{"id":8078,"date":"2020-08-04T19:21:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T18:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=8078"},"modified":"2020-08-04T19:21:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T18:21:47","slug":"redeem-ihg-points-for-executive-rooms-and-suites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2020\/08\/04\/redeem-ihg-points-for-executive-rooms-and-suites\/","title":{"rendered":"Redeem IHG points for executive rooms and suites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One complaint that I’ve heard from many frequent travellers is the lack of options to redeem for non-standard rooms, and it is especially inconvenient when you travel as a family. Some hotel chains, including Marriott and Hyatt, have introduced features to allow for booking higher-category rooms in recent years, at least to some extent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, IHG seems to have a very weird policy, or rather practice on this. There are few hotels that do offer the opportunity to redeem for better (or in fact all) room categories, for the same price<\/strong>. I’ve booked an executive room at Holiday Inn Cardiff North<\/a>, and a Studio Suite at Holiday Inn London Camden Lock<\/a> in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When dynamic pricing was introduced a few months back, it seems to have opened up some hotels’ room inventory for redemption as well. You could book all rooms, including suites at the InterContinental and Indigo in Lijiang, China, as well as the Crowne Plaza at Athens<\/a> with points. It appeared to be a genuine error though, as availability was pulled very quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I’m not totally sure if it’s a kind of promotion that IHG and select hotels run intentionally, or it’s more of an error. Anyway, I’ve just noticed that many hotels in the UK are following the same practice at the moment<\/strong>, potentially as a result of low occupancy. Some examples are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around London<\/p>\n\n\n\n