IHG Rewards Club has launched a new points sale with a 100% bonus that is valid for purchases made through July 31, 2020.
IHG sells points throughout the year (the maximum bonus is 100%), and members can now buy up to 150,000 points every calendar year before any targeted offers.
IHG Rewards Club has brought back the Gold and Platinum fast track offers for sign-ups until December 30, 2020.
Members who register for this offer have 90 days to complete it. You need two nights for Gold and five for Platinum.
IHG ANA hotels in Japan have launched a “Relax For Longer” rate plan for stays at participating properties until August 31, 2020.
The offer comes with early check-in and late check-out, breakfast for two, and F&B discount on your next stay between August 1 – September 30.
IHG introduced Ambassador “Benefits Guarantee” in early 2019 (read more here) that allows some InterContinentals to deposit a small number of points instead of providing FIRM benefits.
IHG suspended this guarantee for a month from May 30 until June 30, 2020 (read more here), but it is again enforced as of July 1st.
IHG Hotels today announced that it has taken over the management of a historic hotel in the capital of Fiji that will become InterContinental Grand Pacific Hotel Suva in 2022.
The hotel went through thorough refurbishment and reopened in 2014 (Grand Pacific Hotel originally opened in 1914).
IHG acquired Six Senses hotels back in early 2019 (read more here), and they are slowly being integrated into IHG Rewards Club.
Six Senses tend to be resort hotels, but the group had two city properties in Singapore that decided to exit the IHG system in early June. These hotels are switching flags to Marriott’s Autograph Collection.
IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) today was the first global hotel company to have a quick update of its second-quarter (April, June, and July) performance.
The hotel company expects to see a total of 75% decrease in comparable RevPAR (Revenue per Available Room) for the three month period the April being the absolute worst month. Roughly 10% of the hotels are still closed.
Kimpton Last Minute Deals have returned from the Covid-19 break. The latest release is valid for stays this coming week/weekend of June 24 – 30, 2020.
These rates are only available for IHG Rewards Club members, are prepaid and available on select dates depending on the property (see the list below).
IHG planned last year to slowly introduce dynamically priced awards but didn’t get to speed with the program before this spring (read more here, here and here) starting first with the Greater China and then rapidly elsewhere.
The program had some excellent rates at previously 60K to 70K per night InterContinental that suddenly were on sale for a lot less. These good deals are now gone, however.
IHG has launched its Europe summer sale for stays in participating countries and hotels through March 31, 2021.
IHG Rewards Club members get third night free (33% discount) if this rate plan is booked by September 10. There is a one-night deposit requirement, but you can change your stay dates by contacting the hotel minimum 48 hours before your stay.
IHG has today (June 18, 2020) updated its global Covid-19 reservation cancellation policy that is now valid for reservations made until August 31, 2020, if booked before April 6.
If you have stays booked on or after April 6, 2020, those are governed by the rate rules that you agreed during the reservation process (mostly flexible).
IHG Rewards Club launched in May a point sale that was supposed to end on Monday but has now been extended through Saturday (June 20, 2020).
IHG sells points throughout the year (the maximum bonus is 100%), and members can now buy up to 150,000 points every calendar year before any targeted offers.
IHG Rewards Club Kimpton Last Minute Deals have returned from the Covid-19 break. The latest release is valid for stays this coming week/weekend of June 16 – 22, 2020.
These rates are only available for IHG Rewards Club members, are prepaid and available on select dates depending on the property (see the list below).
