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Old Jan 16, 2015 | 8:55 am
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Originally Posted by mapu
If you decide to stay at a Hilton property keep in mind that there is a 100,000 point maxiumum per stay except when you stay at Homewood Suites or Home2 Suites.
Good point. With any program, two things might happen:

(1) the hotel itself will want to check you out & in once every 30 days for their own legal/accounting purposes
(2) it might be in your own interest to check out & in at more frequent intervals, such as when your nights stayed would reach a status threshold, you're doing a nights-based promotion, or (obviously) if you're closing in on that 100k max at HH.

(Check outs/ins at the same hotel don't generally help you on stay-based promotions. Promotions still count it as 1 long stay unless you go somewhere else for a night.)

When I had a long-term RI stay near a client site a few years ago, the hotel gave me a monthly rate and we did a check-out each month. Also helped with my own expense reporting and had the side benefit of posting points/EQN to my account on a regular basis.
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