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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nSome hotels on the list still pertain to the $50 \/ 10,000 points rule, although the cap is obviously non-existent – The max. redemption price was capped at 70,000 with very few exceptions. While others are charging totally extortionate amount of points – at Crowne Plaza Kings Cross you are only getting $36 value per 10,000 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just to be clear, not all hotels are seeing the sharp increase yet, and there’s sometimes inconsistency for the same hotel on different dates. For example, InterContinental Edinburgh<\/a> wants 55,000 points for a Friday night but 85,000 points for the next day, whereas cash prices are almost identical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m not sure what IHG is trying to do here. Now that there’s no award chart anymore, they can basically devalue their program without any prior notice. I haven’t seen the trend in any other country yet, so maybe they are just running on a trial and see how people respond?<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you live in the UK, I’d suggest you to lock in some award nights right now while prices are still reasonable, as they might skyrocket very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IHG rolled up dynamic pricing for award redemptions globally last year, and the reception has been generally very positive – until now. It appears that award...<\/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":[5,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihg","category-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t