IHG One Rewards offered an opportunity at the end of 2025 to purchase status-qualifying points that effectively made it possible to buy IHG Diamond through 12/31/26. You can read more about that deal here. Some members who purchased the qualifying points late on 12/31/25 actually found that their status initially reflected an extra year, with an expiration of 12/31/27 instead of the end of this year. IHG is apparently fixing that error.
Again, this is a relatively limited issue that I believe only affects those who purchased IHG status-qualifying points on 12/31/25. Some of those who purchased that day initially saw an IHG Diamond status expiration date of 12/31/27 instead of the expected 12/31/26. That would have yielded two years of IHG Diamond status.
Unfortunately, reader data points started to come in more than two weeks ago, indicating that IHG had updated the expiration date of their status to reflect the expected 12/31/26 expiration. We’ve since seen several more data points trickle in, and Loyalty Lobby also posted about this today.
It’s disappointing that this didn’t work out, though ultimately those who purchased points have received what they expected — IHG Diamond status through 12/31/26 — which was still a good deal for those who can leverage the benefits.
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It’s because people were calling in to complain about why they were not getting the additional year. One particular person named Pam is one of them. She had posted on this website a few weeks ago.
I did this on Dec 31, 2024, and received diamond status through Dec 31, 2026. My extra year is still intact.
shame it didn’t work for people this recent year.
@Nick Reyes Yeah it’s unfortunate, but my points tracker still shows 120,000 earned in 2026, so it’s possible it will update again (though I’m not holding my breath).
Also – P2 had an IHG Premier FNC post this month with a 2028 EXPIRATION (2 years instead of 12mo)…so perhaps they fixed one thing and broke another.