Win Up to 30,000 Priority Club Points in a Twitter Sweepstakes

There are two ways to pump up the points balance in your hotel or airline loyalty-program account.

The first, and what we normally focus on in these blog posts: Earn the points by traveling, using a program-linked credit card, buying from program partners, and so on.

The second: Win them!

Offers Details

Between July 1 and July 31, InterContinental Hotels Group is giving away half a million Priority Club Rewards points, between 1,000 and 30,000 points per day.

In what the company dubs its "Pack Your Points" Tweetstakes, Priority Club members can win points as follows:

• Follow @IHG_Deals on Twitter.
• Look for tweets from @IHG_Deals with the hash tag #packpoints announcing the daily points prize between July 1 and July 31.
• Retweet the #packpoints tweet to receive an entry in that day's sweepstakes drawing.

You can enter once daily. And if you prefer to only enter on those days when a larger number of points are in play, the daily prize schedule is here.

Deal or No Deal

This is a bit more convoluted and labor-intensive than the typical travel sweepstakes. And the retweeting requirement is likely to leave some feeling they've been not-so-subtly manipulated into shilling for Big Business.

Nevertheless, the chance to win up to 30,000 Priority Club points—enough for a free night at an InterContinental hotel, or a couple of Holiday Inn nights—more than outweighs any grumbles. I plan to enter, at least on days when the prize is 15,000 or 30,000 points.

If you're a fan of freebies, check out FrequentFlier.com's compilation of the best travel sweepstakes.

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