Hilton HHonors 2010-Q4 promotion is Double Base Points for all stays, and 4x Base Points for the entire stay if it includes a Sunday night, completed between October 12 and December 30, 2010.
- Promotion dates: October 12 – December 30, 2010
- Double Base Points for all stays (20 points per dollar) or
- 4x Base Points for the entire stay if a Sunday night included (40 points per dollar)
- Points & Points (5 points/dollar) and elite bonuses are additional to promotion bonus
- Registration is required first before stays count: www.HHonors.com/Sunday
A wag of the finger to say once again Hilton HHonors is showing a poor promotion roll-out. This offer was printed on a full-page advertisement of the InsideFlyer magazine October issue, page19. Yet, it is now October 8 and the promotion registration link has not gone live as of this writing. (Update Oct. 11 – Registration page went live Monday, October 11)
(UPDATE OCT. 13 – Here is a link to Hilton Worldwide Excluded Properties for this promotion. I wrote this post before the promotion page was uploaded on October 11. It turns out the Hilton New York used in the analysis below is a non-participating hotel for the 4x Sundays promotion. There are about 240 excluded hotels.
And in typical Hilton HHonors fashion the exclusion list is not ordered geographically. Even determining if a hotel is on the exclusion list is difficult since you have to scroll through each name by brand.)
Loyalty Traveler analysis:
- Sunday October 17 – Friday October 22, 2010
- Hilton New York – Queen Bed ($399 Sunday; $429 Mon-Thur)
- $2,115
- $2,115 x 40 points/$1 = 84,600 points (21,150 base points + 63,450 bonus points)
- $2,115 x 5 points/$1 = 10,575 points (Points & Points earning preference)
- Total = 95,175 points for non-elite member
HHonors blue member (no elite status) will earn 95,175 points from this very expensive 5-night stay at the New York Hilton. The same hotel spend without a Sunday night stay will only earn 52,875 points.
HHonors Diamond member will receive over 105,000 points with a Sunday night in this stay and probably receive a nice upgrade from the cheapest priced Queen Bed Basic Room.
Hilton Newark/Fremont (San Francisco Bay area)
- Sunday October 17 – Monday, October 18, 2010
- Hilton Newark/Fremont – King Bed with balcony/patio ($101.15 Sunday rate)
- $101.15 x 40 points/$1 = 4,040 points (1,010 base points + 3,030 bonus points)
- $101.15 x 5 points/$1 = 505 points (Points & Points earning preference)
- Total = 4,545 points for non-elite member for a one-night Sunday stay.
This Hilton HHonors 2010 end-of-year promotion has great points-earning potential for high spenders and good opportunities for the Sunday night guest.
Loyalty traveler promotion rating: 3 keys of 5; (4 keys for Sunday stays)
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Added the list of excluded hotels for this promotion. Hilton New York used in the analysis happens to be one of the nonparticipating hotels for 4x Sundays.
Couldn’t Hilton at least bother to arrange a geographical list with country, state and city so members could easily determine which hotels in an area are not participating?
Come on HHonors. Get a clue!
Tried to find Hamton Inn 4420 socrum loop road Lakeland FL. 33809 to Register for 4times point`s please register me
This is typical Hilton advertising – double points for Sunday night staty at any Hilton Hotel. I stayed 2 weeks at Doubletree Brookfield and when I called to find out why I didn’t get double credit, I was told it was one of over 200 hotels excluded from double credit. If you’re offering something and using the Hilton name, it should be applicable at all Hilton Hotels or it should say “at a few Hilton Hotels”. I’ve been a Diamond Hilton member for many years (and a Starwood Platinum) and there is no comparison between the two programs.
Neal – One of my concerns as Loyalty Traveler is the number of hotels opting out of loyalty promotions this past year with both Hilton and SPG.
Both programs have made checking for participating properties a bit of a chore when looking to earn promotion credit.