Get award booking help and personalized travel assistance for as little as $1 a month! Starting May 1, IHG is offering a 50% off points rate at select hotels in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. While there are no properties available here in the US, some are close enough to make an excuse for … [Continue reading]
The Worst Changes In The Latest IHG Award Chart
Get award booking help and personalized travel assistance for as little as $1 a month! As you probably are aware by now, IHG has made several changes to their award chart, with many hotels both increasing and decreasing in redemption value. In an email from IHG to me: Last week, we announced a number of … [Continue reading]
Insider Details on IHG’s New Share Forever Promotion
Get award booking help and personalized travel assistance for as little as $1 a month! This morning, IHG sent out a press release for a new Share Forever promotion they are starting on Monday. Unfortunately, as many bloggers have pointed out, the details behind this new promotion are vague, at best. Here’s a snippet from … [Continue reading]
New Enhancements to IHG Rewards Club
Get award booking help and personalized travel assistance for as little as $1 a month! Via a press release today, there will be several enhancements to IHG‘s Rewards Club, including an entire new membership tier. I’ll have more on this later, but here are the initial bullet points from the release: · Introducing a new top membership … [Continue reading]
IHG Mexico Flash Sale Begins Tonight!
Get award booking help and personalized travel assistance for as little as $1 a month! IHG hotels is coming out with their first Mexico-specific Flash Sale beginning tonight at midnight tonight. Traditionally, these Flash Sales offer significant discounts of point redemptions on a variety of properties. For this sale, members will receive 30% off from … [Continue reading]






Jamie Larounis is an avid traveler, blogger and miles/points educator. Traveling well over 100,000 miles a year and staying in hotels for over 100 nights, he leverages miles, points and other deals to fly in first class cabins, and stay in 5-star hotels. The Forward Cabin shares his experiences, musings, reviews, tips, tricks, resources and industry news with you, the fellow traveler.