Deal has expired, view the current Accelerate offer by clicking here.
Update 4/1/19: Registration for this promotion had ended on March 15th, 2019. It looks like IHG has now extended the registration until April 30th, 2019 when the promotion actually ends.
The Offer
- IHG has launched its Q1 2019 promotion, this time called ‘Rewards Nights. Faster.’ it basically seems to be the same as the old accelerate offers but with a different name. This means your offer will be individualized based on your account and recent stay history.
The Fine Print
- Register by March 15th, 2019
- Stays from January 15th until April 30th 2019 are included
Our Verdict
Everybody will get an offer worth at least 40,000 points. Some of the offers suck (e.g double points on every stay up to 40,000 points total). Feel free to share your offers in the comments below.
My offer was terrible. 8 weekends for 20k and a bunch of gimmicky offer to total just over 40k. I stayed more than 200 nights at IHG properties last year and I’m a RA spire member. I decided to diversify my stays this year and I’m already a hilton diamond member 3 months into the year. I’m also a gold member with Bonvoy through my Amex platinum. I love IHG accelerate in previous years because I could rack up an additional 200k points per year. Now I’m thinking of switching to Hilton and Bonvoy. Bonvoy doesn’t seem to be generous with points, but they have more luxury brands in desirable locations.
Wife just got this email offer. No idea how to read it. Body of email and chart don’t align. “Stay at any hotel … to earn at least 40,000 bonus points.” 1 stay anywhere = 40K pts?” Assistance in interpretation would be most welcome…
Body of email:
“Your chance to earn 53,200 bonus points to use toward free nights is still in reach—but hurry! Simply register and stay at any IHG hotel worldwide, like Kimpton, to earn at least 40,000 bonus points. Book today and stay before April 30 to maximize your rewards.
Chart, 5 offers:
Earn 53,200 total bonus points.
Complete all your offers to get 53,200 total bonus points.
Earn 6,600 bonus points when you book 2 Bonus Points Package stay(s) and get to your next reward faster.
Stay at 2 brands and get 24,000 bonus points.
Stay 2 weekend(s), including a Saturday night and another night, and earn 12,000 bonus points.
Stay at 2 IHG® hotel(s) and earn 5,600 bonus points.
Stay 2 times and get 5,000 bonus points
I do believe I got the worst offer – Stay 7 weekends to earn 11,200 bonus points….
I’ll just go back to staying at my other hotel until these offers get better again.
Stay at 3 brands and get 14,400 bonus points.
Stay 7 weekend(s), including a Saturday night and another night, and earn 11,200 bonus points.
Stay at 6 IHG® hotel(s) and earn 16,800 bonus points. Terms
Earn 6,600 bonus points when you book 4 Bonus Points Package stay(s) and get to your next reward faster. Terms
7 weekends!! lol
6.600 booking 2 bonus points package
11,200 stay at 2 intercontinental
4,500 booking one stay with point & cash
5,600 2 weekend stay
10,000 stay 5 nights
1,500 book and pay with IHG credit card
achievement bonus 39.400
Assume 3 bookings (2 intercontinental with weekend, bonus points package, paid at least one with IHG card plus another booking with point & cash) will satisfy the requirement.
Question: dose the point & cash booking night count toward the 5 night requirement?
Do you need to complete all the offers in order to get points, or just one is enough?
Do free nights from Chase card count?
Question: Does award nights work for any of the achievements (besides the points + cash offer) or do they have to be paid stays?
No offer yet, should I worry??
What do you mean by no offer? You should have 2x points at least.
I am new to this points. Can someone guide me is there any credit card which I can apply and get free nights? can I buy points anywhere? Planning for a trip to FLL in April. TIA
I’d recommend starting by reading this: https://www.doctorofcredit.com/beginners-guide-credit-card-bonuses/
First time doing this because it looks pretty good this time, looks like I can finish all in two nights? Not sure what the first one means though…I can just stay for 1 weekend (FRI+SAT)? But it says “2 weekend(s)”…
1. Stay 2 weekend(s), including a Saturday night and another night, and earn 12,000 bonus points.
2. Book 1 stay(s) using Points & Cash and earn 4,500 bonus points.
3. Stay at 2 IHG® hotel(s) and earn 5,600 bonus points.
4. Book and pay for one stay with your IHG® Rewards Club Select Credit Card and earn 1,500 bonus points.
5. Complete 4 of the 5 offers and earn (an additional) 23,600 bonus points.
6. Stay once in February and get 2,000 bonus points.
Anyone else really surprised at the variety here? I figured there’d be like 3-5 options that we’d keep seeing repeat. I wonder what the algorithm was.