Lucrative to ludicrous: IHG’s fall to the worst hotel loyalty program
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When I first jumped headlong into the award travel world, IHG was the hottest thing on the market as far as hotel programs. Sure, SPG had it major following as well. But my thinking was influenced by the amazing things I was reading you could do with IHG points, mainly in posts I found over at Travel is Free. However, the program has not aged well the past few years, and I can state with confidence that it no longer represents the same value it did back when I first jumped into hotel loyalty programs.
Then and now: 2015 Canada trip case study
My wife and I first each picked up the Chase IHG Mastercard in spring of 2015, our sights set on using the points for free travel during our trip to Canada that summer. I used my…
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