Various hotel ‘buy points’ offer are ending today

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• BJ says:

  31 Dec31 December 05:16

  Good to see you have finally obtained a Hilton redemption to please you; hope you got upgrades etc to add icing to the cake 🙂

  • Rob says:

    31 Dec31 December 06:21

    No upgrades, hotel full. Managed a room move on Day 3 though so I was no longer looking into a wall ….

    • BJ says:

      31 Dec31 December 09:09

      Getting there 🙂 If location works ok I always target alternate properties where I suspect occupancy of premium rooms/suites will be lower.

  • Harry T says:

    31 Dec31 December 07:54

    3pm checkout is impressive for Hilton! Rob must have had to tell them who he was 😂

    • Rob says:

      31 Dec31 December 08:18

      Most incoming Dubai flights land from Europe around 10pm so the check in surge is around midnight.

      • Erico1875 says:

        31 Dec31 December 12:26

        £655 a night to look at a wall ? Hardly 5 star

        • babyg says:

          31 Dec31 December 12:45

          agreed, i do often wonder about the real value of hotels when comparing “cash vs points”… would you have really paid 600+ for that room facing the wall, sometimes you end up staying in rooms that are nowhere worth the headline figure, thou sometimes you end up in rooms that are amazing value (hilton seychelles/maldives)…

        • Rob says:

          31 Dec31 December 13:58

          Hotel is priced to fill and it was full. Arguably they could have charged more. Other luxury beach reports were more or full.

        • TGLoyalty says:

          31 Dec31 December 13:33

          Problem with Dubai. At some point your 5* hotel will be facing a construction site or wall.

        • Rob says:

          31 Dec31 December 13:59

          £685 would have avoided the wall 🙂

    • guesswho2000 says:

      31 Dec31 December 12:25

      Hilton have generally been quite good for me, I got 22:00 checkout at Hilton Colombo, which I think is my record!

      • kitten says:

        31 Dec31 December 21:12

        I got midnight checkout in Dubai. Thought this was decent.

• BigSi says:

  31 Dec31 December 08:12

  Can I book 2 rooms at the same property on the same night on one Hilton account? Will I benefit from the ‘five for four’ deal?

  • BJ says:

    31 Dec31 December 09:06

    Don’t know that one but if not an easy workaround would be to transfer the points to somebody else in your party to make the booking. Remember you can gift status too.

    • BigSi says:

      31 Dec31 December 09:27

      @BJ thanks.

      • BJ says:

        31 Dec31 December 09:38

        IIRC there is a generous offer out there for new members too. Try HfP search or Google.

    • Rob says:

      31 Dec31 December 10:16

      Yes you can, not a problem. However status benefits – in theory – will only apply to one room.

      I bought half of what we needed via my wife and, instead of transferring the points to me, booked via her Gold account. She got the elite night credits that way which may come in handy (or may not).

      • BigSi says:

        31 Dec31 December 21:29

        @Rob. Thanks. I think that is probably a better idea. My other half is also Gold.

    • John says:

      31 Dec31 December 12:02

      I am gold. Currently lots of Hilton points I won’t use.
      Would like to make 2 separate bookings for my 2 sons and their girlfriends to separate destinations at different times of the year.
      I know I can do this but is there any way for them to have the gold benefits with their stays?
      Thanks

      • John says:

        31 Dec31 December 12:04

        Destination not in UK !

        • John says:

          31 Dec31 December 20:05

          Call Hilton (you must get a US-based agent) and get them to book the redemption in your sons’ names.

          This is not the same as adding an additional guest, it can only be done by US call centres.

          The hotel will then seem them as the owner of your Hilton account and therefore as a Gold status member.

• Roy says:

  31 Dec31 December 08:16

  Can the 30%+ currency card conversion and 15% bonus be combined? If so, any idea how long it takes to get the currency card?

  • Guernsey Globetrotter says:

    31 Dec31 December 10:27

    I applied for a card on 27 Nov this year, got the card on around 07 Dec and phoned that night to get my membership points transferred. The transfer was confirmed on 12 Dec on the Amex side and the 15% bonus credited a few days later on the SIA side – so overall about 18 days… It will be tight! The exchange rate applied for me gave a 34% boost on the Amex points and then the 15% on top from SIA gave an overall bonus of >50% so worth it if you can get it – good luck !

    • Roy says:

      31 Dec31 December 10:31

      Brilliant info. Thanks.

• L says:

  31 Dec31 December 08:54

  Has entry to Dubai now been opened for UK residents- I thought we were bannex

  • TGLoyalty says:

    31 Dec31 December 09:32

    No ban. PCR test before you fly or on arrival (which could be risky if you haven’t had a test before.

  • Rob says:

    31 Dec31 December 10:19

    Eh? It has been open for a couple of months, and off the UK quarantine list when you return for 6 weeks or so.

• James says:

  31 Dec31 December 09:27

  Any news on a HSBC Avios bonus? Dec has come and gone and nothing that I know of – they do tend to keep it pretty hush mind…

  • Dan says:

    31 Dec31 December 10:31

    Nope – don’t think it’s happening this year. Perhaps, Covid related…

• TGLoyalty says:

  31 Dec31 December 09:31

  I wouldn’t take 0.9p per point vs transfer to Marriott at 3 for 2. They might only be valued at 0.5p (therefore 75p per MR) but even the Best Buy promotion is 0.6p (0.9p per MR) with an annual limit on how many you can buy so low you can only get 2 nights at a top property, even buying on two accounts doesn’t help as the transfer limit is also tiny at 100k.

• Charles says:

  31 Dec31 December 10:29

  How was this hotel ? Luxurious or too big ?

  • Rob says:

    31 Dec31 December 10:34

    Waldorf? I just posted at the end of this Flyertalk thread under ‘Raffles’ – https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hilton-hilton-honors/1535225-waldorf-astoria-palm-jumeirah.html

    Outside the 3-4 peak weeks of the year it is fine if you are happy with the location.

• memesweeper says:

  31 Dec31 December 11:26

  I think the flexibility of leaving the points where they are beats a 15% bonus.

  • Guernsey Globetrotter says:

    31 Dec31 December 12:08

    Transferring into KrisFlyer does mean those miles are limited to using with Singapore Airlines (or Star Alliance partners). However, as Rob points out above, you can get an effective 50%+ bonus transferring Amex membership rewards points via their International Dollar Card to SIA under this offer AND using KrisFlyer miles gives probably the cheapest business class redemption opportunities from the UK to Dubai etc. (58,000 miles for a return). So less flexible yes but for me it meant some existing SIA miles didn’t expire and I now have enough for free business class flights on SwissAir or Lufthansa to Dubai for me & Mrs Trotter 😊

    • BP says:

      31 Dec31 December 13:19

      I thought that they expired after 36 months ? has this changed ?

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