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I have been anxiously checking the Priority Club PointBreaks page every day in hopes that new offers would be posted before my next few trips, where I am wanting to travel as cheaply as possible. Today the offers were updated!

Priority Club is the loyalty program for InterContinental Hotels Group which most people know more by some of the hotel brands in their portfolio, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Indigo, Crowne Plaza, InterContinental Hotels (IC) and others.

PointBreaks are the opportunity to redeem loyalty points to book a room for only 5000 points a night, regardless of brand or location. For the less expensive hotels like Holiday Inn Express, this is a point reduction from 10,000 points per night or 50% off all the way up to a discount of 35,000 points or a 87.5% discount for the most costly InterContinental Hotels, with the other brands landing somewhere in the middle. No matter where you book it is a fantastic deal, as Priority Club Points are pretty quick to earn when they have points promotions running (which is nearly always).

Last time around, I booked a Holiday Inn in Zurich Switzerland, and this time a Holiday Inn Express in Houston Texas. I may be booking a few more in the next few hours! Hurry and make your bookings, because most hotels have a limited number of rooms available at the PointBreaks rates.

Some Notable Hotels Available

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Starwood Hotels has added even more functionality to their website today. In addition to adding a listing of your "earned awards" they have also added more detail to your Starpoints listing page.

Now when points post, you will see exactly where you earned them, making it easier to track down missing points. This is most important when looking at bonus promotions, and elite level bonuses as these have been difficult to decipher at times in the past.

For example when a promo posts a point bonus to your account, sometimes a number of them are posted at the same time for multiple stays, and in order to determine what stay the points were for, you had to call or email SPG to find out.

Another nice feature, is that award redemptions are also now fully described. In the past you saw an award redemption and the number of points that were deducted from your account, but not the hotel that the redemption was for. As you can see from the image above for example, a recent redemption I made for a trip to Paris in September is fully described on the website now.

Great job SPG... keep the enhancements coming!

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