What are the best hotel promos for May 2025?

Welcome to our regular round-up of the best hotel promotions currently running.

(Quick summary: there aren’t any!)

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.

However, we have a problem. For the first time, in all the years we have been doing this, none of the major chains is running a global promotion. Hilton’s new offer will not start until 1st June.

Why? No idea. Has everyone gone back to drawing the board in the face of a US travel slowdown? We will see. Hilton’s decision to leave a one month gap is almost as surprising as seeing how weak their June to mid August promo is.

In the meantime, we have still pushed this article out because it contains details of all of the American Express cashback deals currently running – and there are a LOT of them!

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 £100 back on a £500 spend with selected Marriott Bonvoy hotels across Europe (expires 18th June, book here)

• Get £75 back on a £200 spend with selected Marriott Bonvoy hotels across Europe (expires 18th June, exclusive to Marriott Bonvoy American Express cardholders, book here)

• Get £75 back on a £300 spend with selected Hilton Honors hotels across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, plus a handful in the USA (expires 4th July, book here)

• Get £75 back on a £300 spend (or, for some, £100 back on a £250 spend) with selected World of Hyatt hotels across Europe and the Middle East (expires 11th July, book here)

• Get £75 back on a £300 spend with selected IHG One Rewards hotels across Europe (expires 30th June, book here)

• Get £100 back on a £600 spend with selected Luxury Hotels of the World properties (expires 14th July, book via our partner for extra benefits)

• Get either £150 back on a £750 spend or £200 back on a £900 spend with selected Four Seasons hotels (expires 7th July, book via our partner for extra benefits)

• Get 30% back on spending with selected WorldHotels, capped at £100 total, across the world (expires 15th October, read more here)

• Get £75 back on a £300 spend with 25hours hotels (expires 6th May, book here)

• Get £100 back on a £300 spend with selected Pullman, Movenpick and Swissotel hotels (expires 6th May, book here)

• Get £150 back on a £500 spend with selected Delano and SO/ hotels (expires 14th May, book here)

• Get £75 back on a £300 spend in one transaction with Amex Stays, covered selected hotels in the UK and Europe but primarily London (expires 1st June, read more here)

Offers with specific London hotels:

• Get £100 back on a £400 spend at The Standard in London (expires 16th June, bookable soon via hyatt.com)

Where should you credit your stays for June 2025?

(Yes, June 2025, not May 2025, because there is nothing happening in May!)

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 is your only option announced so far:

Hilton (Hampton, Conrad, Waldorf-Astoria etc)

Hilton will be running a promotion called ‘Points Plus’ for stays from 1st June.

You can register here.  Our full article is here. It runs until 15th August.

You will earn a flat 1,000 bonus points on all stays, cash or reward, during the promotional period. We value these at £3.33. Note that it is per stay and not per night.

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.

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 £2 million of rooms so far.