{"id":12400,"date":"2022-05-21T13:21:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T12:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=12400"},"modified":"2022-05-21T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T12:21:12","slug":"dont-forget-to-claim-your-ihg-spire-choice-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2022\/05\/21\/dont-forget-to-claim-your-ihg-spire-choice-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t forget to claim your IHG Spire Choice Benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2022\/05\/18\/ihg-platinum-diamond-fast-track-offer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IHG&#8217;s status challenge offer<\/a>, I mentioned that I registered to that offer and then got downgraded to Platinum&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/ihg-one-platinum-elite.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"470\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/ihg-one-platinum-elite.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/ihg-one-platinum-elite.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/ihg-one-platinum-elite-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I complained to their customer service and my Diamond status was finally resumed after two days. The expiry date is still end of 2022, but to my surprise I&#8217;m able to choose the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/ihg-spire-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Spire Choice Benefit<\/a><\/em> again:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/ihg-spire-claim.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/ihg-spire-claim-1024x667.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12402\" width=\"512\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/ihg-spire-claim-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/ihg-spire-claim-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/ihg-spire-claim-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/ihg-spire-claim-1320x860.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/ihg-spire-claim.jpg 1452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously it&#8217;s just a glitch, and IHG is already onto the downgrade bug &#8211; if you sign up to the status challenge offer now your status won&#8217;t change immediately anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, if you are a Diamond Elite it&#8217;s worth checking whether you have claimed the Spire Choice Benefit or not. It seems that the option is hidden for at least some people, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/ihg-spire-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">you can use this link directly<\/a>. You can choose between 25,000 points or gifting Platinum Elite to a friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I wrote about IHG&#8217;s status challenge offer, I mentioned that I registered to that offer and then got downgraded to Platinum&#8230; I complained to their&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihg"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12404,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12400\/revisions\/12404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}