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Check your new IHG Accelerate offers – Q1, 2018

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It’s time to register for IHG’s lucrative Accelerate promotion.

Accelerate is a quarterly promotion whereby IHG incentives stays with tiered promotional offers. If you fulfill a certain number of the offers, you’ll get an achievement bonus that “Accelerates” your earning even more. The new offers are out.  At first glance, my offer isn’t as lucrative as my 4th quarter, 2017 offer, but I’d argue it’s an easier target to hit. Here’s a look at my 2018, Q1 offer where just 2 stays could net me 30,000 points.

Accelerate always gives you an achievement bonus

This time around I only have to hit 4 of 5 offers to earn the 12,900 bonus. Here’s how just 2 stays will do that

  • There are two offers that require actual stays
    1. Stay at two Intercontinental hotels
    2. Stay 5 nights
  • The other 3 offers can be had with just 1 stay
    • Stay Once get 2,000 points
    • Stay in NYC, Chicago, D.C., LA, Orlando, or San Fran
    • Use my IHG credit card

This means that if I stay at two different Intercontinental hotels I’ll satisfy 1/2 stay offers, and as long as one of those stays is in a big city, and paid for with my IHG credit card I’ll fulfill the entire Accelerate promo. If I did one in January I’d get another 2k point bonus.

You can register here.

I’m very interested in hearing about your Accelerate offers.

 

 

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We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.

Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.

Main Cast: 

Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.

Supporting Cast:

Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on. 

The Chase Sapphire Preferred® is exceptional starter card and offers transferrable Ultimate Rewards, and pairs well with other Chase cards.

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