-The current list is valid for stays through 11/30/18.
-Hotels can sell out of discounted rooms quickly and only a limited amount of rooms are available per night.
You can book up to 2 reservations per hotel. There’s no limit to how long each of the stays can be.
IHG PointBreaks now cost 5K, 10K, or 15K points per night, depending on the hotel.
The card comes with an annual certificate good for a free stay in IHG hotels that cost up to 40K points.
IHG points will not expire for as long as you remain a cardholder.
If you have the new IHG Premier credit card you’ll also get Platinum status and every 4th award night for free! That means a 4 night stay at a 5K hotel will cost just 15K points or 3,750 points per night!
If you have both the IHG Select card and the IHG Premier card you’ll get every 4th award night free AND a 10% rebate on award nights!
The new IHG Premier card also comes with free Global Entry/TSA Pre-Check.
IHG normally sells 5,000 points for $67.50 or 1.35 cents per point, but you can login here to see if you are targeted for bonus points.
If those points don’t post instantly you can call IHG to get a points loan based on your purchase confirmation number in order to quickly grab a room. Alternatively you can transfer 5,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points to IHG, though transfers are not instant and it’s a terrible use of Ultimate Rewards points.
If you already have IHG points in your account then you can buy points on the cheap via making a cash and points booking. Be sure to click on the rules during the checkout process to make sure that the room is fully refundable (almost all are).
For example Holiday Inn Express Cleveland Downtown allows you to redeem 10K points and $89 for a night. If you cancel that night you’ll get back 15K total points, so you’ll have effectively purchased 15K points for $89. That 0.59 cents per point.
Where can you stay for 5K-15K points?
The full current list is here, but here are some samples:
- Crowne Plaza Chicago-Northbrook, IL Normally 20K, now 10K
- Holiday Inn Express Princeton, NJ Normally 20K, now 10K
- Crowne Plaza Stamford, CT: Normally 25K, now 10K
- InterContinental Mendoza, Argentina: Normally 25K, now 10K
- Crowne Plaza Cleveland at Playhouse Square Normally 30K, now 15K
- Crowne Plaza London – Heathrow Normally 30K, now 15K
- InterContinental Miramar Panama Normally 30K, now 15K
- InterContinental Sao Paulo, Brazil Normally 35K, now 15K
We stayed at the lovely Intercontinental Sao Paulo in 2014. It’s a bargain at just 15K points/night!
Where will you book with Pointbreaks?
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This is by far the smallest list of 5000 Points hotels since I’ve been keeping track.
Can you have both the ihg select card and the premiere at the same time?
Yes
And get both bonuses?
Yes.
Which one is better to get IHG premier(100,000 points) or the hyatt(60,000) credit card if I plan on spending 5k.
Posted 3 days late? Dan you’re slipping.
https://www.dansdeals.com/more/site-announcements/vacation-notice-9/
I was just kidding lol, should have put a /s tag on it. Keep up the great work!
gosh can’t you cut him a break !!!he works hard enough
They originally posted the Crowne Plaza Berlin for 15,000 points per night but its now been removed and bookings during that period are showing up as 30,000 per night. What gives?
Another reason to make Aliyah. I spent over a million points making bargain bookings, minutes after this went live on Monday
thats only worth 15k you can make more money in the us.#smallminded
Actually most of those points were bonus points and are being used for luxury stays with a 33% rebate, so they are worth much more