Hilton HHonors - Continous Stay or Separate?

Here is a Hilton question for you all. If you come back to stay an extra day at the Hilton, on a walk up reservation after having checked out earlier that day, , do they count it as 2 stays or one?

NS

One.

A "stay" is defined as the total number of consecutive nights spent at the same participating hotel, whether or not the guest checks out and check back in again.

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Nothing stops you, however, to go from one Hilton to another. Each is considered separate. Some call this a matress run! I call it a lot of work. :)

It is one, and both times this has happened to me (not on purpose - due to canceled flights), the system automatically caught it and combined them into one stay on my account. If you want the two stays, do as YXU suggests and go to another property in the same area. I have many times thought about this, but just the thought of a "matress run" usually wears me out and I wind up saying heck with it!

Pack light, move around!

(E.g. arrive ORD, spend night at Hilton ORD; move to an ES downtown, for one or two nights; move to ORD Hilton, leave next day... ) If it were a true mattress run, it would be two Hilton properties downtown. :D

Pack light, move around!

(E.g. arrive ORD, spend night at Hilton ORD; move to an ES downtown, for one or two nights; move to ORD Hilton, leave next day... ) If it were a true mattress run, it would be two Hilton properties downtown. :D

I was unfamiliar with this rule and asked the manager of the San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf property if I could check in and check out instead of moving to another local hotel. She told me that it was perfectly fine and that each day would count as a unique stay.

Well guess what, she was dead wrong and I lost three nights credit! Lesson learned on my end. When in doubt never trust a manager who is trying to fill rooms. I don't carry the Diamond rule book with me but I was dumb for trusting this person. I suppose that when in doubt call the Diamond Desk directly.

Tex

Argh! Sorry that happened to you, Tex! That manager should be forced to sleep on a bed of nails for... three nights!

The alternative to checking the fine print on Hilton's T&Cs is check right here on FT... :D

I was unfamiliar with this rule and asked the manager of the San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf property if I could check in and check out instead of moving to another local hotel. She told me that it was perfectly fine and that each day would count as a unique stay.

Well guess what, she was dead wrong and I lost three nights credit! Lesson learned on my end. When in doubt never trust a manager who is trying to fill rooms. I don't carry the Diamond rule book with me but I was dumb for trusting this person. I suppose that when in doubt call the Diamond Desk directly.

Tex

Nothing stops you, however, to go from one Hilton to another. Each is considered separate. Some call this a matress run! I call it a lot of work. :)


Depends on where you are doing it, I do it at one place I have to visit a couple of times a year where a Hampton and a Homewood are right next to each other, I don't even have to move the car. I check into the Homewood, usually bringing what I need for the next day, in the morning check out, put what I wore in the car, do what I have to do, then that night check in the other.

The benefits if you need stays to make status and it's the only way you can get them, far outweigh the work involved.

If you're someplace like the Washington DC area where there are Hilton/ES/Doubletrees all over the place, it's not much trouble to change every evening, so you can do four stays in four days easily.

On one occasion, that netted me 50,000 bonus HHonors points on top of those earned for the hotel bills. Ah, the gold old days . . . :)