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The Offer
- Earn up to a $100 Mastercard gift card when you stay two times at IHG between November 1st, 2017 and February 1st, 2018 using a Mastercard for your booking. One stay must be for two or more nights. The gift card you receive depends on the highest brand you stay at:
- InterContinental brand = $100 gift card
- Crowne Plaza, Hotel Indigo, or Even Hotels brand hotel = $75 gift card
- Holiday Inn Express, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Club Vacations, Holiday Inn Resort, Hualaxe, Staybridge Suites, or Candlewood Suites brand hotel = $50
- You can also earn an additional 4,000 points if you stay two or more nights after completing the above offer
The Fine Print
- Full fine print here
- Promotion begins 11/1/17 at 12:00 AM ET and ends 2/1/18 at 11:59:59 PM ET; Open only to eligible legal 50 U.S./DC residents who are 21 years or older.
- Must use a Mastercard to book your stays to qualify.
- Debit PIN transactions ineligible.
- **Offer only available while supplies last. A Mastercard must be used to pay for the stays in order to qualify for the offer.
- The OmniCard Mastercard® Reward Card is issued by MetaBank®, Member FDIC, pursuant to license by Mastercard International Incorporated.
- Mastercard Reward Cards must be redeemed at the redemption portal by 11:59:59 PM ET on March 31, 2018 or award of the Mastercard Rewards Card will be forfeited
- Use your Debit Mastercard everywhere Mastercard debit cards are accepted.
Our Verdict
This is one of those promotions that I will enroll for and I’ll make sure I use a Mastercard credit card for any IHG bookings but won’t change my booking habits at all. When it gets closer to the end date I’ll check in again and see if I have progressed and if so what my options are going forward but for now I’ll mostly just ignore it.
Hat tip to reader jp
For those curious about timing, I completed my second stay on December 19 and received an email about the MasterCard on January 9, virtual card to arrive in 4-6 weeks from now or plastic card in 6-8 weeks.
so, a total pd stay of 4 nites to earn a GC?
@Dan, no.
Two stays, one stay must be 2 nights. So you can do it in 3 nights. Again, I don’t think the point of this was to go out of your way to do it. It’s good for 2 reasons:
1) If you already have stays coming up with IHG, just pay with your MasterCard.
2) It stacks on top of Accelerate Promo
Ugh! This makes the Marriott promotion for category 1-5 night which I can’t use seem like a good deal
@P – absolute rubbish. This promotion stacks on top of the Accelerate Promotion and completely blows away that crap “promotion” that Marriott is offering.
IHG is one of my least favourite chains. Always inadequate and mismatched furniture, especially wen it comes to the desk and the chair. Horrible for business setting.
Thanks for sharing.
This
I agree. I hate it when the chair and the sleeper sofa don’t have a matching polyester cover. Even worse is when the motel 6 doesn’t have a shower curtain. Want to share any other pointless pet peeves?
this should work with points+cash stays, no?
Here’s to hoping that it does!
I have a 2 night stay coming up at an intercontinental. If point+cash stays count towards this I will be doing that!
“Qualified Stay” DOES
NOT INCLUDE a hotel stay subject to the following rates: Net wholesale individual
and group rates; Package rates; Employee discount rates; Friends and family rates;
Crew rates; Special discounted contract rates; Seasonal worker/crew rate; 50% travel
club discount rates; Travel industry discount rates; Distressed passenger rates; IHG
Rewards Club Reward Nights/Airline Hotel Reward night rates; Rates booked through
third party web sites; and Complimentary hotel stays.
Does anyone know if points+cash are equivalent to reward nights?
I just asked live chat. They said that a points+cash stay does fall into the “IHG Rewards Club Reward Nights/Airline Hotel Reward night rates” bucket and would not be considered a Qualified Stay