2 Stays or 1 ?
 

I am travelling to Cardiff and have booked a twin room for me and my son for 2 nights,my wife and daughter are then joining us for 1 night so i have made another booking for 1 night in a family room.
Any chance this will gett under the radar and count as 2 stays or merge both bookings as one?

I have done this before and the second booking didn't register at all on my account. I had to contact Hhonors to get the second stay added to my account. All that happened was the points for the first booking were modified and it counted as one stay as I expected. The system seems to only let you have one stay when booking multiple rooms over the same nights. You might get lucky but don't expect it.

I would say that there is little chance that it will count as more than 1 stay.

You're staying in one room for two nights, then a different room the third night? You should get credit for all the money, three nights, and one stay. The hotel might (depending on how busy it is) give you the same room for all three nights.

Sorry, I misunderstood. Thought you had 2 rooms for the last night. In this case, I would say definitely 3 nights, 1 stay, as they will merge the 2 bookings into one.

You'll get the points for both rooms but you'll only get the stay credit/ recognition for the 1st room... i.e. you're account will have 2 nights 1 stay credited.

It's often suggested you need to ask the front desk to merge the folios onto one to get the points for both rooms, although personally I've still always had to phone HHonors to get the credit for the second room.

EDIT:

Sorry I'm now confused by above posts...

If it's 1 room for 2 nights followed by a third night on the separate reservation then it'll be 3 nights one stay.

If it's 1 room for 2 nights and a second room for your wife and daughter on that second night too, then it'll be as my post above - 1 stay 2 nights (ie. no stay credit for the second room but for points).

Another question about stays.

If I have a paid stay for two nights, followed by an award stay for 1 night, followed by a paid stay for two nights at the same property, will I earn two stays or will it all be merged into one?

All one stay if at the same property. If you do the one night award stay somewhere else it will be three stays.

I didn't think that award stays received stay credit at all...

Hilton reward stays earn stay credit.
From the terms and conditions:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hilto...ing-stays.html

i travel with groups alot. being in the service we travel from east coast to west coast at least once a month. with group of 18 to 24 people.

im planning on making a reservation as follows.

April 11 - April 15 (4Nights) / (4 Rooms)

April 14 - April 15 (1Night) / (5 Rooms)

All under my name and all under my gov credit card. HHonors Specialist said it would only count for 1 stay and 4 nights and will only get hhonors points for 2 rooms only.

is this correct? im getting 9 Rooms total...

Yes.
From the terms and conditions(you can review them yourself here):
You can negotiate event planner points with the hotel.
http://hhonors3.hilton.com/en/events/planner/index.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hilto...et-points.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hilto...-thread-7.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hilto...ggestions.html

If you put all the rooms on one folio, you should get credit for all the money spent (you certainly will if you use a Hilton credit card for their points).

No. The MAXIMUM is only 2 rooms points credit, no matter how many rooms you put on the folio. See the exact T&C jerry a. Laksa quoted

He has to use his government credit card. So no extra points from charging the rooms.

2 rooms points credit, but full dollar credit.