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Old Mar 17, 2016 | 1:38 pm
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Originally Posted by shorthauldad
No, you can't earn on overlapping stays.
This.

A few years back, my wife and I were meeting for vacation. Had a 7-night stay in Hawaii, booked under my account. I got stranded at ORD instead of meeting my wife on the west coast and flying to OGG together. United put me up at the ORD Hilton for the night, meanwhile my wife made her way to Hawaii...

A few weeks later, I noticed that the Hawaii stay hadn't posted. Because the ORD Hilton stay posted first, and thanks to the single night overlap, I was blocked out for the entire Hawaii stay.

Needless to say, a quick phone call took care of everything...I think they even gave me the miniscule points for incidentals from the ORD Hilton. The difference was comical, like 300 points at the ORD Hilton, versus like 50,000 in Hawaii.

While I don't think of the Hilton computer system as being savvy (quite the opposite), it is quite shrewd at this particular function.
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