We were just detailing in November how the 100% bonus on buying IHG Rewards Club points could be translated into to some big savings on stays at InterContinental Hotels Group hotels worldwide and how that offer expired on November 11th. Well great news! They have brought it back until December 11th!
Offer Details
100% Bonus IHG Rewards Club Points when you buy points online. Full details. Until Dec 11, 15
Here is a copy and paste of part of our post from November detailing how it can be used to save some cash when you travel:
Let’s take a stay at the Holiday Inn Express Halifax Airport. This hotel is currently part of the IHG Rewards Club PointsBreaks
offer where you only need 5,000 points to stay at the hotel. We checked
a stay from Dec 15 to 16th and found the 5,000 point rate was
available:
To pay for that room, the best flexible rate is $139.99 plus fees and
taxes. The AAA rate is $133.50 and the non-refundable prepaid rate is
$125.99
Now if you don’t have any points in your IHG account you could buy
6,000 points with the current bonus (3,000 + 3,000) for US $40.50 and
have 1,000 points leftover.
Convert that to Canadian dollars and add GST and you are looking around $55 for that same stay. Saving you at least $70!
Need to stay 2 nights? It get’s even better as 10,000 points is just
over $90 for what would be at least $250 if you paid cash for the stay
bringing your savings to $160 or more.
Now lets look at a non PointBreaks hotel, the InterContinental Times Square New York City. A Saturday night stay, Jan 17-18, 2016 has the best Flexible rate is US$459
To redeem for this same room is 50,000 points
To buy 50,000 points with the bonus is US$312.50. Convert that to
Canadian and add GST and you are looking at about C$425 versus the
C$596.70 for the Best Flexible rate for a savings of almost $175 on that
one night!!
Overall the 100% bonus on buying IHG Rewards Club points can provide great value!
The offer brings the price of a point down to 0.575 of a cent and you
only have to buy 1,000 points (unlike in the summer where you had to buy
26,000 or more). This per point price is less than the
Points+Cash trick of buying points for 0.7 cents. If you choose to buy
the maximum number of points, 60,000, it will cost you US$690 but of
course you’ll end up getting 120,000 points. That’s 24 nights at IHG
hotels if redeeming via the PointBreaks option which works out to only $28.75 per night!
YOU HAVE TO BUY POINTS BY DECEMBER 11th BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO USE THEM RIGHT AWAY. However
we do recommend that you don’t buy points if you don’t think you’ll use
them in the next 3-4 months are you always run the risk of the program
raising redemption rates for stays.
Offer Details
100% Bonus IHG Rewards Club Points when you buy points online. Full details. Until Dec 11, 15