IHG Hotels that recognise status

[kerfuffle]

6:30 am or earlier breakfast.

What hotel does breakfast at 6:30 on Saturday? :/

 

[Beano]

What hotel does breakfast at 6:30 on Saturday? :/

Not many but I'm talking business days, Mon to Fri. The CP Darling Harbour is 7:00 am every day as are several Sydney CBD hotels. I've researched it a lot.

 

[moa999]

@kerfuffle
On CP Darling Harbour, think highest hotel floor is 8, with pool and gym on 9, and then the residential tower above (with some weird apartments that you can look straight into from the pool area)

Hotel: Crowne Plaza Sydney Darling Harbour
When: September 2025 (a few days after kerfuffle)
Status: Platinum Ambassador
Rate: Advance Member Sale rate ~$220. No breakfast.
Booked: 1 King Bed Standard
Received: 1 King Bed Premium City View (1 day before, received 803)
Amenity Offered: Drink (1) or points. Took drink. Hotel bar also has 4-6pm happy hour inc $12 margaritas which is super cheap for CBD.

Checked in around 2.30pm and received 803 - a more squarish room overlooking Bathurst St. Hotel shape is a bit angled so every room a bit different and most long and slender. Suspect the best views from 06-08 which should look towards Darling Harbour and the W.

Quite a modern and reasonably sized room for recent construction. Some weird pillow spray tucked into duvet. Two aluminium cans of water with a filtered dispenser opposite lifts

Decent pool that gets afternoon sun and has a fair number of sun loungers.

Parking is $65 overnight, and breakfast on L1 was $40 on the day for a mixed hot alacarte, cold buffet.
Some rates include breakfast but only seem worthwhile for couples if not Diamond.

 

[kerfuffle]

I was on Level 5. My room also looked down Bathurst St. I did have my car with me, but parked at my usual spot which is nowhere near $65 (I went in after work) and a few minutes walk away from the hotel.

I mentioned that my welcome amenity points hadn't arrived in the post-stay survey and apparently they're following up. Not expecting anything to show up

 

[anemone1296]

Hotel: voco Melbourne Central
When: September 2025
Status: Platinum
Rate: Advance Member, no breakfast
Booked: 1 King Bed Standard
Received: 1 King Bed Premium City View
Amenity Offered: Welcome Drink or Points (600 bonus)
Room perks: Loo with a view!

If you like having hands, and using your hands to operate tactile things like light switches or turning taps on and off, then reconsider this voco
Getting up in the night? You will have to fumble for a recessed profile button panel and risk blinding yourself at 3am as you hit the main light switch instead of the night light
Want to adjust the water temperature in your shower while its foggy with condensation? Grip on to the large chrome dial that becomes extra slippery. Did you expect to shower or poop in privacy? There's no sheer curtain in these rooms, only thick blue velvet curtains (sheers are in the bedroom). The Antipodes amenities are lovely and smooth

 

[Princess Fiona]

I have IHG Plat (cannot remember how I got this, either an Airline status match or an old Amex benefit)

Booked standard double at Crowne Plaza Changi and at check-in was thanked for my loyalty, asked if a King Bed would be ok and when said yes upgraded to a runway view Junior suite on the top floor. It was massive. 2pm checkout also granted immediately.

 

[Beano]

I have IHG Plat (cannot remember how I got this, either an Airline status match or an old Amex benefit)

Booked standard double at Crowne Plaza Changi and at check-in was thanked for my loyalty, asked if a King Bed would be ok and when said yes upgraded to a runway view Junior suite on the top floor. It was massive. 2pm checkout also granted immediately. View attachment 472965

Nice! Reminds me a bit of junior suites with a TV on each wall between rooms. If you operate the TV remote in one room it also controls the TV in the next room! I get that happening in junior suites in the HI Potts Point. But is that a folding/sliding door between the two rooms?