What are the best hotel promos for February 2018?

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• Phillip says:

  31 Jan31 January 05:26

  From the last Accelerate Promotion, I have not received any of the bonus points that were showing on the “Print Page” version of the promo. Everything else credited okay, minus those. Anyone else had more success?

  • Andrew M says:

    31 Jan31 January 07:10

    Nope. I’m guessing that, for whatever reason, IHG decided to never go live with them – at least for you and me. Perhaps we didn’t stay enough at ‘key’ times to trigger!

  • Lucinda says:

    31 Jan31 January 13:16

    Some over at FT have got these points 🙂

• JamesB says:

  31 Jan31 January 06:04

  Regarding the Hilton promotion, is it double base points AND 2,000 points per stay? Or just 2,000 points per stay?

  • Rob says:

    31 Jan31 January 08:04

    2,000 per stay. Ignore my typo!

• Anna says:

  31 Jan31 January 07:27

  No bits so OT, sorry. I need to move avios from BAEC to avios.com as I have suddenly acquired 2 Lloyds upgrade vouchers now their IT issue has been rectified (on my account anyway!). I know there’s an issue with Household Accounts. Will I need to dissolve both the BAEC AND the avios.com HHA or can I get away with just dissolving the avios.com one – I don’t really want to go to the trouble of disbanding the BAEC one and putting it back together?

  • Peter K says:

    31 Jan31 January 07:58

    Just the avios.com one. You can keep the BAEC account as a household one and still move avios across.

  • Andrew Johns says:

    31 Jan31 January 08:02

    You just need to dissolve the Avios.com HHA and decide how to split up the Avios between those members.

    • Anna says:

      31 Jan31 January 08:03

      Thanks – I was hoping that was the case!

      • Reeferman says:

        31 Jan31 January 14:17

        Hi Anna – take care with avoids transfer itself.
        I combined AVIOS (from BA to Avios) over the weekend to use my Lloyds upgrade voucher and, unbeknown to me, the Avios.com system was “down” leaving my avois sitting in cyber space.
        Avios itself was very helpful with my requested booking (they held the flight for me even though there were insufficient Avios in my account as a result of the IT “glitch”), but it took a couple of days for BA to pull-back the missing avios and put them back into my BA account, so I could transfer them (again) to my Avios account.
        The second time I phoned Avios and they made the transfer for me. It was instant and all was OK.

• Seat54 says:

  31 Jan31 January 07:53

  Is there any reason why I would only be applicable to some of the Marriott promotions, I collect points not miles but rarely do I see a promotion which is available to me, even this Megabonus it says I’m not applicable. I managed to register for the last one but that was the first in two years.

  Is this normal or is my account messed up?
  Does anybody else have this.

  • Rob says:

    31 Jan31 January 08:01

    Not normal – although some very heavy stayers tend to get different deals. You don’t sound like you’re in that group though.

    • Seat54 says:

      31 Jan31 January 17:47

      Not that much of a heavy hitter but it seems others have the same issue.

  • Adrian says:

    31 Jan31 January 15:23

    Just so you know, you are not on your own, my wife and I are both gold, she was able to register for megabonus and i was not, no idea why, I’m set to points and points.

  • Mark C says:

    31 Jan31 January 17:00

    I get that too even when signed in:
    A Note About This Promotion – We’re sorry, but there was an error in directing you to this promotion. The reason for this error could be:

    You’re trying to access a miles promotion and are a points-earner, or vice versa
    You are not eligible for this promotion
    This promotion has expired
    Updating your earning preference is fast and easy; simply sign into your account. For all other issues, please contact Marriott Rewards Customer Support.

    • Alan Gilchrist says:

      31 Jan31 January 17:47

      This is what I get all the time, and I have also contacted Marriott about this as it seems to be odd. My account is very old opened Ritz Carlton nearly 20 years ago then I stopped using Marriott as they are useless at posting stays (still are) but sometimes I have issues at hotels where they say oh this is a Ritz Carlton membership !! whatever that means.

      I am Marriott Plat and so far this year 9 nights with a further 15 starting tomorrow, I dont think I am a heavy hitter, even last year I had 50 nights plus some meetings…

      Will see what they say as this seems odd that others also have the same message.

• Wivus says:

  31 Jan31 January 08:14

  On my Accelerate target it had 5,000 points for US based other, but it has since changed and I have confirmation for a UK resident now. 10,000 points if they book a room by April (5k each)

  • Lucinda says:

    31 Jan31 January 13:17

    Not that I’m going to refer anyone but mine still says USA

    Also-not having a IHG credit card I have AGAIN got “spend on your IHG card”

    Shambles promo IMHO.

• Howard says:

  31 Jan31 January 08:17

  Have 3 nights in Hamburg and 5 nights in NY (need close Times Square).

  I bought Hyatt points with the 30% bonus and have 3 nights at Hyatt in Hamburg which worked out at £198 per night and it could be cancelled as its a points booking so pleased with that following Rob’s recommendation.

  However, I need 5 nights in NY (close to Times Square) and finding it difficult to get a decent deal. I have some SPG points. 7th April for 5 nights. Treat for wife and my daughter. They have First out and business back.

  Any ideas please. Budget around £1100 for the 5 nights.

  • Gareth says:

    31 Jan31 January 09:45

    Might be Worth looking at reward stays on the Marriott site if you have spg points- also some spg do the stay one night flexible rate get the second for $100 plus the year of birth.

  • Flying Misfit says:

    31 Jan31 January 09:53

    Howard, not sure on age of your daughter, but I have found for a party of 3 at Times Square, a pretty decent option is the DoubleTree Suites (specifically the one at 1568 Broadway). Been able to get 5 nights at less than 1100 on more than one occasion for even the mid range rooms they have. Not sure on any status you may have, but with Hilton Gold was given free breakfast for 2 although it was pretty run of the mill type breakfast. No lounge though. Not sure on pricing in April but wouldn’t think it would be much higher than 1100 if it was.

  • Phillip says:

    31 Jan31 January 10:30

    Howard – the Hyatt in Hamburg is currently running a third night free promotion through FHR or an agent like Bon Vivant, with prices in March and April at €225 per night. So you might want to reconsider your Hamburg stay.

    • Howard Berlin says:

      31 Jan31 January 13:09

      Thanks…I am not going…Mother and daughter thing.

      I will look at that hotel for New York.

      With regard Hamburg we are going 29th June.

      Thanks for responding.

      • Rob says:

        31 Jan31 January 15:47

        One of the discount German hotel sites was doing the PH at €179 FOR THE APARTMENTS recently! Can’t remember which one though and deal almost certainly gone.

• TripRep says:

  31 Jan31 January 08:21

  Interesting the Hilton offer goes through til end of April, for some reason I thought it was until end of March.

  Rob, thanks again for the heads up on free breakfast for Golds at WA properties, my up coming stay there should active the 10,000 bonus for my 5th stay in this Promo.

  In case BarryCutters is reading, how was your Edinburgh trip?

• Lee says:

  31 Jan31 January 08:38

  You really don’t like Hilton haha. You value Hilton points at 0.3 which is actually a bit low and Marriott at 0.5. Yet the second is a decent return when they give 0 bonus points on the first stay. I would argue that on a couple of stays Hilton probably gives just a good return.

  Especially when you factor in the 10,000 bonus points per 5 stays which equates to 4,000 per stay.

  • Rob says:

    31 Jan31 January 09:44

    Obviously it depends on how many stays you do and what you pay for them and your mix of nights vs stays. I have issues with promos which don’t start until your 2nd stay though.

    • TripRep says:

      31 Jan31 January 10:23

      The Hilton deal is great for cheap one nighters. Here’s my first 2 stays in this Promo…

      KL 4000+pts for £65 (in addition to my suite upgrade, exec lounge, breakfast)

      Newcastle Airport 3800pts for £58 + free breakfast and evening drinks vouchers.

      Has there been any feedback if the 2k works on full point redemption bookings?

      • SIDIDDLY says:

        31 Jan31 January 13:11

        The 2K promo does work with full point redemption bookings. I’ve had a couple where I have received 3K points (1k Myway bonus and 2K promo). As they contributed to 5 stays that is another 2K added as well so 5K ‘rebate’ on relatively cheap stays is a decent kick back.

      • TripRep says:

        31 Jan31 January 13:13

        Thanks Sididdly, potentially great value at 10k and 20k properties.

      • Clive says:

        31 Jan31 January 18:56

        I believe for it to trigger you need to have incidental spend.

      • RussellH says:

        31 Jan31 January 19:41

        Yes, I find this Hilton deal to be worth far more than 0.3p per point. I have already had two nights in Newcastle, Hilton + Hampton, 2000 at each. two more stays at the airport in March, so I need one more stay after that and that will be 20 000 points, or a free weekend at the Newcastle Hampton.

        Also good was checking in at the Newcastle Hilton on 31/12 (so got the double points bonus for the period ending 31/12) and then checked out on 1/1 (getting the current 2000 point bouns).

      • Dale says:

        31 Jan31 January 22:54

        I agree completely that the Hilton deal is much better than judged in this piece, each stay is actually worth 4000 BONUS points if you manage to do 5 or 10 – at the moment I’m in an Edinburgh property at £37 a night, and as a Diamond that includes breakfast and a drink at the bar, unbelieveable value.

        Points regularly worth better than 0.3 and I find staff in all their brands very good these days.

    • Dominic says:

      31 Jan31 January 16:14

      You can easily get 0.5p of value (1p per MR point) from Hilton. I regularly use my points for five night stays when the fifth is obviously free. Best (only?) way to use them for maximum value.

      Therefore, you could argue a little unfair to use 0.3p as a value. A lot of people will use Hilton points for extended stays like this rather than single nights which offer poorer value.

      No one would use an economy transatlantic flight as a standard for valuing avios. Firstly, not many people do it and secondly its obviously not a good value redemption compared to alternatives.

      • Rob says:

        31 Jan31 January 18:55

        Marriott does 5 for 4 too though, so the delta is the same. Anyway, I am happier using low valuations because it stops people making mistakes in asset allocation! You can easily push up value per point by using cash … and more cash … and more cash … and so hoarding your points until some ‘dream’ option comes up (I am guilty of doing this with Hyatt because the points are so hard to get I hate using them!). You often find that the ‘dream’ option doesn’t ever happen due to lack of availability (I couldn’t use my Hyatt points in Tokyo last year) or a devaluation.

        That’s not to say you should ALWAYS redeem, but I think you need a happy medium. If I can get above my threshold valuation then I will use points. As Hilton, Starwood, Marriott and Carlson are all Amex partners I can effectively ‘print’ more via an Amex MR transfer if I need them anyway.

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