SPG (UK) Amex Free Night Certificate & Suite Night Awards • Stackable?
Sep 30, 2019, 9:40 am
#1
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SPG (UK) Amex Free Night Certificate & Suite Night Awards • Stackable?
Firstly, many thanks for taking time out to read this -- I greatly appreciate it.
Would anyone know if you can use a free SPG night certificate (up to a 25,000 points max hotel) IN TANDEM with a Suite Night Award? I have 9 SNAs to use before year-end, which I’ll not achieve.
From experience at participating hotels, once a booking has been made you'd be able to notice a “Use your Suite Night Award?” query within the booking itself. But, in making a dummy booking with my free night certificate at a Renaissance hotel at Heathrow last night, no such SNA offer was noticeable within the booking, and there are certainly suites at this hotel… does anyone know if these (free cert & SNA) do stack? (Certainly, my experience is also that SNAs are usable on redemption bookings — I used one at the St Regis Osaka in Feb — but would appreciate any FT reader experiences of trying to use them in concert with a SPG free night certificate booking.)
Many thanks in advance!
Would anyone know if you can use a free SPG night certificate (up to a 25,000 points max hotel) IN TANDEM with a Suite Night Award? I have 9 SNAs to use before year-end, which I’ll not achieve.
From experience at participating hotels, once a booking has been made you'd be able to notice a “Use your Suite Night Award?” query within the booking itself. But, in making a dummy booking with my free night certificate at a Renaissance hotel at Heathrow last night, no such SNA offer was noticeable within the booking, and there are certainly suites at this hotel… does anyone know if these (free cert & SNA) do stack? (Certainly, my experience is also that SNAs are usable on redemption bookings — I used one at the St Regis Osaka in Feb — but would appreciate any FT reader experiences of trying to use them in concert with a SPG free night certificate booking.)
Many thanks in advance!
Sep 30, 2019, 11:42 am
#2
Join Date: Dec 2016
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Nothing about this scenario should prevent you using a SNA. A booking with a credit card certificate is the same as a redeemed points redemption. Both result in a e-certificate attached to your reward booking.
Why you cannot see any availability for this booking is something to ask the Lurker team here or on Twitter.
Edited: Removed incorrect statement on UK Amex.
Why you cannot see any availability for this booking is something to ask the Lurker team here or on Twitter.
Edited: Removed incorrect statement on UK Amex.
Last edited by MrM2016; Oct 1, 2019 at 10:42 am
Sep 30, 2019, 1:31 pm
#3
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought that you could possibly get a credit card cert (assuming your annual spend reaches the necessary milestone)?
Sep 30, 2019, 1:38 pm
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Oct 1, 2019, 7:50 am
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Nothing about this scenario should prevent you using a SNA. A booking with a credit card certificate is the same as a redeemed points redemption. Both result in a e-certificate attached to your reward booking.
Why you cannot see any availability for this booking is something to ask the Lurker team here or on Twitter.
Finally, I recommend adjusting the title. It gives somewhat misleading hope to those of us with the SPG UK Amex that we might get a credit card cert!
Why you cannot see any availability for this booking is something to ask the Lurker team here or on Twitter.
Finally, I recommend adjusting the title. It gives somewhat misleading hope to those of us with the SPG UK Amex that we might get a credit card cert!
As mentioned above, a free night certificate in the UK is actually what I am talking about and have received -- spend £25k on the card and you will get a certificate good for Cat 1-4 hotels. So, there is a hope afoot.
Oct 1, 2019, 7:50 am
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Oct 1, 2019, 10:57 am
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All the best