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Priority Club has a Memorial Day weekend special over the next four days, May 25-28, to redeem points for gas gift cards at a 25% discount. Three gas retailers participate. Each gas company has their own gift card so you must choose your pumping preference.
GAS Gift Card Denominations and point redemption values: Read More…
The best value in hotel loyalty rewards is the Priority Club PointBreaks hotels at 5,000 points per night. The list this time around is for stays through July 31, 2012 and offers more properties outside the USA.
Oceania has not participated in some time and PointBreaks are offered at the InterContinental Fiji and Crowne Plaza Surfers Paradise, Australia.
There are a dozen InterContinental Hotels on this list with four in Africa including InterContinental Mauritius. Read More…
Priority Club Points & Cash Rewards have increased to $70 for 10,000 points from the previous $60 rate. This is a relatively minor 17% increase on the reward cost.
This post looks beyond the Points & Cash Reward nights to examine how Priority Club Reward Nights have increased by as much as 63% in the past six months using $7 per 1,000 points as the fair exchange rate for points. Read More…
May 2012 promotions from Top Ten hotel loyalty programs:
Links to my Loyalty Traveler posts provide more detail and promotion analysis for each offer.
Most hotel loyalty promotions are two to four months in duration.
The easiest way to quickly see a list of all hotel loyalty promotions discussed on Loyalty Traveler is to check my Loyalty Traveler Facebook page. All Loyalty Traveler post links feed into Twitter and all my tweets feed into Loyalty Traveler Facebook.
Summer 2012 hotel loyalty promotions Read More…
Priority Club launches its summer 1,000 points per night, up to 20,000 points, for Facebook fans who register starting today, May 14, 2012. The promotion is still limited to 20,000 bonus points after 20 nights by September 3, 2012. The regular promotion registration with Priority Club does not begin until June 1 for this same offer. Facebook fans who register early can earn the bonus points or miles for the month of May. Everyone else will be offered the 20,000 bonus points promotion from June 1 – September 3, 2012. Read More…
Priority Club has a new promotion coming for summer travel with IHG hotel stays earning 1,000 bonus points per night, up to 20,000 bonus points for stays June 1-September 3, 2012.
There is a twist to this offer for Priority Club Facebook fans who “Like” the Priority Club page. Members can register for this offer beginning Monday, May 14 through Facebook and start earning bonus points for stays in May, two weeks before the official promotion launch. Read More…
There are 86 hotels listed on this month’s Priority Club Last Minute Reward Nights. The deal with these offers is the first full Friday to Sunday weekend of each month the hotels listed are 50% points for a reward night.
There are eight InterContinental Hotels on the list including Foshan China, Tel Aviv, Seoul, Tahiti and Caracas.
Crowne Plaza St. Paul, Minnesota appears to be the premier property offered in the USA. Read More…
Los Angeles revealed another facet of her urban jewels yesterday as I solo toured Century City, Beverly Hills and West Hollywood. I was in eight hotels and I have to say that I recommend any of them for a nice stay in L.A. Read More…
My experience with IHG Priority Club Reward stays as a lowly Platinum is a bit different than the complaint I commonly read from InterContinental Royal Ambassadors about no guaranteed benefits on reward stays. One of the best features of Priority Club Rewards for me is regularly finding the option for higher category rooms when booking reward nights. Read More…
InterContinental Hotels Group offers U.S. resident members a “Get 50” $50 MasterCard rebate for a two-night weekday stay from April 16 through August 2, 2012. Weekdays are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. This offer may be earned four times during the promotion period for a total $200 in MasterCard rebates. Read More…
Daily Getaways starts today and the first day is Priority Club points. The price is good, but not extraordinary. Purchased points count for elite status. It is possible to buy 10,000 to 200,000 points in a single purchase.
I analyzed this Priority Club offer in detail last Monday in this April 2 Loyalty Traveler post.
Price shown is 10% less when payment made with American Express card.
Update Monday March 9, 12:05pm ET: I checked the presale offer. There was a code on the InterContinental Hotels & Resorts Facebook page showing the early access code:
InterContinental Hotels & Resorts
2 hours ago
40,000 Priority Club Rewards points for $267? The exclusive pre-sale for our Facebook fans starts at 12pm ET: http://bit.ly/H8WcAr with this code: 9D347
The 75 sets of 40,000 points offered for this pre-sale were booked out within a couple of minutes.
This FlyerTalk thread indicates the points may have all been reserved for purchase in the first 30 seconds. Needless to say that if you want to get points at the 1pm sale, start clicking at 12:59 to get a chance to buy.
