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Holiday Inn Express, Cannery Row, Monterey
IHG 20, 000 bonus points promotionOffer: Earn up to 20,000 Priority Club Rewards points or 5,000 airline miles.
Details: 2,000 bonus points or 500 airline miles after every 2nd eligible night.
Promotional period: eligible paid stays between May 12 and August 31, 2008 at any IHG hotel worldwide. Registration is required and no retroactive credit will be applied for stays prior to registration.
Earnings preference must be set for miles to earn airline miles.
This Priority Club promotion allows a member to earn on average 1,000 bonus points per night for IHG hotel stays through the summer months. Think of this as a $10/night rebate.
This offer is more favorable to travelers on vacation with multi-night stays because a 4-night stay will earn the 2,000 points bonus twice for 4,000 bonus points. An 8-night stay would earn 8,000 bonus points.
The 4,000 points bonus offer from Jan 14 – April 30, 2008 for every 2nd stay was not as good a bonus for extended hotel stays. The one-night stays were best for maximizing that bonus at the least cost.
Summer travel strategy: Priority Club members can earn points from this bonus, possibly save cash with IHG 2-for-1 offers, and also buy up to 20,000 points for $200 in a calendar year.
Points earned from the 20,000 points bonus opportunity and through purchases, if used for PointBreaks 5,000 points/night awards, may be redeemed for a substantially higher value in the range of $20 to $40 per 1,000 points.
The current set of PointBreaks awards are available through June 9, 2008. A week-long hotel stay in Brno, Czech Republic or Moscow, Russia for 35,000 Priority Club points is a high value opportunity that can be easily secured with points purchases and/or hotel stays. Moscow has the distinction of having the world's most expensive hotels for 2007 and this deal for the Crowne Plaza Moscow can save well over $1,000 on average hotel rates for a 3-night stay in Russia.
Expect a new batch of PointBreaks hotel offers for summer months to come out around late May-early June. In conjunction with IHG’s 2 nights for the Price of 1 offer for some European hotels, IHG and Priority Club are one of the best ways to cut the cost of European hotel travel. The new set of 2-for-1 hotels should be coming out soon as the current web offer expires on April 30.
Last summer there were incredible savings available with the IHG 2-for-1 offer and the PointBreaks hotels in Europe. These two offers from IHG and Priority Club can easily cut $1,000 off the hotel cost for a 10-day trip out of the country. PointBreaks have more than half the hotel offerings in the USA, Canada, and Mexico to provide some cost relief for USA summer excursions.
April -June 9, 2008
Europe PointBreaks
5,000 points/night
Belgium, Mechelen
Express by Holiday Inn Mechelen City Centre
Czech Republic, Brno
Holiday Inn Brno
France, Toulouse
Crowne Plaza Montauban Toulouse North
Germany, Baden-Baden
Express by Holiday Inn Baden Baden
Germany, Minden
Holiday Inn Minden
Germany, Zwickau
Holiday Inn Zwickau
Italy, Siracusa
Express by Holiday Inn Siracusa-North
Italy, Cosenza
Holiday Inn Cosenza
Italy, Rome-Pomezia
Holiday Inn
Netherlands, Eindhoven
Holiday Inn
Russia, Moscow
Crowne Plaza Moscow World Trade Centre
UK, Aylesbury
Holiday Inn Garden Court
UK, Hull
Express by Holiday Inn Hull City Centre
