Best Western Rewards - JUMP12 Promo: 3 stays Apr15-Jun3 2012 = $50 card + bonus pts

This just showed up in my offers page. For elites, looks like the maximum promotional bonus you could earn from three stays is $50 + 4000 points. Bolding and spacing mine, to note the interesting parts:

Stay 3 separate times between 4/15/12 and 6/3/12 and earn a $50 USD Travel Card - (Apr 15, 2012 - Jun 4, 2012) - Promo Code: JUMP12 -

Best Western Rewards® members (Member(s)) residing in any participating country? (visit bestwestern.com/jump for complete list of countries) who REGISTER for the Promotion and complete three (3) separate QUALIFIED STAYS* between April 15, 2012 and June 3, 2012 (Promotion Period) at any Best Western branded hotel worldwide may earn a USD $50 Best Western Travel Card®.

PROMOTION REGISTRATION AND BEST WESTERN REWARDS ENROLLMENT/MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED PRIOR TO THE FIRST QUALIFIED STAY.

Limit one (1) USD $50 Best Western Travel Card per Member during the Promotion Period. Promotional USD $50 Best Western Travel Card expires November 1, 2012. No extensions, substitutions or replacements available.

Bonus Offer: Use your Best Western Rewards MasterCard® to pay for each of your three (3) qualified stays and receive 1,000 Best Western Rewards bonus points. Maximum one (1) Bonus reward per Member during the Promotion Period.

Elite Member Bonus Offer: Elite (Gold Elite, Platinum Elite and Diamond Elite) Members who qualify for the Promotion will earn 1,000 bonus points for each qualifying stay completed during the Promotion Period that is booked on bestwestern.com. Maximum online booking bonus is 3,000 bonus points.

*A qualified stay for the purpose of this promotion is defined as one or more consecutive nights at the same Best Western hotel at a rate eligible for earning points or airline/partner rewards through best western rewards. Only one (1) check-in/check-out permitted per qualified stay. Other restrictions may apply. Offer not valid with any other promotion or discount. Promotion is subject to cancellation or change without notice. Please allow 4-6 weeks from completion of 3rd qualified stay for mailing of promotional USD $50 Best Western Travel Card, or posting of Bonus or Elite Member Bonus rewards. If a valid email address has been provided in the Member?s account profile, the promotional USD $50 Best Western Travel Card may be sent electronically to the Member?s email address within 2-3 weeks of completed 3rd qualified stay. All Best Western Rewards program rules apply. See www.bestwesternrewards.com for additional program terms. Each Best Western® branded hotel is independently owned and operated. Best Western and the Best Western marks are service marks or registered service marks of Best Western International, Inc. ©2012 Best Western International, Inc. All rights reserved. This is a limited time offer to Best Western MasterCard credit card holders. To qualify for this offer, cardholders must stay at any eligible Best Western property before June 3, 2012. This promotion is offered solely by Best Western Rewards and may be amended or cancelled at any time. MBNA Canada Bank has no responsibility or liability for any aspect of this promotion.

The earning limitation on Best Western Rewards promotions is a limiting factor to the loyalty program.

The free night after 3 stays by April 8 was a great promotion and there is still time to do it. Too bad that offer is limited to one free night certificate.

Thanks sdsearch for pointing out I was lost in 2011. :)

The earning limitation on Best Western Rewards promotions is a limiting factor to the loyalty program.

The free night after 3 stays by April 8 was a great promotion and there is still time to do it. Too bad that offer limited to one free night certificate.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/best-western-rewards/1169175-stay-3-separate-times-between-2-6-11-4-11-11-earn-free-night-voucher-bonus.html (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/best-western-rewards/1169175-stay-3-separate-times-between-2-6-11-4-11-11-earn-free-night-voucher-bonus.html)
Wrong thread linked! That's the thread for last year's similar (but better) promo. (In case you lost track, last year was 2011, this year is 2012.:p)

This is the thread for this year's (poorer) promo:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/best-western-rewards/1302768-spring12-promo-3-stays-feb-6-apr-8-2012-earns-free-night-voucher-exp-jun-30-a.html

(Poorer, in that there were precious little extra ways to earn bonus points on top of the voucher.)

By the way, while there's "still time", if you only do it now, you'll be left with only about 2.5 months to use the voucher at best, by the time the voucher posts.

At least the Travel Card (in this upcoming JUMP12 promo), while worth less than the voucher if usable, is more usable with a longer expiration (4+ months from the end of the promo, 6+ months from the start of it).

Again a promotion for NOn Europe.

Question?

I have business wise a person with address in Canda ( can also get one in USA). If I make new Best Western account with details of this address, will I have a lot of troubles?

Will they ask to prove my Canadian address at checkin or at redeeming awards?

Question is also for all the other hotel-chains and even Airplane companies?

Thanks
Regards

You can make it even easier. Change the address in your account to a North American address, and you will get a new membership card. I did it that way and since I became a US member, I am allowed to all the promotions. I was never asked at check-in why there is a US address. If they asked me I would explain the situation, tell them that my fake address is on file and also give them my real address for registration at the hotel.

Change the address in your account to a North American address, and you will get a new membership card.
Uh, how do you know you get a new membership card? :)

Ie, I presume you need to change it to a North American address of someone whom you know (so that they can send you the card that's sent to their address)?

Will they ask to prove my Canadian address at checkin or at redeeming awards?

Question is also for all the other hotel-chains and even Airplane companies?

In many parts of the world (including much if not all of Europe, but not the US or Canada), they ask for your passport at check-in (if your address is outside their country). That means they may start doing this for stays in your own (real) country, once you address on record shows you as not living in your own (real) country!

And remember, if you ever need to call them, they might ask you for your address for verification. So make sure you know the address you provided!

But I'm not sure if you can completely generalize it for "all other... and even". The above issues I mentioned may be generalized, but whether those are the only ones may not be. Other programs may have more stringent checks than BW has. And with airlines, you have to provide legal info matching your passport for actual of flights, so you've got make sure that matches. (I've certainly heard of people changing their address from one state to another at AA to qualify for double EQM promos that only those with addresses in CA/IL/TX qualified for, but I'm not sure whether for airlines it can work across countries or particularly continents. There's all sort of security issues involved in flying that don't exist for staying in hotels.)

Question?

I have business wise a person with address in Canda ( can also get one in USA). If I make new Best Western account with details of this address, will I have a lot of troubles?

Will they ask to prove my Canadian address at checkin or at redeeming awards?

In many parts of the world (including much if not all of Europe, but not the US or Canada), they ask for your passport at check-in (if your address is outside their country). That means they may start doing this for stays in your own (real) country, once you address on record shows you as not living in your own (real) country!

You guys are overthinking it. I've never met a BW hotel staff member who knew any facts about the standard BWR program, so the chances of them enforcing the T&Cs (or merely the spirit of the T&Cs, which is the issue you are debating) of a temporary promo is asymptotically zero.

In many parts of the world (including much if not all of Europe, but not the US or Canada), they ask for your passport at check-in (if your address is outside their country). That means they may start doing this for stays in your own (real) country, once you address on record shows you as not living in your own (real) country!

You guys are overthinking it. I've never met a BW hotel staff member who knew any facts about the standard BWR program, so the chances of them enforcing the T&Cs (or merely the spirit of the T&Cs, which is the issue you are debating) of a temporary promo is asymptotically zero.
Huh? :confused: What does the T&Cs of the promo have to do with whether they could cause an issue when your passport country doesn't match the address on your reservation?

That's a byproduct of trying to change your address from outside North America to inside North America for this promo, but once done, the fact that your address is not in the country where your passport says you're based has nothing to do with the T&Cs of this promo.

All that the hotel staff person needs to know is the passport checking procedures used in their country -- which isn't specific to BWR or this promo -- and how to read the address on the reservation -- which may be specific to BW but not BWR and not to this promo.

I didn't mean that this mismatch cound endanger your earning in this promo; I meant that it could possibly endanger the reservation itself!

Slightly analogously, I was in line at security at an airport the other day when the person in front of me was sent back to the check-in because their name on the boarding pass did not match the name on their ID; they were told they had to have the airline change the boarding pass to match. I can thus imagine someone getting in trouble somewhere over a reservation that says they live in the USA with a passport that says they live in Upper Whereveritsstan. It might take a snippy check-in clerk, but there are snippy check-in clerks out there!

Huh? :confused: What does the T&Cs of the promo have to do with whether they could cause an issue when your passport country doesn't match the address on your reservation?

That's a byproduct of trying to change your address from outside North America to inside North America for this promo, but once done, the fact that your address is not in the country where your passport says you're based has nothing to do with the T&Cs of this promo.

All that the hotel staff person needs to know is the passport checking procedures used in their country -- which isn't specific to BWR or this promo -- and how to read the address on the reservation -- which may be specific to BW but not BWR and not to this promo.

I didn't mean that this mismatch cound endanger your earning in this promo; I meant that it could possibly endanger the reservation itself!

Slightly analogously, I was in line at security at an airport the other day when the person in front of me was sent back to the check-in because their name on the boarding pass did not match the name on their ID; they were told they had to have the airline change the boarding pass to match. I can thus imagine someone getting in trouble somewhere over a reservation that says they live in the USA with a passport that says they live in Upper Whereveritsstan. It might take a snippy check-in clerk, but there are snippy check-in clerks out there!

European Passports do not have an address shown on it. Just the country that made the passport.

European Passports do not have an address shown on it. Just the country that made the passport.

Guys, don't make things more difficult then they are. I was this week in San Diego in the Best Western. Have some US address on file. Gave at check-in my Japanese passport and also my Japanese address. Night is already credited to my BW account. Believe me, nobody cares about the actual address and the one in your profile.

For Aeroplan collectors, you can get this same promo from the Aeroplan site, except it gives you 4x the aeroplan points instead of the BWR rewards - from my understanding that's 1000 aeroplan points, which may be more worthwhile to some.