{"id":22326,"date":"2018-04-04T03:05:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T07:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/?p=22326"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:17:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:17:34","slug":"ihg-reduces-value-of-free-night-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/news\/ihg-one-rewards\/ihg-reduces-value-of-free-night-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"IHG Reduces Value of Free Night Certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: IHG has issued a reprieve. IHG free night certificates<\/a> issued through May 1, 2019, are valid at any property!<\/strong><\/p>\n

IHG has reduced the value of its annual free night certificate earned by being an IHG\u00ae<\/sup> Rewards Select Credit Card\u00a0cardmember. Certificates issued as of May 1, 2018, can only be redeemed at properties that have standard award nights priced at\u00a040,000 points or\u00a0less. Category\u00a08 or higher\u00a0properties will no longer be eligible\u00a0for redemption with the free night certificate.<\/p>\n

We expect that there may an update on this as there seems to be significant backlash from the community, and IHG \/ Chase may be back-peddling or slightly modifying the policy of the certificate validity for newer cardmembers.<\/p>\n

\"IHG<\/p>\n

Our Take<\/h2>\n

There are rumors that the IHG Select Card\u00a0is going to be discontinued and replaced with a mass market card, and a premium card<\/a>, but we don't know if this is actually the case or what will become of any new cards. Will the premium card retain the unrestricted free night certificate, or will it be capped? We should find out soon enough! One thing to note is that this restriction does not apply across the globe.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the IHG Select Card\u00a0retains decent value after the devaluation; a night at a 40,000 point hotel for an annual fee of $49 still represents great value for money and it still comes with a decent host of perks and benefits<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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IHG has reduced the value of its annual free night certificate earned by being an\u00a0IHG\u00ae Rewards Select Credit Card\u00a0cardmember. Certificates issued as of May 1, 2018, can only be redeemed at properties that have standard award nights priced at\u00a040,000 points or\u00a0less. Category\u00a08 or higher\u00a0properties will no longer be eligible\u00a0for redemption with the free night certificate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":124676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[12069],"tags":[12520,12786,12700],"coauthors":[36383],"class_list":["post-22326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-card-benefits","tag-chase","tag-ihg-one-rewards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22326"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255134,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22326\/revisions\/255134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22326"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}