price123

Pretty good for me as have a 7 nighter booked in Feb. Prob my last Hilton stay so will give me a good few points - reckon I'd be looking at over 100,000 points from one stay, possibly 150k

bobsyouruncle

I wouldn't be impressed with this promo as most of my stays are typically 1 or 2 nights. However, I can see that this would benefit "night elites" or "point elites" as opposed to "stay elites". If this promo were true it could signal a shift in Hilton promos ideology from ones that encourage hotel hopping (such as the free cert after x number of stays) to promos that encourage longer stays (such as the current promo). Perhaps there is a backlash from hotel owners who have seen too many 1 night-hotel hopping guests.

The real problem for Hilton will be if Starwood, Marriott or Hyatt come up with a strong promo such as free night certs.

sdsearch

The whole Hilton program, not just the last few promos, encourages 1-night stays, because of Points + Miles, especially for those who use Points + Fixed Miles. Even though the Points part may go up with multi-night stays, the Fixed Miles part never does (and for Southwest, you can't do Variable Miles!).

So I've always hotel-hopped with Hilton because of the + Miles part, not because of the promo part. In fact, after many years of being in Hilton HHonors, I only did my first two-night stay at a Hilton HHonors property this past fall, due to the Sundays promo. (It took 4x points to overcome the fact that I would earn half the Southwest credits with this promo. I don't even know if 2x points would have done it.)

Furthermore, a lot of my trips where I can use Hilton HHonors properties are road trips where each night is hours of driving past the previous night, and so promo or no promo, staying even just 2 nights is usually out of the question. This one case I mentioned in the previous paragraph was a rare exception, where one town was in the middle of where I was traveling, and so was reasonably accessible for two nights a row. But I couldn't make it three nights (due to where I was on previous and successive nights), no matter how much I might have wanted more points.

(I need three consecutive hotel nights many weeks of the year in Orange County CA, but they're all paid on my own dime, and Hilton HHonors is these days never at all price competitive with, say, Priority Club in the Anaheim area. So I can't justify spending $$$/night instead of $$/night just to earn triple HHonors points, especially when the Priority Club promos are even better.)

theblakefish

I agree that this promo would be a big <yawn> if it is true, but I am waiting to see the official announcement before I go and complain.

To me, with the complete and utter devaluation of HH points, the only promos to me worth anything are those with Q3FN or similar certs, a-la Q2 promo :-: YMMV

troyintn

They are pretty much copying what SPG has been doing.

sarah.telaviv

It sounds great to me, this Hilton promotion of quadruple points for 1st quarter 2011. I am someone who stays at hotels long term, and I have requested over and over that Hilton appropriately award those people who are loyal and don-t just stop in overnight but check in and stay awhile. I really hope your little birdie is correct so I can finalize my plans.

Dovster

Shalom, Sarah, and welcome to FlyerTalk.

I, too, don't care if it is a two day stay or a two week stay. Once I get unpacked there is no way that I am going to go through the trouble of packing up again and moving to another hotel just to get some extra points or a higher status.

(I also don't get into aluminum tubes and fly to places just to turn around and fly back -- even if it would mean that I would be given a Diamond card instead of my current Platinum.)

majorwibi

Another promotion that will screw people living out of extended stay hotels... Lovely

HPN-HRL

It's clever of them to schedule this promo in Q1. Those of us who keep our status by stays probably don't know our entire year's hotel plans yet. In my case I have to decide if I should gamble on triple points now with the downide that I may have to book a couple of cheap stays late in the year for each Q1 three-day booking to keep Diamond in the future. I'll have to think about this...

justinc848

How would you reward them? 4x points isn't enough?

Seabilly

Nice. I have travel already jelling for the first quarter and it is all stays of 3-4 days. If this becomes official, I'll make sure they are all for 4 days.

hyflyer

This works for me.

teemuflyer

I'll take anything given and be happy it was offered.

chitownflyer

^. I will make an exception though if I might easily earn a Q3FN.

Keyser

no mattress hops for me but all my work related stays are 1 or 2 nights....based on this i am not going to get much out of this promo....