Hilton HHonors - Free Sundays (Easyescapes?)

I was looking @ the EasyEscapes promo details a few weeks ago, never noted a rate/cert requirement but noticed these
today:

TERMS & CONDITIONS

Sunday Is Free™ Terms and Conditions

Arrive either Friday, Saturday or Sunday Nights and Sunday Night is Free • Applicable rates and dates vary by hotel and season • 3-Night Stay Required

Advance reservations required. Booking codes are as follows: for Hilton®, Conrad® and Hilton Garden Inn® hotels, book code LE; for Doubletree® hotels, book LE1. Subject to availability at participating Hilton, Conrad, Doubletree, and Hilton Garden Inn hotels from September 3, 2002 through July 31, 2004; some black-out dates may apply. Not valid in New York on December 1 - 15, 2002 or December 1 - 14, 2003; or in Hawaii on December 22 to 31, 2002 or December 21 to 31, 2003. Future 2004 reservations can only be accepted starting 53 weeks out from your desired travel dates.

Rate is loaded in reservation system across all nights of stay; free Sunday night will be applied at check-in.

Free Sunday night includes room rate and applicable taxes; does not include food and beverage charges, resort/service fees, gratuities, or other incidental charges.

Select hotels may require a reservation deposit.

Participating hotels and rates subject to change without notice.

Rates vary by season, by year, and by hotel and do not include tax or gratuities.

Valid for one continuous stay, single or double occupancy, at participating hotels. Certificate will not be collected at check-in. Guest can access program as often as desired and availability permits at any participating hotel.

Certificate not redeemable for cash, and is not valid after departure.

Offer void if sold, resold, bartered or auctioned in any way.

Offer cannot be combined with an Easy Escapes stay or other promotional offers, award stays or meeting/group stays.

Early departure may result in assessment of an Early Departure Fee and forfeiture of the free night if the minimum length of stay and the Sunday overnight stay are not realized.

Children 18 and under stay free in parents' or grandparents' room subject to local fire and safety regulations; children's age qualification varies outside the U.S.

Hilton HHonors® membership, earning of Points & Miles®, and redemption are subject to HHonors Terms and Conditions.

Travel agent commission will be applied to paid nights of stay only.

Other restrictions apply.

Seems like they changed the rules to match:


Terms and Conditions

Make Us Your Home for the Holidays


Arrive either Friday, Saturday or Sunday Nights from 11/01/02 - 12/30/02 and Sunday Night is Free
3-Night Stay Required
Advance reservations required under the following booking codes: for Hilton®, Conrad® and Hilton Garden Inn® hotels, book code LE; for Doubletree® hotels, book code LE1. Subject to availability at participating Hilton, Conrad and Doubletree hotels; some black-out dates may apply. Not valid in New York December 1 - 15, 2002 or in Hawaii December 22 - 31, 2002.
Rate is loaded in reservation system across all nights of stay; free Sunday night will be applied at check-in.
Free Sunday night includes room rate and applicable taxes; does not include food and beverage charges, resort/service fees, gratuities, or other incidental charges.
Select hotels may require a reservation deposit.
Participating hotels and rates subject to change without notice.
Rates vary by season, by year, and by hotel and do not include tax or gratuities.
Valid for one continuous stay. Limit one certificate per room per stay, single or double occupancy, at participating hotels.
Offer cannot be combined with an Easy Escapes stay or other promotional offers, award stays or meeting/group stays.
Early departure may result in assessment of an Early Departure Fee and forfeiture of the free night if the minimum length of stay and the Sunday overnight stay are not realized.
Children 18 and under stay free in parents' or grandparents' room subject to local fire and safety regulations; children's age qualification varies outside the U.S.
Hilton HHonors® membership, earning of Points & Miles™, and redemption of points are subject to HHonors® Terms and Conditions.
Travel agent commission will be applied to paid nights of stay only.
We reserve the right to issue new booklets at anytime featuring new offers.
Other restrictions apply.






[This message has been edited by a330300 (edited 10-03-2002).]

where did you find this. I just called Hilton and he knew nothing about this. I want to find out if a couple of upcoming trips would apply.

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Ms.DtG

This deal is a coupon in the easy escapes book I got a few months ago. I booked an easy escapes rate (just happened to be the cheapest rate)and I got a coupon booklet. The rate was still out there at differant hotels a couple of weeks ago - 'easy escapes stay now save later' The coupon for free sundays is good from nov 1 - dec 31 I believe.

[This message has been edited by keywestbars (edited 10-04-2002).]

[This message has been edited by keywestbars (edited 10-04-2002).]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Rate is loaded in reservation system across all nights of stay; free Sunday night will be applied at check-in. </font>

What exactly does this mean? I booked a room at a rate of $99 under this promotion for a Fri - Sun stay. Are Fri & Sat $99 and Sunday free for total of $198, or is each night $99 for a total of $297? (essentially making Friday and Saturday $148.50 if Sunday is free). If the later is the case, this is not a deal at all because the hotel I booked at also had a rate of $99 for Friday or Saturday night only.

http://www.ez-escapes.com/online/

Most easy escapes coupons are junk IMO.

Examples

For your "Free" night, check carefully the rates for your Fri and Sat nights. Usually those rates are much more than the average room rate you could get for all three nights on your own. So much for your "free" room.

The $100 food & bev coupon for 4 night stays at Hilton Resorts. I tried to redeem at HHV last year. Was told my rate ($200 per night in Ali'i) did not qualify for the $100 off. I asked what was the qualifying rate, $340 was the answer! You do the math. $560 more for my 4 day stay only to gain a $100 coupon for food that is overpriced and mediocre anyways!!!!!

Easy Escapes for the most part are crap coupons. Some have said that they have redeemed some of the air coupons. Every airfare I bothered getting a quote from for Easy Escapes, I was able to beat searching airfares on my own. Again, so much for my $50 off.

SW --

Agreed.

The coupons for the Sunday are superfluous now that you can get that "rate" w/o a coupon, and the air coupons, I wonder, are not such a bargain since the airlines have cut the comissions to $0. So the $50 in savings is probably cut to nil after the travel agent charges you for the privilege of booking the flight.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Sweet Willie:

For your "Free" night, check carefully the rates for your Fri and Sat nights. Usually those rates are much more than the average room rate you could get for all three nights on your own. So much for your "free" room.

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For this very reason I always check the regular rate along with the Home for the Holidays rate to compare, lest HHonors be taking away the Free Sunday with the other hand. Just like SPG50s & the old AHotel Certs. included with some award tickets.
One place where the deal is legit is at the Hilton Quebec starting Oct. 18: The C$125 HftH rate &lt;= the Best Available rate, making the Sunday truly free! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

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