IHG award points requirement changes to be announced later today
A quick update. IHG Rewards Club has announced that they plan to revise the points requirement for award nights, for about 400 hotels worldwide. The list of changes is expected to be released later today / early tomorrow (India time). Preliminary indications are that there will be both upward and downward revisions, in the order of 5,000 or 10,000 points a night.
The Intercontinental Warsaw
IHG classifies its hotels under 9 categories, and the rewards points requirements start at 10,000 points a night for a category 1 hotel, moving up in 5,000-point increments, to 50,000 points a night for a category 9 hotel. This new announcement by IHG, and the point value changes that they've suggested (5,000 and 10,000) mean that the 400 hotels will move up or down, either 1 or 2 notches in category.
Hotel chains do keep revising the points requirements for properties, sometimes even more than once a year. However, an individual hotel is unlikely to be affected more than once in a couple of years (if not longer).
The new points requirements will come into effect starting 17 February 2016. So, all bookings done till then will be at the old rates, and honoured accordingly.
Given that IHG plans to revise categories for 400 out of over 5,000 hotels worldwide, and considering there are only 25 IHG properties in India, the impact for Indian hotels will be minimal, if at all any.
We'll be sure to update you on the changes once they occur.
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