IHG Rewards Club launched the other week an Accelerate-promotion called “Make Every Stay Count” that begins today and is valid through the end of the year.
Members that register for this offer have personalized offers based on their recent stay history with the stay. You must register for this offer by October 18. Readers posted their targeted offers on the original piece (access here) and some had weird offers fore merely 1,000 bonus points (read more here).
You can access and sign up for this offer on IHG’s website here.
READ MORE: IHG Rewards Club Rate & Bonus Points And Miles Promotions
Here’s my personal offer:
Conclusion
IHG Reward Club has been very predictable with their Accelerate-offers now for several years. Good to have always opportunities to earn bonus points but perhaps some variety would be in order?
It is really weird that some members are only eligible for 1,000 bonus points through the end of the promotional period. Let’s hope that this is merely a programming error at IHG’s end.
Here are the terms and conditions of this promotion:
You must be an IHG® Rewards Club member and must register your member number in advance to participate in the promotion (“Promotion”). Upon Registration (as defined below), members will be presented with the opportunity to earn bonus points upon completion of all offers presented. You must register for the promotion by 18 October 2019. By clicking “one click registration” you are registering for the promotion and agreeing to receive IHG Rewards Club marketing communications and the terms and conditions of the Campaign and Privacy Statement. Members will be awarded bonus points listed for each individual Promotional offer (“Offer”) after completing the requirements of each individual Offer. Each Offer must be completed between 1 September 2019 and 31 December 2019 (both dates inclusive) (“Registration”). Only members that qualify for this promotion as defined by IHG Reward Club’s terms and conditions can participate in this promotion. Registered members are not allowed to participate in concurrent campaigns.
The bonus points earned through individual Offers can be used for redemption opportunities towards Reward Nights, merchandise and other redemption opportunities. See individual Offers for the specific terms and conditions per Offer type. A Stay is defined as per IHG® Rewards Club Membership Terms and Conditions as one night or consecutive nights at the same hotel, regardless of frequency of check-in/out (“Stay”). A Stay constitutes a “Qualifying Stay” when member pays qualifying rates, which include most business and leisure rates at InterContinental®, Crowne Plaza®, Hotel Indigo®, Holiday Inn®, Holiday Inn Express®, Staybridge Suites®, Candlewood Suites®, Kimpton®, EVEN®, avid™, voco™, Regent® Hotels & Resorts or HUALUXE® hotels worldwide. Bonus points are not issued for Non-Qualifying Room Rates or Non-Qualifying Stays. “Non-Qualifying Room Rates” or “Non-Qualifying Stay” include the following: net wholesale individual and group rate, certain package rates, employee discount rate, friends and family rate, crew rate, special discounted contract rates, seasonal worker/crew rate, 50% travel club discount rate, travel industry discount rate, distressed passenger rate, IHG® Rewards Club Reward Nights/Airline Hotel Reward rate, rates booked through third-party web sites, complimentary hotel Stays and any other rates not defined as a Qualifying Room Rate at IHG’s sole discretion. Only one room per member per Qualifying Stay will be awarded the applicable bonus points, or other benefits (if any) available under the applicable Offer. If more than one member checks into the same room, only one member is eligible for the applicable bonus points, or other benefits (if any) available under the applicable Offer. Each Promotion Offer of bonus points is available only once to each member. IHG Rewards Club Members with a Miles earning preference will earn Points. No retroactive bonus points will be awarded for Stays prior to Registration. Except as otherwise stated in the terms and conditions, please allow up to 2 to 3 weeks for Promotion Offer bonus points to be credited after checkout. This Promotion is subject to standard IHG® Rewards Club Membership Terms and Conditions and earning structure, which can be obtained by visiting www.ihgrewardsclub.com. The use of certain rates may be subject to applicable agreement(s). Any misuse of such rates is considered a fraud activity subject to IHG® Rewards Club Membership Terms and Conditions. IHG® reserves the right to remove a member’s bonus points or cancel a member’s account if fraudulent use of the Promotion is detected. To the extent permitted by applicable law, IHG® Rewards Club reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Promotion/Offer at any time with or without notice. To the extent permitted by applicable law, IHG® reserves the right of final interpretation of this Offer. Members must make any promotional enquiries by 60 days from the end of the campaign promotional period.
my offer still shows only one stay… 1K points. Booking away from IHG as a result–even the Marriott promo is better than this. It would have been better had I not been eligible than this insult.
Same 1k here, I’ll make sure to book Hilton all I can and I have booked a couple of point breaks to use my ihg points
Same here. I’m referring to this as the “stay once, get insulted” offer. Last quarter was a cruddy offer as well. Moving on to Hilton after many loyal years with IHG. They clearly prefer not to reward loyalty.
Still showing only the 1000pt offer. Last quarter was bad too. Random things that I wouldn’t normally qualify for.
I received this very simple offer: ” Double Your Stay
Earn double points on every stay, starting with your second stay, up to 40,000 bonus points”
Double Points is always nice but I usually get much better offers. Has anyone had luck with IHG re-doing their Accelerate Offer and getting something better? Or at least something that more resembles an IHG Accelerate offer?
yes i have.
One of my four offers is “ Corporate Account Bonus
Stay 4 time(s) using your corporate rate and earn 6,800 bonus points. Stays booked through your corporate portal count toward the promotion.”
Which is for me a complete surprise and useless as I do not have a corporate account, am not associated with a corporate account, and have never used or booked through a corporate account.
I’m not sure what’s going on. They are also offering 32,000 if I stay at five brands, well won’t happen. I stay at CP and have two IC stays till end year, I could stay at a HI. But two more brands, will not happen so this accelerate is going to be a complete non event for me.
I registered for the previous round & will be hitting all requirements for a total of 40k bonus points in a week. Have 16k credited already. Can I register for this new round starting today? If I can, should I be waiting until I get all points from the previous round before registering for the new one?
No just register, it’s a new promotion and any points owed from the previous accelerate will eventually be posted to your account. Can take 4 to 6 weeks, but generally end of each month.
Conclusion as is used on this site. But you registering for this new accelerate won’t affect the previous accelerate.
‘Not eligible’ again! They let me sign up last time but not the one before that. Is this because they know I have a stay booked??
Just a warning if you are looking at booking with IHG, I recently booked the ‘Winter Escape” turned out to be $188 more a day then if I had just booked a standard room rate 6 weeks beforehand.
For those of us suffering with the 1000pts offer I’ve just contact IHG by webchat and was told that they are still having issues uploading specific “sub-offers” and that they are hoping to have this resolved by the end of this week. Hope this helps.
I thought my offer was skimpy but it totals 43,400. Two weekend stays (12,000 pts), one Points + Cash stay (4,500 pts) and 5 stays with my corporate account (5,200 pts) and a bonus of 21,000 points upon completion.