[펌] Chase IHG Free night – WAY more availability than Reward nights

DOC도 퍼온 글인데요, very interesting~

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We decided to use this advantage on the ultimate aspiration – an Overwater Bungalow at the Intercontinental Bora Bora Thalasso.  This aspirational property only designates one room as a standard room (and it’s an OWB), meaning there’s only ever one room bookable on Reward points or Free night.  It doesn’t get released into the Reward night inventory until a few months in advance.  Using Free night though, it seems as long as the room is available on cash, you can book it.  For example, here’s July 29, 2019 right before I booked it

The same room is NOT available on Reward points, even though it’s clearly available on cash:

Here’s Free night availability for July 2019 as of a few days ago.  The days with white background have availability:

And June:

As you can see, there IS decent Free night availability on the single “standard” room 10-11 months out (you can book at most 50 weeks out).  As a comparison, there’s zero availability on Reward night.  Here’s July 2019:

And June: