Besides signing up for credit cards, hotel promotions can be one of the best and easiest ways to get a bunch of points rather cheaply.  And of the different hotel promotions, IHG tends to have some of the more lucrative ones!  For example, last fall in the IHG Accelerate promotion I earned 45,160 IHG points for 2 nights stay ($185 total, though some of that I had to spend anyways as I needed the nights).  More recently, the IHG Priceless Surprises promotion netted us just under 100,000 points, but this time all it took was filling out some postcards and envelopes (but it took awhile for the points to post!).
Other promotions in the past have made it easy to get a free night at ANY hotel with only a few stays. Â While I sometimes question the value of free nights, there’s no doubting that if you have a specific redemption in mind, staying 2 nights at a Holiday Inn Express for a $1000 night in Bora Bora can be great value!
(SEE ALSO: SPG Exclusive Member Promo [TARGETED] – I got 2 free nights after only 2 STAYS!)
IHG Share Forever promotion
Most of the IHG promotions give people a series of individualized “tasks” to complete, and completing all of them will give you a larger amount of bonus points. Â Last year IHG announced a new promotion called IHG Share Forever which was similar, but also allowed you to “share” points or even Platinum status with other people.
Since you could also share points with yourself, that was my plan, but my IHG Share Forever offers were so week I didn’t bother completing the offer.
Dan IHG Share Forever 2016 promotion details
Here is my IHG Share Forever 2016 promotion details
I might make my first stay (if I have something available before May 31st). Â I don’t think this makes sense for a mattress run. Â Let’s say I get a lower end hotel for $100. Â I will get 2K to 3K points from the stay itself plus 7,000 points from the promotion (and 1,000 points to “share”). Â So I am paying about 1 cent per point for those points, which is significantly higher than I’d like to pay.
Past that, I don’t think I will participate in the IHG Share Forever 2016 promo.
Carolyn IHG Share Forever 2016 promotion details
I logged in to check Carolyn’s offer and…. it’s exactly the same 🙂
Miles to Memories is reporting that many people in the same elite tier are getting the same offers. Â Carolyn and I are both Platinum members, so that makes sense for us.
(SEE ALSO: Match IHG Platinum (and others!) to Hilton Diamond status through 2018)
I reached out to a contact at IHG and she said that wasn’t necessarily the case, but in any case, it seems clear that there are far fewer individualized offers than in previous IHG promotion offers.
What was your IHG Share Forever 2016 offer? Â Are you planning on completing it?
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Hi, is this stackable with Accelerate promo? If so, that might make the valuation a little more attractive, isn’t it?
No – stays for IHG Share Forever 2016 don’t start until I believe May, after Accelerate ends
Mine is the same as yours. I’ll do the one stay for the 7,500. Beyond that no special effort will be made.
If you were routinely staying in hotels for business travel would you take advantage of the long term offer? If not, which hotel promo would you look to first?
If staying at a hotel multiple consecutive nights do they count each night as a “real” night vs a stay?
If I did have a lot of business travel hotel, I’d consider it. If I did that, I’d pay a lot more attention to the different promos. Off the top of my head, I think the Hyatt promo is a bit better. And no, consecutive nights typically are counted as 1 stay.
Mine is even weaker, and I just recently signed up for the reward program and currently have 0 points. I have a first night for 5,000 points, and 1,000 points to share after 1 night. I do plan on staying at a HIX at the airport prior to our Disney trip, and buying 2,000 for $5, and it includes the airport parking. I plan to also get the IHG card at this time. I’d need to stay 34! nights for my top bonus of 40,000 bonus points.