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Priority Club Double Points or Miles Jan 23-April 30, 2012

Launching a double points promotion five days after devaluing Priority Club points with new higher reward tiers is not the strategy I would have applied to appease consumers. Priority Club Rewards promotion of double points or double miles is almost as repetitive as Marriott Rewards MegaBonus.  This identical offer ran from May 16 to August 15, 2011.

The new double points or miles Priority Club promotion applies to stays from January 23 to April 30, 2012. The main thing to know is registration is required before your stays. There will be no double credit for stays made during the promotion period before promotion registration. SPG is generous in this aspect of promotions in that eligible stays usually receive retroactive credit as long as the SPG member registers by the promotion deadline.

The disappointing aspect of this Priority Club promotion is the registration page is not fully ready even though this offer has been blogged about since the beginning of the week.

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Priority Club Double Points 2012

This registration page looks all good until you click the registration link to be met with a page requiring a promotion code to be entered. I have stated several times over the past couple of months that my pet peeve is having a promotion announced, and in this case a registration page available to members, before the promotion registration links are ready.

[ Update Jan 18 2:54pm Pacific Time: The Priority Club Double Points or Double Miles Registration Links in this post changed to registration link posted by PriorityClubRepresentative on FlyerTalk today, the company representative.

Update Friday, Jan 13 – 9:37am Pacific time: Priority Club has changed the promotion registration webpage in the past hour and code 2837 no longer seems to work. I assume they are getting the page redesigned for automatic registration with no need to enter a promotion code.]

BarbiJKM posted code 2837 yesterday on FlyerTalk that appears to work. When I registered using 2837 I received this confirmation message.

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Priority Club Rewards 2012 confirmation message using code 2837.

 

Priority Club Double Points or Double Miles (registration page)

  • Begins with second eligible IHG brand stay at any Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, InterContinental Hotels and Hotel Indigo, except for Candlewood Suites and Staybridge Suites earn double points or double miles beginning with first stay.
  • No retroactive credit for hotel stays prior to promotion registration date.
  • Promotion earns 20 points per dollar at Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, InterContinental Hotels and Hotel Indigo.
  • InterContinental Hotels will change earning rate during this promotion when IC hotels in North America, Caribbean and Latin America (about 50 hotels) begin earning 10 points per dollar on February 15, 2012. All other InterContinental Hotels worldwide (about 120 hotels) will maintain earning rate of 2,000 points per stay regardless of hotel spend. Double points will be either 4,000 points per stay or 20 points per dollar depending on date of stay and location.
  • Staybridge and Candlewood brands earn 10 points per dollar with double points.
  • Link to standard earn rates for IHG brands.

Earning Double Miles with Priority Club

Priority Club has over 40 airline partners for earning miles. There are many earning structures depending on airline and hotel brand. The miles earning rates are shown here.

The US-based airlines of Alaska, American, Delta, United and US Airways earn miles at these rates:

  • 2 miles per $1 spend at Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Hotel Indigo and beginning February 15, 2012 at InterContinental Hotels in North America, Caribbean and Latin America. Double miles = 4 miles/$1.
  • 1 mile per $1 spend at Candlewood Suites and Staybridge Suites. Double miles = 2 miles/$1.
  • 500 miles per stay at InterContinental Hotels. Double miles = 1,000 miles/stay for all InterContinental Hotels worldwide prior to February 15, 2012. InterContinental Hotels in North America, Caribbean and Central America change to 2 miles/$1 February 15, 2012. There will be no change in miles earning rate for InterContinental Hotels in other regions.

Priority Club Double Points is stackable with quarterly stay bonus points offer.

*** InterContinental Hotels Group Priority Club Rewards – Priority Club members may register for one of the quarterly stay promotions running January 1-March 31, 2012. You can only register for one offer so pick the target you are most likely to reach. Stay 3 nights = 5,000 bonus points. Stay 7 nights = 10,000 bonus points. Stay 15 nights = 15,000 bonus points.

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  • gpapadop January 13, 2012

    zzzzzzzz…I had a 4 night upcoming business stay in MCO. I went w/ 2 nights for the triple Club Carlson points and then 2 nights for the double Starwood points (plus a welcome 3k pts). I thought about Marriott but voucher for only Cat 1-4 did not do it for me. HH promo not enough. And obviously Hyatt is in its own promo timezone:-)

  • Michael January 13, 2012

    when I try to enter the code 2837 I receive the message:

    “The promotion code must be 4-6 characters in length”

    and it won’t let me register

  • Ric Garrido January 13, 2012

    Anyone else have a problem with the code?

    I had no problem this morning when I entered the 2837 in the promotion code box.

  • Brian January 13, 2012

    The promotion code must be 4-6 characters in length.

    2837 does not work… 🙁

  • Ric Garrido January 13, 2012

    @Michael – I see what you mean now. Perhaps Priority Club is getting the promotion registration page updated so as to not require a promotion code entry.

    The registration page still not ready after this promotion page has been out since at least Monday is my complaint expressed in this post.

  • Ric Garrido January 13, 2012

    You can try this link:

    http://www.priorityclub.com/rewards/…offerCode=2837

    If it doesn’t work, then you’ll need to wait for the registration page to be active again.

  • Alan January 13, 2012

    Fortunately the promotion doesn’t take effect until January 23rd. By then they will surely have their act together. Right??!!

  • Brian January 13, 2012

    @Ric
    We’re sorry but the page you requested might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

  • Ric Garrido January 13, 2012

    Perhaps this link:
    http://www.priorityclub.com/hotels/us/en/global/offers/q112/pts_mls?promoCode=2837&offerId=p2837&cm_mmc=IMMerch-_-PC2_US_en-_-MB1_2012-_-Vanity_doubleterms

    Another FlyerTalk member said 6652 works as promotion code.

    I can’t really tell how the codes are working since I registered this morning.

  • Michael January 13, 2012

    Ric,

    It worked. Is this a better value than the Carlson promotion re: a two night stay.

  • Steve T January 13, 2012

    Neither code 6652 not 2837 work. This doesn’t speak highly of Proirity Club.

  • Stephan January 13, 2012

    I just tried it at 3:45 PDT and it worked for me with code 2387

  • Stephan January 13, 2012

    Sorry that should have read code 2837

  • Brian January 13, 2012

    2837 now works!
    Thank you!

    Offer Confirmation

    You have successfully completed registration for DOUBLE POINTS OR MILES ’12.

    If you already have an email on file we have sent an email confirmation to that address.

  • james K January 14, 2012

    2837 not working, just tried.

  • BarbiJKM January 14, 2012

    The FULL link I posted on Flyertalk appears to be still working (with code 2837 already in the link, and showing up printed on the page), but using “2837” in an offer page will not work:

    http://www.priorityclub.com/rewards/us/en/offers/promoreg/?offerCode=2837

  • Miles January 14, 2012

    Confirming that the full link, as posted by BarbiJKM in comment #17, worked for me just now.

  • Eric January 14, 2012

    Full link still working. Big thanks to BarbiJKM!

  • Mariah January 16, 2012

    The code worked for me today (1/16/2012)

  • Ric Garrido January 17, 2012

    I changed the registration page links in the post to the link in BarbiJKM comment #17.

  • BarbiJKM January 18, 2012
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