IHG Rewards Club launched their latest Accelerate-promotion back in December (read more here) that is valid for stays between January 1 – April 30, 2018.
IHG seems to have sign up promotion for new Greater China (China, Hong Kong, Macau & Taiwan) members that can earn 30,000 bonus points in just two stays.
You can access this Accelerate offer on IHG’s website here.
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Here are the hurdles required for this sign up offer:
Conclusion
This Greater China offer requires minimum of four nights over two weekend stays during the promotional period. I have not come across other sign up offers for IHG Rewards Club membership recently.
Considering all the issues that IHG seems to be having with Mainland China members, I am surprised that they are launching a promo that is ripe for misuse (new accounts for existing members).
As I know, and correct me if I am wrong, is this promo only valid if one had an address in China BEFORE the promotion was offered?
Ihg has over-aggressively closed huge amount of accounts in greater china region since the so called accelerate promo (started with new members stay two got one free night cert).
Most of their accounts were closed without reasons right after the required stays were done (very good timing hur), and everyone on earth knows how horrible ihg’s customer service is, if any. Therefore those suffered had no choice but filed fraud report to the local authority to force ihg reopen their accts and restate their earned free nights certs.
I believe reputation of ihg in the region has lost totally since then. Most of those users (if not all) and their influenced would definitely stay away from ihg.