5/17-8/15/12: 2 stays = 8,000 points or $50 gift card
#19
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Quebec and Ontario, Canada
Programs: AC*E50, SPG/Marriott Plat
Posts: 1,917
I am currently at Quality Hotel Axel opera in Paris. Just saw flyers about a double point promo for summer... Hope it's just differents promo for differents area...
#21
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: ORD, MDW or MKE
Programs: American and Southwest. Hilton and Marriott hotels primarily.
Posts: 6,459
#22
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: too far from the airport
Posts: 3,297
I read the T&Cs (what little there is of it), and it appears that previously booked reservations aren't excluded, but I'm unclear whether this promo is limited to hotels in the US and Canada (you have to be US- or Canada-based to participate, as usual), or if it's valid anywhere Choice has hotels. Does anyone know more?
#23
Join Date: May 2010
Location: DFW
Programs: American - Platinum Pro, Marriott - Platinum
Posts: 479
Gift Card vs redeeming for hotel stay
For the points earned thru this promo, while the $50 gift card can only be redeemed until 9/30, what if I'd rather redeem the 8000 points for hotel stay?
Is there a time limit to that too?
Checking as not mentioned in the promo.
Thanks in advance.
Is there a time limit to that too?
Checking as not mentioned in the promo.
Thanks in advance.
#24
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: DEN - Ft. Collins
Programs: PC Plat, HHonors Silver
Posts: 145
#25
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,932
Now, which hotels are 8000 points can come and go too, but the ability to use hotel points (at whatever rate it is) is not expiring in general (and when and if each hotel's rate changes is specific to that hotel, and thus not related to this promo).
Try not to think of it, though, strictly as redeeming 8000 for a hotel stay. You may or may not be able to do that when the time comes, depending on where you want to stay and when. Think of it as accumulating points at the rate of 8000 points for every two stays, and then redeeming them at whatever rate you do find you can redeem them at.
#26
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,932
is it uncapped for everyone, including non-elites?
Curiously, the T&Cs don't explain whether you can earn the 8000 points an unlimited number of times during this promo. Now, once I registered, I did get a page which said that. But I'm Diamond Elite at Choice, and so I cannot tell whether this page was specific to me or not. (There have been some promos in the past where high-enough elites could earn unlimited, but lower elites and non-elites were somewhat capped.)
Can someone who's not elite and who registered for this promo please report whether their screen said they could earn an unlimited number of times? Thanks.
Can someone who's not elite and who registered for this promo please report whether their screen said they could earn an unlimited number of times? Thanks.
#27
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: All over
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You can now begin to earn an unlimited amount of gift cards during the promotion
#29
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: ORD, MDW or MKE
Programs: American and Southwest. Hilton and Marriott hotels primarily.
Posts: 6,459
You will only be allowed to purchase the number of gift cards for 8,000 that you actually earn. So until you have stayed twice and received the bonus, you will not see any available at 8,000.
Last edited by lougord99; May 23, 2012 at 2:29 am
#30
Join Date: Feb 2012
Programs: Airtran A+ Rewards, Delta Sky Miles, US Airways Dividend Miles, Marriott Rewards, Priority Club
Posts: 37
$50 gas card - can I do this multiple times?
And is a stay REALLY for just one night ? If I stay four nights at the Comfort Inn here in town, will I get 16000 points or $100 in gas? Or do I have to check-in/check-out to trigger it.
Marriott says "regardless of check-out activity" in their promotions, too, but they don't really mean it.
Marriott says "regardless of check-out activity" in their promotions, too, but they don't really mean it.