Radisson Dream Deals hotel sale now on – one week only

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• Sandgrounder says:

  19 Jun19 June 04:58

  I have two stays in 5k Hamptons coming up in August, four nights in Minsk and two rooms for three nights in Krakow. This is a well-timed opportunity to replenish my points and feel super-pleased with myself for saving hundreds off the cash price for my stays 🙂

  • Pangolin says:

    19 Jun19 June 09:21

    Sandgrounder, see my post below. The Minsk Hampton is excellent value on points (I effectively paid $25 for a $67.50 room by using a 50% discount on points purchase). The other benefit from paying with points is you avoid a surcharge when they convert to BYR at the front desk. Even if you tried paying with actual USD (or EUR) banknotes you can’t avoid the conversion charge – and it’s hard to check how much they’re gouging you as the official rate isn’t reliable. Paying by points avoids this issue.

• Michael says:

  19 Jun19 June 05:13

  The Radisson Blu Berlin is a beautiful central hotel – my go to central Berlin hotel, highly recommended though you can go into the fish tank via Sea World if you’re not staying.

  • Cate says:

    19 Jun19 June 12:26

    Agree the Radd in Berlin is lovely. You can take the lift via Sea World which takes you up the fish tank, but you can’t go into the tank 🙂

• JamesB says:

  19 Jun19 June 05:55

  I have not quite got my head around the detailed implications of the new points and money option yet. How does the sliding scale of points and money generally compare with buying points at 50% discount/100% bonus? Are there any generalisations that can be drawn? Apart from buying points for an all points redemption to get a 5th night free, does buying points make any sense at all unless one has a very low points balance?

• tim rooke says:

  19 Jun19 June 06:30

  Just checked my Hilton account and it’s only offering a 40% discount

• FLYGVA says:

  19 Jun19 June 06:33

  I agree with tim rooke, the Hilton Promotion is staggered and not everybody gets the 50% discount, some have lower discount. I was only offerd 35% as a Hilton Diamond since ten years, who occassionally buys between 5k and 10k pounds annually.

  • Rob says:

    19 Jun19 June 09:31

    Odd. I got a press release saying 50% for all.

• Ben says:

  19 Jun19 June 06:51

  If I am booking 2 rooms for 3 nights each, would I get the 5 for 4 deal?

  Thanks

  • Joe says:

    19 Jun19 June 06:59

    No, its 5 “nights”.

  • JamesB says:

    19 Jun19 June 07:04

    You cannot, you need to book one room for five consecutive nights at thd same hotel to take up this offer. You need to be logged into your account which will show the cost of four nights spread over five nights giving you what appears to be a lower nightly rate (for example a 20000 points per night hotel will be displayed as 16000 points per night over five nights which is same as one night free).

• Kevin H says:

  19 Jun19 June 06:53

  I’ve only just joined the scheme – and am being offered just a 30% discount.

  • Clive says:

    19 Jun19 June 07:17

    What do you mean ‘just’? The discount is 30% for members. 🙂

    • Kevin H says:

      19 Jun19 June 07:37

      It’s “just” 30% (in my case) compared with the 50% discount Rob mentions in his lead article

      • Genghis says:

        19 Jun19 June 08:35

        That’s the trouble with a Bits article – two different articles and people getting confused over what people mean.

• totaltool says:

  19 Jun19 June 07:50

  My HH account won’t let me buy as I already bought the maximum amount on the previous promotion. Mrs totaltool recently opened an HH account and she is being offered 30% discount. This makes a point 0.7 cents which completely skews the calculation as to whether its worth buying. Still tempted to buy them because I recently stayed in Hilton hotels with very high cash rates and having points and using them made sense. Also planning to spend a lot of time in USA next year and having points keeps options open for 5 night stays. However as the last offer was in April/May and its only June is it likely that another offer, perhaps a better one, will come along before the end of the year. Does anyone know how often these have appeared historically?

  • JamesB says:

    19 Jun19 June 08:22

    Would not be unusual of Hilton to follow this soon after with 100% bonus open to everybody. Personally I would wait but it’s the chance you take.

    • Choons says:

      19 Jun19 June 08:55

      Good point. Didn’t they run one around Easter that was 100% bonus?

    • Pangolin says:

      19 Jun19 June 09:43

      100% bonus is the same as a 50% discount so that would be fine but clearly not everyone is getting offered the 50% discount on this current deal. I got the 100% bonus about a month ago.

      If you’re not going to the USA till next year then I think it’s fine to wait. These things come around quite often. Personally, I’d avoid buying at 30% unless you need it immediately to bag a good points redemption.

  • Genghis says:

    19 Jun19 June 08:45

    They must be some expensive stays vs points you’ve had. 0.7c = 0.55p and when Hilton usually have such great points back promos, it’s not unreasonable to get say 20-30% back in points. Taking 20% to err on the side of caution, that’s c. 0.66p per point as your comparison vs cash prices.

    • totaltool says:

      19 Jun19 June 09:09

      Due to visiting someone in hospital often at short notice I was “forced” to stay in the Hilton Strathclyde…very little elsewhere. Mid week as a business hotel it is often close to full and the only rooms available were often the higher end ones at £130 to £150 per night. However at 20k points it was a better deal to use points even if I was missing out on getting points back.

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