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Click HERE if you’re looking for the 2016/17 Winter Point Breaks List
IHG Rewards (the rewards program for, amongst others, InterContinental Hotels and Holiday Inn) has released the list of hotels that are participating in the latest PointBreaks promotion and bookings are now being taken.
“PointBreaks” are one of the better and more popular hotel promotions that you’ll find, with IHG opening up rooms at a number of its hotels for just 5,000 points per night – these are rooms that could go for as much as 40,000 points per night outside of the PointBreaks period.
For those new to PointBreaks, don’t get too excited. You’re not going to be spending two weeks on a beach in Bora Bora for 5,000 points/night. The luxurious and high demand hotels in the IHG portfolio rarely appear on the PointBreaks list and this time is no different – there’s only one InterContinental hotel participating in the promotion this time around and it’s in Egypt.
Having said all that, there is still good value to be had out of some of these hotels – especially if a hotel on the list happens to be somewhere you were planning to visit anyway. That’s when this promotion comes into its own.
The booking period for this promotion is open from today (26 October) for reservation from 26 October through 31 January 2016.
An important restriction to bear in mind is that you can only make 2 reservations per hotel during the PointBreaks offer period. This is a relatively recent rule brought in by IHG Rewards in an attempt to prevent guests making numerous speculative bookings before their plans firm up and they then cancel all the ones they no longer need (and denying other IHG Rewards members the inventory).
With all that said, here is the list by region and country:
Hotels in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
- InterContinental Cairo Semiramis – Egypt
- Crowne Plaza Chennai Adyar Park – India
- Holiday Inn Bali Benoa – Indonesia
- Holiday Inn Sendai – Japan
- Crowne Plaza Kumamoto New Sky – Japan
- Crowne Plaza Madinah – South Africa
- Holiday Inn Sandton – Rivonia Road – South Africa
- Holiday Inn Johannesburg Airport – South Africa
- Holiday Inn Express Pretoria – South Africa
- Crowne Plaza Shenzhen Longgang City Centre – China
- Holiday Inn Hainan Clear Water Bay – China
- Holiday Inn Qingdao City Centre – China
- Holiday Inn Express Tianjin Dongli – China
Hotels in Europe
Belgium
Czech Republic
Finland
France
Germany
Italy
- Holiday Inn Milan Nord Zara
- Crowne Plaza Padova
- Holiday Inn Milan Linate Airport
Lithuania
Poland
Russia
Travel to St. Petersburg, Russia
Slovakia
Spain
- Holiday Inn Alicante – Playa de San Juan
- Holiday Inn Express Bilbao
- Holiday Inn Express Onda – Provincia de Castellon
Turkey
United Kingdom
- Holiday Inn Express Birmingham – Star City
- Crowne Plaza Heythrop Park Oxford
- Holiday Inn Derby – Riverlights
- Holiday Inn Dumfries
- Holiday Inn Express Manchester East
- Holiday Inn Northampton
- Holiday Inn Maidstone – Sevenoaks
Hotels in the Americas
Brazil
Canada
- Holiday Inn Kamloops
- Holiday Inn Express Halifax Airport
- Holiday Inn London
- Holiday Inn Express Yorkton East
Columbia
Costa Rica
Guatemala
Mexico
- Staybridge Suites Chihuahua
- Holiday Inn Express Manzanillo
- Crowne Plaza Guadalajara
- Holiday Inn Express Hermosillo
- Holiday Inn Coatzacoalcos
Nicaragua
Panama
Crowne Plaza Panama
Points Break Hotels in the United States
Alabama
- Candlewood Suites Birmingham -Hoover
- Holiday Inn Express Greenville
- Holiday Inn Express Mobile West
- Holiday Inn Express Selma
Arkansas
- Holiday Inn Express Batesville
- Holiday Inn Express Clarksville
- Candlewood Suites Jonesboro
- Holiday Inn Express Pine Bluff
Arizona
California
- Holiday Inn Express Barstow-Outlet Center
- Holiday Inn Express Loma Linda- San Bernardino
- Holiday Inn San Clemente (Camp Pendleton)
- Holiday Inn Victorville
Colorado
Connecticut
- Holiday Inn Danbury-Bethel
- Holiday Inn Express Plainfield
- Crowne Plaza Southbury
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
- Holiday Inn Express Alpharetta
- Holiday Inn Express Columbus At Northlake
- Holiday Inn Dalton
- Candlewood Suites Macon
Iowa
- Holiday Inn Coralville
- Holiday Inn Express Davenport
- Candlewood Suites Waterloo- Cedar Falls
Idaho
Illinois
Visit hotels in Chicago for cheap using your IHG Rewards Club Points.
- Holiday Inn Chicago O’Hare Airport Area
- Holiday Inn Express Danville
- Candlewood Suites Peoria at Grand Prairie
- Crowne Plaza Springfield
Indiana
Hotel Indigo Columbus Architectural Center
- Holiday Inn Express Bedford
- Hotel Indigo Columbus Architectural Center
- Holiday Inn Indianapolis Airport
- Holiday Inn Express Cincinnati-Lawrenceburg
Kansas
- Holiday Inn Express Lansing-Leavenworth
- Crowne Plaza Kansas City – Overland Park
- Candlewood Suites Olathe
- Holiday Inn Salina
Kentucky
- Holiday Inn Express Frankfort
- Holiday Inn Louisville East – Hurstbourne
- Candlewood Suites Fort Campbell – Oak Grove
- Holiday Inn Express Shelbyville
Louisiana
- Holiday Inn Express Amite
- Candlewood Suites Cut Off
- Candlewood Suites New Iberia
- Holiday Inn Shreveport Downtown
Massachusetts
- Holiday Inn Express Providence-North Attleboro
- Crowne Plaza Pittsfield-Berkshires
- Holiday Inn Taunton-Foxboro Area
Maryland
Head to Silver Spring, MD for only 5,000 points and visit Washington DC
Michigan
- Holiday Inn Express Benton Harbor
- Holiday Inn Express Flint-Campus Area
- Crowne Plaza Grand Rapids Airport
- Holiday Inn Detroit Livonia Conference Center
Minnesota
- Holiday Inn Express Albert Lea
- Staybridge Suites Eagan Airport South
- Holiday Inn Express Minneapolis
Missouri
Mississippi
Montana
- Holiday Inn Helena
North Carolina
North Dakota
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Jersey
- Holiday Inn Budd Lake – Rockaway
- Crowne Plaza Edison
- Holiday Inn Somerset-Bridgewater
- Holiday Inn Express Mt. Holly-NJ
New Mexico
Nevada
New York
- Candlewood Suites Watertown-Fort Drum
- Holiday Inn Express Jamestown
- Holiday Inn Oneonta-Cooperstown Area
- Holiday Inn Express West Coxsackie
Ohio
- Holiday Inn Akron-West
- Candlewood Suites Columbus – Grove City
- Holiday Inn Express Hocking Hills-Logan
- Crowne Plaza Cleveland Airport
Oklahoma
- Candlewood Suites Ardmore
- Holiday Inn Express Clinton
- Holiday Inn Express Lawton-Fort Sill
- Candlewood Suites Oklahoma City-Moore
Oregon
- Holiday Inn The Lodge at Running Y Ranch
- Holiday Inn The Lodge at Eagle Crest
Pennsylvania
- Holiday Inn Allentown Center City
- Holiday Inn Express Pittsburgh-Cranberry
- Crowne Plaza Philadelphia-Bucks County
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
- Holiday Inn Express Dandridge
- Holiday Inn Johnson City
- Crowne Plaza Memphis East
- Holiday Inn Express Knoxville West
Texas
- Holiday Inn Express Cuero
- Holiday Inn Express Eastland
- Candlewood Suites Harlingen
- Holiday Inn Houston SW – Sugar Land
- Candlewood Suites Port Arthur
- Staybridge Suites Plano – Richardson
- Candlewood Suites Texarkana
Utah
Virginia
- Candlewood Suites Colonial Heights-Ft Lee
- Crowne Plaza Hampton-Marina
- Holiday Inn Manassas – Battlefield
- Holiday Inn Express Orange
Vermont
Washington
Wisconsin
West Virginia
To be honest there’s nothing really jumping out at me that screams “great deal!” but there are a number of airport hotels included in the promotion that could be useful for some people. The one that stands out is the Holiday Inn Helsinki Vantaa Airport which could come in useful for anyone making the most of some of Finnair’s good business class fares to Asia and the US.
Like I said at the beginning, if you happen to be planning to visit one of these properties anyway the PointBreaks deal could be a valuable option but, otherwise, I don’t see anything to tempt me. That’s how it is with these PointBreaks promotions – most of the time the offerings are quite bland and unappealing (at least to me)….but every now and again you’ll find a gem and that what keeps me interested every time a new PointBreaks list is released.
Featured image: Courtesy of IHG Rewards