IHG Rewards Club just shared with us a sneak peek of PointBreaks hotels that will be available for bookings on Monday for stays between January 29 – April 30, 2018. There will be more than 200 hotels on the full PointBreaks list this time.
IHG will move away from the flat 5,000 points per night pricing and introduce hotels at 5,000, 10,000 and 15,000 points and members can also then book using Points + Cash.
You can access IHG page for PointBreaks here.
Note that the IHG’s PointBreaks page won’t be updated with the new list before noon on Monday. We should have the full preview list available some time on Friday.
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Here’s the sneak peek provided by IHG:
- Holiday Inn Kuala Lumpur Glenmarie (Malaysia) (5,000 points)
- InterContinental® Nairobi (Kenya) (10,000 points)
- Holiday Inn San Antonio Northwest (US) (10,000 points)
- InterContinental Cali (Colombia) (10,000 points)
- Holiday Inn Express London – Newbury Park (UK) (10,000 points)
- InterContinental Sao Paolo (Brazil) (15,000 points)
- Holiday Inn Helsinki City Centre (Finland) (15,000 points)
- Crowne Plaza Berlin – Potsdamer Platz (Germany) (15,000 points)
Conclusion
I believe that it was inevitable for IHG to move away from the flat 5,000 per night if they were to include any of the better hotels such as the InterContinental Sao Paulo that is usually quite expensive (and where I will be in about weeks time).
The new PointBreaks should be available for bookings at noon on Monday and IHG has indicated that they are making the full preview list available again on Friday.
We will have separate posts up when the full preview is available tomorrow and when the PointBreaks have become bookable on Monday.
I think that this must be the first time that I have stayed at half of the hotels on the sneak preview list (InterContinental Cali, InterContinental Sao Paulo, Holiday Inn Glenmarie and Holiday Inn Helsinki City Centre).
No issue with the increase in points. At least it means that IC’s are back in the game.
And let’s hope they stay.
At least several IC hotels can be in the list now. I’d be happy to see 15k PB in an IC rather than seeing lame list of 5K hotels all the time.
Since they are increasing points, perhaps can simply increase number of properties. This would make i5 more interesting.
They have more than 200 hotels this time. Double the number last time around.
Hope they have more in the UK, usually only a couple!!
Pathetic. Why did people have to open their mouths asking for “better hotels” at more points. Now Pointbreaks are ruined forever.
We’ve suffered over 3 years of shockingly bad lists. This offers much more scope for in many cases, an additional 5’000 points.
Disagree there were some decent hotels on almost every list.
Depends how you classify “Decent hotels”
hotels like Staybridge Suites Las Vegas, Candlewood Suites Mall of America, Holiday Inn downtown Montreal, Holiday Inn Express Downtown Buffalo…
They may be convenient, but they aren’t desirable properties. 90% of these properties are in North America anyway. Useless for anyone else
It’s true that the lists weren’t as great as before but when I program such as this starts to gain popularity, of course the host will scale back, what do you expect? It’s the same with brands that you wear: prices go up once enough people are reeled in, and quality goes down. And while some of these properties may not have been great for you, they work for some, and the participating hotels use this as a chance to bring in business so it’s not just about the consumer. Most companies don’t operate out of the goodness of their hearts, fyi. This is still one of the best value deals you can get in the market of hotels. If you don’t like it, join one of the other rewards programs and see how long it takes to redeem for a night, I dare say.
Was your post meant for me? I have no issues with the increases as they are bringing in higher-end properties. I stated that quite explicitly.
From what I can see, the people who are getting upset are those who use IHG almost exclusively for Pointbreaks, and hold proper status at other chains.
IHG doesn’t need customers like that.
Who are you to tell IHG what customers they need? lol
An understanding of basic economics would tell you that IHG would be bankrupt if all of it’s customers operated as many seem to do.
Didn’t appreciate the putdown. (calling me Self Righteous blogger) You have one view. I have another. Must you insist on denigrating someone because their opinion differs with yours.
Well, truth can hurt sometimes. I didn’t denigrate you. It was a joke.
Your truth. Not mine. People shouldn’t get personal on these boards. Regardless if it’s a “joke” or not.
Oh, grow up.
Ok, I’ll grow up Karl..if you say so
Ok, I’ll grow up Karl..if you say so
If you’re not from North America I understand but don’t put down the Staybridge Suites Las Vegas for example..a very nice hotel in a tourist town
CP Berlin Potsdamer Platz was also fine.
Even if the HIEx is very nice there, how many people consider Downtown Buffalo NY a desirable/ decent vacation destination?
I believe it’s 25000 points per night normally… the city has a bit of a revival going on but agree its not a top destination.. was a good deal
Very interested in seeing the full list. Hopefully they will not be charging more points for “average hotels”.
Judging by the “Holiday Inn Express San Antonio”….they already are.
Noon? Noon where?
Eastern US time.
Thank you.
I can finally use the last of my 5000 points!
I would have rather they move to a tier system based on the brands.
Intercontinental/Kimpton would be 15K
Crowne Plaza’s/Holiday Inn’s would be 10K
Holiday Inn Express/Candlewood/Staybridge would remain at 5K
Well I assume that some centrally located HIX can be more expensive than HI in suburbs so points price also can be cheaper in such HI.
But I would be very happy if all HIX will be for 5k (as we can see this is not true….)
IHG becomes worse and worse at an increased pace. I guess I gonna make a zero effort onwards to maintain status or earn extra points with Accelerate and won’t extend Ambassador. The only strong side of IHG so far had been points redemptions, and that is going now.
Wow some of you guys are so dramatic. This is clearly a positive change, when was the last time they had Holiday Inn Resort on the PB list? So many ICs.
I am definitely willing to pay a little more.
Just an FYI that the Beachcomber Holiday Inn in Honolulu Hawaii is changing to the Outrigger brand at the end of this month.
pretty pathetic list
I stay avg 30 nights free every yr for last 5 yrs, many on point breaks. Virtually no 5000 properties now.
It had gotten hard to even get it in podunk, Tx.
Point breaks were mostly hotels that had chronically unused capacity, that were willing to accept IHg to pay them $28 so you could stay there. If you travelled much, and needed to spend night, you directed travel routes to spend nights in point break hotels, and its virtually free for you. Including a breakfast. .
The value you get from your points , is directly related to how cheap you can stay. Its been now cut by 2/3. Thanks. Serious devaluation.
News flash, point breaks at places in demand…will be EXTREMELY limited. dont expect to ever see them.
Podunk is in Iowa
I have been at THe San Paulo IC for the last two weeks with one week to go on the point breaks (15K), how did YOU find your stay there?
I will get back 63K + another 20% of the 63K because of the credit card and my Ambassador status renewal choice of 10% back