Loyalty Lobby covers a cool easy opportunity for hotel elite status: I Prefer, the loyalty program of Preferred Hotels & Resorts, is offering top-tier Titanium status for new members signing up with promo code AIRCANIPT. My wife just signed up with the promo code and received instant top-tier Titanium status.
The Deal
- I Prefer, the loyalty program of Preferred Hotels & Resorts, is offering an automatic upgrade to top-tier Titanium status for new members who sign up with promo code AIRCANIPT.
- Direct link to this deal
Quick Thoughts
I Prefer is the loyalty program of Preferred Hotels & Resorts. Unfortunately, Choice Privileges recently made an unannounced devaluation to awards with Preferred Hotels & Resorts. That’s certainly a bummer if you were eyeing a property that increased in price dramatically.
However, if a Preferred Hotels & Resorts property still fits into your plans, it could be worth signing up for easy elite status here. Greg has reported receiving I Prefer status benefits on a Choice Privileges award booking (in fact, he reported automatically receiving a notification from I Prefer when the system noticed that he’d made a reservation through Choice and didn’t have his I Prefer membership number attached).
My wife just signed up and made sure that the Promo Code populated automatically in the field as shown in the screen shot above. As soon as she completed sign up, her profile showed Titanium status and listed her benefits in her account.
This sign up only took a couple of minutes and just required simple info like name, email, and home address. Given the low effort required (she completed this in less than 90 seconds), this seems like a great opportunity.
I should note that Loyalty Lobby posted about this yesterday and a couple of people in the comments reported not receiving Titanium status. However, my wife signed up around 1pm Eastern time today (Saturday, June 22nd) and immediately received Titanium status. My guess is that the failure reports may have been due to not having the promo code in the box or perhaps this is geographically targeted (maybe for US members only?).
There’s no telling when this may end, so you’ll want to sign up sooner rather than later if interested.
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You guys covered this before https://frequentmiler.com/get-top-tier-preferred-hotels-status-with-just-an-aeroplan-credit-card/ but thanks for the reminder to sign up, still working today.
Both my wife and I got it. 🙂
We’re on the US west coast.
I Prefer Titanium status doesn’t come with a general allowance for breakfast. And even otherwise, the hotels can’t be counted on to be consistent in delivering on the published Titanium benefits. If you think Marriott or Hilton or IHG are inconsistent with delivering on elite status benefits, expect worse consistency with Preferred.
Asia-issued World Elite Mastercards have a free iPrefer Titanium status offer too.
Does it status match to anything?
I just signed up and received Titanium status.
PSA: Certain Preferred Hotels properties can opt out of award redemptions. For these properties, you reduce your IPrefer points to certificates, which you present to the property for a credit against your cash stay. Points reduce to a certificate at a rate of 0.2 cents per point. So, while Titanium earns 15X on stays, we’re talking a whopping 3 percent reward rate if redeemed at these properties. You may return to your regularly scheduled programming.
My Player 2 and I just signed up and received Titanium status. Thanks for the tip, Nick!
Worked great for P2 and me. We both instantly received Titanium status and they deposited 500 points in our newly created accounts. Im assuming that was a new user bonus..
The code refers to Air Canada’s partnership with Preferred hotels where Air Canada CC holders or elite members receive the top tier status with preferred hotels. I am surprised the status match just works without any review of whether the person entering the code actually has AC CC or status.
This!! I received the offer twice based on both status and cc – Canada here. I’m not keen on the code being shared far and wide, quite frankly, status means zilch if everyone gets it – disappointed that due diligence wasn’t done to identify where this came from…
zzz…
and you are?…when everyone has status no one has status, something that every Marriott elite member complains about on a daily basis. But hey, you can feel cool for making a non-comment on someone elses post.
My point on the due diligence is that iPrefer clearly screwed up without verifiying some kind of unique id, like email, against the folks that qualify for the offer and if they choose, and they may not, to verify after the fact a lot of folks will get their accounts downgraded – people should be aware of that prior to taking advantage of an offer that isn’t publicly available.
welcome to the miles and points game <3
I’ve been playing the game for 31 years. Finding a loophole and publishing a loophole are 2 different things – the former will have consequences for potentially the finder only, the latter has consequences for anyone reading a post. There is an expectation that when people publish for a living, that they give fair warning to those that take their advice – this means something as simple as ‘hey, this code was sent to X group but it seems to work for everyone’. This disclaimer allows the publisher to not get flack from people that take their advice and have it not work out for them.
Typically on FM I do see disclaimers but because this was passing on a post from another source who didn’t do THEIR job in including a disclaimer, integrity is lost. The idea that a headline reads iPrefer is offering Titanium to new members implies that iPrefer has posted this out publically – they haven’t, they did this as a partnership – so essentillay we’re seeing a giant game of telephone tag where facts are lost and that can have unintended consequences.
zzz…
To your point, I was granted Titanium several years ago via status match without proof. I have retained that status without sufficient iPrefer requalification or subsequent match.
Air France has an invitation-only tier status called “Club 2000.” (Different from CK or GS or D360. It is celebrity based as opposed to revenue based.) It became so overpopulated with members, Air France began watering down benefits to the point it now has no practical value. It then created a new tier status called “Hippodrome” that requires personal approval from the CEO and truly has substantial benefits (similar to BA’s Premier, with only about 300 or so members).
While everyone wants a good deal, some in the hobby fail to realize that one must climb the mountain to enjoy the view. Stick to your guns.
I usually don’t use loyalty programmes, but after coming across your fabulously salty and gatekeeping comment, it has duly inspired me to get my effortless, undeserved, and downright cheater elite “status” that you seem to oh so hardly cherish.
Now I’ve booked an awesome place for my upcoming trip on September that I’m sure will have to suffer my protelarian self all thanks to Nick Reyes having spread ‘wide and far’ this code.
I am truly grateful, Beth.
Is there anyway to attach a newly created I prefer account to existing Choice Preferred Hotel booking?
You have to ask Preferred Hotels or the actual hotel to load in the iPrefer number. But a lot of these hotels sometimes have clueless staff when it comes the the iPrefer program.
DP Signed both my wife and myself up. Both got immediate titanium. Thanks Nick!
Thanks for posting. I’m just annoyed that I signed up to I Prefer last month and can’t take advantage of this…
Same thing happened to me. I signed up for a new I Prefer account using a different email. Then I changed my first account (I Prefer Silver) to a different email. Then I changed my second account to my preferred email. Worked well and now my preferred email address has the platinum status and 500 points.
You had to have 3 email addresses to do this, correct?
Yes, correct.
thank you for replying!
I got this status through a work promo earlier this year and have stayed at a couple of iPrefer properties with it in New Orleans and Boston, but neither property recognized it, or honored the benefits. There was a serious lack of awareness. I know it’s free status that can be leveraged elsewhere, but in my experience it’s not worth much.
DP: I tried this on safari and tried to let the password generator pick the password. It was not accepted so I choose my own then clicked submit again. This created an account but did not give me titanium status. I then copied the above link and opened an incognito tab on chrome. Pasted the link and made sure the code generated. Used a new email account and typed everything in NOT using autofill. Clicked submit and new account now has Titanium status.