What are the best hotel promos for November 2017?

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Welcome to our regular round-up of the best hotel promotions currently running.  All of the information in this article can also be found on our ‘Hotel Offers’ page which contains details of all of the current offers, together with links to our major articles on each hotel scheme.  However, a positive response from readers – especially our 10,000 email subscribers – means I am now running this monthly article as a handy summary of what is going on.

It is important to note that registration closes today for the Hyatt, Marriott and Starwood promotions.  You MUST sign up today if you think there is a chance you may end up staying with any of these chains over the next few weeks.

Where should you credit your stays?

You have some pretty decent options at the moment.  I run through the options below.

IHG (Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, InterContinental, Indigo, Staybridge Suites etc)

The Autumn version of IHG’s ‘Accelerate’ is probably the best choice for most people with lighter schedules.  As targets are personalised it is totally dependent on what you were offered but you should be able to rack up a significant number of bonus points with just a few nights.

The latest round of ‘Accelerate’ runs until 31st December.  This is my article on the offer.

Everyone has individual targets, but they are generally fairly easy.  You can earn 30,000+ bonus points with the points starting to flow from your first stay.

I had this for 48,100 points:

• 5,000 points for a stay in September
• 2,000 points on my next stay
• 10,000 points for staying five nights
• 4,000 points for booking a two-night weekend stay
• 2,500 points for two stays booked via my corporate rate (the company I haven’t worked for in 6 years!)
• 6,600 points for booking a Bonus Points Package
• 2,000 points for getting the IHG credit card
• 5,000 points for renewing my Ambassador membership
• 11,000 points for completing six of the seven targets above, excluding the September bonus

You need to register for ‘Accelerate’ – the link is here where you will also find your personalised targets.  The IHG home page is here.

Hilton (Hampton, Conrad, Waldorf-Astoria etc)

The Hilton offer looks ok and is very straightforward.  You will receive double base points on every stay until 31st December.  There is no minimum stay required and every Hilton hotel is participating.

I wrote about this offer here.

Hilton is still status matching too.  If you have status with another hotel programme, Hilton will match you to Gold or Diamond for 90 days – I explain how to do it in this article.

You MUST register for double points by visiting this page of hilton.com.

If you collect Avios, you should also consider this Triple Avios offer (click for details) alongside Double Points.

Club Carlson (Radisson Blu, Park Inn, Park Plaza, Radisson Red)

There is no global Club Carlson promotion at the moment although some members were emailed individual bonus offers.

Remember that the Radisson Blu and Park Inn ‘Dream Deals’ sale is still running for a few days.  More information is in this article.

Le Club AccorHotels

Best Western Rewards

Best Western Rewards rarely runs major promotions.  However, for December and January, you will receive a £10 Best Western gift voucher after every stay.

Best Western is also an Avios partner now (see this article) so you will earn 500 Avios on every stay too if you choose miles instead of points.  You can also choose to receive Virgin Flying Club miles.

Full details and the link to register for the £10 gift card promotion are in this article.

World of Hyatt

Hyatt is currently running a ‘double points’ promotion.  You will receive double base points in World of Hyatt on all stays before the end of 2017.

REGISTRATION ENDS TODAY, 30th November.  Make sure you sign up if there is a chance you will have a Hyatt stay in the next month.  Full details and the registration link are in this article.

Starwood (St Regis, Westin, Sheraton, Element, W, Luxury Collection etc)

The Starwood offer is pretty weak, to be honest, because it is restricted to only some of their hotels.

Until 15th January, you will earn either 500 or 1,000 bonus SPG points per stay, based on brand, but only if your chosen hotel is participating.

If your chosen hotel is taking part then you are not getting a bad deal on a cheap stay, given that I value 500 Starwood points at £7.50 and 1,000 points at £15.  Here is the list of 1,000 point hotels and here is the list of 500 point hotels.

Registration is required via this page of the Starwood website.  REGISTRATION ENDS TODAY (30th November) which is six weeks before the promotion ends, so please sign up today if there is any chance you may end up with a stay.

Marriott (Renaissance, Ritz-Carlton etc)

The new Marriott Rewards offer, a free night for just two stays, covers the same dates as the Starwood offer, expiring on 15th January.

You must register in advance of your stay via this website.

After two stays, you will receive a voucher for a free night at a Category 1-5 Marriott Rewards hotel.  This would usually cost between 7,500 and 25,000 Marriott Rewards points.  You are limited to one free night per account.

The voucher is valid for six months and can be used whenever there is standard reward availability showing.  The only snag is the limited number of Category 1-5 hotels in major cities in Europe and North America.  

My full article on this offer is here.  Don’t forget to register TODAY (30th November) which is six weeks before the offer ends.

And don’t forget double Avios with Kaligo.com ….

Hotel booking site Kaligo.com has been fairly quiet on the promotional front recently.  They now have a new offer available:

You will receive double Avios – up to 40 per £1 but usually less – on all bookings made by 31st December 2017

The stay must be completed by 30th March 2018

If you live outside the UK, you will get a further 25% Avios bonus if you pay with a BA non-UK credit card from Royal Bank of Canada, Russian Standard Bank, ABSA Bank, First Carribean Bank, Butterfield, Dah Sing Bank, Commercial Bank of Kuwait, EnterCard, CornerCard

Full details can be found here.  This is a special booking page for the deal.

Like similar sites such as PointsHound and Rocketmiles, hotel bookings via Kaligo.com are treated as non-qualifying stays.  This means that you won’t receive any points in Hilton Honors, IHG Rewards Club etc or, most of the time, receive any status benefits due to you.  Marriott is the only major chain to give status benefits – but not points – on indirect bookings.

Assuming there is no price difference, this offer is best used when staying at a hotel outside one of the major chains.

Conclusion

The current offers are looking attractive, even without anything from Accor or Carlson.

Having a choice of:

double Hilton or Hyatt points

or

a free night after just two Marriott stays

or

a potential 40,000+ fairly easy points via IHG‘s Accelerate offer

or

a £10 gift card from Best Western 

…. is not a bad choice to have.

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• Hilton Honors is offering a 100% bonus when you buy points by 14th May 2024. Click here.