<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Shareholder:
The quarterly update bonus was done away with for just this abusive reason. Given your balance, I am quite pleased to see you did not redeem your points earlier this year when they would have been worth 30% more. You might just as well let your devalued accounts lapse, given your interest in making any use of the points. In a whole year, it is curious that you've not been able to make a single stay at a Hilton. I hope this does not indicate you are ill and have not been in good enough health to venture beyond your home. However, just curious why you ever bothered to amass all these points if you have no interest in using them, or staying at Hiltons?</font>
Well, I can't answer for the original poster, but I know someone who's in a similar situation, except there the factors are:
1. He used to travel on business while stationed in the US. Both on business and on vacations it was mostly suburban locations, so Hampton and sometimes HGI.
2. Now he's been transferred to Europe. He no longer travels on business. On vacations it's suburban locations, where (due to lack of Hamptons or HGI or any equivalent; he's not in Scandic territory btw) there are no Hilton family hotels for him to stay in. Furthermore, he can't get the Visa because he's not in the US. And he's going to be in Europe several years. His points are only around 100kish, and he did try burning them before moving, but ran into availability problems so just paid for his last stay in the US (thus instead of burning he earned!).
Any suggestions for someone like that?
(FYI, I am HHonors Gold myself, usually staying just at or slightly over 16 stays a year, similarly mostly Hampton or HGI because mostly suburban and on my own dimes. But fortunately I'm not in work where being transferred overseas is a likelihood.)