Updates on the 47,000 IHG Points for $56 Game

Through February 15, IHG is running a promotion that offers a prize for every stay beyond your first. Since the prize is randomly drawn, though, IHG had to offer a free way to enter to avoid violating lottery laws.

All you have to do is send a hand-written note to IHG's prize fulfillment company, and you get an entry. You can get 94 entries this way.

Buy IHG Points for 0.6 Cents Each All the Time

IHG, the loyalty program of InterContinental, Holiday Inn, and Crowne Plaza, has frequent sales during which you can buy its points for 0.575 cents each, a 50% discount on the every day price of 1.15 cents each.

There has long been a workaround to buy points every day for 0.7 cents each. Now that workaround can buy them for 0.6 cents each.

That makes the best IHG awards, a rotating list of PointBreaks hotels that cost only 5,000 points per night, cost only $30 per night.

IHG Accelerate Promo Maybe 50,000 Easy Points

I only cover hotel promotions when one is so good that with a little time and money, you can unlock stays that are worth several times your effort.

IHG Rewards Club's new Accelerate promo for stays from January 1 to April 30, 2016 is mattress-run-worthy for some people.

Sign into your account here to see your targeted offer.

Get 47,000+ IHG Points for $56 from Home

Read the comments (at least the most recent ones) for updates. People are receiving their game plays and notifications of their prizes, though the actual points haven't posted.

IHG and MasterCard have announced a Priceless Surprises promotion that allows you to win 47,000+ IHG points from home for $56 and a few hours of your time.

The way the promotion is supposed to work is that you get 1,000 points for your first qualifying IHG stay with a check in date between November 15, 2015 and February 15, 2016.

Huge IHG Fall Promotion: Two Free Nights Anywhere or 150,000 Points

IHG has comes out with its Fall Promo, Accelerate, for stays between September 1 and December 31. Registration is required to see your targeted offer. I don't stay in hotels much, so hotel promotions only catch my eye--and make an appearance on MileValue--when you can earn rewards worth more than the price of the hotel rooms you need to book to earn the rewards.

Up to 100% Bonus on Buying IHG Points Means $29 Hotels

Until August 31, 2015, you can buy IHG Rewards Club points and get up to a 100% bonus on the points purchased.

Head to this page and enter your IHG Rewards Club number to what bonus between 50% and 100% you get.

Last Day for 60k Offer, Three 50k Offers, and Buying Hotel Points for 0.575 Cents

Update 7/9/15: All these deals are dead. The Citi® Hilton HHonors™ Visa Signature® Card has come out with an even better offer! 75,000 bonus points after spending $2k in the first three months.

Today (June 30) the 60k and 50k Delta credit card offers expire, the 50k Hilton credit card offer expires, and the ability to buy IHG points for 0.575 cents ends. It's a big day for procrastinators.

I do not know the exact times the credit card offers end.

Last Day for 60k Offer, Three 50k Offers, and Buying Hotel Points for 0.575 Cents

Update 7/9/15: All these deals are dead. The Citi® Hilton HHonors™ Visa Signature® Card has come out with an even better offer! 75,000 bonus points after spending $2k in the first three months.

Today (June 30) the 60k and 50k Delta credit card offers expire, the 50k Hilton credit card offer expires, and the ability to buy IHG points for 0.575 cents ends. It's a big day for procrastinators.

I do not know the exact times the credit card offers end.

How to Get Free Internet at Hotels Worldwide

Updated June 4: Hilton has moved up its free wifi to today from its originally announced date of August 1.

Hilton, Hyatt, SPG, Marriott, IHG, and Fairmont all offer free internet in their hotels worldwide if you meet certain easy conditions. Finally the great hotels of the world are catching up with a standard benefit of hostels for the last decade.

Map and List of Hotels That Cost $35 Per Night Until July 31

The new IHG PointBreaks hotels will be bookable May 26 for stays May 26 to July 31. The cost will be 5,000 points or $35 per night.

Below is a map and list of the properties. If you don't know what PointBreaks are, read IHG Rewards PointBreaks List Means $35 Hotels Until May 31.