What are the best hotel promos for December 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UPDATE – APRIL 2025:  This article is now out of date, but don’t worry.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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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 20,000 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.)

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.

Offers with hotel groups:

• Get 15,000 American Express Membership Rewards on a £600 spend with selected Leading Hotels of the World (expires 10th December, click to read more)

• Get £75 back on a £300 hotel or car hire spend with American Express Travel (expires 16th December, click to read more)

• Get £100 back on a £250 spend with selected World of Hyatt hotels (expires 6th January, book here)

• Get £75 back on a £300 spend with selected IHG One Rewards hotels (expires 31st December, book here)

• Get £50 back on a £200 spend with selected Hilton Honors hotels (expires 27th December, book here)

• Get £100 back on a £400 spend with selected Marriott Bonvoy hotels (expires 31st December, book here)

• Get £75 back on a £200 spend with selected Marriott Bonvoy hotels if you hold the Marriott Bonvoy American Express card (expires 31st December, book here)

• Get £100 back on a £250 spend with selected WorldHotels properties (expires 16th December, click to read more)

• Get £50 back on a £200 spend with selected Radisson Rewards hotels (expires 20th December, book here)

• Get £80 back on a £400 spend with selected The Peninsula hotels (expires 31st December, book via our partner for extra benefits)

• Get £100 back on a £400 spend with Mondrian hotels (expires 13th February, book via our partner for extra benefits)

• Get 10% cashback at Apex Hotels (expires 1st February, book here)

• Get £70 back on a £200 spend with Millennium Hotels (expires 31st December, book here)

Offers with specific London hotels:

• Get £100 back on a £300 spend at Claridges, The Connaught, The Berkeley or The Emory (expires 16th December, book via our partner for extra benefits)

Where should you credit your stays for December 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.

Here are your options:

Hilton (Hampton, Conrad, Waldorf-Astoria etc)

Hilton has a promotion called ‘Power Up’.

You can register here.  Our full article is here. It runs until 31st December.

You will earn 2,500 bonus points on all stays, cash or reward, 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 (InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, Hotel Indigo etc)

IHG One Rewards is running two promotions at the moment.

The main one offers 3,000 bonus points for every two cash nights you stay. These do not need to be consecutive.

You can register here. Our full article is here. It runs until 31st December.

The second offer is for triple base points at five niche IHG brands – voco, avid hotels, EVEN Hotels, Atwell Suites and Garner Hotels. voco is the only one you are likely to use unless you are travelling to the US.

You can register here. Our full article is here. It runs until 31st December.

These two offers will stack so you can earn twice.

The IHG booking page is here.

Hyatt (Park Hyatt, Grand Hyatt, Andaz, Mr & Mrs Smith etc)

Hyatt is offering double points, starting from your second stay, in EMEA and APAC hotels until 20th December.

Registration is now closed, unfortunately. You can see full details for reference in this article.

There is a separate promotion offering double points at Mr & Mrs Smith properties booked via the Hyatt website.

Registration for this offer is also closed. You need to complete your qualifying stays by 24th December 2024. Full details are in an article 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.