Catch an IHG Reward Night Price Drop: Alerts That Show Every Check

IHG prices Reward Nights dynamically, so the points price for the same room can rise and fall from one day to the next. If the stay you want costs more points than you’d like to spend, set an alert in HotelXray and let it watch the price. When a check finds the stay within your budget, you get an email with a booking link. You can open the check log whenever you want to see how the price moved.

IHG alerts sit in the same Chrome extension as Hyatt, Marriott and Hilton alerts. If you already use HotelXray for another program, enable IHG access in the panel and manage every alert from one account.

Step 1: Open the IHG alert form

Open HotelXray on ihg.com and grant IHG site access if prompted. From a search result, click the bell labeled Set alert near the hotel name. Its tooltip reads Set alert for this hotel.

IHG search result for InterContinental New York Times Square with the Set alert bell and a week of November 22–28 nights, with Reward Nights from 88,000 to 118,000 points beside cash rates from $482 to $650 — Start an alert from a hotel you are comparing in search. Thanksgiving week costs more points than the nights before it.

You can also select a day in the hotel’s calendar and click the bell in that day’s header. Set alert for this night starts with a one-night stay; change the dates in the form if you want a longer trip. Both bells open the same form.

InterContinental New York Times Square rooms for Wednesday November 25, 2026 with a Set alert bell beside the date: Standard Room at $619 or 112,000 points, 2 Double Classic Low Floor at 140,000 points, 1 King Premium Skyline View at 156,000 points, and 1 King Junior Suite Skyline View at 295,000 points — Each room has its own Reward Night price. The Standard Room is the cheapest in points.

If you aren’t signed in, the form asks for your email address and sends you a code; enter it in the form and the alert is saved. HotelXray never asks for your IHG One Rewards credentials.

Step 2: Set up your alert

The prices and checks below follow a three-night alert for InterContinental New York Times Square, November 25–28, 2026, over Thanksgiving, for 270,000 points or less for the stay.

On the search card, those three nights add up to 336,000 points. The alert waits for the price to come down.

IHG alert form for InterContinental New York Times Square, November 25–28 with Exact selected, Points selected under Notify me about, a 270,000-point limit for the stay, and Keep watching after a match switched off — Three exact nights, 270,000 points or less for the stay.

Choose the dates

Pick check-in and check-out, then one of four choices. Exact watches only those dates, as in this example. ±1 day and ±2 days also watch stays that start a day or two earlier or later, with the same number of nights.

Any night watches every single night between the two dates, up to 7 nights. Use it when one night at the hotel would do and the date can move. A stay can be up to 30 nights.

The Dates section of the alert form with November 25 to 28, 2026, 3 nights, and Any night selected — With Any night, November 25, 26 and 27 are each watched as a single night.

Choose what to watch

Under Notify me about, choose Points or Cash. Each alert watches one of them.

Points watches for a Reward Night stay paid entirely with points, in any room. Max points for stay is optional. Leave it empty to hear as soon as any Reward Night is bookable for your dates. Enter a number to wait for a price you’re happy with. The limit covers the whole stay; on Any night it is per night.

Cash watches for a room bookable with cash, or for a nightly rate under the Max nightly rate you set. The limit is an average per night, with fees included and before taxes. Choose the currency from IHG’s own list; HotelXray converts with IHG’s exchange rates. To watch both the points price and the cash rate, set two alerts.

Notify me about set to Cash, with a Max nightly rate of 400 USD, including fees and before taxes — A cash alert for a nightly rate of $400 or less.

Keep watching after a match

With Keep watching after a match off, the alert emails you once and stops. Switch it on to keep hearing about changes after the first match, such as the price dropping further.

Leave it off for this example, then select Set alert. HotelXray sends a confirmation email when you create or change an alert.

Step 3: Read the check log

Close the IHG tab if you like. HotelXray keeps checking the dates in the background and emails you when a check finds a match.

Open Alert check log from your alert in the panel or your account’s Alerts page. It records when checks ran, what they found, and which conditions passed.

IHG alert under Notified with its check log open: a Reward Night column with 351,000 points at 8 am, 336,000 points at 10 am and noon, and 264,000 points with a green check at 2 pm on October 10 — The price held above the limit all morning, then fell to 264,000 points at 2 pm.

The Reward Night column shows the lowest points price for the whole stay at each check. The morning checks found 351,000 and then 336,000 points, both over the limit. At 2 pm the stay came in at 264,000 pts with a green check, and the alert fired.

If a check finds no Reward Night at all for the stay, the log says No Reward Night Available.

Step 4: Act on the match email

The email names the hotel, the dates you watched and the stay that matched.

HotelXray email reporting a Reward Night of 264,000 total points for November 25–28 in the Standard Room, against a target of 270,000 points or less in total for this stay, with a Book with points button and a note that monitoring stopped after this match — The 264,000-point stay from the log, ready to book.

The result is labeled Reward Night and shows the total points, the room observed and your target. Choose Book with points to open the stay on ihg.com. Dynamic prices can move again, so book soon if the price works for you. Use Manage alert to change what you watch or View check log to see the latest checks.

After a match

An alert without Keep watching moves to Notified, as this one did, and stops checking. With Keep watching on, it stays Active, which helps when you’ve booked a refundable rate and want to catch another drop. An alert moves to Dates passed when none of its candidate dates can be booked anymore; a flexible alert keeps going past its original start date while a later candidate remains.

Review, edit, or delete alerts in the side panel or on your Alerts page. Each alert watches one room for two adults at one hotel. Set separate alerts to compare your shortlist over the same dates.

For IHG calendars, room comparisons and flexible-date search, read HotelXray: Compare IHG Rates and Reward Nights at a Glance.