What are the best hotel promos for July 2023?

UPDATE – OCTOBER 2024:  This article is now out of date, but don’t worry.  We produce a monthly summary of the top hotel bonus point offers – please click HERE or use the ‘Hotel Offers’ menu above.  Thank you.

Hilton has just launched two new UK debit cards – and they come with Hilton Honors elite status! You can get Hilton Honors Gold status simply by applying for the Plus debit card. You can learn more here and you can apply here.

Hilton Honors is offering an 80%-100% bonus, on top of an increased annual limit, when you buy points by 27th November 2024. Click here to buy.

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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 17,000 email subscribers – means we run this monthly article as a handy summary.

Here are quick summaries and links to the registration pages you need for each offer – do it before you forget. (I apologise to email readers if this block is mangled – scroll down to the main text area.)

The current ‘buy points’ offers running at the moment are:

Current American Express cashback offers

It’s also worth noting the current American Express cashback offers with the big chains. These may be showing on one or more of your cards and may influence which hotels you book this month:

• Get £150 cashback on £750 of Four Seasons spend, expires 7th July

• Get £100 cashback on £250 of WorldHotels spend, expires 31st July

• Get £100 cashback on £300 of Small Luxury Hotels spend, expires 31st July (these hotels earn Hyatt points if booked via hyatt.com)

• Get £50 cashback on £150 of NH Hotels / nhow spend, expires 25th August (these hotels earn Avios in Iberia Plus)

In most cases, you are restricted to a list of participating European hotels.

Where should you credit your stays for July 2023?

Remember that, irrespective of the offers below, there is never a single ‘best’ offer.

Some offers require multiple stays to maximise the bonus, which you might not do. Some require stays to be a minimum number of nights before a bonus is earned.

You need to factor in any elite status you have, which will earn you additional status bonuses.

More importantly, you need to be able to use the points. There is no value in earning a large bonus in a scheme where you will never go on to earn enough points to get a free night.

There are currently no global offers from:

• Accor Live Limitless
• Marriott Bonvoy
• Radisson Rewards

Hilton (Hampton, Conrad, Waldorf-Astoria etc)

Hilton is currently running a promotion called ‘Resort To More Points’.

You can register here.  Our full article is here. It runs until 5th September.

You will earn 2,000 bonus points on all stays, increased to 4,000 points at selected resorts. We value 2,000 Hilton points at £6.66.

You need to register in advance of your first stay during the period via the Hilton website here.  Existing bookings count and all Hilton Honors hotels are taking part.

The Hilton booking page is here.

IHG (InterContinental, Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, Hotel Indigo etc)

Between 6th June and 31st August, you can earn bonus base points on your IHG One Rewards stays.

You must register in advance via this link.

There are two offers to choose from:

• you will receive 2,000 bonus points for every two nights you stay
• you will receive 10,000 bonus points for every four nights you stay

In both cases, the nights do NOT need to be consecutive.

The second option will be more lucrative for virtually everyone unless you are confident that you won’t do more than two paid nights at IHG hotels before the end of August. You cannot change your decision once made.

In terms of counting ‘nights’, reward nights do not count. This is different from the way that IHG usually counts ‘nights’ in terms of earning elite status or milestone rewards.

Existing bookings DO count so there is no need to rebook anything.

Our full article is here. The home page for bookings is here.

World of Hyatt (Park Hyatt, Grand Hyatt, Andaz, Alila, Unbound Collection etc)

World of Hyatt has launched a promotion for its hotels outside the Americas.

You can register here.  Our full article is here.

You will double base points on stays outside the Americas between 1st July and 15th September. Annoyingly, the bonus only kicks in from your second stay after registration.

Existing bookings count and Small Luxury Hotels booking are included, as long as they are made via the Hyatt website and are not in the Americas.

Registration closes early, on 31st July.

The Hyatt booking page is here.

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