Reserve by 12/7/11, stay by 1/15/12, submit form and documentation by 1/31/12.
The "tag" banner I'm looking at on a SF Bay Area (not Oakland, per se.) search page says:
Book a stay of 3+ consecutive nights by Dec. 7, 2011 at one hotel in Oakland, CA and earn a $50 restaurant gift card. Click for details.
The t&c:
Must book at ChoiceHotels.com between November 16 and December 7, 2011 and stay must be completed by January 15, 2012 to be eligible for this offer. Return rebate form and copy of hotel receipt to the address above after the stay. Submission must be postmarked by January 31, 2012 to qualify and will not be acknowledged or returned. You will receive the gift card within 4-6 weeks. Only one gift card can be earned per stay; a stay is defined as three (3) or more consecutive nights at one hotel regardless of the number of check-ins or check-outs. Incomplete, late, lost, misdirected or undeliverable submissions are invalid. You must maintain a U.S. address (including U.S. territories) to be eligible for this offer.
[I don't have any affiliation with Choice Hotels or the middle man.]
Firewind
Nov 21, 11, 5:50 am
1) But I still don't know if the banner ad at the top of the rates page means that the hotel is eligible, which leads me to...
2) Has anyone watching ever gotten one of these?
mikeef
Nov 22, 11, 8:40 am
I'm sorry, would you mind clarifying? I clicked on the link and got the rebate form for Orlando, which says to book online and send in the form with the receipt. Then, they'll send the gift card.
Mike
Firewind
Nov 22, 11, 2:16 pm
Hi mikeef. I will if you'll be so kind as to take my name off your post. (Though everyone who actively participates in this forum probably knows it, by now, from the off-line PM network.) :D
Thanks... :)
Firewind
Nov 22, 11, 2:40 pm
OK, since I know he'll do it (he has to face me over lunch soon)...
What I mean is, I get that banner when I'm working on reservations at hotels that are as much as 50 miles from one of the nominal cities. Currently, I mean Oakland. The banner, which is usually my first alert that there's a new offer, shows for "Santa Rosa, CA, USA" properties. My question is a recurring one as these gift card offers roll through: If the banner is there, can we assume that that hotel is eligible? No problem if the hotel is in a city named in the offer -- such as "Orlando". But if it's remote? As another example, a prior offer had San Jose as one of the named cities, but all the Monterey Choice hotels' booking pages had the banner for that $50 gift card promo.
Until someone rings in saying that they received the gift card for a stay at a remote hotel whose booking page had the banner - actually until we hear from anyone who's received a card - we won't know. I'm still awaiting responses from filings two and three of these promos back. It's not a complaint, unless a year passes. I had to do the stay anyway. Little to no effort to do the form and copy the receipts, and mail everything in. It would just be nice to hear that these dogs hunt, and what the geographical parameters are. :)
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Just double-checking my facts and possible illusions... A Santa Rosa property is ~ 53.7 miles from Oakland -- give or take a tenth of a mile. It's on the radius search list with the tag banner at the top of the page. Is it included? A CSR told me she couldn't tell.
mikeef
Nov 23, 11, 9:59 am
Hi mikeef. I will if you'll be so kind as to take my name off your post. (Though everyone who actively participates in this forum probably knows it, by now, from the off-line PM network.) :D
Thanks... :)
Oops. :o
I have no idea where that came from.
Mike
mikeef
Nov 23, 11, 10:05 am
OK, since I know he'll do it (he has to face me over lunch soon)...
What I mean is, I get that banner when I'm working on reservations at hotels that are as much as 50 miles from one of the nominal cities. Currently, I mean Oakland. The banner, which is usually my first alert that there's a new offer, shows for "Santa Rosa, CA, USA" properties. My question is a recurring one as these gift card offers roll through: If the banner is there, can we assume that that hotel is eligible? No problem if the hotel is in a city named in the offer -- such as "Orlando". But if it's remote? As another example, a prior offer had San Jose as one of the named cities, but all the Monterey Choice hotels' booking pages had the banner for that $50 gift card promo.
Until someone rings in saying that they received the gift card for a stay at a remote hotel whose booking page had the banner - actually until we hear from anyone who's received a card - we won't know. I'm still awaiting responses from filings two and three of these promos back. It's not a complaint, unless a year passes. I had to do the stay anyway. Little to no effort to do the form and copy the receipts, and mail everything in. It would just be nice to hear that these dogs hunt, and what the geographical parameters are. :)
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Just double-checking my facts and possible illusions... A Santa Rosa property is ~ 53.7 miles from Oakland -- give or take a tenth of a mile. It's on the radius search list with the tag banner at the top of the page. Is it included? A CSR told me she couldn't tell.
Ahh, so that's what happens when I don't read the entire thread! :) I didn't even see Oakland in the original message.
Sorry, I can't help with this one. In theory, if it's rolling across, it should count but, as that famous philosopher H.J. Simpson once said, "In theory, communism works."
As someone who distrusts what Choice representatives tell them over the phone, I would send an email and get an answer in writing.
In other words, I'm essentially useless on this one.
Mike
Firewind
Nov 23, 11, 10:17 am
Oops. :o
I have no idea where that came from.
Mike
1) :D
2) Probably meant to be a PM...
3) One of those mind-things that you're way too young for.
Anyway, before pulling a yellow card from the (phantom) mod, I'm one-for-one calling reservations on a "remote" hotel whose booking page displays the promo banner. Answer: "Yes." Which I, um, could have tried before blowing this all out of proportion.