I checked in 3 times in the last week, points hit instantly.

My BW miles hit almost instantly as well. Hilton has a little lag. But I have huge problems with Wyndham. I have checked in a number of times and have only had 1 check in post to my Wyndham account. Hubby is having the same problem as well. I'm waiting for something to show up before I try checking it with Wyndham again.

Remember, theoretically it's only the Wingate locations that count.

Just want to say for PC, same thing happened to me. About 3000 pts just posted. Also I wasn't getting United points for my checkin, so I emailed them and they fixed it for me ([email protected]).

HTH!

I have been careful, I've been checking in at Wingates. My topguest points show 250 points but Wyndham account only shows 50 points. I'm not sure where the other 200 points are. I'm waiting through the end of this month to see if they show up. Lat time they posted on the 26th. Maybe they just post once a month. At least that is what I am hoping.

I just logged into my HHonors account and saw that my past 15 or so checkins all posted en masse on the 19th. Looks like they were just backed up...

I think that checkins done by foursquare that are not counted because too far do not give you points now.

I have the opposite problem. Instead of being too far away from the property, I am too close.
This happens with foursquare, when they've got the property location in the wrong place. If you attend the property and check-in, you won't get points if foursquare believe the location is actually somewhere else.

1 out of 2 of my local Best Westerns are where they say they are, and 0 out of 1 Holiday Inns.....In fact if the Holiday Inn was where they say it is, it'd be in another country.

I've done the updates to report the bad locations, but nothing has changed so far.

Doesn't seem like much of an incentive, does it? Drats...

There is a lot of confusion here. My experience has been check in, either m.foursquare.com or on the mobile app, get points.

The points you mention are the ones that foursquare gives you. Yes if you are too far foursquare does not award you points for the checkin. These points are not related to the topguest promo points awarded for checkins. I've been standing in the actual property and had foursquare say I'm too far away--their app is just not precise enough sometimes due to GPS issues. But topguest looks at your checkins, not your foursquare points. So it seems to have an automated check that searches your registered foursqure account checkins for hotel keywords and then give you points based on this. I also sync these checkins to my facebook, but have not tested if it is actually these foursquare checkins posting to facebook that are generating the "hit" with topguest.

There are Problems:

Topguest is very sporatic in actually seeing your checkins. Sometimes I check in and immediately get an email that I was awarded points. Somtimes I check in, then later in the day I'm at a different place and I check in there, and all of a sudden it is like topguest gets "unstuck" and points from both checkins hit my email. Another issue is that their "day" ends around 3-4pm my time so a checkin around that time may count for the next day. Then when you are at the same property the next morning and I check in, you won't see an email ever because I technically already checked in that "day." This could lead to confusion and thinking that they are not correctly offering points for checkins.

Then there's the issue of waiting for them to push your points from topguest to your actual loyalty accounts. This is usually delayed days/weeks as well.

Basically: There is no way to audit this program, there is no predictable pattern of the company's behavior, there is no way to know what points have already been awarded, and there is no way to keep a good total of what points you should have. BUT it sure has been a nice way to get a boatload of points for me, so I'm just shutting up and enjoying the ride.

Many times I've thought "oh great, its over... no more points." And then the next day I get 3 emails in a row giving me points for checkins from the past two days.

I'm with you. I will not call, similiar to the mistake fare type of issues that may arise. I will take what I get - Free and easy is good. They don't owe me anything. So if my Wyndham points never show up - oh well. I will continue with those hotels that do and I will not be greedy. I do not want to kill the golden goose (or is that the golden coin program). Too much attention has been proven to be a bad thing.

some problems or ideas?

Does foursquare login + apart login to facebook --) DOuble points?

I read that people have different topguests accounts. But they give only to 1 miles-account, or do you have different miles accounts?

I've had similar issues with my TopGuest account ... I use the m.foursquare.com method to check-in (even though I am usually within 0.1 miles of a BW/HI Express/Doubletree some point during the day, so GPS should work). I've done 7 check-ins on foursquare in the past few days, but only 4 hit TopGuest. All have been "off-the-grid," but they've worked in the past so that shouldn't be an issue.

I checked in at a Doubletree at 3:59pm pacific, and it showed as same-day. However, the Best Western at 7:55pm pacific showed up as next day. So I agree that there's a late afternoon cutoff somewhere. Kind of annoying, but I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.

(Actually, I just saw that I checked in at the Doubletree at 7:30pm, then 3:59pm the next day, but they counted as the same day, so that's why it didn't count twice.)

Also, if you're worried about keywords, search for valid locations here

Lastly, I don't think using 4sq + facebook will work, since you're looking at a maximum per hotel chain within the TopGuest program per day. Different TopGuest accounts can work, but I don't want to be a target for a shutdown because of 50 pts/day, so I'm going to keep my 1. This program serves a great function ... a family member is 400 HHonors points away from 10K, which is what I'll need for a GS hit if that program returns. This is such a simple way of topping off.

The day change used to be at 12:00 GMT or 4:00 PM PST, I noticed that they did not change their clocks so it is still 4:00 PST or now 5:00 PDT for the day change.

Good idea, lets discuss all the ways we can think of that the program can be scammed!