adamantine

If I book 2 rooms at the same hotel for 3 nights each, does it consider it as 6 eligible nights and hence I can receive 2,500 points?

Starwood Lurker III

Hi adamantine,

You can find the answer here.

Best Regards,

Christina Zhou
Social Media Specialist
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide

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adamantine

Ok I am a noob at this, but what are the different ways the stay can be credited? As long as one night in either of the rooms count towards one night in elite status that is eligible?

Starwood Lurker III

Hi adamantine,

If the property posts each room's charges to one room account, you would get all of the eligible Starpoints for each room, but only one stay credit for the number of nights that you are actually staying. If the property posts each room's charges separately from one another, you would receive multiple stay credits for the number of nights for each room.

Please let me know if you have further questions.

Best Regards,

Christina Zhou
Social Media Specialist
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide

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tagv12

I am 2 nights into a 3 night stay and just found the promo today and registered, will this stay count?

Starwood Lurker

Eligible stays that occur within the promotion period will count retroactively once you've registered.

Best regards,

William R. Sanders
Social Media Specialist
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide

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TravelinSperry

Wow, the bonus points are posting fast. I already received my Take Two bonus points for stays 9/1-9/4 and again from 9/4-9/9. And I also already received my first 2,500 bonus. Thanks *wood - love the speed!!

I do have a question for the Lurkers - the first reservation was two back to back reservations (9/1-9/3 and then 9/3-9/4). All nights were SPG50 rates. The property shows all my points earned as earned for the final night. They did offer the Platinum amenity on the first reservation - but no earnings otherwise (again, because they lumped them correctly, all into the last night). So my question is - *wood will count these nights as 3 nights towards the bonus, correct? I already received my 2,500 bonus - but the bonus showed the name of the property for the 5 night reservation from 9/4-9/9.

Starwood Lurker

I guess I would have to actually see how this was credited to answer your question. Send me your account number via PM or by email, if you wish for me to do so.

Best regards,

William R. Sanders
Social Media Specialist
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide

[email protected]

FlyAndLive21

This may have been asked before, but why is nearly every New York hotel able to opt out so easily? I stay there frequently and never get to take advantage of the great promos.

TravelinSperry

Thanks William - I asked my Ambassador - she verified all the nights were properly credited. Thanks much.

MarkedMan

Just tab even on the previous page of the thread and you'll find plenty of discussion. And throughout the thread, too.

Bottom line, hotels incur a cost to run the promo, so many choose not to because they calculate the juice isn't worth the squeeze. Simple as that. Actually, on the previous page in the thread you'll find me and others discussing how NYC isn't so bad after all: four hotels in Manhattan take part. My stay at the Sheraton resulted in a very prompt posting of the bonus points, together with my actual stay post (unlike my stay in Prague, which hasn't posted the extras + bonus yet).

SF is in the middle of conference season and Norcal is a desert overall for the promo (saving the wine country properties). Boston and Chicago are also very bad.

It is what it is. When SPG ran a centralized promo and had all hotels taking part, they set up a complex menu-like list of choices to get promotional bennies; to say folks didn't like it around here is to significantly understate the hue and cry about it all. It's going to be a challenge to please everyone in these times given the overall high occupancy rate. The next great promo will come after the next economic bubble bursts

I was more bent out of shape at the late changes to the opt out list. With SPG's propensity for collecting money up front for many reservations, I would have been livid had I not been able to change my reservation if a hotel had dropped off the list at the last moment like the W Times Square did. That should really not be allowed. The rest I may not like, but I understand why it happens.

cleanfloor

not that it really matters, but these are crediting kind of weird, with no annotation at all.


edit: nevermind, it looks like the "base" 2 points per dollar amount is the one posting with no annotation. weird.

msn bubba

I searched and coul not find an answer, but sorry if this was answered somewhere else.

I received a targeted promo, stay one night get one night free. Can I also sign up for the take 2 promo (double dip)?

Cana2013

Stay one night get one night free? You are lucky!

flyerbjorn

Combining the two probably works. As long as it's an eligible stay, I'd check the terms and conditions.

I frequently stay using the Z*H rates. (stay for 3/4/5/6 nights, pay for 2/3/4/4). They always count as the number of nights you stay.