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Re: New Pointbreaks!
« Reply #760 on: February 01, 2018, 07:07:01 AM »
Well, it's been that way for years now, hasn't it?
What do you mean? They always changed the pointsbreaks locations.

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Re: New Pointbreaks!
« Reply #761 on: February 01, 2018, 07:17:10 AM »
What do you mean? They always changed the pointsbreaks locations.

I thought you were referring to the fact that Pointbreaks have always been 5K until now.  Yes, the hotel list always changes.

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Re: New Pointbreaks!
« Reply #762 on: February 03, 2018, 05:32:27 PM »
What do you mean? They always changed the pointsbreaks locations.
Sure they always changed the hotel locations, but all hotels on the list were 5000 points. They slowly almost removed all IC and then started offering out of the way locations, and now went from 5k to 15k for the near decent ones, I see this as a big change .
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Re: New Pointbreaks!
« Reply #763 on: February 04, 2018, 02:16:28 AM »
Sure they always changed the hotel locations, but all hotels on the list were 5000 points. They slowly almost removed all IC and then started offering out of the way locations, and now went from 5k to 15k for the near decent ones, I see this as a big change .
Yes. This may be my first season not going due to all these changes.

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Re: New Pointbreaks!
« Reply #764 on: February 04, 2018, 06:54:38 AM »
Sure they always changed the hotel locations, but all hotels on the list were 5000 points. They slowly almost removed all IC and then started offering out of the way locations, and now went from 5k to 15k for the near decent ones, I see this as a big change .
Yes I know, wasn't discussing that. Op was complaining that a hotel that he stayed in last year @ 5k is 10k this yr.

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Re: New Pointbreaks!
« Reply #765 on: February 04, 2018, 03:33:07 PM »
Yes I know, wasn't discussing that. Op was complaining that a hotel that he stayed in last year @ 5k is 10k this yr.
And people seem to be agreeing that doubling the redemption rate for a pretty lackluster hotel is a big change. Pretty much halves the cpp since most of these hotels only go for about $100/night anyway.

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Re: New Pointbreaks!
« Reply #766 on: February 04, 2018, 06:41:41 PM »
And people seem to be agreeing that doubling the redemption rate for a pretty lackluster hotel is a big change. Pretty much halves the cpp since most of these hotels only go for about $100/night anyway.

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Why are you looking at it as doubling the redemption rate? Last year they halved it.
And what am I supposed to be learning? That ihg made a change? I know they did. And the change isn't, that the hotel that you went to last year is now double the points.
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Re: New Pointbreaks!
« Reply #767 on: February 05, 2018, 12:41:11 PM »
Why are you looking at it as doubling the redemption rate? Last year they halved it.
And what am I supposed to be learning? That ihg made a change? I know they did. And the change isn't, that the hotel that you went to last year is now double the points.
Until this year, Pointbreaks was 5k/night no matter which property. This year, the Pointbreaks rate for the identical property I booked at 5k/night last year became 10k/night. It would be one thing if they made better hotels available at 10k/night or 15k/night. But they didn't. Not sure what's complicated here.

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Re: New Pointbreaks!
« Reply #768 on: February 11, 2018, 05:48:25 PM »
Until this year, Pointbreaks was 5k/night no matter which property. This year, the Pointbreaks rate for the identical property I booked at 5k/night last year became 10k/night. It would be one thing if they made better hotels available at 10k/night or 15k/night. But they didn't. Not sure what's complicated here.
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Re: New Pointbreaks!
« Reply #769 on: February 11, 2018, 07:21:46 PM »
I got stuck on "identical property", hence my non-response.

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Re: New Pointbreaks!
« Reply #772 on: April 30, 2018, 12:14:24 PM »
12:13pm and still not live. Classic IHG

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Re: New Pointbreaks!
« Reply #773 on: April 30, 2018, 12:50:17 PM »
Seems live?

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Re: New Pointbreaks!
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Re: New Pointbreaks!
« Reply #775 on: July 19, 2018, 11:24:03 PM »
Preview of the properties as follows:

Qatar: InterContinental Doha (Regular 35,000 points/night)
USA: Hotel Indigo San Antonio Riverwalk (Regular 30,000 points/night)
UK: Holiday Inn Brighton Seafront (Regular 30,000 points/night)
Jordan: Holiday Inn Resort Dead Sea (Regular 20,000 points/night)
USA: Hotel Indigo Orange Beach (Regular 30,000 points/night)

To be live on Monday July 23rd, 2018 noon EDT

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Re: New Pointbreaks!
« Reply #776 on: July 23, 2018, 12:13:30 PM »
So where are they?

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Re: New Pointbreaks!
« Reply #777 on: July 23, 2018, 12:17:24 PM »
So where are they?

Guess they meant for it to go live on July 30th.

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Re: New Pointbreaks!
« Reply #778 on: July 23, 2018, 12:24:45 PM »
Guess they meant for it to go live on July 30th.

Never mind, full list is online now.

Valid for booking through September 30th, 2018.

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Re: New Pointbreaks!
« Reply #779 on: July 29, 2018, 02:02:36 PM »
I'm about to cancel a res at the Candlewood Suites Bordentown-Trenton, NJ. Just a heads up if anyone wants to re-check availability.