Maximise your Avios, air miles and hotel points
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.
This article looks at how to earn Avios and other airline miles from car rentals. The schools are nearly out, so I thought it was a good time to update our ‘Holiday Tips’ series in .....
This article looks at how to earn Avios and other airline miles from car rentals. The schools are nearly out, .....
8 Jul 20198 July 2019 • 84 comments
If you are looking for somewhere classy for a quiet drink in West London over the Summer, Crowne Plaza London Kensington (the townhouse hotel on Cromwell Road, opposite Gloucester Road tube) has .....
If you are looking for somewhere classy for a quiet drink in West London over the Summer, Crowne Plaza London .....
3 Jul 20193 July 2019 • 122 comments
IHG, the chain behind InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn etc, is expanding its ‘InterContinental Alliance Resorts’ portfolio with the addition of two Macau based casino .....
IHG, the chain behind InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn etc, is expanding its .....
29 Jun 201929 June 2019 • Leave a comment
A new (well, rebranded) IHG voco hotel recently opened in Solihull. voco is IHG’s new ‘conversion’ brand allowing existing hotels to switch to IHG without having to adopt the long .....
A new (well, rebranded) IHG voco hotel recently opened in Solihull. voco is IHG’s new .....
22 Jun 201922 June 2019 • 79 comments
Regular readers of Head for Points will know that I am a strong believer in the IHG Rewards Club Premium Mastercard. For an annual fee of £99, I think the benefits package is unbeatable: Platinum .....
Regular readers of Head for Points will know that I am a strong believer in the IHG Rewards Club Premium .....
21 Jun 201921 June 2019 • 238 comments
IHG Rewards Club has launched a status match promotion, offering 2,500 members with UK or US addresses the chance to get a status match to top-tier Spire Elite. If are not currently top tier in .....
IHG Rewards Club has launched a status match promotion, offering 2,500 members with UK or US addresses the .....
17 Jun 201917 June 2019 • 56 comments
IHG Rewards Club is currently running another round of its ‘Accelerate’ promotion. Each member has their own personalised targets. You can register here – once you have logged in .....
IHG Rewards Club is currently running another round of its ‘Accelerate’ promotion. Each member has .....
14 Jun 201914 June 2019 • 183 comments
Welcome to our regular round-up of the best hotel promotions currently running. Apologies for running this a little later than usual for June. I was expected a new Marriott Bonvoy promotion to .....
Welcome to our regular round-up of the best hotel promotions currently running. Apologies for running this a .....
14 Jun 201914 June 2019 • 22 comments
IHG has just opened a new InterContinental in Lyon. It is surprising it has taken this long given that Lyon is France’s 2nd largest metropolitan area and has significant banking, chemical and .....
IHG has just opened a new InterContinental in Lyon. It is surprising it has taken this long given that Lyon .....
6 Jun 20196 June 2019 • 173 comments
Get a 100% bonus when you buy IHG Rewards Club points. IHG Rewards Club – the InterContinental, Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza etc scheme – is running another Flash Sale with a bonus of 100% when you .....
Get a 100% bonus when you buy IHG Rewards Club points. IHG Rewards Club – the InterContinental, Holiday Inn, .....
6 Jun 20196 June 2019 • Leave a comment
HSBC launched a new rewards credit card last month called, erm, the HSBC Rewards Credit Card. This does not give travel rewards, but I wanted to highlight it because: it shows, very clearly, where .....
HSBC launched a new rewards credit card last month called, erm, the HSBC Rewards Credit Card. This does not .....
3 Jun 20193 June 2019 • 58 comments
The first luxury IHG property in the Maldives (if you exclude the Holiday Inn!) is about to open. InterContinental Maldives Maamunagau Resort is now taking bookings for arrivals from 1st September. .....
The first luxury IHG property in the Maldives (if you exclude the Holiday Inn!) is about to open. .....
3 Jun 20193 June 2019 • 95 comments
IHG Rewards Club has stopped the transfer of points to Lufthansa Miles & More. The scheme has, indeed, disappeared from the list of IHG airline partners here. The transfer rate was not great at .....
IHG Rewards Club has stopped the transfer of points to Lufthansa Miles & More. The scheme has, indeed, .....
31 May 201931 May 2019 • Leave a comment
Watch Wimbledon with IHG Rewards Club. The IHG Rewards Club auction platform is pretty useless if you live in the UK. Now and then, however, a good one slips through. IHG Rewards Club is currently .....
Watch Wimbledon with IHG Rewards Club. The IHG Rewards Club auction platform is pretty useless if you live in .....
30 May 201930 May 2019 • 105 comments
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