Priority Club Rewards Buy Points 10% bonus
Buying points is a good way to top off the points in your hotel loyalty account for that free hotel stay award. Until November 6, 2008 Priority Club will add a 10% points bonus to all purchases. Priority Club raised the price of points this past year to $11.50 per 1,000 points on purchases of 20,000 to 40,000 points.
Priority Club points purchase link and rules:
Points must be purchased in 1,000 point increments
· Only 40,000 points may be purchased in a rolling 12-month period (this favors buying points sooner rather than later if you plan to buy 40,000 points so you can repeat purchase in another 12 months).
· Price:
o $13.50 per 1,000 points for 1,000 to 9,000 points
o $12.50 per 1,000 points for 10,000 to 19,000 points
o $11.50 per 1,000 points for 20,000 to 40,000 points
· Points will appear in account within 48 hours.
The current promotional bonus deal allows the Priority Club member to purchase 44,000 points for $460. And if you think buying 44,000 points seems like a waste of money, keep reading.
Holiday Inn Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco
Buying points can be a great hotel cost savings
No other program offers the opportunity to get a high value room for so few points as InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) Priority Club Rewards with their PointBreaks for 5,000 points award nights. The challenge with PointBreaks is getting your reservation in as soon as new hotels are listed. The list changes every couple of months and as hotel reservations are booked the PointBreaks hotel list dwindles in size.
Current offers for PointBreaks are valid for hotel stays through November 30, 2008.
Consider the Hotel Indigo Columbus Architectural Center in Columbus, Indiana, one of the new boutique brand hotels of IHG. (I realized there is a Columbus, Indiana after several minutes searching for this hotel in Ohio.)
A four night stay at the Hotel Indigo Architectural Center from Monday, November 3 to Friday, November 7, 2008 will cost 20,000 points using the PointBreaks special offer. A Priority Club member can buy 22,000 points with the current bonus points promotion and book this four night stay for $230.
This same hotel stay will run $153 per night + 12% tax for a nonrefundable room rate of $171 per night. A four night fully paid stay will cost $684.
Just buying Priority Club Rewards points and booking a PointBreaks stay will reduce the four night hotel stay at the Hotel Indigo, Columbus, Indiana by $450.
Now that is a discount!
