IHG PointBreaks, are discounted award redemption’s, which are available at select IHG hotels for just 5,000 points per night. The list of hotels that are on the “PointBreaks” list, fluctuate every 2-3 months.

IHG hotel brands includes InterContinental Hotels, Holiday Inn, Candlewood Suites, Crowne Plaza, Hualuxe Hotels, Hotel Indigo, EVEN Hotels and Staybridge Suites.

The new “PointBreaks” list is now bookable and is valid from now through January 31, 2015. You can book the discounted nights here or here.

Discounted PointBreak availability is limited and may sell out at any time, so if you do see a property that you may be interested in, you may want to book it as soon as you can.
Most of the time, IHG allows you to cancel a reservation free of charge up to 1 day before with no penalty. Check hotel property for details.

— Keep in mind about the new PointBreaks rule, where you are only able to book a maximum of two bookings per hotel – Though each booking can be for as many nights as you want.

Don’t have any IHG reward points? No problem. You can either transfer them from the Chase Sapphire Preferred Credit Card at a 1:1 ratio, You can also get the IHG credit card, which currently has a limited time bonus of 60,000 bonus points (and a FREE Night in any hotel, every year) or you can buy points direct from IHG. Purchasing 5,000 points will be just $67.50.

Once you have 5,000 IHG points in your account. A “method” to get additional IHG points on the cheap, is to book any cancellable 15,000 point hotel stay at any IHG location using “cash and points” which will be $70+5,000 points. Once booked, simply cancel the reward stay. The $70 that you pay is nonrefundable so when you cancel the hotel you will instead get 15,000 points back in your account. Just make sure that when booking the room it says that there will be no charge for cancelling. With this option the points will come out to just 0.7 cents per point or just $35 for 5,000 points!
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Below is a sampling of hotels that are on the new PointBreak list that can be snagged for just 5,000 points.

• Holiday Inn North Phoenix, AZ
• Holiday Inn Express & Suites Denver South, CO
• Crowne Plaza Southberry, CT
• Holiday Inn Dover-Downtown, DE
• Holiday Inn Chicago O’Hare Airport, IL
• Holiday Inn Express Providence-North Attleboro, MA
• Holiday Inn Express Washington DC-Silver Spring, MD
• Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Nashua, NH
• Crowne Plaza Edison, NJ
• Holiday Inn Oneonta-Cooperstown, NY
• Candlewood Suites Columbus – Grove City, OH
• Crowne Plaza Cleveland Airport, OH
• Holiday Inn Express Philadelphia-Bucks County, PA
• Holiday Inn Express Pittsburgh-Cranberry, PA
• Holiday Inn South Kingston-Newport, RI
• Crowne Plaza Milwaukee Airport, WI
• Holiday Inn Prague Airport, Czech Republic
• Holiday Inn Express Manchester – East, UK
• Holiday Inn Milan-Linate Airport, Italy
• Crowne Plaza Padova – Italy
• Holiday Inn Milan Nord-Zara, Italy
• Holiday Inn Vilnius, Lithuania
• Holiday Inn Express Warsaw Airport, Poland
• Holiday Inn Johannesburg, South Africa