{"id":14931,"date":"2023-02-25T09:01:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T09:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=14931"},"modified":"2023-02-25T09:01:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T09:01:55","slug":"horror-ihg-clamping-down-on-ambassador-diamonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2023\/02\/25\/horror-ihg-clamping-down-on-ambassador-diamonds\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror: IHG clamping down on Ambassador Diamonds?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2022\/09\/04\/buy-intercontinental-ambassador-to-extend-your-diamond-status\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Buy InterContinental Ambassador to extend your Diamond status\">We once wrote about a unpublicised benefit<\/a> of the InterContinental Ambassador program, that your Diamond status gets renewed by another year when you purchase or renew the Ambassador membership. The perk may be coming to an end now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I extended my status through 2023 using this trick last year, but when I log into my IHG account now, the expiry is reverted to 2022:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/ihg-diamond-status-2022.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"254\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/ihg-diamond-status-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/ihg-diamond-status-2022.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/ihg-diamond-status-2022-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not alone, as there are many similar reports online and amongst my readership, but in the meantime it&#8217;s not happening to everyone. The inconsistency makes me wonder whether it is actually IHG closing that loophole, or just a temporary system glitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, we will find out on March 1st when IHG&#8217;s status is refreshed. As Diamond Elite comes with free daily breakfast in the new program, it would be very sad to lose it :\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We once wrote about a unpublicised benefit of the InterContinental Ambassador program, that your Diamond status gets renewed by another year when you purchase or renew&#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-14931","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\/14931","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=14931"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14936,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14931\/revisions\/14936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}