IHG Rewards Club list of 200 hotels up in points cost Feb 17, 2016

The big shock today is learning 18 hotels will rise to new high categories of 55,000 and 60,000 points on Feb 17, 2016. They are all InterContinental Hotels. There are also another 182 hotels increasing in points cost. This post breaks down the list of hotels by category level.

Since 400 hotels are changing in reward price on Feb 17, 2016, that means 200 hotels are going down in reward cost. Think China, India and oil revenue economies as places where hotels will drop in reward rates for 2016.

This is a graphic intensive post with images from my spreadsheet, so I’ll list the hotels going down in a separate post.

IHG Rewards Club 200 Hotels Going Up in Category

Feb 17, 2016

60,000 points = 13 InterContinental Hotels (all 10,000 points increase)

55,000 points = 5 InterContinental Hotels (all 5,000 points increase)

See Loyalty Traveler – 18 InterContinental Hotels rising to 55,000 or 60,000 points Feb 17, 2016 for this list of hotels.

50,000 points = 12 hotels (8 increase by 5,000 points, including 4 hotels in London); (2 hotels go up 10,000 points – Hotel Indigo San Diego Gaslamp and Hotel Indigo Santa Barbara)

45,000 points = 4 hotels (2 hotels up 5,000 points and 2 hotels up 10,000 points).

40,000 points = 70 hotels (64 hotels up 5,000 points and 6 hotels up 10,000 points)

35,000 points = 21 hotels (17 hotels up 5,000; 4 hotels up 10,000)

InterContinental Sao Paulo, at the top of this list, is the highest category hotel currently dropping in reward price from 40,000 to 35,000.

30,000 points = 12 hotels (5 hotels up 5,000 points; 7 up 10,000 points)

25,000 points = 21 hotels (20 hotels up 5,000 points; 1 hotel up 10,000 points – Holiday Inn Express Northampton UK).

20,000 points = 27 hotels (20 hotels up 5,000 points; 7 hotels up 10,000 points).

15,000 points = 15 hotels (all 15 hotels are a 5,000 points increase from the lowest standard IHG category at 10,000 points.)

These are the hotels you want to study now and redeem points by February 16, 2016 if you want to book at the current lower points price.