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The InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is the parent company of Holiday Inn.   IHG Priority Club Rewards is the hotel loyalty program for this hotel chain with the brands of Holiday Inn Express on the lower end of its economic scale of room rates to the Crowne Plaza brand on the upscale alaska cruise honeymoon and InterContinental Hotels on the upper upscale to luxury end of room rates.   Staybridge Suites and Candlewood Suites are the extended stay brands of IHG.
Bass Breweries also acquired the InterContinental Hotels luxury brand properties in 1998.   This hotel chain was established by Pan Am Airways in the era of post-WWII global travel, and hotels are currently located in about 140 major global cities and prominent resorts around the world.
InterContinental Hotels was an early player in the hotel loyalty industry and Six Continents Club was established in 1966.   It is the longest running frequent guest hotel loyalty program .   The merger of the Priority Club Rewards program with the Six Continents Club loyalty program of InterContinental Hotels began in 2003 when the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) corporation was established with the break-up of the Bass empire.
[InBev, the Belgian-Brazilian company that just bought Budweiser, also bought Bass Breweries and Becks in the past decade and pretty much controls global beer distribution along with the Dutch (Heineken) and Danish (Carlsberg).   This is my UC Davis fermentation science beer background   coming to the forefront.   Time for another Stella Artois.]
The main distinction alaska cruise honeymoon of the IHG Priority Club hotel loyalty program from other major loyalty programs is the ability to buy elite membership.   Two of the four elite levels as a Priority Club member are available for a fee.   Priority Club Rewards Gold membership is $50 for a calendar year and InterContinental Hotels Ambassador membership is $150 with complimentary Priority Club Rewards Gold status included and generally a far better deal if you can work an InterContinental Hotel stay in your travels.
Priority Club is quite lenient from a frequent guest perspective in counting points earned from a variety of activities for elite membership qualification like purchased points, affinity credit cards, and hotel promotional bonuses rather than just base points from hotel stays. Hilton HHonors requires 100,000 base points for HHonors Diamond and this is essentially $10,000 in hotel stay spending in a calendar year.   Priority Club Platinum membership requires 60,000 earned points in a calendar alaska cruise honeymoon year and with all the ways to earn points this threshold can be achieved for under $2,000 with a bit of planning and for far fewer than 50 nights in hotels.
Priority Club Gold is earned with 20 paid nights or 20,000 earned points in a calendar year.   Gold level membership lasts for the remainder of the year earned and until the end of the following calendar year.   Gold membership is also available for $50 for the calendar year, but has the disadvantage of expiring at the end of the same calendar year.   Your status will be upgraded within 48 hours of purchase.   Another strategy, particularly if you are fairly certain an InterContinental Hotel luxury trip is not in your near future, is to buy 20,000 Priority Club points for $230 and earn Gold Elite based on points and you will have the points ready for good hotel room redemption opportunities like PointBreaks 5,000 point free nights.
·          Complimentary upgrade on paid hotel rooms which might include a higher floor, corner room, or preferred view.   The hotel is not required to provide an upgrade to a suite, however, anecdotal evidence indicates this is frequently a benefit.   The upgrade benefit does not apply to award room nights (but again, anecdotal evidence indicates Platinum members are typically upgraded on award night stays.)
·          Your $150 membership fee includes alaska cruise honeymoon a certificate for a free second night when a minimum two-night weekend stay is booked at an InterContinental Hotel and the first night is a paid night.   Certificate is valid for six months.   Considering there are very few hotels in the InterContinental chain that have a lowest alaska cruise honeymoon room rate for any room at under $150, your Buy One, Get One (BOGO) certificate is essentially a complete rebate of your $150 membership fee and even more.   Weekend nights are defined as Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for most locations.   Certificate is non-transferable.
InterContinental Royal Ambassador = by invitation, but anecdotal evidence from FlyerTalk.com indicates stays in at least 3 to 5 different InterContinental Hotels and 50 nights overall   (Platinum elite status) in IHG hotels during the Ambassador alaska cruise honeymoon membership year (one year from Ambassador membership enrollment date and not the calendar year) may trigger an invitation.
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That means that your best bet is to buy Ambassador at the start of the year. You ll get everything that Platinum tier has, except for Guaranteed Room Availability which, let s face it, isn t really guaranteed due to all the exceptions.