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Club Carlson, the Radisson / Park Inn / Park Plaza hotel group, has kicked off 2015 with a bang by launching a very generous promotion.

It is a simple proposition:

Stay 3+ consecutive nights at a Radisson, Park Inn or Park Plaza and earn 30,000 bonus points

Stay 2 consecutive nights at a Radisson, Park Inn or Park Plaza and earn 15,000 bonus points

You must stay between 12th January and 29th March

You can earn the bonus more than once

You must register at this website to be eligible

I value Club Carlson points at £5 per 1,000.  This is based on using 44,000 or 50,000 for a typical 5-star redemption in London, or 9,000 for a cheap Park Inn night in the regions.  The bonus is therefore worth roughly £150 on a 3-night stay and this is on top of the base points for your stay.

You may receive an even bigger bonus.  Flyertalk reports that some members have been targeted with the offer of a 40,000 point bonus on your first three night stay.  You will see if you are eligible for this when you log in on the promotion home page.  This would make your 3+ night bonus worth £200.

It is not clear if this promotion will work in conjunction with the ‘2 4 1’ and ‘4 4 2’ deals offered to Club Carlson Gold members at weekends.  It would depend on the hotel treating a ‘2 4 1’ stay as 2 nights rather than 1 night.  I wrote about these deals here.

If you have an American Express Platinum card, remember that you can join Club Carlson at Gold level.  This will increase your base points earning rate as well as giving you the chance of an upgrade and other benefits.  It will also allow you to book the ‘2 4 1’ and ‘4 4 2’ rates I mention above.

You can also convert Club Carlson points to Avios or other airline miles.  The rate is 10:1 which is pretty poor – 30,000 points gets you £150 of hotel points or £30 of Avios points.  However, if you have no interest in Club Carlson points, earning 3,000 Avios for a three-night stay is still a good deal in its own right.

If you are not already a Club Carlson member you can learn more about it here.  You can sign up via the promotional page for the offer here.

PS.  As mentioned in the comments, Park Plaza has some good sale deals at the moment, including excellent hotels in London from £89.  You need to book by 7th January for stays to 12th April and the deals are only available via their website and entering promo code JANSAL under ‘Search Options’.

How to earn Radisson Rewards points and status from UK credit cards

How to earn Radisson Rewards points and status from UK credit cards (April 2024)

Radisson Rewards does not have a dedicated UK credit card. However, you can earn Radisson Rewards points by converting Membership Rewards points earned from selected UK American Express cards.

These cards earn Membership Rewards points:

Membership Rewards points convert at 1:3 into Radisson Rewards points which is a very attractive rate.  The cards above all earn 1 Membership Rewards point per £1 spent on your card, which converts to 3 Radisson Rewards points.

Even better, holders of The Platinum Card receive free Radisson Rewards Premium status for as long as they hold the card.  It also comes with Hilton Honors Gold, Marriott Bonvoy Gold and MeliaRewards Gold status.  We reviewed American Express Platinum in detail here.

(Want to earn more hotel points?  Click here to see our complete list of promotions from the major hotel chains or use the ‘Hotel Offers’ link in the menu bar at the top of the page.)

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Comments (34)

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  • Frenske says:
    6 Jan6 January 07:04

    Oh yes … finally a big promotion coinciding with a planned stay. Staying next week in Oslo for 3 nights. 🙂

    • Lloyd says:
      6 Jan6 January 08:15

      Staying 23rd Jan in Oslo for 3 nights!

      Only issue is I decided to do a points and cash which is not valid for the promotion. Over the 3 nights its 30k and £173 or £245 for best rate. So I suppose in my instance I’m looking at 60k at a cost of £72.

      I personally value the points at around £2-3 per 1k as I tend to book well in advance, but either way I guess the maths say I should cancel and rebook to make sure I get the bonus.

    • Frenske says:
      16 Jan16 January 11:20

      Grrrr SAS flight was cancelled; I stayed and paid only for 2 nights in the Radisson. Not sure I will get the 30K points now. 🙁

  • RP says:
    6 Jan6 January 07:10

    There’s also the Park life January sale, some great rates in London and elsewhere for Park Plazas, book by 7th January http://www.parkplaza.com/january-sale?s_cid=em.pp.en.20150101.jansale.park.offer.booknow

  • Idrive says:
    6 Jan6 January 07:26

    No way! I got a stay now 9/11jan! A good reason to cancel the trip and reschedule! Mmmm this is sooo tempting!!!

    • Frenske says:
      6 Jan6 January 07:53

      Sorry to rain on your party. The offer is valid from 12 January.

  • Mark says:
    6 Jan6 January 10:35

    Interesting, I am a long time Carlson Concierge status holder and I cannot find any evidence of this offer anywhere on the clubcarlson site….but if I follow the link above it does allow me to register.

    Maybe I need to start staying in a few Hilton’s and see if they notice… 🙂

  • Mark says:
    6 Jan6 January 12:47

    Hi Raffles –
    Thanks. You mention “Radisson, Park Inn or Park Plaza” – does it include Radisson Blu as well? The registration page is a bit ambiguous, syaing “….. Eligible Stay at more than 1,000 Carlson Rezidor hotels worldwide”, but it does not say “all of them”!

    • Frenske says:
      6 Jan6 January 14:01

      The T&C quoted: “… at participating Quorvus CollectionSM, Radisson Blu®, Radisson®, Park Plaza®, Park Inn® by Radisson and Country Inns & Suites By CarlsonSM hotels …”

      So yes Radisson Blu is included.

    • Andrew S says:
      6 Jan6 January 15:36

      I cantacted their excellent customer service.

      its available at ALL group properties, and existing bookings are valid provided they occur in the date range of the offer.

  • Andi Hawes says:
    6 Jan6 January 15:19

    Any clue upon booking which rates are valid? or do you need to book, stay, and then see if the promo points pay out?

    • Andrew S says:
      6 Jan6 January 15:37

      All booking rates that award gold points.

      • Lloyd says:
        6 Jan6 January 18:28

        Just a slight correction, its not valid on rates that are part cash part points (you would still earn gold points on the cash element of this rate).

      • oyster says:
        7 Jan7 January 08:48

        That would include 2-4-1 and 4-4-2 unless, as Rob points out, they count the stay as truncated.

        My year has just reset so I can’t see what nights were counted in my account with the 2-4-1s I completed. Wonder if anyone else can see? (Unless all Club Carlson accounts reset on January 1st?)

        • Lloyd says:
          7 Jan7 January 19:19

          In theory you should get the points, although the 241 would presumably count as one night and 442 should count as two nights, so the former should not trigger and the latter the smaller 15k bonus. In practice I suspect you’ll get nothing.

          I did a couple of 241s last year and both times I got two nights credited, but I suspect that means nothing when it comes to triggering the bonus!

  • jac says:
    7 Jan7 January 08:52

    Last summer I did not get the 20K promotion points for min 2 nights stay when booking a 2-4-1 so I m worried the same would happen with this promotion.

  • Jimmy says:
    7 Jan7 January 11:38

    I’m staying at a Radisson Blu, for 3 nights a week, for every week from now through to end of March.

    This. Is. Brilliant.

    • Jimmy says:
      7 Jan7 January 11:38

      (I had the stays booked before this promotion launched, by the way :))

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