There are so many summer travel hotel deals for bonus points, I can hardly keep track of them all (as you will see below). Our family already has rooms reserved with SPG because they offered us 5,000 Bonus Beginnings points for our first stay, all our Hawaii (Oahu) rooms were covered with points, we had/have 3 reservations at various hotels surrounding the new Cleveland Casino, and we have to complete 3 stays at the Club Carlson brand hotels to score up to 17 free nights. It is going to be a busy summer, but we have to remember to keep our eye on the end goal of massive points that will cover future travel expenses.
I am signed up to receive text messages from Hilton HHonors (It is still not to late to earn 1,000 points for registering and another 4,000 points for spending $100 on a registered VISA card with Hilton). Yesterday I received a text promoting their brand Home 2 Suites. The current summer Home 2 Suites promotion states stay once between now and August 15, 2012 and receive 2,000 bonus points.
HHonors members must per-register their accounts to qualify for the promotion.
As of right now, we have so many other nights already booked for our summer, that 2,000 bonus points is not enough to make me switch our reservations or make a new one. Will you be taking part in this promotion?
After drafting all of this, I finally realized why I had a reservation with Hilton when in Los Angeles this summer. We do not get into LAX until pretty late, so we made an airport Hilton reservation to avoid long travel times to our Anaheim hotel. Then in the morning we will get up and go to the Disneyland area.
So I have been sitting on a reservation at the Hilton Airport knowing that I would score 4,000 additional points from the text/VISA promo (actually I forgot about the points part). So when SPG recently solicited me to stay at one of their properties, I made the switch, saving a couple of dollars and pocketing an extra 5,000 points. Now I shorted myself the extra HHonors points.
However, I realize now this could be a massive win for HHonors members.
1) Register to receive www.visa.com/HiltonHHonors text messages and a VISA card. Pocket 1,000 HHonors points.
2) Register for the Home 2 Suites summer promotion.
3) Stay at a Home 2 Suites property, taking home an extra 4,000 points (text/VISA promo) + 2,000 points (Home 2 Suites promo) + points for the actual stay.
So one night stay could easily pocket one 7,000+ HHonors points. Not bad for a $100 hotel stay.
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