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Another caveat to IHG’s Best Rate Guarantee

I’ve been of the opinion that IHG’s Best Rate Guarantee is just a marketing gimmick and really hard to actually apply practically, but I discovered a NEW caveat to the guarantee that further strengthens my opinion.

I was booking a hotel for my parents because they needed an overnight stay at Newark Liberty Airport on their way to Europe. Given that I was trying to finish some Accelerate promos, I opted to book them at the Crowne Plaza Newark Airport in a King room at the IHG Member advanced purchase rate for $132.89 + $23.92 of taxes and fees for a total of $156.81, which was the lowest rate at the time. Continue reading →

Match to Hilton Diamond from Hyatt or IHG Platinum

April 8, 2016 / michael / 3 Comments

EDIT (4/20/2016): Hilton has updated the link to the status match page, the old one no longer works! You can access the new page here

EDIT: There seems to be more datapoints for successful matches from IHG Platinum vs. Hyatt Platinum. Please leave us your datapoints, either here or in the reddit thread!

Also, make sure you send in .JPG files for the match, otherwise Hilton will reject your request and you will have to followup to send it again, as the form won’t let you send another request. Continue reading →

Daily Getaways 2016: Should You Buy?

March 31, 2016 / Daniel Tahara / 5 Comments

If you follow any of the major blogs, you’ll know that U.S. Travel Association’s Daily Getaways are just around the corner. Daily Getaways is an annual event offering discounted rates on a variety of travel (typically hotels/attractions) related packages. I typically write these sorts of deals off because generally speaking, if there’s something that looks like a good deal, it either carries lots of weird restrictions, is overly specific (e.g. for a place I wouldn’t go), or is likely to go unused. Continue reading →

How we Hacked Fiji

March 4, 2016 / Daniel Tahara / 2 Comments

Greetings from the Intercontinental Fiji! We can’t believe that we’ll be headed home in just a few short hours after our adventures (and misadventures!) in Sydney, Queenstown, Auckland, and now here. It’s been a blast traveling together, though, and we’ve gotten to work on a little surprise project going on that we’ll share with you in the coming weeks.

Before I go on, let me share with you exactly what I’m looking at right now: Continue reading →

The Most You Should Pay for a Hotel: IHG

January 17, 2016 / Daniel Tahara / 3 Comments

This is the second in a series of posts on how to save money on hotel bookings by purchasing rewards points. For a more detailed explanation and walk-through of the theory, see the first post on Hyatt hotels.

The Nuts and Bolts

IHG Rewards Club is a slightly special snowflake since they offer two ways of buy points from them. Since there have been plenty of posts giving detailed explanations (see here for a good one), I won’t go into detail on how to purchase the points, other than to say that that the second method utilizes the points and cash option on bookings and IHG’s unique mechanism of refunding the total points cost if you cancel your booking. In practice, the purchase costs are: Continue reading →

Before you go off writing 94 postcards…

November 4, 2015 / Daniel Tahara / 17 Comments

Read this.

As many of you know, IHG just launched a sweepstakes that stacks on top of their Accelerate promotion. The sweepstakes offers 1,000 points after your first stay, and then a mystery prize for each subsequent stay. There have been plenty of posts on the promo, so I won’t go into detail about the prizes, but for more information, you can read here. Continue reading →

Strictly Speaking: Sometimes, there is a right answer

October 8, 2015 / Daniel Tahara / 10 Comments

Last week, Esther and I were trying to figure out the best use of our points for an upcoming trip to Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji. I had initially covered four nights in Sydney with my IHG balance (140,000 points for 4 nights at the Holiday Inn Old Sydney), and we planned on redeeming Orbucks for our stay in New Zealand, so we were left trying to figure out what to do about Fiji.

After some research, Esther settled on the Intercontinental Fiji, and it’s not too hard to see why: Continue reading →

Easy 200 Starpoints and 500 IHG points!

September 24, 2015 / demflyers@gmail.com / 0 Comments

Via The Points Guy, you can earn 200 Starpoints just for opting in to e-statements. Just click this link and log in. If you don’t see the offer, try unsubscribing from e-statements and checking again.

Via Mommy Points, you can earn 500 IHG points just for changing your default payment method to a MasterCard credit credit. I received an email titled “Faster bookings & 500 points when you load your MasterCard” but it doesn’t seem to be a targeted promotion, so it’s worth a try even if you didn’t get an email. Continue reading →

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