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The IHG PointBreaks promotion has been extended, please see more details here.
IHG is one of the biggest hotel groups in the world with over 5,000 properties globally. For members of their loyalty program, IHG Rewards Club, one excellent benefit is the quarterly PointBreaks promotion. The promo allows you book a room at certain properties for only 5,000 points per night. What makes the promotion exciting is that it is global, and IHG includes some great properties in the promotion which provide an outstanding value.
The Latest List
The new list for reservations made between January 30 and April 30, 2017, went live on January 27 at 12:00 PM EST. Looking at the new list, there are some good properties to be had in many destinations. Some of the choice locations include the following:
South and Central America and Mexico
- Intercontinental Maracaibo- Venezuela
- Intercontinental Real Santo Domingo- Dominican Republic
- Staybridge Suites Chihuahua- Mexico
- Crowne Plaza Villahermosa- Mexico
- Crowne Plaza San Pedro Sula- Honduras
- Crowne Plaza San Jose Corobici Conference Center- Costa Rica
Asia
- ANA Crowne Plaza Ube- Japan
- Crowne Plaza Hangzhou One Thousand Island Lake- China
- Crowne Plaza Tianjin Jinnan-China
Europe
- Crowne Plaza Bratislava- Slovakia
- Holiday Inn Nola – Naples Vulcano Buono- Italy
- Holiday Inn Dresden – City South- Germany
- Hotel Indigo Krakow – Old Town
Canada and the US
- Staybridge Suites Tomball- Texas
- Staybridge Suites Stroudsburg (East) Pocono- Pennsylvania
- Candlewood Suites Birmingham/Homewood- Alabama
- Candlewood Suites Anaheim – Resort Area- California
- Crowne Plaza Stamford- Connecticut
- Candlewood Suites Waterloo- Cedar Falls- Iowa
- Staybridge Suites Omaha West- Nebraska
- Staybridge Suites Oklahoma City – Quail Springs- Oklahoma
- Staybridge Suites Calgary Airport- Calgary
- Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites London- Ontario
This list is by no means exhaustive, with many other properties available at various locations. The promotion becomes active on January 30, 2017. So, you have the weekend to study the hotel list and your travel plans and make some good matchups.
How to Get IHG Points
If you want to take advantage of the offer but don’t have any IHG points, there are several avenues open to you. You can signup for the IHG® Rewards Club Select Credit Card which earns 60,000 bonus points after spending $1,000 on purchases within the first three months of account opening.
You can purchase IHG points with a 75% bonus. This offer is valid until February 5, 2017. However, this offer is targeted, so you will have to check that you are eligible. Alternatively, we reported recently on the 15% discount on the cash portion of points and cash IHG promotion. You can manipulate this promotion to buy points at a somewhat better rate than currently available with the 75% bonus. This promo has expired.
Summary
This is a great quarterly promotion from IHG so over the weekend check out all the destinations and your travel plans. You need to remember that you can only make two PointBreaks bookings per account and that the promotion only has limited availability, so make sure you book sooner rather than later!
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Holiday Inn Prague Airport! That’s what in need!
5000 points works out to be about $35.00 a night for the hotel room. This is a great deal if you can find a location near the area you will be traveling to.
Is it me, or has the hotel selection been getting leaner, of late?
The pickings get slimmer every time. However, the European sector is not bad this time. I picked up 4 nights at the CP Bratislava. The American side of the list is bad this time, though.
Lesser high end properties over time.
Compared with the lists from a year or three ago, these are definitely ‘meh’ properties 🙁
The availability is also pretty meh. You have to get in literally within the first minute or two to get anything half decent. That said, I did manage 4 nights at the CP in Bratislava in April. It will tie in nicely with a couple of things I need to get done in Vienna.
The Anaheim hotel is great value for anyone visiting Disneyland
How often do these happen?
Every quarter.
Thanks for the list.
I wonder if IHG will ever release a property at a good location (and not some random property no one goes to) under the point breaks promotion.
Always love seeing this promotion continuing!
That’s actually a great list of hotels this time.
While these are all a very great value in points, unfortunately they are not in the most convenient of locations (last three ones that i know) as I suppose is to be expected. I dare say there might be some hidden gem amongst them though.
Ihg hotels on promo offers like this are especially good value and soon mount up those points. Factor in the special purchase points deal it’s win,win.
I’m relatively new to looking at Points Break properties, but this quarter’s selection seems pretty underwhelming.
I agree selections seemed limited.
The only one seems okay in NA is the one in Anaheim.
intercontinental for 5k is always a deal
No location really attractive apart from the good hotel in Bangkok.
Always a good value if you’re needing to travel. There’s not necessarily many “aspirational” redemptions, but as an above poster said, there is value for trips such as Disneyland, etc if it suits your needs.
3 hotels in asia? That’s a pretty small list.
This is a subset of the full list: https://www.ihg.com/rewardsclub/content/us/en/redeem-rewards/pointbreaks
Seriously everything is booked out.
I just booked the Holiday Inn Express in Terrace, BC for 5K… a deal..!
Nothing in a Australia again
What a disappointment it was this time round! First they kept us waiting and didn’t let us know exactly when points break campaign will go online, the list wasn’t very inspiring either by the way, and finally the niceist properties disappeared within the seconds (!) literally – I mean Krakow Indigo Hotel in particular.
Fingers crossed we can put together a trip to Disneyland now. With this Points Break we’ll have enough points to carry it off.
did not find anything good enough this quarter
I bagged a few nights in Johannesburg South Africa .
While I end up using a PointsBreak hotel only about once a year, it’s a great deal and the possibility is why I make sure to keep my IHG account alive 🙂
Wish there were more hotels from Asia. 5000 for a night is such a bargain.