Originally Posted by
Orwaid
Hi -
We agree on most of it --- OK room, iffy exterior & corridor.
I would say Red Roof + property tend to be a little nicer.
They usually run two promotions yearly - a Jan/Feb "Stay 2x, get one free" promo and a June-August "Stay 3x, get one free" promo.
They both work the same way -- if you hit the prescribed # of stays (as opposed to nights), they automatically top up your account to 6000 points, thus generating a free night e-cert.
I was saying that if you can get to 6000 points before the last required stay, then that generates an e-cert. the next (final) stay for the promo would then generate yet another e-cert.
Certainly cc spend would make it much easier to time something like this.
Do you mean that the trick is to max out at just over 6,000 points just BEFORE the third stay, have 6,000 points deducted (as it seems to automatically generate a cert) and then get a second cert for the third night? Otherwise, if you're close to (but under) 6,000 points going into the third stay, you get the cert, but they also take all of your points (up to 6,000)? That seems like a strange way of doing this in that if people don't game the system, on average they're getting only 3,000 extra points for the third stay, with the actual number varying between 1 and 6,000.