Originally Posted by
myfrogger
I've inquired a half dozen times or so at various hotels when they were offering gift certificates for sale along with some other promo. Each time the hotels told me that no points or stay credit would be given so I've never purchased any. However, I don't see why you couldn't get points for incidentals and thus stay credit as well. When I'm on a free stay of any kind I always make a point to charge something to my room. Be it internet access, a phone call, a meal, etc; it doesn't matter. Worst case scenario you will get credit for the incidentals which is fine with me most of the time!
Agreed.
About the only option, though, at Hampton Inns generally is to charge a long distance call to your room.
While not a gift certificate, it is interesting that when I used two of the
Hawaii Red Cross certs for a stay, they simply posted as two $75 credits against the bill and I received points on the total folio