120 upgrade to lounge access is not a bad deal if you are around for the evening champagne and canapés as that includes lounge breakfast. You may even persuade them to give you a bigger room.
  - HayMow says:
    
    22 Dec22 December 16:33
    
    Fantastic – great tips, thanks!
Phil says:

22 Dec22 December 20:32

Another waste of time promotion from IHG and seriously miffed. This is now the last 3 promotions that have been completely unachievable for me, despite doing over 50 nights per year in their hotels.

This last one is particularly ridiculous. Maximum points I can get is 50,000 (i.e. £250 value). For this I need to do 28 nights, 2 overseas trips, $300 food spend, and they have say I have to apply and get a credit card (which I refuse), plus others.

Raffles, I would like to see the evidence of this driving business this Autumn, and also what type of business is it. Infrequent travellers set easy targets, they will look to achieve at the least possible costs and redeem in the quality hotels. Yet loyal customers have unrealistic targets and no available bonus points via other routes (as there used to be)
Stuart says:

23 Dec23 December 10:42

One of my offers is ‘Download the IHG App’ for 500 points.

I already have it but it doesn’t appear I need to book anything through the app to get the bonus based on the terms. I’m wondering if I should just delete it, redownload it and log in again on January 1st to see if it works with no booking made.

I don’t plan on booking any stays for this as I wasn’t impressed by the administration of Into the Nights and have no confidence in it working correctly. My final stay for Into the Nights was this weekend so if that tracks correctly (seven weeks and several emails after my first stay and it still hasn’t tracked) I may reevaluate and do some mattress runs for the points as I would come out ahead if it all works.