@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.
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