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 page contains links to the ‘buy miles’ or ‘buy points’ sections of the major airline and hotel schemes. Click on the link to be taken directly to the ‘buy’ .....
This page contains links to the ‘buy miles’ or ‘buy points’ sections of the major .....
30 Apr 201530 April 2015 • Leave a comment
Tomorrow, May 1st, 300 hotels in the IHG Rewards Club loyalty scheme (which covers Holiday Inn, HI Express, Crowne Plaza, InterContinental etc) go up in points cost. If you think that you may need a .....
Tomorrow, May 1st, 300 hotels in the IHG Rewards Club loyalty scheme (which covers Holiday Inn, HI Express, .....
30 Apr 201530 April 2015 • 14 comments
If you got the IHG Rewards Club Visa credit card when the sign up bonus was tripled recently, here is an interesting little quirk. The IHG credit card is issued by Barclaycard, who also issue the .....
If you got the IHG Rewards Club Visa credit card when the sign up bonus was tripled recently, here is an .....
30 Apr 201530 April 2015 • 32 comments
More news in brief: Avios Suitcase adds new points-earning badges If you have been visiting the Avios Suitcase app on Facebook occasionally, it is worth checking back. New ‘badges’ .....
More news in brief: Avios Suitcase adds new points-earning badges If you have been visiting the Avios Suitcase .....
28 Apr 201528 April 2015 • 47 comments
Late last night, IHG Rewards Club released a list of the hotels which will be changing reward categories on May 1st. You download the list as a PDF here. A lot of this was already predicted because it .....
Late last night, IHG Rewards Club released a list of the hotels which will be changing reward categories on .....
25 Apr 201525 April 2015 • 15 comments
When IHG announced the forthcoming changes to IHG Rewards Club last week, I was broadly neutral. IHG is adding a new elite level after 75 nights or 75,000 base points. This currently unnamed level, .....
When IHG announced the forthcoming changes to IHG Rewards Club last week, I was broadly neutral. IHG is adding .....
21 Apr 201521 April 2015 • 54 comments
When IHG Rewards Club – the Holiday Inn, InterContinental, Crowne Plaza etc scheme – announced changes to its programme last week, most people focussed on July 1st as the key date. This .....
When IHG Rewards Club – the Holiday Inn, InterContinental, Crowne Plaza etc scheme – announced .....
20 Apr 201520 April 2015 • 15 comments
IHG Rewards Club has slowly started to email members about changes to the programme which start from July 1st. Full details can be found here at the IHG site. The important news, before you start to .....
IHG Rewards Club has slowly started to email members about changes to the programme which start from July 1st. .....
15 Apr 201515 April 2015 • 50 comments
News in brief: Interesting Crowne Plaza money-back guarantee One of our readers sent me information on Crowne Plaza’s ‘Sleep Advantage‘ guarantee. These applies to all hotels in .....
News in brief: Interesting Crowne Plaza money-back guarantee One of our readers sent me information on Crowne .....
14 Apr 201514 April 2015 • 31 comments
In my article yesterday, I outlined ‘the facts’ of the IHG Rewards Club loyalty scheme. This article is my personal opinion, highlighting areas where I think you might want to focus. .....
In my article yesterday, I outlined ‘the facts’ of the IHG Rewards Club loyalty scheme. This .....
9 Apr 20159 April 2015 • 34 comments
This is the fourth of our overview series of the main hotel loyalty schemes. Each scheme will be covered over two articles over two days. One will list the basic facts of the scheme, the other will be .....
This is the fourth of our overview series of the main hotel loyalty schemes. Each scheme will be covered over .....
8 Apr 20158 April 2015 • 33 comments
Starting tomorrow and continuing over Easter, I am running updated versions of our overviews of the major hotel loyalty schemes. Each programme will be covered in two posts on consecutive days: The .....
Starting tomorrow and continuing over Easter, I am running updated versions of our overviews of the major .....
1 Apr 20151 April 2015 • 46 comments
My friend Andy was in a British Airways lounge in the US last week when he got talking to a fellow passenger who turned out to be a senior UK Amex employee. The conversation turned to the Starwood .....
My friend Andy was in a British Airways lounge in the US last week when he got talking to a fellow passenger .....
25 Mar 201525 March 2015 • 81 comments
News in brief: Get a 60% bonus on IHG Rewards Club points purchases IHG Rewards Club is offering a 60% bonus when you buy 5,000 points or more before March 29th. This is not, in itself, a fantastic .....
News in brief: Get a 60% bonus on IHG Rewards Club points purchases IHG Rewards Club is offering a 60% bonus .....
20 Mar 201520 March 2015 • 2 comments
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