You can earn a bonus of 100 percent on your purchase of a minimum of 5,000 IHG Rewards Club points from now through Friday, May 19, 2017 at 11:59 in the evening Eastern Daylight Time.

Flash Sale: Earn a Bonus of 100 Percent on Your Purchase of IHG Rewards Club Points — Four Days Only

Bonus points will be awarded upon completion of the transaction. Bonus points will be awarded to the recipient of the points purchase. This offer is subject to change and cannot be combined with any other offer. Only purchases made online are eligible for bonus.

Price includes all applicable fees. Purchased points are not refundable and are applicable toward all IHG Rewards Club awards. Members may purchase a maximum of 60,000 points per calendar year and receive as a gift a maximum of 60,000 points per calendar year. Please allow 72 hours for points to post and appear in the recipient’s account.

All other IHG Rewards Club Terms and Conditions apply.

Inside Take

Part of the terms and conditions of this offer claims that “this is an exclusive, non-transferable offer for intended recipient only and may not be forwarded” — but all you need to do is click on this link and log into your IHG Rewards Club frequent guest loyalty program account to see if you can participate in this promotion. Chances are highly likely that you will be eligible to participate in this flash sale.

You can purchase up to a maximum of 60,000 IHG Rewards Club points per calendar year; but with this  flash sale, the bonus of 100 percent means that you can purchase up to 120,000 IHG Rewards Club points for $690.00 — meaning that your cost is only 0.575 cents per point. You will not find a better deal at this time…

…but ensure that you have a use for those points prior to purchasing them. The value of points in frequent guest loyalty programs tend to devalue over time; so you may not want to purchase them now to save them for some unknown future use. Instead, use them as soon as possible to get a better deal on securing a hotel room at a rate which is significantly less expensive than if you paid cash or the Points & Cash option for it.

You can use your points at the Holiday Inn Vilnius in Lithuania. Photograph ©2017 by Brian Cohen.