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IHG One Rewards is rolling out a new targeted promotion offering instant Silver Elite status with an accelerated path to Gold and Platinum status. Additionally, IHG is continuing to offer its double Elite Night Credits promotion, allowing select members to earn 2X Elite Night Credits on eligible stays through April 22, 2025. Either way, members must register for these IHG elite status shortcuts.
Here’s a closer look at the details.
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Instant IHG Silver Elite Status — Or Fast Track to Gold and Platinum Elite
Some IHG One Rewards members have been targeted with an offer granting instant Silver Elite status and a fast track to Gold and Platinum Elite status with just 25% of the usual nights required.
Currently, the registration link for this offer is unknown, so check your email if you think you may have been targeted. If you have the link, feel free to share it in the comments. H/T to Loyalty Lobby for first reporting this offer.
Once registered, members can achieve the following milestones by completing the required stays by the end of 2025:
- Instant Silver Elite status (valid through 2025)
- Gold Elite status with just five qualifying nights (valid through the end of 2026)
- Platinum Elite status with only 10 qualifying nights (valid through the end of 2026)
Typically, Silver Elite status requires 10 nights, Gold Elite requires 20 nights, and Platinum Elite requires 40 nights. Thus, this promotion allows targeted members to reach Gold and Platinum status four times faster than usual.
However, Diamond Elite status — which confers IHG's best elite perks — is not included in this fast-track offer.
Related: Hotel Elite Status Made Easy: Status Matches, Fast Tracks, and Credit Card Perks
IHG Double Elite Night Credits Promotion
Another targeted promotion allows select IHG One Rewards members to earn double Elite Night Credits on qualifying paid stays through April 22, 2025, with a cap of 10 bonus elite nights.
Targeted members should have received an email alerting them to this promotion. You can either check your email inbox to see if you received an alert or click through this link and try to register.
Terms and conditions
- Only invited IHG One Rewards members are eligible.
- Registration is required before stays count toward the promotion.
- Eligible stays must be completed by April 22, 2025.
- Earn double Elite Night Credits for eligible nights stayed, up to 10 bonus elite nights.
- Stays must be at participating IHG hotels and booked at a qualifying rate, with a minimum spend of $30 USD per night (or local equivalent).
- Award Nights and Points & Cash bookings do not count as qualifying stays.
- Only one room per night counts toward the offer, even if multiple rooms are booked.
- Bookings made through online travel agencies or other reservation sites such as Booking.com or Expedia.com are not eligible for this promotion.
- Bonus Elite Night Credits may take up to 6 weeks to post to the member's account.
- Bonus Elite Night Credits count toward Elite status and Milestone Rewards
- However, bonus nights don't qualify as Rollover Nights or for any other IHG One Rewards benefit.
Requirements for IHG One Rewards Elite Status
If you weren’t targeted, you might wonder how to qualify the traditional way. Here’s what it takes to earn IHG One Rewards elite status:
- Silver Elite: 10 nights
- Gold Elite: 20 nights or 40k points
- Platinum Elite: 40 nights or 60k points
- Diamond Elite: 70 nights or 120k points
Members targeted for the double elite night credit promotion will be able to earn IHG Gold Elite status with just 10 nights stayed. After the 10-night boost, the 20 Elite Night Credits will lock in Gold Elite status through the end of 2026.
However, the real perks start at IHG Platinum Elite. Key perks available to IHG Platinum Elite members include reward night discounts and late checkout (subject to availability), plus a complimentary room upgrade and early check-in (both subject to availability).
The easiest way to get IHG Platinum Elite status is by holding an IHG Premier-branded credit card. Both the consumer IHG One Rewards Premier Credit Card and small business IHG One Rewards Premier Business Credit Card offer Platinum Elite status as a perk:
- Earn 26 points total per $1 spent when you stay at an IHG hotel
- 5X points per $1 spent on purchases on travel, gas stations, and restaurants
- 3X points per $1 spent on all other purchases
The earning for spending at IHG hotels breaks down as follows:
- Earn 10X points for being a IHG One Rewards Premier Credit Card member
- Earn 6X points from IHG® with Platinum Elite Status, a benefit of having this card
- Earn 10X points from IHG® for being an IHG® One Rewards member (Being a cardholder is not required to earn this bonus for participating in the IHG® loyalty program)
- Earn 26x total points per $1 spent when you stay at an IHG hotel
- 5X points per $1 spent on travel, dining, social media search engine advertising, and at office supply stores and gas stations
- 3X points per $1 spent on all other purchases
The earning for spending at IHG hotels breaks down as follows:
- Earn 10X points for charging your stay to your IHG One Rewards Premier Business Credit Card
- Earn 6X bonus points for having IHG®Platinum Elite Status, a benefit of having this card
- Earn 10X base points for being an IHG® One Rewards Member (Being a cardholder is not required to earn this bonus for participating in the IHG® loyalty program)
Our Take
IHG currently has two fast-track promotions to help targeted One Rewards members achieve elite status for 2025 and 2026.
The first offer awards instant Silver Elite status to targeted members and a fast track to Gold and Platinum Elite status. However, you'll need to check your email, as there's no publicly available registration link.
The second offer grants targeted members the chance to earn up to 10 bonus elite night credits, a nice boost toward (re)qualifying for IHG elite status through 2026. Here's the link to check and see if you're targeted.
It's certainly nice to see IHG One Rewards making its elite status more accessible to everyone. Of course, it's a great marketing move to incentivize members to book more paid stays to get elite status.
- Our Best Offer of 2025! Earn 5 Free Nights
- Enjoy an Anniversary Free Night at IHG Hotels & Resorts. Plus, enjoy a fourth reward night free when you redeem points for a consecutive four-night IHG® hotel stay.
- Earn up to 26 total points per $1 spent when you stay at IHG Hotels & Resorts
- Earn 5 points per $1 spent on purchases on travel, at gas stations, and restaurants. Earn 3 points per $1 spent on all other purchases
- Automatic Platinum Elite status as long as you remain a Premier cardmember
- Global Entry, TSA PreCheck® or NEXUS Statement Credit of up to $120 every 4 years as reimbursement for the application fee charged to your card
- IHG One Rewards Bonus points are redeemable at Hotels & Resorts such as InterContinental®, Crowne Plaza®, Kimpton®, EVEN® Hotels, Indigo® Hotels & Holiday Inn®
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- Rates & Fees
- Earn 26 points total per $1 spent when you stay at an IHG hotel
- 5X points per $1 spent on purchases on travel, gas stations, and restaurants
- 3X points per $1 spent on all other purchases
The earning for spending at IHG hotels breaks down as follows:
- Earn 10X points for being a IHG One Rewards Premier Credit Card member
- Earn 6X points from IHG® with Platinum Elite Status, a benefit of having this card
- Earn 10X points from IHG® for being an IHG® One Rewards member (Being a cardholder is not required to earn this bonus for participating in the IHG® loyalty program)
For rates and fees of the cards mentioned in this post, please visit the following links: IHG One Rewards Premier Credit Card (Rates & Fees), and IHG One Rewards Premier Business Credit Card (Rates & Fees)
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I finally succeeded in registration. You need your membership number & promotion code 20536!!
This doesn’t make sense. I could not sign up online. It said to call. I did. The person on the phone tells me the offer is ONLY good for people living in Greater China!
Does this sound right? I don’t see that noted anywhere on this offer page.
Also, I was Diamond. That was supposed to run out 12/31/2022. Everywhere I look still shows I have Diamond status. I was expecting it to run out so that’s why I was looking to move up via the Platinum Elite challenge.
Also, the guy told me when they DO downgrade me, it is only “one level at a time” so I’ll still be Platinum Elite anyway. Is this correct?
We haven’t heard of IHG doing a “soft landing”, but that could be new to the new program. Let me know if that ends up happening!
If you’re still showing as a Diamond Elite, you probably won’t be able to register for a fast track to Platinum Elite. I’d just recommend checking back (or have AwardWallet monitor your IHG account for status changes). Then, it you are downgraded, see if you can register for the promotion then.
Is this promotion only for people in the USA?
It doesn’t seem so. No geographic restrictions are noted in the terms and conditions. It simply states: “To participate in the “Fast Track to Elite Status” promotion (“Promotion”), an individual must be an IHG One Rewards member and must register for the Promotion under their member number.”
what is promo code? is it target promo?
Promo code: 20536. It doesn’t seem to be targeted.
thanks but promo code doesn’t work. ㅠㅠ
Ah shoot. Do you already have elite status? Otherwise, it might be targeted 🙁
Thank you! After a long run round, your promotion code worked instantly! Where did you find it? I couldn’t find it anywhere.
I found it by clicking to register from the promotion landing page 🙂 https://www.ihg.com/content/us/en/deals/b2b/fasttracktoplatinum
I registered for the fast track elite offer but after my recent stay it stills mention STATUS: not started. The fact that I registered for the Diamond elite offer as well has anything to do with that?
What’s the promotion code?
Any cheap IHG hotels for mattress run in US?
Wouldn’t it be easier to just go “straight to Diamond”? Why waste time?
From what we saw, the Straight to Diamond promotion has been pulled. Did you get in on it?
I agree this is weird wording for the goal but why not register. Even in the fine print it says that even if there is success in registering you still may not qualify to get the bonuses? so odd, but can’t hurt to just put it in and see if you can get a higher status.
Anyone know of any IHG properties within a 4-5hr flight from the UK within the $30-$50 price range which could be interesting for a two week stay ?!
Got 4 trips planned already this year none in IHG properties unfortunately but fancy that Diamond status for next year.
My wife and I had a lovely stay at the Holiday Inn Express Lodz – but it’s a lot more expensive now than I remember it being!
Plenty in Spain for very little money.