In case you haven’t already read about it, Hilton HHonors has unveiled its second quarter 2013 bonus point promotion.
Hilton HHonors 2013Q2 Promotion
The “Daily Grand†promotion runs from April 1 to June 30, 2013 and provides 1,000 bonus points for every weeknight of a stay, and 2,000 points for every weekend night. A weekend night is defined as Friday, Saturday, or Sunday for all regions except for hotels within the Middle East and Africa where a weekend night is defined as Thursday, Friday, or Saturday.
Registration is required (only once) and must be done prior to checkout of the first stay during the promotion period. As other bloggers have noted, it appears all properties are participating since there’s no mention of excluded locations in the FAQs.
It’s a no brainer to take the few seconds it takes to register, but this promo does little to excite me given the upcoming devaluation to the HHonors program.
Boycott hilton!
So if you stayed for a work week, Mon-Fri, in an average priced property, say $150/night, with $100 of on property spending ($700 total), you would earn 7000 base points. The bonus with this deal would be another 4000 points. Not so good for the business traveller. Non business travellers are going to go where they get the best value. Business travellers will often spend company money just to get points for personal use. Points programs are pretty much useless to ordinary joes.
Usually your points or for the first nights stay not there after. Check out one night go across the street to another hilton property. And than the next day go back Double points on every night.