This question is actually for all Hotel Programs and not just Hilton HHonors, but since I am going with Hilton Promo in Q2, I thought I would post it here.

My question is for all of you that do Hotel Hopping to maximize your points, how do you do your hotel hopping?

For example, if there are 2 Hilton Properties at the city that you are travelling to, do you really just go to Hilton Suites for 1 night and then the Hampton for another and go back to Hilton for the last night within the same town? What about those where the Hampton and the HGI or Homewood are really just next to each other, do you still do it? I haven't been doing my hopping this way as I thought it kind of too obvious on what you are doing and it could be against some kind of policy of the program.

The only time I do hopping within the same city is if the properties are like 30 minutes part - i.e. one at downtown and the other near by the hwy entrance. My reason for that is that if someone does question me, I can say I need to get on the hwy early in the morning and want to avoid the morning downtown traffic.

With the way that I hop, I always need a 2nd program where I hop between programs. i.e. HH to IGH, then back to HH. Then no one can question me on anything as they do not know where did I go the night between the 2 stays.

I had been doing this way for the last 6 years, but with the Q2 Promo, I really want to max out the # of free cert every 4 nights.

Any comments from the group are much appreciated.

Regards,

alc