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Just a (very) quick heads-up that IHG Rewards Club’s latest PointBreaks list is now bookable!
PointBreaks allows you to book any of the listed hotels for just 5,000 IHG Rewards Club Points. You can check out the full list below and read details in our previous article here.
It’s also worth noting that you can currently buy 5,000 IHG Points for under £20 by taking advantage of the excellent Points + Cash discount we covered a little earlier today.
UK:
Holiday Inn Birmingham M6, Jct.7
Holiday Inn Bolton Centre
Holiday Inn Express Bradford City Centre
Holiday Inn Colchester
Rest of Europe:
CZECH REPUBLIC
Holiday Inn Brno
FINLAND
Holiday Inn Helsinki – Vantaa Airport
FRANCE
Holiday Inn Express Arras
Holiday Inn Express Strasbourg – Sud
GERMANY
Holiday Inn Berlin City East-Landsberger
Holiday Inn Express Karlsruhe – City Park
HUNGARY
Holiday Inn Budapest – Budaörs
ITALY
Holiday Inn Milan – Linate Airport
LITHUANIA
Crowne Plaza Vilnius
POLAND
Holiday Inn Dabrowa Gornicza
PORTUGAL
Holiday Inn Express Porto – Exponor
RUSSIA
Holiday Inn Moscow – Vinogradovo
SPAIN
Holiday Inn Express Madrid-San Sebastian d/l Reyes
Asia & Australia:
AUSTRALIA
Holiday Inn Express Brisbane Central
CHINA
Holiday Inn Express Chongqing University Town
HUALUXE Nanchang High-Tech Zone
Holiday Inn Chengdu Qinhuang
INDONESIA
Holiday Inn Express Baruna Bali
Holiday Inn Bandung Pasteur
JAPAN
ANA Crowne Plaza Nagasaki Gloverhill
MALAYSIA
Holiday Inn Express Kuala Lumpur City Centre
THAILAND
Holiday Inn Express Krabi Ao Nang Beach
Africa:
SOUTH AFRICA
Holiday Inn Johannesburg Airport
South America:
BRAZIL
Holiday Inn Cuiaba
Latin America & Mexico:
PANAMA
Crowne Plaza Panama Airport
MEXICO
Holiday Inn Salamanca
Crowne Plaza Monterrey Aeropuerto
Holiday Inn HUATULCO
Candlewood Suites Queretaro Juriquilla
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Ciudad Obregon
Holiday Inn Coatzacoalcos
North America:
CANADA
Holiday Inn Express & Suites St John’s Airport
Holiday Inn Truro
Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Oakville @ Bronte
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Oshawa Downtown – Toronto Area
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Saint – Hyacinthe
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Regina
UNITED STATES
Alabama
Candlewood Suites Enterprise
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Selma
Arkansas
Holiday Inn Express Monticello
Arizona
Candlewood Suites Sierra Vista
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Marana
California
Holiday Inn Express Delano Hwy 99
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Lathrop
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Lincoln-Roseville Area
Colorado
Candlewood Suites Craig-Northwest
Connecticut
Holiday Inn Express Vernon – Manchester
Delaware
Holiday Inn Dover-Downtown
Florida
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Lakeland South
Georgia
Staybridge Suites Columbus – Fort Benning
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Helen
Idaho
Candlewood Suites Boise-Meridian
Illinois
Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Peoria At Grand Prairie
Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Chicago O’Hare – Rosemont
Indiana
Holiday Inn Express Indianapolis NW – Park 100
Louisiana
Candlewood Suites Alexandria
Staybridge Suites Lafayette-Airport
Holiday Inn Express Slidell
Maine
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Waterville – North
Maryland
Candlewood Suites Aberdeen-Edgewood-Bel Air
Candlewood Suites Baltimore-BWI Airport
Michigan
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Benton Harbor
Holiday Inn Express Gaylord
Missouri
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Farmington
Staybridge Suites St Louis – Westport
North Carolina
Holiday Inn Express Clayton (SE Raleigh)
Holiday Inn Express Jacksonville
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Laurinburg
North Dakota
Staybridge Suites Grand Forks
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Minot South
Nebraska
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Lincoln South
New Jersey
Holiday Inn Budd Lake – Rockaway Area
Holiday Inn Somerset-Bridgewater
Holiday Inn Philadelphia South-Swedesboro
New York
Holiday Inn Auburn-Finger Lakes Region
Holiday Inn Middletown-Goshen
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Binghamton University-Vestal
Ohio
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Marietta
Oklahoma
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Ada
Candlewood Suites Bartlesville East
Pennsylvania
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Lebanon
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Harrisburg S – New Cumberland
South Carolina
Candlewood Suites Columbia-Ft. Jackson
Tennessee
Candlewood Suites Knoxville Airport-Alcoa
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Harriman
Crowne Plaza Memphis East
Texas
Holiday Inn Abilene – North College Area
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Round Rock – Austin N
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Cuero
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Houston NW – Hwy 290 Cypress
Virginia
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Christiansburg
Candlewood Suites Colonial Heights-Ft Lee
Candlewood Suites Richmond North-Glen Allen
Wisconsin
Candlewood Suites La Crosse
Wyoming
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Buffalo
Holiday Inn Sheridan-Convention Center
Maybe it’s just me, but I never understand all the hype that revolves around point breaks. Locations and hotel calibre tend to be meagre at best in my opinion.
The lists certainly used to be a lot more exciting, but it’s still tremendous value if you spot one that works for you. For example, I took my parents on a pre-Christmas trip to Hamburg for 3 nights and got 2 rooms at the (genuinely quite decent) Holiday inn Express there for 30,000 Points in total – that’s a heck of a value, when you consider how easy/cheap it can still be to pick up IHG Points. Even the not great seeming UK ones can work out well sometimes – I needed to book a few rooms in Manchester last year when there absolutely nothing under £100 anywhere near the centre, but managed to get a Holiday Inn a 10 minute taxi/bus ride away on PointBreaks.
Ok, those examples aren’t exactly Bora Bora – but they were trips where I’d’ve otherwise had to pay hard cash (or many more Points), so the ‘real’ saving was significant. When you factor cost of earning against the value you can get from PointBreaks, it’s still one of the most generous regular promos around.
The caveat is obviously that there does need to either be somewhere you’re going anyway or somewhere you fancy on the list. This time I haven’t really seen anything works for me personally I don’t think.
I hear what you’re saying Joe. Like with all these things, if it works for you then great.
For a good while I followed the hype hoping to find something, but it never delivered for me – and my experience of holiday Inn (and to some lesser extent crowne plaza) has not been impressive.
And so from thereon, I’ve stuck with accor (on this websites recommendation) and hotels.com which I find gives me wider choice- and happy Mondays excellent value.
Yeah, you know I love Happy Mondays! (in fact I should really start lobbying them to expand it outside the UK – that would brilliant!). As with all ‘travel hackery’, I get best results from having as broad a toolkit as possible at my disposal in order to take advantage of the various sweetspots in each programme. As you say, PointBreaks can save you a bundle when it works, but I certainly wouldn’t rely on there being something good/usable every time.
Funny you mention Bora Bora. The highlight of Point Breaks for me was way back in Autumn 2013 when the Intercontinental Tahiti made the PB list.
I’ve made use of PB a few times since. But sometimes even when I’m near a PB hotel I don’t bother because IHG doesn’t do elite status recognition well. (i.e. why go to HIX Hamburg when there’s a Park Hyatt in town and I can get a suite!)
Ah yes, the good old days… What was the IC Tahiti like?
I know what you mean, but in the Hamburg example there’s an easy answer: I’m a Yorkshireman. Park Hyatt would’ve cost about £1200 total (and I don’t have status with Hyatt actually) – I’d rather spend the 30k IHG Points.
(Before anyone accuses me of being a total miser, I was also treating them to the Marriott County Hall on the way back too!)
Sadly I never made it to the IC Tahiti, but it sure looked good.
So, where does Yorkshire sit in the Scotland / Catalonia, etc, tight with wallet scale? 😀
Status does make a huge difference for me. A good executive lounge can mean spending nothing on food, whilst staying at a HI/CP means you’re paying for food and drink.
Yorkshire is top of the league at absolutely everything obviously, we just don’t like to brag. When you see our sports teams being rubbish etc, it’s actually just us being polite. : )
Status is an interesting one – I was having a chat with new contributor Dr Redeye the other day and he takes the contrary view very firmly. I’m somewhere in the middle, in that I definitely enjoy having status and do gain real value from things like flexible check-in/out, but I don’t really care that much about upgrades or lounge access a lot of the time these days. It was a lot of fun when I started ‘travel hacking’ (and is still nice, of course), but the reality is that most of my stays are in cities where I want to be out and about in bars and restaurants rather than in the club lounge. I think we might run a pro hotel loyalty post by you and and an anti response from Dr Redeye sometime soon, if you fancy the challenge?
Hi guys, Points Breaks worked out really well for us this time. My son does a lot of Modern Pentathlon competitions in the Birmingham area & we often use the Holiday Inn Walsall (M6 J10) as it is only 10,000 points per night & has plenty family rooms? With Points Breaks though we were able to switch to the Great Barr Holiday Inn (M6 J7) @5,000 points per night therefore saving a total of 15.000 points over the 3 nights we already had booked in!! xxxxx
Fantastic Naomi – I love it when PointBreaks works for something I’ve already booked!
I have to be honest – I felt quite pleased with myself after I had changed the booking!! I will also take the opportunity to say a massive thx to Inside Flyer for all the incredibly helpful ‘travel hacking’ information you provide, I think it’s an absolutely fantastic service & would recommend to anyone…..xxxxx
Thanks Naomi! – Our absolute pleasure!!