Good morning everyone, my IHG insider sent me news on an upcoming IHG promo. Between March 13-16, you can book all participating IHG hotels in Mexico and automatically receive a 30% discount on the nightly rate. This promo only applies to paid stays between March 13 and June 15. The landing page is a little barren at the moment, but presumable tomorrow there will be more information available.
(Hat Tip to Doctor of Credit’s post)
Good evening everyone, there is no doubt in my mind that I love Chase and Chase loves me. I have quite a few credit cards (both personal and business) with Chase. I always want the latest card design (remember the new Citi American Airlines Executive Credit Card? or the new Chase Ink Bold/Plus Business Cards?) and am a big fan of EMV (aka Chip and Signature) credit cards. After reading Will’s recent post about the Chase United Airlines MileagePlus Credit Card adding EMV chips to their card, I decided to call Chase.
Good afternoon everyone! I love waking up in the morning and having a ton of new travel promos and offers to talk about, it makes my job a little easier. The first offer I want to talk about is IHG’s new promo called Into the Nights Set Your Sights (link) (hat tip to Loyalty Traveler). It is very similar in structure to the Into the Nights promo. Here are my offers:
I must complete 3 out of 4 offers to get 33,100 bonus IHG points.
The problem (or possible opportunity) with booking the Mini-Vacation Package is that it is actually a timeshare presentation, not a mini vacation. Usually when I think of a mini vacation, I do not think of sitting in a sales presentation for 1-2 hours, but that is just me. IHG is trying to make your mini vacation / timeshare presentation as enticing as possible by offering you a 4 day / 3 night stay at one of their 6 vacation properties (Orlando, Las Vegas, Myrtle Beach, Gatlinburg, Cape Canaveral, and Williamsburg) for only $199 + tax, with a $100 night credit or 20,000 IHG points (link). Assuming you live/travel to an area with one of the 6 vacation properties, you might do pretty well. Since you are required to attend the sales presentation, you must visit the property, you cannot call the front desk and tell them to virtually check you in. I like your thinking though…
Chase recently updated their smartphone app for iOS and Android with the ability to transfer Chase Ultimate Reward Points to their travel partners. I will show you how I recently transferred Chase Ultimate Reward Points to Southwest Airlines on my iPhone. The process should work the same on an Android phone. You can follow these steps to transfer Chase Ultimate Reward Points to any of their travel partners. Without further ado, download the Chase app to your smartphone and log into your Chase account.
Navigate to the Chase account that has Chase Ultimate Reward Points – either a Chase Sapphire Preferred (personal account) or a Chase Ink Bold/Plus (business account).
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[Sarcasm on] Breaking news everyone! I just received a press release from IHG regarding their new online redemption catalog:
ATLANTA (Nov. 24, 2014) InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) today announces the launch of its new IHG® Rewards Club Global Redemption Catalog. The world’s first, largest and fastest-growing hotel loyalty program is introducing a new and enhanced online catalog, offering thousands of retail redemption choices tailored to more than 200 countries and 20 languages.
IHG is one of the world’s leading hotel companies, with over 4,700 hotels around the world and a family of nine trusted hotel brands to meet a variety of guests’ needs – from a city center Holiday Inn® hotel, to an award winning InterContinental® resort. Its loyalty program offers advantages that no other hotel company can match including; free guest Internet for all IHG® Rewards Club members worldwide across the IHG brand family, value-priced Reward Nights with less restrictions, no blackout dates on Reward Nights, no cancellation penalties – and now, with the wide breadth of offerings in the new redemption catalog, members can truly personalize their rewards to best suit their needs.
The new redemption catalog will also give all 82 million IHG® Rewards Club members worldwide the new ability to add items to a personal wish list and to use their IHG® Rewards Club points to send gifts to friends and family in other countries.
Susanna Freer Epstein, senior vice president, Customer Loyalty Marketing, IHG said: “At IHG® Rewards Club, we are constantly looking to enhance and evolve the program in ways that truly recognize and reward our members’ loyalty – not just by giving them points but by giving them the opportunity for rewarding experiences. Our new redemption catalog makes it even easier for our members to access rewards for whatever they like – from jewelry to electronics, to the trip of a lifetime.”