Another great way to earn IHG points is by buying points during a 100% point bonus period and then redeeming a stay for 4 nights so you can get the 4th night free (a benefit with the IHG credit cards). This will likely end up being cheaper than an equivalent cash booking. Thank you for all of you who commented on my community post and taught me this technique! I wanted to feature this IHG strategy in this pinned comment since it wasn’t in the video.

Yes, get the IHG business, especially for international and airport locations. I am Marriott Lifetime Platinum, have the Ritz-Carlton and Amex Business Marriott, IHG, Hilton, and Wyndham business cards.

I would get the IHG Business Card. The fact that you get a higher status, it doesn’t count against 5/24 and offers the same multipliers as the personal card, it’s a huge win! Thank you for the excellent breakdown Stan!

Pay attention to Kimpton and Hotel Indigo brands as well. Similar to Intercontinentals, they are located in downtown areas, but they have a more modern and less "old luxury" feel. Buying IHG points when they're on sale for 0.5 cents per point can also be a great value when you're redeeming for 4 nights (and only pay for 3 nights). I'm staying at Kimptons in Paris and Amsterdam this summer, where I purchased points for approximately $1000 per stay. Each stay would have cost around $2,000 in cash.

Great video, Stan! I think you should get the IHG Premier Business card. I have the personal IHG Premier card, which I have had for almost two years. I really like the annual free night certificate. Often times, when I stay at an IHG property, I stay at a Holiday Inn Express and usually I book a suite. What I really like about these properties is the free breakfast that is included. I have heard that the Kimpton and the Hotel Indigo properties are really nice properties and I may use my free night certificate that I get this year at one of these higher end properties. I also really like having Platinum Elite status with the Premier card.

Keep up the good work Stan , I enjoy watching your videos, and i learn a lot from you. Of course, I always do my diligence work to make things work around. and used to do a lot of traveling me and my wife and in the past i always booked cash and did risk getting any new credit card because my goal was to become home owner before turning 30 which i was able to achieve a little bit over 2 years ago , i just wanted to say thank you for your amazing videos and explaining things about the credit card in the simplest way and also explaining very well how different programs can be elevated in different ways and of course every one has different taste when it comes to travel like luxury travel or budget travel nothing wrong with being either side i just prefer luxury travels because I live for the moment Great job, brother. Keep up the great work 🎉🎉

I have both IHG CCs that give the free night, and they come in handy at Holidays of which I fine all over. The Holiday inns are affordable and may not be super fancy, but well worth it. I believe the best way of getting IHG points after the sub bonus and necessary spend is buying they when on sale and/or at their annual end-of-the-year sale.

Love that you are expanding your hotel flexibility in terms of generating points from bonuses for future stays! The IHG (Personal & Business) Premier Cards are on my Hotel CC Roadmap and I plan to get both in the next year or so (obviously depending on what elevated bonuses are available and taking advantage there). Having exposure to Intercontinental's & IHG definitely makes sense for you with your travel plans to Asia as well! Great video as always Stan!

I considered biz card, but will wait till next yr, SUB will be higher…tho it may elevate late 2024. IHG recently talked about being more aggressive with their cards. I hope results in a move to either WF or Barclays soon. Breakup the AMEX/chase duopoly. Regardless IHG needs to STILL work on loyalty program, until improved they won’t get my precious repeat spend even tho they provide some good value and offerings. No one really mentions IHG has very close to same # of properties as Hilton and Marriott. Good vid Stan✌️

This was a great breakdown video! Definitely considering IHG as a secondary hotel chain now!

Not sure if you saw but IHG business card just got an elevated offer! Very tempting!

Get the igh premier card. I used it in Bali and they treated me very well due to the status. The 4th night free at the time in 2023 brought the point value to 1.4 cents not counting the free room upgrade(to a suite) and with some complaining(regarding the room upgrade did not match the room that was in the app). included free breakfast( due to the complaining) and still got the room upgrade.

Do it! I plan on getting the premier business when there’s an elevated offer this year. My dad is an IHG loyalist and has the premier and gets a lot of value. Plus, some of their nicer properties look beautiful and can have some great value using points and the 4th night free (really want to stay at a regent or six senses). Also, what a coincidence, literally just uploaded a video on how the Premier is underrated 😂 great minds think alike!

Year 2 with the ihg premiere and I just used my free night at the kimpton george in DC. I like the card and the program!

Yay new vid excited to watch!

this was a great video stan, i been looking into the IHG card for a few days now, you actually answered my questions ive been asking myself. Haha

I got the IHG business about 8 months ago and have become obsessed with IHG, so much so that I got the personal as well about a month ago. I now only stay at IHG hotels. The value and perks are insane.

Great video again Stan!!😀😀

It is worth noting that the United Club Infinite card also gives you IHG Platinum status. If you were to be a United flyer/ wanted Star Alliance lounge access

I've never had an IHG card before so this was really helpful, thanks Stan! I'd probably target one of their luxury properties, great that there are so many options in Asia.

Even though my gf and I will mainly stay at Hyatt hotels, we’re big into college football, and we’ll occasionally travel to cities where Hyatt doesn’t have coverage. That’s where IHG will come into play. I like staying at Holiday Inns for a weekend trip in a non-major city to watch my alma mater’s football games, and the IHG One Rewards Premier card (that’s a pretty lengthy name for a card) has pretty good value for that $99 fee with sign up bonus, free night award, and the the automatic platinum elite status. Plus their no-annual fee traveler card is good for 2-player mode since my girlfriend doesn’t want any annual fee cards, so over 200,000 IHG points is a good amount even if you factor the low CPP value for the cards.

@thejokerspeaks 0 seconds ago Primarily Hilton loyalists, especially with higher tier properties. Hyatt will fill in same high season stays, now that we have BILT. We use IHG for mid-tier, because I find the beds more reliably comfortable than the competition's at this level. 4th Night Free could be a great redemption tool in Asia with the cc. Also, you can buy points on sale for .5 cpp, turn around and use them at a Holiday Inn for .7 cpp.

IHG business seems like the go to for you. Acquiring it is also part of my 2024 plan. Great video and breakdown@

Having some hotel diversity never hurts and you can at least get the IHG Business card for the SUB and test drive the card for a year to see if it makes sense for your use case. I think the most efficient way to utilize IHG is to buy IHG points when they have those 90% or 100% bonus sales and buy enough IHG points to cover for three nights in order to get the 4th night free with the IHG Premier card. You can use the same strategy with Hilton also.

Holiday Inn Express is my go-to, making the IHG Premier personal card a no-brainer 🔥 Haven’t ventured into business cards yet

Platinum means nothing in the states. My daughter paid for ambassador and got a nice large one bedroom 2 bath suite in Amman Jordon for four nights. That was worth it alone.

This will definitely be acquired later… I just got the boundless 4 hours ago😂

The business card always seems like a nice pickup!

I love my IHG business card. My best hotel stay is at the Intercontinental Cali, Colombia. 99% chance of an upgrade.

Stan, get the card. I travel to Thailand 🇹🇭 3 months each year and the bulk of my stays are with IHG. You can’t lose. Buy the 300K points each year with the 100% bonus and normally IHG will eventually offer you the opportunity to buy 200K more points as a 100% targeted bonus offer. You will pay $2500 for $5000 worth of hotel stays if you can maximize the 4th night free. I usually sprinkle in the free nights I have with Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt as needed, and pay cash for as few nights as possible. I usually end up spending about 45% of what I would have had to pay if I didn’t have the IHG Card and other hotel cards. I know one day IHG will get tired of us winning and stop offering such a great deal.

I just booked the brand new Intercontinental in Crete, Greece for October for only 26,000 points a night! It would be even better if I was staying 4 nights and could take advantage of the 4th night free benefit. A comparable Marriott property was over 100K a night and Hilton 80k a night.

We have 4 IHG cards between me and my P2. We have an old Select card with $49 AF, a free night and 10% back on award bookings, and Platinum status. Then we also have Traveler card, which was converted from Premier. Traveler gives 4th night free on award bookings. So that's 4th night free + 10% points back.

Stan I think you can use the business rewards ihg card because it’s pretty easy to use. Just really need to stay once a year to use the cert. no monthly or biannual credits.

You can also get IHG Platinum Elite status through the Chase United Club card.

IHG bonus now is five nights amazing

If having an IHG card creates positive value, then, it could be worth it, especially, since the IHG hotel cards provides a 40k FNC.

intercontinental is darn good. if they are in my intended location in asia, they are my default choice!

Way better option to buy IHG points and then stay instead of paying cash to stay.

Breakfast included is just a common perk at hotels in China for everyone but not ihg

I have marroit, hyatt, and ihg. All bring value. I like the ihg when the have to 100% purchasel points nice to have points waiting. Marriott being the worst of the 3.

I think it’s bogus that the ambassador benefit only gives you the $20 dining credit per stay Rather than per day.

Alternatively, you can get an unlimited number of IHG points @ .6 cents/ point at any time or when reaching the annual threshold of points purchased. Credit the BS podcast Episode 1. TLDR - purchase a stay with points and cash and then get refund with the end result of larger all points amount and no cash.

check the history of elevated offers for the IHG Business... I am waiting for that

Kimpton, Six Senses and Intercontinental in Tokyo & Osaka are really good

hi, I have an upcoming 3 to 4 month hotel stays later this year & I am choosing which hotel cards to pick, there are Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott and Crowne Plaza in the area.. also I can get the Chase WOH, Hilton Surpass & Aspire, Bonvoy Brilliant & Bonvoy Business & Chase IHG Premier.. out of the Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Diamond, Marriott Titanium or Diamond, IHG Platinum or Diamond... which is worth spending $30k or more? my family will join me as well so breakfast (and maybe club lounge access) for 4 is an important factor, thanks

I’m thinking my end game could look like Capital One venture X, Amex Gold and Marriot Bonvoy Brilliant

Wondering what double occupancy for single rate means. Isn’t pretty much every hotel room everywhere up to 2 adults already?

I’m going to Bora bora in January. I have one Hilton free night cert. and hold the no fee Hilton card. How would you suggest going about getting as many free nights as I can for Hilton or Marriott before January. My avg monthly spend is around 5k.

Ive always been debating to get the IHG cc. As im an IHG employee and get extremely good rates for rooms, which i cant get paying with points. Any advise?

IHG is highly underrated these days

To get the Diamond Elite status is the 40k spend at IHG hotels or can i use the credit card 40k spend on anything?

Business makes sense for you.

When putting spend for a welcome bonus do you have to pay off that spend immediately in order to receive a welcome bonus?

If im already at chase 5/24, can i still apply for the IHG business and get approved?

Do you have to worry about 5/24 with the IHG Cards?

Have you ever been Bonvoyed?

Ahmad is disqualified, I’m first!