vrzz123

If I book 6 nights using points at radiison room using my club carlson credit card and get the second night free and then my husband books the next 5 nights at same hotel using points with his club carlson card and gets the 2nd night free and then I book the next 2 nights at same hotel using points - will I get that last night free even though I already got a 2nd night free from the first 6 nights reservation

FindAWay

Welcome to FT vrzz123!

Assuming you both have the Club Carlson CC with this benefit, you both get the benefit when you make separate reservations with each of your accounts. So, it sounds like you are doing (or, you should be doing) something like this:

Night 1: Wife 2-night pts. booking with CC CC
Night 2: Free Night from Wife 2-night pts. booking with CC CC
Night 3: Husband 2-night pts. booking with CC CC
Night 4: Free Night from Husband 2-night pts. booking with CC CC
Night 5: Wife 2-night pts. booking with CC CC
Night 6: Free Night from Wife 2-night pts. booking with CC CC

...and so on if your reservation is more than 6 nights (so you use the minimum number of points when booking)

Does that make sense?

vrzz123

Thanks has anybody tried doing what the poster is suggesting - if I book 10 nites with points book every 2 nights under my club carlson visa and every 2 nights with my hubby's visa and get 5 free nights in total if I alternate the point reservations between me and my hubby

FindAWay

From FT guidelines...
"Your question arises from time-to-time in this forum. One thread which discusses it is here (New Club Carlson Credit Card (now available)) and using FlyerTalk's advanced search feature to search this forum with the terms "free night" will yield other threads. If you are finding difficulty using the search feature, please send a private message or email to a forum moderator for help."

For Example:

DrSifu

"Only one Bonus Award Night will be available for a stay of two or more consecutive nights at the same hotel (early checkout with one night stay not eligible), regardless of the total length of stay, the total number of reservations or the number of check-in/check-outs"

Sounds like the best you could do is a total of four nights, two under your name and two under your husband's name.

You run the risk of them enforcing the T&Cs if you try more.

vrzz123

Do you mean the best I can do is get one free night under my account and one free fort husband

Neil35

Will OP be reserving for consecutive nights? Look at her reservations (with random dates plugged in):

October 2,3 (2 nights) -- get October 3 free
October 6,7 (2 nights) -- get October 7 free

Can you say these are consecutive nights of a single stay?

FindAWay

Not really (I disagree with DrSifu's reading of the language he quoted) - these are not consecutive nights...as Neil35 points out...continuing my example above, you'll see that the stays for EACH INDIVIDUAL MEMBER have nights that are *not* consecutive

WIFE'S BOOKINGS
Night 1: Wife 2-night pts. booking with CC CC
Night 2: Free Night from Wife 2-night pts. booking with CC CC
--2 day gap-- [making Wife's Bookings NOT consecutive nights]
Night 5: Wife 2-night pts. booking with CC CC
Night 6: Free Night from Wife 2-night pts. booking with CC CC

HUSBAND'S BOOKINGS
Night 3: Husband 2-night pts. booking with CC CC
Night 4: Free Night from Husband 2-night pts. booking with CC CC
--2 day gap-- [making Husband's Bookings NOT consecutive nights]
Night 7: Husband 2-night pts. booking with CC CC
Night 8: Free Night from Husband 2-night pts. booking with CC CC

Assuming Husband is Wife's additional guest and Wife is Husband's additional guest, they will get 4 of 8 consecutive nights (cumulatively) for "free" -- note that there is the slight possibility the hotel would make them check-in and check-out (with possible room changes) between each booking.

arizonawildcat

Has anyone tried booking more than a 4 night stay using the method above? I have only done a four night trip with my wife and I each holding 2-night reservations and then having the hotel merge once we checked in. Worked great as we both hold the CC Visa card and only paid the two nights (using points too) for the four night stay.

If this above strategy worked...you essentially could stay at a hotel property in perpetuity for just half the cost, alternating back and forth every two nights.

Jim055

I agree with DrSifu interpetation:
Basically, two nights per account per hotel. Simple solution is to pick a second hotel and repeat. More complex, and what I do, is a biz account for me and a second biz account for wife. Total four accounts equal 8 nights max per hotel.

FindAWay

Club Carlson's website will give me the 2nd night free on both of two separate reservations at the same hotel for non-consecutive nights. DrSifu's and Jim055's interpretation imply that the website shouldn't allow me to do this -- their interpretation seems to be that the 2nd night free benefit applies only once per hotel per cardmember.

With respect to the language quoted above, IMO, the "at the same" hotel language means one can't hotel-hop each night and get the 2nd night free; the "regardless of the total length of stay" language means one gets only 1 free night for a 2-night stay, a 3-night stay, or any longer stay; and the "total number of reservations" language means one can't get the benefit of a free night on 2 separate back-to-back reservations at the same hotel.

This is not a new discussion - from the main thread to which I linked above:

And, there's more discussion about the language near the end of this thread, and in the end of this thread (Question about last night free)

Neil35

Rules for the Club Carlson Visa Program & Benefits ("Card Benefit Program")
http://www.clubcarlsonvisa.com/credi...PremierCard.do
The rules are very clear.

1. You will receive the last of the Award Nights of that stay free.
2. One Bonus Award Night will be available for a stay of two or more consecutive nights at the same hotel.

It is clear to me that for each award stay you get the last night free. If you book 2 non-contiguous stays, you get one free night out of each stay.

Jim055

In this game, the lawyers can all go home. The CC reservation computer is the ultimate judge, jury and executioner. If it actually books you into multiple free nights at the same hotel... then you're good to go.

Jetsfan

I made consecutive reservations using two accounts, and every other night was free (total stay was four nights). No problem booking online, and no problem connecting the reservations so there was no need to check out.

Tizzette

It seems clear that the intent is that individual hotels not be burdened by having to give more than one free bonus night per hotel per member.