{"id":20463,"date":"2024-08-28T18:52:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T17:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=20463"},"modified":"2024-08-28T18:52:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T17:52:06","slug":"ihg-trial-pay-more-points-for-premium-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/08\/28\/ihg-trial-pay-more-points-for-premium-rooms\/","title":{"rendered":"IHG trial? Pay more points for premium rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here is an interesting find by a friend of mine: IHG might be trialling award redemption for premium rooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you look at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Chicago O’Hare Airport<\/a>, all their rooms type are available to book with points.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This isn’t new. Some IHG hotels, for unknown reasons, open up their non-standard room inventory for award redemption. Pricing however, is always the same across all room types at the same hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rooms at this property are priced differently as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Standard – 36,000 points \/ $213<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • King Suite – 41,000 points \/ $224<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Two Queen Suite – 49,000 points \/ $258<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    This is likely a conscious decision made by IHG, making me think that they are experimenting with a new idea. I don’t find it too surprising, given that premium room redemption is already a thing with almost all other hotel programs – Hilton, Marriott, Accor and Hyatt. As IHG’s award pricing is already highly coupled with the room rate, it shouldn’t be hard to implement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Here is an interesting find by a friend of mine: IHG might be trialling award redemption for premium rooms. If you look at the Holiday Inn...<\/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-20463","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\/20463","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=20463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20497,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20463\/revisions\/20497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}