{"id":191,"date":"2015-09-07T06:49:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T10:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backtothemouse.com\/index.php\/?p=191"},"modified":"2015-09-07T06:49:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T10:49:42","slug":"ihg-rewards-club-loyalty-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backtothemouse.com\/index.php\/ihg-rewards-club-loyalty-program\/","title":{"rendered":"IHG Rewards Club Loyalty Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

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IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) Rewards Club is one of our favorite hotel programs.\u00a0 The IHG hotel family includes the InterContinental, Hualuxe, Crowne Plaza, Hotel Indigo, Even Hotels, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites, and Candlewood Suites brands of hotels.\u00a0 Other than the InterContinental hotels, I don’t know that I would consider any of those brands to be luxury brands.\u00a0 What IHG lacks in luxury, it makes up for in quantity.\u00a0 There are Holiday Inn Express hotels everywhere across the United States.<\/p>\n

IHG’s loyalty program, the IHG Rewards Club, allows members to earn points for staying at IHG properties; these points can then be used in order to book free nights.\u00a0 This is a great way to earn free hotel rooms for your vacation travel.\u00a0 In order to accumulate points, you just have to sign up for the program which can be done online<\/a> or at the hotel when you check in.\u00a0 There is no cost for joining the IHG Rewards Club.<\/p>\n

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Points are earned while staying at the hotel and are calculated according to the base price of the room, not including taxes.\u00a0 For most of the IHG hotels, the base price is multiplied by 10 to give you your points for the stay (for example, a $100 per night room will give you 1000 points per night).\u00a0 The exceptions are for the Staybridge or Candlewood Suites brands, for which base prices are multiplied by 5 to calculate points.\u00a0 You can also earn points (and possibly free nights immediately) through several promotions that IHG runs throughout the year.<\/p>\n

IHG has four loyalty levels that you can obtain.\u00a0 Increasing your loyalty level will increase the number of points you earn; level increases can be earned through accumulation of nights or through points.\u00a0 The Club level is the starting level and allows you to earn points.\u00a0 The Gold level can be earned after 10 nights and\/or 10,000 earned points.\u00a0 Gold earns a 10% bonus on top of your base points.\u00a0 The Platinum level can be earned after 40 nights and\/or 40,000 earned points.\u00a0 Platinum earns a 50% bonus on top of your base points.\u00a0 The new Spire level can be earned after 75 nights and\/or 75,000 earned points.\u00a0 Spire members earn a 100% bonus on top of base points plus either 25,000 additional points or the ability to gift a Platinum membership to someone else.<\/p>\n

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So, once you’ve earned a pile of IHG points, how can you use them?\u00a0 Search on the IHG website and set your rate preference to “Reward Nights.”\u00a0 You will get a list of hotels you can book a free night at along with the cost per night in points.\u00a0 Most rooms seem to range from 20,000 to 40,000 nights.\u00a0 You can save some points by using a combination of points and cash.\u00a0 This will involve exchanging 10,000 points for $70.<\/p>\n

IHG publishes<\/a> a list of “point breaks” hotels every two to three months.\u00a0 These are special values featuring a list of hotels that can be booked for only 5,000 points.\u00a0 They are hotels selected from all over the world, including the United States.\u00a0 There aren’t a lot of them, but they can provide great savings if your travel plans are flexible or if one of the point break hotels is somewhere you are planning on going anyway.\u00a0 Reviewing the list of point break offers can also help spur a great vacation idea.<\/p>\n

We usually select an IHG hotel when on work travel in order to build a supply of IHG points.\u00a0 A lot of our work travel also falls in the summer, when IHG runs points earning promotions.\u00a0 We’ve earned additional points through the use of the Chase IHG credit card, which we’ll talk about in a future post.\u00a0 Accumulating these points has allowed us to use hundred of thousands of IHG reward points to book free hotel rooms.<\/p>\n

If you are an IHG member, please let us know in the comments some of your favorite benefits from the IHG Rewards Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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