pinniped

Hmmm.

I'm existing Silver, and I was offered this email - 4 stays to Gold, no bonuses.

My wife has no status. She was snail-mailed a new Gold Card, with an offer to make 4 stays for 50,000 bonus points.

We will make 4 HH stays to earn the bonus points. Only downside to not doing them in my name is that I will cycle out of HH status. Right now, our HH stays are all leisure, so I don't really need my own Gold card. If I start traveling on biz again (and choose HH over MR or *W - unlikely), we'll either merge accounts or I'll find a way to get Gold then.

RDY3238

I was thinking along those lines, but judging from the other threads, I don't think its gonna happen. Please post if you get any joy....

[This message has been edited by RDY3238 (edited 10-09-2003).]

SEA_Tigger

The 50K seems to be for first-timers. I was sent a Gold Card unsolicited last year with the 50K bonus (which I did).

I also received this email, having completed by 11th stay for the year last Sunday.

I have no more planned stays, but I might just do it for the heck of it if I can find some really decent rates in SEA or PDX.

SFOLIS

Well, after getting the same e-mail, I did some caculation. I have 12 stays exactly. How kind of them.

RDY3238

Pity - If they threw in some points, I might do this....but my 2004 strategy was already decided on burnin' not earnin' and going to Hyatt (when they open their London property of course)

RFEngineer

I received a slightly different mailout. I received an offer for Silver status + 50K points after 4 stays for joining Hilton Honors. The offer came through with an American AAdvantange logo on the top of the card.

Funny thing, I've already made Diamond this year (lots of Hampton/Homewood stays).

But the bottom of the offer letter said "..if your are already an HHonors member, please notify us so that we can apply this offer to your current account..". So I did, the agent said she was putting the new HHonors number (with the Silver offer) UNDER my existing account so that I could get the bonus points.

I've already made 3 stays under this deal, the first has posted with the 5K point bonus to my existing Diamond account.

Mr. July

Same thing happened to me (but was existing Gold to new Gold). Had to merge my old account into the new one to get the points offer. A WORD OF WARNING - some of my profile preferences got lost in the translation. I stayed at Bally's under the new acct # and even though I presented my WN info for the double dip at check-in, HHonors gave me 500 Amtrak points instead (I have several FF accounts in the profile, but had always had WN as the default). HHonors fixed this (and without the hassle I was expecting), but it was a bit of a pain.

MilesMonster

I receieved the email as well. I'm a silver with 5 stays this year. I could conceivably get gold with two planned trips coming up and putting in two more pleasure stays. There are a lot of Hampton properties around Michigan with $59/night rates to get gold without spending a lot of money. I have yet to decide if having gold is worth spending the money. Most of my few stays are in HGI/Hampton properties anyway, so the benefits are limited for me.

SkiAdcock

Well I'm a Silver & didn't get the email, and I actually will have the 4 stays. Any thoughts - call them & see? Was it a special email? I thought I got the normal weekly thing & might have deleted it since I wasn't staying at a Hilton this week.

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Sharon

RFEngineer

posted by Mr. July
Maybe that's the difference, when I called in the customer service rep merged the new account into my existing account. She even said that I didn't have to worry about keeping track of the new number.

Mr. July

Wish I'd gotten the same rep - I was told that I had to take the new account to get the bonus.

nobody-elite

I rec'd a notice about Fast track to Diamond...

Because you are a valued member, you're invited to take a special
"Fast Track" to Hilton HHonors® Diamond VIP status.

Complete just ten stays or 20 nights between October 15, 2003, and
January 15, 2004, and you'll automatically earn HHonors Diamond
VIP status, which normally requires 28 stays per calendar year.

acysb87

received the same note ,nobody-wlite.
I have 1 stay this year with Hilton.I don't know the reason for their giving the status away.When I heard of all the giveaways,i decided not to renew my gold satus this year.An issue of fairness to me.I earned gold the hard (actual stays) way.

markus

Hello Denflyer!

Could you forward this promotion e-mail to my adress ([email protected]). Perhaps I have a chance to use this promo to keep my gold status for the next year.

Best regards
Markus

Tazmania

Guess its a targeted promotion, so useless for you.