What are the best hotel promos for May 2024?

UPDATE – APRIL 2025:  This article is now out of date, but don’t worry.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 a 100% bonus when you buy points by 29th May 2025. The annual purchase limit is also increased to 240,000 points pre-bonus. 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 19,000 email subscribers – means we run this monthly article as a handy summary.

The good news this month is a HUGE influx of American Express cashback offers which partly makes up for the lack of official hotel promotions.

Whilst this article only focuses on the major hotel schemes, we should give an honorary mention to Global Hotel Alliance and its crazy 20th birthday promotion. Achieve the targets and you will receive $5,200 to spend at GHA hotels!

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.)

Current offers for buying hotel points

Here are the ‘buy points’ offers running at the moment:

Current American Express cashback offers

It’s 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 £75 back on a £300 spend with 19 small hotel groups or individual hotels via ‘Amex Stays’ (expires 1st June, cumulative spend is not allowed, click to read more)

• Get £100 back on a £500 spend with selected Mandarin Oriental hotels (expires 27th May)

• Get £100 back on a £400 spend with selected Marriott Bonvoy hotels (expires 3rd July, click to read more)

• Get £75 back on a £200 spend with selected Marriott Bonvoy hotels (exclusive to Marriott Bonvoy American Express cardholders, expires 14th August, click to read more)

• Get £100 back on a £500 spend with selected WorldHotels hotels (expires 3rd July, click to read more)

• Get £50 back on a £200 spend with selected Hilton Honors hotels (expires 1st July, click to read more)

• Get £75 back on a £300 spend with selected IHG One Rewards hotels (expires 11th August, click to read more)

• Get £100 back on a £300 spend with Small Luxury Hotels (expires 3rd July, click to read more)

• Get £50 back on a £150 spend with Minor Hotels (Anantara, NH, nhow, Avani, Tivoli) (expires 3rd July, click to read more)

• Get £100 back when you spend £500 at Corinthia London (expires 31st May, book here – this is a fantastic property if you are looking to splurge)

• Get £100 back when you spend £300 with Maybourne Hotel Group (The Connaught, The Berkeley, Claridge’s) (expires 31st May)

• Get £100 back when you spend £500 with Preferred Hotels (expires 30th June)

• Get £75 back when you spend £400 at The Standard London (expires 3rd June)

• Get £20 back when you spend £100 at Expedia on pre-paid hotels (expires 24th June – see here for details but you must be targetted and opt-in via your Amex online account)

Where should you credit your stays for May 2024?

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.

That said, you only have two options at the moment anyway:

Hilton (Hampton, Conrad, Waldorf-Astoria etc)

Hilton has a promotion called ‘Double Base Points’.

You can register here.  Our full article is here. It runs until 2nd September.

You will earn double base points on all stays during the promotional period.

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 One Rewards is offering 2,000 bonus points for every two nights you stay.

The promotion runs from 1st April to 31st May. Only cash nights count, not reward stays. Existing bookings are OK.

You can register here. Our full article on the promotion is here.

Whilst not hugely rewarding (we value 2,000 points at £8) some members were emailed with an additional bonus offer for points or double elite night credits which stacks on top of this one.

You can book your IHG stays here.

And finally ….

If you booking a luxury hotel, remember that we can offer you exclusive additional benefits at Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental, Peninsula and similar hotels.  

Click here for details of our luxury hotel booking service in association with Bon Vivant / Virtuoso.  Feedback from readers who have used this service so far has been excellent and we have booked over £1.7 million of rooms so far.

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Hotel offers update – April 2025:

Want to earn more hotel points?  Click here to see our complete list of promotions from the major hotel chains or use the ‘Hotel Offers’ link in the menu bar at the top of the page.

Want to buy hotel points?

• Hilton Honors is offering a 100% bonus when you buy points by 29th May 2025. The annual purchase limit is also increased to 240,000 points pre-bonus. Click here to buy.