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Old Dec 2, 2013 | 1:58 pm
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travelisfree
 
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Originally Posted by cowboyguy
No, I don't currently have any hotel points. No status with anyone. 2 days stay in Houston & Orlando each.
Well, I don't know what your budget is or future travel plans... But I would go about this one of a few ways.

1) I would try to complete the IHG big win promo.

Then go over to the IHG Promo Thread and enter all the codes from the last 3 or so pages (instructions are in the first post).
This will net you at least 80,000 points. On PointBreaks that's enough for 16 nights. It requires two saturdays though. So even on 4 nights you may be 1 saturday short.
Actually, I just looked at your post, and you would hit 0 saturdays. So that would be an issue. But you could still net 50,000 points. In my opinion, it's worth it.

2) Try to look for Best Rate Guarantees. Like IHG gives a free night.
Basically, you book with IHG and submit a claim for a lower rate. If approved you get a free night.
Same with choice.
Hilton gives a $50 amex gift card. If you find a $50 hilton, it's basically free via rebate. In orlando, it's totally possible.
Use sites that compare hotels across multiple sites, like kayak, wego, trivago. Kayak even sorts by brand.
You can hotel hop this way and get the stay free. But it can be a lot of digging.
Other hotels have good best rate guarantees too. I mean, Marriott, Omni, Club Carlson... they'll give 25% off of the lower rate for the entire stay. Which is nearly the 30% cyber monday sale anyways.

Hotel Chatter has a list of Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales...
http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/20...ay_Hotel_Deals

What else... I guess it's too late to sign up for a credit card.

Honestly, all my paid stays have gone to the big win in the last few months. You can also trade miles for points on coupon connection. You can get really good rates. Like 12k miles for 50k club carlson points.

Hope that helps some...
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