Free Small Luxury Hotels elite status for Vodafone customers

Are you a Vodafone mobile customer with the My Vodafone app installed?

You can get a free upgrade to Club 02 level in the Small Luxury Hotels loyalty programme.

This comes with genuine benefits including free breakfast, a room upgrade and access to special ‘Bonus’ rates that non-status SLH members do not see.

This is what you need to do.

Go into the ‘Rewards’ section of the Vodafone mobile app and you will see the tile below. Broadband customers will not see it.

You’ll see it makes no mention of elite status and is simply promoting the chance to win a holiday.

(It’s a good prize too. You win NINE nights at Small Luxury Hotels of your choice, albeit with a maximum of three nights at any one hotel.)

In the small print, it says:

“All customers who enter the prize draw will be upgraded to Tier 2 status in the SLH Club loyalty programme.”

To enter, you click through to the SLH website. You need to join SLH Club to enter. If you are already a member, as I was, simply log in.

There is no confirmation that you have entered or been upgraded. However, if you log out of your SLH Club account and immediately log in again, you will see that you have Club 02 status:

You have until 19th September to enter and be upgraded.

What is Small Luxury Hotels?

For those not familiar with SLH, it is a marketing consortium for 580 luxury hotels in 90 countries. These are primarily independent properties, many of which are well known in their respective markets.

Most Small Luxury Hotels coverage on HfP tends to be in the context of its partnership with Hilton, and with Hyatt before that.

It continues to thrive in its own right, however, and relaunched its own loyalty programme last year.

The new scheme has a three tier structure. The Vodafone offer will put you into the middle tier.

Base level members, called Club 01, don’t get much apart from early check-in and late check-out priority and free wi-fi.

Stay four nights in a calendar year (or take part in this Vodafone offer) and you are upgraded to Club 02 level. Free continental breakfast becomes a benefit, along with potential room upgrades if available. You will also have access to the ‘SLH Bonus Rate’ which apparently offers better deals.

There is a genuine benefit for reaching Club 03 level at 13 nights or $6,000 of spend – you get a voucher for a free night worth up to $300. This is equivalent to $23 cashback for each of those 13 nights, which is a good return.

Note that your elite nights and spend totals reset each time you hit a new level, so Club 03 requires 13 nights or $6,000 of spending after you have reach Club 02 level.

Conclusion

This is a decent offer for Vodafone customers. Even if you don’t have any plans to stay at an SLH hotel in the near future to use your Club 02 status, the prize is worth winning.

There are SLH hotels where a standard room costs £1,000+ in peak season so winning nine free nights would be a great result.

Full details of SLH Club are on the SLH website here. Remember that you need to enter by 19th September.

Thanks to Tim for flagging.