Daily Getaways 2024
 

Its here, preview April 8, starts April 15

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Normal sale pricing for Hilton and IHG points 1st 2 days (as in the past). Good thing compared to Brand selling is can buy less points.

why cant I see it!!

Hmmm. Link works for me!

Same here!! Its driving me crazy. I have tried multiple times, changed browsers, gone incognito still don't see it.

Meh.

Nothing is listed yet that I'm dying to buy.

Reasonably fair value for buying HH and IHG, assuming you have a good award use in mind, but they aren't screaming deals.

Week 2 and 3 are up. Nothing exciting. No Fairmont /Accor. No Loews.No Omni.. Maybe I'll try for Marriott gift cards. No great deals on points.

I didn't realize BW had gotten rid of their complimentary room upgrades. They used to be my mid-tier hotel go-to. Now I don't see much point. HH seems somewhat interesting to me, but overall, it's just a huge middle of the road sale for me.

24 Hyatt packages.

Yeah, I'll probably pick one or two of those up.

That's unlikely. I haven't heard anyone have success with those over the past few years.

Quote:
Participating Partners

Accor
Best Western Hotels & Resorts
Caesars Entertainment
Choice Hotels International
Hilton Hotels & Resorts
Hyatt
IHG Hotels & Resorts
Marriott Bonvoy
MGM Resorts International
SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment
Universal Destinations and Experiences
The Venetian Resort Las Vegas
Wyndham Rewards

Id. This explains the hotel-focused orientation of the promotions. :) The following are those offers that are for purchasing points or gift cards.

Mon., 15 Apr 24 HH points, 50% off:

30K points, $150 (quantity 450)
100K points, $500 (quantity 225)
250K points, $1,250 (quantity 176)
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Tue., 16 Apr 24 IHG points, 50% off:

2.5K points, $12 (quantity 250)
5K points, $25 (quantity 700)
25K points, $125 (quantity 601)
50K points, $250 (quantity 549)
100K points, $500 (quantity 534)

Tue., 23 Apr 24 Marriott gift cards, 20% off:

$100 gift card, $80 (quantity 1,070)
$250 gift card, $200 (quantity 252)
$500 gift card, $400 (quantity 200)

Wed., 24 Apr 24 Best Western points, 45% off:

10K points, $55 (quantity 835)

Mon., 29 Apr 24 Choice points, 42% - 50% off:

14K points, $84 (42% off) (quantity 1,147)
28K points, $155 (46% off) (quantity 1,561)
42K points, $220 (50% off) (quantity 1,300)
55K points, $285 (50% off) (quantity 1,590)

Tue., 30 Apr 24 Hyatt points, 45% off:

30K points, $396 (quantity 3) (!)
50K points, $660 (quantity 9) (!)
80K points, $960 (quantity 12) (!)

Wed., 1 May 24 Wyndham points:

15K points, $175 (quantity 766) (% off undisclosed)

IHG points are slightly cheaper when buying direct from IHG during one of their frequent points sales -- via points.com, which often comes with ~2.5% cashback.

The Bonvoy gift cards look interesting. Hyatt looks nice at first glance but I usually value 100 Hyatt points to be worth 1$.

In the Marriott Sub-Forum there are numerous reports of some properties not accepting gift cards.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/marr...on-thread.html

Not to mention the minuscule quantity available in this "sale". :eek:

Another risk is if your card is stolen by hackers it's on you - there was someone found out someone drained their card and Marriott only compensated him with points.

I get closer to 2 cents out of Hyatt points. The Hyatt offers are really the only thing in this entire sale I have any interest in, but with so few available I doubt I'll even try.

Too many issues/risks with Marriott gift cards. Not worth a minor saving. Rather just pay for the hotel stays using a Bonvoy credit card.

I have reached the same conclusion even without any Bonvoy credit card.

The problem is that it makes sense to buy a huge amount of it, but then the bigger the amount, the more $ you would lose if someone did steal your card. Also, the interest rate is pretty high at the moment, I know you won't get 20% return on your investment, you get something like 4+% here in Scandinavia if you put them into a bank.

Another minus for non-USD earner is that USD is too high at the moment, so it makes zero sense to buy the card and use it next year (it's very likely that USD will drop a bit next year). Furthermore, the US has gotten so expensive that I found out that even if the airfare is $300 cheaper per person to fly to the US, it is still cheaper overall to visit Japan from Denmark (as long as you are ok with staying in Japanese business hotels). Not to mention the insane increase from $12 to $21 to get a ESTA just to enter the US vs. 5 EUR for the EU and the ESTA only lasts for 2 years.

I bought some Marriott a few years ago and still have them.

Easily half the 20% that I "saved" has been eroded by loss of interest.

Totally not worthwhile unless you know you will use them within a year or two.

Now Hyatt I would take in a heartbeat, but none of us have any chance.

This is something I've been thinking about, not necessarily re Marriott gift cards but regarding all of them. I regularly acquire gift cards for various airlines and other things, if I see an opportunity to get them at a good discount or with extra points/resale/trade whatever. And then I put them away until I need or remember to use them -- often not until a year or two (or I'm ashamed to say) sometimes longer. So if I buy something at say 15% discount, I feel like a genius. Until I realize by the time I use it that I've been losing at least 5.5% per year compared to saving that money in just a regular money market. Same with buying and holding points/miles. It just doesn't have the same economic formula as a few years ago when interest rates were close to nonexistent

So the Hilton points price is exactly the same as buying points right on the Hilton website.

Thanks for looking out for us, Daily Getaways.

Pathetic.

As mentioned in the previous years: the various loyalty programmes donate the goodies to the association who is free to sell them at any price. Why should they sell it below value?

To make us find value there and thus a reason to come back?

I find the point purchases to be only a matter of timing.
Just used most of my IHG points and to add some back now is not a bad thing.
I just used 550K Hilton and see no need for the rest of the year and passed.

However I agree, if none of these are real deals and the timing would not be a concern, would not even look in the future.

Huh?
 

Huh?
so Hilton is a massive donor compare to Hyatt?
and the Vegas properties with one suite get good exposure/ advertising.

perhaps Vegas hotels And Hyatt donate.
i find it hard to believe Hilton “donate” given the massive number of packages offered.
Now a processing fee for providing product placement and processing credit card payments , I can see.

But why would Hilton donate so many points?
Afterall , a. much smaller “ donation “ would yield identical exposure for the loyalty program .

The donation theory is news to me and doesn't really make any sense. Have the same question as writetorich -- why would Choice, IHG and Hilton donate so many points when Hyatt gets the same exposure with a handful of packages?

In any case, I got very lucky with the IHG sale today. Immediately grabbed 5 packages of 100k, 4 packages of 50k, and 5 packages of 25k. After finalizing payment on the 100k and 50k packages, moved on to the 25k packages on my phone, and it froze. Clicked again on my desktop, and immediately managed to grab 5x 25k again, and succeeded with payment. So 825k points total, not a bad haul! Looking forward to another couple dozen nights with discounts of 50-70% vs cash rates!

I already had 500,000 in my account, so added 2 x 100,000 and 5 x 25,000. Can still buy 150,000 this year with 100% bonus = 300,000 and that will take care of what we need :). Great for multiple room reservations at the Seafire with family during ski week.

As I didn't participate in Daily Getaways in the last few years: Does anybody remember how long it take until the points (in my case Hilton) get credited?

https://www.ustravel.org/programs/daily-getaways

Its a fund raiser, the offers are donated to the association who sells them and uses the money for its work.

That says the offers are "provided," not that they are provided free. I'd also find this hard to believe for the programs that provide so many millions (billions?) of points. I mean some years IHG has "restocked" in later weeks of the promo so what does that mean- they decided to donate more??

I get that there are tax advantages of companies donating products and services but find it hard to believe all of this is from donatiions.

In any case, I wasted 50 minutes of my life on IHG yesterday, clicking nonstop on two devices on almost every package and all were immediately in someone else's cart from 1:00:00 onwards due to automated buying. It's really not much fun when it gets like this

I was able to get packages right when it hit the time to do it. My partner was able to do it after 5 minutes since some of the packages went back into inventory if they weren't bought yet. It wasn't too difficult...

Feel free to browse their IRS filings... form 990 schedule M 'Noncash Contributions' line 25 other (industry related items): 1.282 million $ in 2022, 2 million in 2018 & 19.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonp...349309825/full

Not small change for a nonprofit that spends about 30 million a year.

Makes no sense to me. So IHG is donating $499,875 this year, HH $400,000, Marriott $216,000, Choice $1,077,453, and Hyatt $18,648? I think that's the bulk, and I'm too lazy to do the math for the various garbage offers. What do they get out of this, and why does Choice donate 50 times as much as Hyatt?

Eh?

I bought 80,000 Hyatt points in 2021 and again in 2022. Unsuccessful getting Hyatt points in 2023 but I got the Venetian grand one-bedroom suite package which I got good value out of (nothing crazy, probably a $650 savings, but it's money I would have spent anyhow).

This year I finally got the Cosmo package which I think is a steal: 3 nights in a wraparound suite with a fountain view, airport transfers, $500 F&B, and $520 spa credit (two 80-min custom massages) for $1700 all-in with minimal blackout dates.

All four years I have done the same thing: set up two browsers on my computer and one desktop-version browser on my phone. I start trying at exactly 1pm but invariably the inventory is on hold for other customers. Then I keep hitting the X and hitting the "buy now" button in a cycle of repeats until one of them hits. For the Hyatt points, it was right at the 5-minute mark both years (if whoever -- or whatever bot -- clicked buy now at 1:00:00.000 doesn't fill in the form to continue the purchase within 5 minutes, it goes back to inventory). This year, the browser window in my phone worked about 75 seconds in.

Has anyone's IHG points deposited yet?

That's a no for me. I know the terms say up to 10 days, but I think I read last year the deposits were the next morning, so I was expecting them already. Good to know I am not the only one still waiting.

Are the Seaworld deals good? Do you get cheaper or comparable value elsewhere? Thinking of buying some as I have upcoming plans to go to seaworld and these prices are cheaper than what I see online on their website.

look on groupon, just went park and waterpark like $93, so yeah a good deal, but purchase through AA and got 2,700 miles thought

IHG points just posted

Mine as well, thanks for the heads up!