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IHG Rewards is the loyalty scheme for IHG hotels, which includes these brands: avid, Candlewood Suites, Crowne Plaza, EVEN, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Hotel Indigo, HUALUXE, InterContinental, Kimpton, Regent, Six Senses, Staybridge Suites and voco.
Our main two-part introduction to IHG Rewards is here and you can learn more about the program on ihg.com here.
Check out our ‘Hotel Offers’ page here to see what bonus point offers are currently running.
More information on how you can earn more IHG Rewards points with the IHG credit card is here.
If you need to top up your account, you can buy IHG Rewards points here.
IHG Rewards Club, the loyalty scheme for Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, InterContinental etc, has launched revenue-based redemption pricing in Europe and parts of the USA. Don’t panic. In most .....
IHG Rewards Club, the loyalty scheme for Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, InterContinental etc, has launched .....
29 May 202029 May 2020 • 126 comments
What is InterContinenal Ambassador, and is it worth paying a $200 annual fee to join a loyalty programme? I thought it was worth taking another look, as we haven’t focused on Ambassador since .....
What is InterContinenal Ambassador, and is it worth paying a $200 annual fee to join a loyalty programme? I .....
28 May 202028 May 2020 • 77 comments
IHG Rewards Club has launched a 100% ‘buy points’ bonus, which is as generous as you ever see. Should you jump in? There are two extra tweaks which make this better than similar deals: .....
IHG Rewards Club has launched a 100% ‘buy points’ bonus, which is as generous as you ever see. .....
7 May 20207 May 2020 • 43 comments
What is a hotel mattress run, and how do you do one? I thought I would take a look at the concept of ‘mattress runs’ today. A ‘mattress run’ involves booking a hotel room .....
What is a hotel mattress run, and how do you do one? I thought I would take a look at the concept of .....
3 May 20203 May 2020 • Leave a comment
IHG Rewards Club has finally seen the light and is joining Hilton and Marriott in extending your elite status automatically by 12 months. Your elite status will automatically be carried over for the .....
IHG Rewards Club has finally seen the light and is joining Hilton and Marriott in extending your elite status .....
23 Apr 202023 April 2020 • 119 comments
News in brief: Move in to InterContinental Berlin Hotels are having to be creative to generate revenue at the moment. A friend sent me this advertisement from Facebook, translated by Chrome hence the .....
News in brief: Move in to InterContinental Berlin Hotels are having to be creative to generate revenue at the .....
20 Apr 202020 April 2020 • 40 comments
On Monday, IHG and Creation Financial Services withdrew the IHG Rewards Club Premium Mastercard from the market. You would imagine that the credit card industry would be in a better place than most at .....
On Monday, IHG and Creation Financial Services withdrew the IHG Rewards Club Premium Mastercard from the .....
8 Apr 20208 April 2020 • 197 comments
IHG has been badly lacking in its response to coronavirus. Hilton has been leading the pack by a long way, extending Hilton Honors status by a year and reversing status drops. It also guaranteed .....
IHG has been badly lacking in its response to coronavirus. Hilton has been leading the pack by a long way, .....
6 Apr 20206 April 2020 • 74 comments
InterContinental Hong Kong, one of the flagship hotels in the chain, has decided to finally push the button on its top-to-bottom refurbishment. The work has been promised, but delayed, for a while .....
InterContinental Hong Kong, one of the flagship hotels in the chain, has decided to finally push the button on .....
5 Apr 20205 April 2020 • 44 comments
We have temporarily suspended our fortnightly ‘deals ending soon’ feature. The majority of the deals were flight and hotel related and there isn’t much of that going on at the .....
We have temporarily suspended our fortnightly ‘deals ending soon’ feature. The majority of the .....
31 Mar 202031 March 2020 • 51 comments
This is our review of the InterContinental Porto hotel. Readers with good memories (we’re talking 10th February) will remember a review of my £5 Ryanair flight to Porto. I promised to do a .....
This is our review of the InterContinental Porto hotel. Readers with good memories (we’re talking 10th .....
31 Mar 202031 March 2020 • 36 comments
You certainly can’t file this one under hot news, because it took place immediately after New Year. It happened totally under my radar, which is additionally embarrassing because I walk down .....
You certainly can’t file this one under hot news, because it took place immediately after New Year. It .....
28 Mar 202028 March 2020 • 14 comments
The Mayor of London has secured a deal with IHG to take over two of its London hotels for the next 12 weeks. Rough sleepers in London will be encouraged to move into the hotels, with FreeNow and Gett .....
The Mayor of London has secured a deal with IHG to take over two of its London hotels for the next 12 weeks. .....
23 Mar 202023 March 2020 • Leave a comment
As we wrote on Friday, IHG Rewards Club has reduced the qualification threshold for its top tier Spire Elite status. Spire Elite usually requires you to earn 75,000 base points in a calendar year. .....
As we wrote on Friday, IHG Rewards Club has reduced the qualification threshold for its top tier Spire Elite .....
16 Mar 202016 March 2020 • 46 comments
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