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IHG Rewards Devalues Dynamic Award Pricing By 30%

by John Ollila
April 2, 2021
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Several readers have contacted us over the past 24 hours regarding obscenely high point prices for stays at IHG affiliated hotels. It appears that IHG Rewards has devalued awards by 30%.

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IHG Rewards (then IHG Rewards Club) indicated last year that they would gradually move to entirely dynamic award pricing where the paid rates would dictate the number of points required for awards.

This works for members’ advance when the paid rates are low, but the nightly point prices can get very high very fast when the prices are normal or during events when they are high. Previously the prices were stagnant regardless of the underlying paid price.

IHG started to roll out this function back in April 2020:

IHG Rewards Club Rolling Out Variable Award Pricing For Greater China

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And there was already one previous dynamic award massacre in June 2020:

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There have been previous issues with Dynamic Award pricing:

IHG’s Dynamic Award Night Pricing Issue?

Here are searches for Amsterdam, Bangkok, Tokyo, Sydney & London:

Amsterdam

Kimpton Points

Kimpton Cash

The price in USD is 1.057. You would need 300,000 points for this stay valuing a point at 0.35 US cents each

Bangkok

InterContinental Bangkok Points

InterContinental Bangkok Cash

The price in USD is $354. You would need 92,000 points for this stay valuing a point at 0.38 US cents each.

London

Indigo Leicester Square Points

Indigo Leicester Square Cash

I actually don’t have enough points on my account for this stay that would cost 337,000 points. The price in USD is 1,991. The value of a point is 0.59 US cents each.

Tokyo

ANA InterContinental Points

ANA InterContinental Cash

The price in USD is 996. The value of a point used towards this redemption would be 0.38 US cents each.

Sydney

InterContinental Sydney Points

InterContinental Sydney Cash

The price in USD is $728. The price of a point used towards this award would be 0.34 US cents each,

Conclusion

Previously IHG priced hotel awards at roughly 0.5 US cents per point. Four of the five examples above are from 0.34 to 0.38 cents per point range, while one is 0.59 US cents.

It appears that IHG Rewards has devalued the value of reward points by 30% overnight without any advance notice from 0.5 to roughly 0.35.

This is a very unfortunate development and allows IHG to take a non-cash gain on its balance sheet by lowering the unredeemed points’ value.

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