Hilton HHonors - New 1-2 Weekday Awards

Just booked a couple of award stays and discovered a completely new award. "HH" awards are available for 1-2 weekdays. Prior to this, there was no award for less than three weekdays. These awards are not listed on the website yet.

I don't have the complete schedule, but 1 weekday at an Opporunity level property is 10,000 points.

These HH awards have existed for quite a long time. See:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum57/HTML/001481.html

Why!?!?!

Why are these awards "hidden"????

Well news to me. Why don't they publish the darn things? I could have used these in the past. I consider myself pretty verse in the HHonors program and this is the first time I've heard of these awards.

In the thread you pointed me to, one poster indicated that the folks at the HHonors desk were not allowed to offer these awards if the customer didn't ask for them. Maybe that policy has changed. Or maybe I just had an agent who wanted to help me out. Either way, glad I stumbled upon them.

Beckles, just curious. Were you aware of these awards before my post?

No, I was not aware of these before.

I have never seen them in print anywhere. Also, they seem to exclude the HH award from the point stretcher program. This is something that I hope they change.

FYI, The 1-2 day "weekend" awards can be used on "weekdays" as well. Got this confirmed by Adam when I was chatting with him about another problem. I did it in September, and worked fine with me.

This issue comes up about once a year or so. As referenced in PG's post above, these have been around for several years. I learned about them from a post on this board a while back. I also have never gotten a clear answer as to why its "hidden", but you do have to ask for the award HH0, HH1, HH2 etc. I have been told by Honors customer service that you have to be specific and ask for the HH award, anything less specific, they will not admit the award exists. I have used it several times. Its a great deal.

This is ridiculous! I have used three night awards for weekdays so often!!!

[This message has been edited by alka12 (edited 11-14-2001).]

I agree that it should be published. I've asked in the past (couple of years ago) whether there was a 1-2 day award, and was told a flat NO. Of course I didn't mention the HH code by name since I didn't know that it existed. Why do we have to look for these things?????

Thanks for the tip Harold.

I am planning a one weeknight stay and was dreading having to use 65,000 points (a three free weekday award) for this one night stay.

Onedog,

I will be glad to pay for your one night stay for 65,000 points... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Just kidding, and I agree, why can't they just publish this award? Got to believe it would be a great way to let people get rid of points... of course, they probably don't want to give a way free rooms during business days.

William

Sure these HH rewards give more values to our Hilton points!
I was so lucky to be helped on this forum for this wonderful advice !

Are these available in all classes of hotels or just Hilton-branded? Sorry if this is a dumb question; I'm new to Hhonors.

I just booked a stay at an Embassy Suites Select level hotel for a thursday night.

The stay requires an HH-2 award which cost me 25,000 points. This is better than having to use 65,000 points for a three day award.

I inquired about the availability of a Point Stretcher award which would have only cost me 15,000 points. Alas, I was informed that Point Stretchers are only available on weekends, unless you are redeeming an award for three consecutive nights.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by jja34-1:
Are these available in all classes of hotels or just Hilton-branded? Sorry if this is a dumb question; I'm new to Hhonors.</font>

These awards are available for all HHonors-participating hotels.

This information has paid off for me! I was able to book one night on Wed. 1/2 at the Fountainblue Hilton, the night of the Orange Bowl at the Maryland Terps team hotel. One HH4 for 35k points.