Originally Posted by
TallestHotelInJapan
One would think so. But it happened a while back to a friend of mine that he booked the room, let's say from 1st until 7th. He checked in on Friday 1st, left town on Sunday night and came back the next Friday 7th for check-out. The room was occupied during the whole week. That guy asked to not upgrade and not give lounge access in order to not cheat the system. So it was a standard room. The hotel finally refused to credit the whole seven nights "because he was not physically" there during all days. So, based on that saying, one could end up without night credits if one is not all the time in the room. Or was that an isolated incident?
We're talking here about 1-night-
stay istuations.
We were talking about stay creidts, not night credits.
Certaily long stays are
completely different.
Many hotel programs, including SPG, allow you to get status with fewer stays than nights, so there's sense in those programs, including SPG, to do one "mattress run" consisting of a many-night stay, because you'd have to pay way way more than doing a bunch of separate, non-contontiguous, one-night stays.
For SPG Gold, it's 10 stays (which can be one-night stays) or 25 nights, whichever comes first. For SPG PLat, it's 25 stays (which can be one-night stays) or 50 nights, whichever comes first.
So I don't see why anyone in their right mind would use this technique for a multi-night stay at SPG.
Yes, with a multi-night stay, housekeeping will check the room* before 7 nights are done. But on a one-night stay, housekeeping doesn't come into your room at 1 am to see if you are still there, do they??? Think about the difference, it's a huge difference between how a one-night stay is handled and how a many-night stay is handled.
* Some hotels have programs where you can "opt out of" housekeeping for a certain number of days in a row, and that might help reduce the chances of them figuring out you're not there. But (a) you'd have to be at such a hotel, (b) you'd have to participate in that optional program, and (c) at some hotels there might be a limit of how many days in a row you can do this, and if that's less than the total duration of your stay, then it won't help (if you don't come back multiple times).