yeah got the same email...oh well..its been a good 12k points...i guess I have enough for a Grand slam hit

Nooooooooooo

Just got the email... Dangit, was still 1500 points short of a grand slam hit. Any easy ways to earn a few more Best Western points?

Three options I can think of:

1. Buy them for $10 per 1,000
2. Transfer Amex MR or DC points to BW points.
3. Merge an account with someone who has the same address as you, thus combining account balances.

4. Find a property with a rate around $75 and claim the BRG. Then do that again a month later.

And I even stayed at BW a couple of times during the promotion.

What is The grand slam ?

There's a whole forum about it: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/2011-...promotion-684/

i would guess that the topguest program will slowly die off. I would think that top guest approached these travel companies with the tag line " We have this great new Social Media idea that will allow your loyalty users to check in to you facility for bonus points for just a small marketing fee to top guest" The marking staff heard "Social Media" and "Check in" and "small fee" and said we want that. then after they were in it they reviewed and see it is nothing more than a sham allowing people to check into a stie while not there and spending no money they will not renew their contracts and will chalk it up to a small social media advertising mistake.
That said I have received more than 25k to both hilton and priority club so i hope i am wrong

It gets worse. http://www.wingatehotels.com/deals-d...ffers/topguest We're going to lose another one unless they renew the deal. * Terms and Conditions

Limit 50 bonus points per day. Valid through 7/15/12.

I wish certain people (mostly bloggers but some FTers) would stop bragging about the exploits in public, they are killing this program just like another group killed Club Bing (botters). Does anyone ever stop to think about the ramifications of publishing ways to break the T&C of these programs? If you are going to do it, do it quietly and SHUT UP about it! And while some of the mainstream bloggers didn't write about the biggest exploit themselves, they allowed comments on their posts to stand (should have deleted them) which point to a blog that spoonfeeds the details. For the record, I wasn't using that one myself, I didn't even know about it until I saw it on a blog in the last few days.

Another good deal bites the dust. Don't know how much longer PC have left on their contract.

Actually it's worth it to the chains if they do it right. By participating in these programs they pick up a lot of new members they wouldn't normally have and even the max of some odd 18,000 points a year isn't enough in most programs for a decent free room (Pointbreaks excepting) and it's still shy of a free ticket on UA so people have to get miles by other means that include spending money. And once people are in the hotel, they usually spend money on food, drinks and other incidentals and if they like the hotel will recommend it to their friends and on Trip Advisor.

Starwood did the Foursquare promotion right last year, at least in theory... Bonus points only apply when you actually have a stay at the hotel.

Tiki,
I think you missed how badly people were exploiting the United topguest. Many were going to get more than 18k in a year. Pigs get slaughtered, unfortunately everything else ends up getting slaughtered along with them.

That's not quite the right expression. It should be: "Hogs get slaughtered. Pigs get fat."

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