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IHG One Rewards is currently running an award sale giving a 15% discount when booking with points at 33 new properties around the world. This is valid for stays through the end of August, but sadly isn’t stackable with the 4th night free benefit.
The Deal
- Save 15% when booking stays of 1-3 nights at select new IHG properties.
- Direct link to offer.
Key Terms
- This new hotel Reward Night discount offer for a 15% discount on Reward Nights booked at newly opened IHG hotels (the “Offer”) is available only to IHG One Rewards members who book by August 31, 2023 for stays during the period from June 1, 2023 through August 31, 2023 qualify for the Offer.” (the “Offer Period”).
- This Offer only applies to the hotels listed on this webpage and is made available to members only when booking through an official IHG online reservations site while signed into their IHG One Rewards account.
- The Offer is for a 15% discount off the number of points needed to book a stay using points only.
- If using Points & Cash, the 15% discount will be applied to only the cash portion of each available option.
- The 15% discount is offered at time of booking as identified on the participating hotel’s booking page.
- For members with a qualifying Chase IHG Rewards credit card, the Offer is not available to use along with the “Fourth Reward Night Free” cardmember benefit when booking a stay of four (4) or more consecutive Reward Nights.
- The Offer is available for eligible cardmembers booking three (3) or fewer consecutive Reward Nights.
- This Offer is not from Chase. Chase is not responsible for the provision of, or failure to provide, the stated benefits and services.
Quick Thoughts
IHG has run award sales a few times over the last couple of years giving discounts on award stays of 1-3 nights. This latest sale isn’t as good because it’s only valid at select new properties around the world rather than all IHG properties. However, it could still be useful if you were wanting to check out any of these new properties that are eligible:
China
- Holiday Inn Express Xi’an Tuanjie South Road
- Holiday Inn Express Xi’an Qujiang Center
- EVEN Hotels Suzhou Grand Canal
- Crowne Plaza Hangzhou Riverside
- Holiday Inn Express Taiyuan High Tech Zone
- Holiday Inn Express Zhengzhou Guancheng
Europe
- InterContinental Athénée Palace Bucharest
- Holiday Inn Manchester Airport
- Staybridge Suites Brighton
- Holiday Inn Express Madrid – Airport
- InterContinental Tashkent
North America
- Holiday Inn Express Dallas Downtown
- Vignette Collection Yours Truly DC
- Holiday Inn Detroit – Troy
- Candlewood Suites Layton – Salt Lake City
- Holiday Inn Express Glendale Downtown
- Holiday Inn Cincinnati – Liberty Way
- Hotel Indigo – Guadalajara Expo
- Holiday Inn Express Starke
- Holiday Inn Express and Suites Lexington
- Holiday Inn Express Hattiesburg West – Univ Area
- Staybridge Suites Houston NW Cypress Crossing
- Staybridge Suites Chicago O’Hare Airport
Middle East
- Holiday Inn Express Ankara – Airport
- voco Dubai The Palm
- InterContinental Residences Abu Dhabi
- Holiday Inn Katra Vaishno Devi
- Holiday Inn Lucknow Airport
- voco Makkah
- Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites Dubai Science Park
- Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites Al Khobar
- Holiday Inn Express Jaipur
Thailand
- Staybridge Suites Bangkok Sukhumvit
There’s an interesting mix of cities and brands that are included with this award sale. One that particularly caught my eye is the Staybridge Suites in Brighton, England. We used to live in Brighton and love it there, so it’s great to see the city get a new IHG hotel option. I’ve stayed at the Holiday Inn Brighton-Seafront a couple of times, although my last stay there was something like eight years ago. The hotel was showing its age, although it’s in an excellent location on the seafront.
The new Staybridge Suites on the other hand looks like it’s up by the train station. That means it’s only a short walk to the Lanes and a 15-20 minute walk down to the seafront. Brighton is an eminently walkable city, so if you’re planning a longer trip to London then I can highly recommend heading down to Brighton and spending 1-3 days there which would be perfect for taking advantage of this IHG award sale. There are good rail links between Brighton and London, but there’s also the National Express bus that can be reasonably priced. Driving is another option, but if you’re visiting in the summer finding somewhere to park can be a beast.
Seeing as this award sale is only valid on stays of 1-3 nights, it won’t stack with the 4th night free benefit on the IHG Premier and Traveler credit cards, but you will still be eligible for the 10% points rebate if you still have the old IHG Select credit card. The 10% points rebate is calculated after the 15% discount, so that will work out to be a 23.5% combined discount/rebate.
The 15% discount will also likely make some of these properties bookable using the 40k free night certificates from the IHG Select card that can’t be topped up. For example, if a property would ordinarily cost 46,000 points for the night, the 15% discount would reduce that to 39,100 points and thus bookable with a certificate that’s capped at 40k points and can’t be topped up. Note that you have to be logged in to see the 15% discount.
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33 properties in the whole world, and I can’t believe I just stayed in one for a night — on an award stay! The Holiday Inn Express Madrid Airport. It only cost me 20K points, so I guess I only lost 3000 points. Definitely a decent HIX property, and interesting to see the tweaks to the brand overseas (good: a European style breakfast buffet; bad: no refrigerator/microwave in the room).Also not really an “airport hotel,” as it’s 10 miles from the airport with no transport.
Yeah, the lack of a mini fridge in many European hotels is something I’d forgotten about until last year and hadn’t realized I appreciated them so much in the US.
Yeah, on the Continent, it is more probable than not that your chain hotel won’t have a refrigerator. And, in some properties, it’s even impossible to get any ice. Wyndham partners with a European chain called H2. They’re 3 to 4 star hotels with restaurants. From my experience, they have not a cube of ice in the hotel.I was at least able to get some ice from the Madrid HIX, but they don’t have guest ice machines.
WIll it offer the 15% for the Ambassador weekend – one free night, after paid.
Ill be in InterContinental Athénée Palace Bucharest in Aug.and have the Ambassador weekend night
I’d assume not. This outlines the discount is for rewards nights only and that is a cash booking that removes one night after checkout. The rate is also not subject to normal AAA/company discounts or prepaid options. I was hoping for the same.