IHG One Rewards is currently offering a lucrative sale on award nights, which could save you quite a few points on a redemption. I wanted to post a reminder, as this promotion was initially only available to those with a co-branded IHG credit card, and has now been extended to elite members as well. That means a lot of people have access to this deal now.
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Save 15% on free night award redemptions
IHG One Rewards is offering members 15% savings on award stays:
- You must book by Sunday, January 14, 2024
- You must stay by Thursday, February 22, 2024
- This was initially available to those who have the IHG One Rewards Premier Credit Card (review) or IHG One Rewards Traveler Credit Card (review), but is now also available to non-cardmembers who have IHG Platinum or IHG Diamond status
- The offer is only available for stays of up to three nights; that’s because cardmembers get a fourth night free on award redemptions, so that’s a better value on longer stays
- The 15% discount is offered at the time of booking (you should see both the original price and discounted price listed)
- This can also be applied to Points & Cash bookings, but only the points portion is discounted
If you have any upcoming travel plans, this offer is definitely worth keeping in mind. And if you have already booked any stays during the offer period but can still rebook, that could be worth doing.
This is a generous offer that’s worth it
This offer from IHG is potentially quite lucrative:
- Since IHG One Rewards largely has dynamic award pricing, you might as well redeem when there’s a further discount on redemptions
- This is even useful for those with IHG free night certificates; they can be used for properties costing up to 40,000 points per night without a top-off, so you could redeem at more expensive properties than usual with this offer
- I’d say the major catch here is the limited travel window, as you need to stay in the next several weeks
The IHG One Rewards loyalty program has been nicely refreshed, with new perks for IHG Platinum and IHG Diamond members, plus the IHG Milestone Rewards program. When the new program was launched in the spring of 2022, we were promised that there would be occasional award sales, so this is one of those. We last saw one of these in the fall of 2023.
Bottom line
IHG One Rewards is offering a 15% discount on award stays. This is valid for bookings through January 14, 2024, and for stays through February 22, 2024. This is available to those with a co-branded IHG credit card, as well as all IHG Diamond and Platinum members. This could be a great time to make an IHG award booking with points or a free night certificate.
Do you plan on taking advantage of this IHG award discount?
Just used this to stay at the Regent HK. Phenomenal hotel!
hi Ben. it would be great if you could add 12(24) months history of such award sale time frame like you did with points/miles sale. those are immensely helpful with planning/preparation purposes. thanks for all the great works.
Seeing a lot of hotel and flight offers. Feels like demand is soft.
Traveling within the window with an Intercontinental reservation booked. So I went to look and the “base points rate” is 13% higher now. Still rebook and save 2%. Expensive property so will save maybe 3k over 2 nights but seems disingenuous as just a week or so ago I double checked and the base rate was the same as when I booked months ago and this is a trip in Europe off season (February)