Kick Off 2019 with Points Unlimited Promo
Dec 19, 2018, 12:27 pm
#33
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Homeless
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Hum... no. Lots of people are not aware of promos and/or do not bother to sign up. So we benefit from the promo while the masses do not.
Dec 19, 2018, 12:34 pm
#34
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Homeless
Programs: Hyatt Glob; Hilton Dia; Marriott AMB; Accor Dia; IHG Dia Amb; GHA Tit
Posts: 4,835
You are forgetting to account for the online booking bonus, the welcome bonus points, and if you are going to hit 40+ nights for the year there are also the 10k pts for each 10 nights so 1k pts per night.
I believe if you stay at hotels 5k pts per night, your net cost is negative.
Dec 19, 2018, 12:37 pm
#35
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Rochester, MN
Programs: UA Silver, Hilton HHonors Diamond, IHG Plat
Posts: 1,830
So. If your counter resets in the middle of a long stay, and you don't get credit for the remainder of the stay, your going to want to hit the nail on the head and check out Day-of so you don't get hosed right?
Dec 19, 2018, 1:24 pm
#38
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: RSW
Programs: Delta - Silver; UA - Silver; HHonors - Diamond; IHG - Spire Ambassador; Marriott Bonvoy - Titanium
Posts: 14,185
Why are you so overly conservative
You are forgetting to account for the online booking bonus, the welcome bonus points, and if you are going to hit 40+ nights for the year there are also the 10k pts for each 10 nights so 1k pts per night.
I believe if you stay at hotels 5k pts per night, your net cost is negative.
You are forgetting to account for the online booking bonus, the welcome bonus points, and if you are going to hit 40+ nights for the year there are also the 10k pts for each 10 nights so 1k pts per night.
I believe if you stay at hotels 5k pts per night, your net cost is negative.
Dec 19, 2018, 1:56 pm
#39
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: RTM
Programs: TK*G, AB G ;), HH D
Posts: 87
No idea about the online booking bonus, but the MyWay benefit for Doubletrees actually gives you the missing 1k per stay So staying for free (albeit without breakfast).
Living nearby a 5k DT property, booking every other night is a good option for free Diamond for almost 2 years
Alternatively trying to maximise the length of Diamond using rollover nights - if one would book a room for 120 days of the campaign the result will be:
Cost 120k x 5/night = 600k points
Bonus 12 x 10k = 120k points
Bonus 1k points per stay
=Cost of 479k point, to get HH diamond for almost 3 years (Diamond would be reached in mid-February, then 80 nights would roll over to 2020, the last 40 nights would roll over to 2021)
So staying for free (albeit without breakfast).Living nearby a 5k DT property, booking every other night is a good option for free Diamond for almost 2 years
Alternatively trying to maximise the length of Diamond using rollover nights - if one would book a room for 120 days of the campaign the result will be:
Cost 120k x 5/night = 600k points
Bonus 12 x 10k = 120k points
Bonus 1k points per stay
=Cost of 479k point, to get HH diamond for almost 3 years (Diamond would be reached in mid-February, then 80 nights would roll over to 2020, the last 40 nights would roll over to 2021)
Dec 19, 2018, 2:55 pm
#40
Join Date: Nov 2010
Programs: Hilton Diamond + Marriott Gold
Posts: 70
My take on this is that I am earning 7000 points for a one night stay at a $100/night Doubletree. (1000 base + 1000 diamond bonus + 1000 diamond myway + 2000 promo + 2000 more, prorated, assuming I do five stays).
I like it.
I like it.
Dec 19, 2018, 6:35 pm
#42
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Here
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Posts: 1,496
No idea about the online booking bonus, but the MyWay benefit for Doubletrees actually gives you the missing 1k per stay So staying for free (albeit without breakfast).
Living nearby a 5k DT property, booking every other night is a good option for free Diamond for almost 2 years
Alternatively trying to maximise the length of Diamond using rollover nights - if one would book a room for 120 days of the campaign the result will be:
Cost 120k x 5/night = 600k points
Bonus 12 x 10k = 120k points
Bonus 1k points per stay
=Cost of 479k point, to get HH diamond for almost 3 years (Diamond would be reached in mid-February, then 80 nights would roll over to 2020, the last 40 nights would roll over to 2021)
So staying for free (albeit without breakfast).Living nearby a 5k DT property, booking every other night is a good option for free Diamond for almost 2 years
Alternatively trying to maximise the length of Diamond using rollover nights - if one would book a room for 120 days of the campaign the result will be:
Cost 120k x 5/night = 600k points
Bonus 12 x 10k = 120k points
Bonus 1k points per stay
=Cost of 479k point, to get HH diamond for almost 3 years (Diamond would be reached in mid-February, then 80 nights would roll over to 2020, the last 40 nights would roll over to 2021)
Dec 19, 2018, 7:04 pm
#43
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: CONUS
Programs: HHonors, United, Delta
Posts: 828
Dec 19, 2018, 8:54 pm
#44
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Homeless
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Posts: 4,835
Dec 20, 2018, 8:52 am
#45
Join Date: May 2009
Location: EUG
Programs: AS MVP, AA MM, HH Diamond, MR Gold
Posts: 8,218
Just checking...you only need one multi-night stay to change a run of single nights from nights to stays?
For example, if my trip, in nights, is 1,2,1,1,1, - that is 5 stays, and gets the 10K pt bonus, even though only one stay was not a single night? Whereas a trip of all single nights would need 10 to get the bonus?
For example, if my trip, in nights, is 1,2,1,1,1, - that is 5 stays, and gets the 10K pt bonus, even though only one stay was not a single night? Whereas a trip of all single nights would need 10 to get the bonus?