Can I ask how many point you have? Do you use both Holiday Inn hotels and the resorts, as well as II, RCI, & IHG?
We have just over a Million points but there was a time when HICV would transfer the weeks you already owned in to points if you bought something from them
So we bought a few from eBay, some from HICV and now all are points
They just changed something in their program that allows you to use all of your points in II as before this you were only able to use something like double points of what you had that were also part of II
I might be wrong ( others may have a better story ) but say I had 1 million but only 100,000 were from an II affiliated resort. Then as I understand I could use 200,000 in II
This just changed to if you own ANY in II then ALL your points with HICV are allowed so we just bought a small amount of points in an II HICV resort to bring or allow our entire points in as nothing we’ve owned up to this point were II
We do some IHG in areas like Boston. NYC Etc or when we travel and just need a single night or two but as others will tell you. That isn’t a great value. Not horrible but I wouldn’t buy just for that purpose
We have traded with RCI and with the level we are at in HICV we get back 30% of our required points as a rebate / discount
Just a side note
Depending on how you travel. If you stay Sun - Friday AM the point cost is 1/2 of a full weeks cost
So say a full week is 150,000 then you only book Sunday-Friday AM. Check out Friday morning it’s only 75,000
Friday and Saturday nights are the same fee as Sunday/Friday
So if you don’t need the weekend or want to get a cheaper hotel then you sorta end up with two weeks