IHG Rewards Club has just rolled out a new offer on purchased points, and it's potentially their best offer of the year. You have to log into your IHG Rewards Club account to see what you're eligible for, though best I can tell, IHG is offering up to…
Shopping portals can be a great way to earn cash back for purchases you’d make anyway. While shopping portals offer bonuses for all kinds of retailers, sometimes they even offer bonuses for airlines and hotels. We're seeing shopping portals offering…
Last year Chase introduced the new IHG® Rewards Club Premier Credit Card, which is the premium co-brand IHG credit card being issued by Chase. Best of all, as of recently this $89 annual fee card is offering its best ever welcome bonus of up to 120,000…
Last year we saw Chase refresh two of their popular hotel credit cards -- The World of Hyatt Credit Card and the IHG® Rewards Club Premier Credit Card -- and there's a lot of overlap between them. You're potentially eligible for both of these cards,…
Last April IHG made some major changes to their credit card portfolio, as they introduced the IHG® Rewards Club Premier Credit Card. In the process they stopped issuing the old IHG credit card, which is a loss, but at this point we have to make the best…
Yesterday I wrote about how the IHG® Rewards Club Premier Credit Card is offering a new best-ever welcome bonus of up to 120,000 IHG Rewards Club points. The card is offering 80,000 points after spending $2,000 within three months, and an additional…
Chase has just introduced a new best-ever welcome bonus on the IHG® Rewards Club Premier Credit Card. This is IHG's newest credit card, which was introduced last April. Let's look at the details of this card: The IHG Premier Card has a welcome bonus…
IHG has just released their new PointBreaks list, so if you might be interested in making a booking, check out the list now. Last year IHG revamped their PointBreaks promotion. This is a promotion they’ve been offering on a quarterly basis for years,…
For years, IHG Rewards Club has been offering PointBreaks, which is one of the best promotions in the hotel industry. When the promotion was first launched, IHG would make well over a hundred hotels available for just 5,000 points per night. The hotels…
This week InterContinental Hotels Group released their preliminary results for 2018, and it contains an interesting note regarding their loyalty program. This excerpt is the most interesting, talking about the value of strengthening their loyalty program:
I recently wrote an updated post about the hotel credit cards that offer free night certificates, either as an annual benefit, or as a reward for reaching certain spend thresholds. In many cases these anniversary free night certificates can more than…
InterContinental Hotels Group sure is on a shopping spree lately! They've acquired Kimpton, they recently acquired Regent, and now they're acquiring an even higher end hotel group. InterContinental Hotels Group has announced their acquisition of Six…
Shopping portals can be a great way to earn cash back for purchases you’d make anyway. While shopping portals offer bonuses for all kinds of retailers, sometimes they even offer bonuses for airlines and hotels. Yesterday I wrote about how Ebates is offering…
For those of you not familiar with Amex Offers, it’s a program available through most Amex cards, where different cards are eligible for different savings and bonus offers. In many cases the offers can be huge, and more than offset the annual fee on…
In March 2018 it was announced that IHG would be acquiring a 51% stake in Regent Hotels. IHG paid $39 million for the 51% stake, with the right to acquire the remaining 49% in a phased manner starting in 2026. Currently there are six Regent properties,…
I often write about promotions for purchasing airline miles and hotel points. For example, at the moment we're seeing promotions from American AAdvantage, Alaska Mileage Plan, Hilton Honors, IHG Rewards Club, and World of Hyatt. These can represent an…
IHG Rewards Club doesn’t have a traditional category-based award chart. While IHG hotels have year-round award prices, they don’t belong to a specific category. Instead the cost of an award night is typically tied to what brand a hotel belongs to, and…
For the past few years, most of IHG’s global hotel promotions have been customized. Everyone gets some type of offer, but different members get targeted for different versions of the offer. The logic is that hotel loyal programs want to generate incremental…
With 2018 now behind us, I thought it would be interesting to reflect on what status I've earned in the past year with both airlines and hotels. I love miles and points every bit as much as I did a decade ago. What has changed for me over the years is…
I have a lot of credit cards -- 24 at this point, to be exact -- and for the most part I'm really happy with my credit card portfolio. For a while there were a lot of credit cards that I really wanted, though since October I've picked up five cards,…
IHG sure takes an odd approach to loyalty: IHG Rewards Club is IHG’s primary loyalty program, but it doesn’t actually offer competitive elite benefits, and those few elite benefits it does offer aren’t valid at InterContinental hotels…
