topic Re: USTA Daily Getaways / IHG in Credit Cards

USTA Daily Getaways / IHG

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 05:55:24 GMT

If I participate in the US Travel Association offer for buying IHG points, and pay with my Chase IHG card, do I earn 5x points? Or just 1x because the points are sort of through an intermediary and not purchased directly from IHG?

Re: USTA Daily Getaways / IHG

370Z — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 05:26:01 GMT

No idea about the offer but points purchased on the IHG website are handled through points.com, which end up giving 1x on the IHG card.

Re: USTA Daily Getaways / IHG

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 06:58:01 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
If I participate in the US Travel Association offer for buying IHG points, and pay with my Chase IHG card, do I earn 5x points? Or just 1x because the points are sort of through an intermediary and not purchased directly from IHG?

I think it will just be 1x. Which package did you end up getting? This seems interesting because I was looking to get some points and glad I saw this. Not sure if I will end up getting the points though.

Re: USTA Daily Getaways / IHG

wasCB14 — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:25:25 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
If I participate in the US Travel Association offer for buying IHG points, and pay with my Chase IHG card, do I earn 5x points? Or just 1x because the points are sort of through an intermediary and not purchased directly from IHG?
I think it will just be 1x. Which package did you end up getting? This seems interesting because I was looking to get some points and glad I saw this. Not sure if I will end up getting the points though.

I ended up getting 25k IHG points for $150 to see how it coded on CSP. It was 2x "travel", and appeared as "Daily Getaways" (and nothing IHG-related). CSP seems to be a good card for these purchases.

My IHG points posted today. Not surprisingly, they are not elite-qualifying.

I also got 15k Wyndham points for $150. I've not stayed at a Wyndham property before, but Wyndham doesn't have award blackout dates. Manhattan in the summer is often expensive, so I can possibly get $200 to $300 of value from the points (if not more). When a $300 property has the same award price as a $75 one, some award redemptions are going to be more lucrative than others!

I will definitely try to get some Hyatt points tomorrow. If I can't, I'll get some more IHG and/or Wyndham points. With 10% back, $565/111111 points is under 0.51 cpp, and I find it easy to get 0.7 cpp or more on many redemptions.

Re: USTA Daily Getaways / IHG

wasCB14 — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 17:30:30 GMT

Did anyone get any Hyatt points? The 2-3 second loading delay from the busy website was enough for me to miss out.

At least I can get (and use efficiently) lots of IHG points.