Given the number of Hilton points needed for mid to higher
category hotel award nights, having multiple ways to earn Hilton points (even better when combined with a Hilton credit card) is a must.
Not exact matches
The winners of the 73rd Annual Golden Globe
Awards were announced last
night at Beverly Hilton
Hotel in Beverly Hills, California with The Revenant pulling off a sweep of top three
categories including best drama film, and The Martian hilariously picking up best comedy, while Amazon's «Mozart in the Jungle» and USA's «Mr. Robot» overcame intense competition to nab the highest television honors.
One benefit of your new Marriott Rewards Premier Plus account is an Anniversary Free
Night Award e-certificate every year after your account anniversary, valid for a one night hotel stay at a property with a redemption level at or under 35,000 points, instead of the category 1 - 4 hotel e-certificate valued up to 20,000 points you received on your Marriott Rewards acc
Night Award e-certificate every year after your account anniversary, valid for a one
night hotel stay at a property with a redemption level at or under 35,000 points, instead of the category 1 - 4 hotel e-certificate valued up to 20,000 points you received on your Marriott Rewards acc
night hotel stay at a property with a redemption level at or under 35,000 points, instead of the
category 1 - 4
hotel e-certificate valued up to 20,000 points you received on your Marriott Rewards account.
Marriott Rewards ® Premier Credit Card
awards cardmembers 1 free
night's stay every year after account anniversary at any
Category 1 - 5
hotel
Category 1 properties are often available for as few as 7,500 points, which means your bonus can be enough points for at least 10
award nights at a Marriott
Hotel.
On top of the points you'll get from day - to - day spending, this card
awards one free
night every year in a
category one to five
hotel.
The Fifth
Night Free
Award is only available for
category 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7
hotels.
With the current sign - up bonus of 30,000 Starwood points on the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express (personal and small business), you can get up to 6
award nights at Starwood
Category 4
hotels with Cash & Points.
For example, my husband and I both hold the Hyatt credit card * ($ 75 annual fee) because we both wanted the sign - up bonus — an annual
award night valid at any
Category 1 - 4 Hyatt
hotel.
2 Nights in NYC: For 45,000 points per
night, you can book an
award stay at a
Category 9
hotel such as the New York Times Square H
hotel such as the New York Times Square
HotelHotel.
This is enough for one
night at a
Category 1 property, and it puts you well on your way to an
award stay at a
Category 2
hotel.
Starwood has a reasonable and straightforward free
nights award chart across the seven different
hotel categories.
Point density takes into account 2 variables: your elite status with the chain in question (and use of a co-branded credit card, if applicable) and the desired
hotel category you aim to redeem your points in, and generates a single number: the number of dollars you need to spend to generate that
award night redemption.
Just before the 4th of July holiday, my wife and I stayed two
nights at
Hotel George, a Kimpton hotel in Washington, D.C. Hotel George was the first Kimpton property to open in DC (in 1998) and was awarded a 2014 Fodor's 100 Hotel Award, one of 15 Boutique Chic Category win
Hotel George, a Kimpton
hotel in Washington, D.C. Hotel George was the first Kimpton property to open in DC (in 1998) and was awarded a 2014 Fodor's 100 Hotel Award, one of 15 Boutique Chic Category win
hotel in Washington, D.C.
Hotel George was the first Kimpton property to open in DC (in 1998) and was awarded a 2014 Fodor's 100 Hotel Award, one of 15 Boutique Chic Category win
Hotel George was the first Kimpton property to open in DC (in 1998) and was
awarded a 2014 Fodor's 100
Hotel Award, one of 15 Boutique Chic Category win
Hotel Award, one of 15 Boutique Chic
Category winners.
Category 1 properties are often available for as few as 7,500 points, which means your bonus can be enough points for at least 10
award nights at a Marriott
Hotel.
Upon completing 30 Tier - Qualifying Nights or earning 50,000 Base Points in a Calendar Year, Members will be provided with one standard - room Free
Night Award redeemable at a
category 1 - 4 Hyatt
hotel or resort.
One Free
Night Award: 33
Awards available for any SPG participating
category 1 - 5
hotel or resort.
The free
night award is applicable to a
night award in aÂ
category 1 - 5
hotel or resort property.
Nearly all
hotel loyalty programs will split their properties into several
categories, with a certain number of points required for an
award night for each property in a specific
category.
You can redeem Marriott points for
award nights starting 7,500 points at a
category 1
hotel and you will get the 5th
night free when you redeem 4
nights.
If you notice the
hotels going in
category, there are many hotels in India and Asia that are going down in Category, which means you need less points for an awar
category, there are many
hotels in India and Asia that are going down in
Category, which means you need less points for an awar
Category, which means you need less points for an
award night.
None of the
hotels is, as yet, bookable with Starpoints and none appears to have been given a Starwood
Category rating so it's hard to say how much
award nights will eventually cost.
The W Miami Downtown is a SPG
Category 6 hotel (one category lower than its sister property on South Beach) so award nights will set you back 20,000 — 25,000 Sta
Category 6
hotel (one
category lower than its sister property on South Beach) so award nights will set you back 20,000 — 25,000 Sta
category lower than its sister property on South Beach) so
award nights will set you back 20,000 — 25,000 Starpoints.
The changes to the
hotel categories mean little without some context, so here is the Hilton HHonors
award chart which shows how many points are required to book a
night at each
category of
hotel:
Prize will be
awarded as a Marriott Rewards Free
Night Stay E-Certificate valid for
hotels in
categories 1 - 9 locations (log on to MarriottRewards.com or call 800-321-7396 to book your E-Certificate).
The St Regis Dubai is a SPG
Category 7
hotel which means
award nights start at 30,000 Starpoints and Cash & Points rates are 15,000 Starpoints + $ 275.
That's enough for a free
night award at any
Category 6 property (there are only a small number of
Category 7
hotels that cost 30,000 points per
night).
I'm doing this without looking at the number of
award nights booked in each
category, the cost of paying
hotels for those
nights (which does not necessarily reflect their published rates), and all the other sources of revenue for the loyalty program (e.g., issuing points through credit cards).
And, as a
Category 9
hotel, an
award night costs between 40,000 and 45,000 points.
That's enough book a five -
night award stay at a
Category 5
hotel every year for the next 30 years.
As a SPG
Category 4
hotel award nights cost 10,000 Starpoints per
night and, clearly, these would probably be put to better use in the summer months rather then in the cheap winter period.
Keep in mind that Hilton does not have an
award chart that divides
hotels into
categories, so you won't be able to easily predict the required points for an
award night.
When you participate in SPG's Nights and Flights deal, you get a discount on a 5
night Category 3 or 4
hotel award stay combined with the transfer bonus to an airline partner (at the 1:1 transfer rate only).
The best deal is to stay for 5
nights since you will get the 5th
night FREE on any
award stays at any
category hotel.
The luxury property, which is a nominee in the
category of «South Africa's Leading Beach
Hotel» at 2011 World Travel
Awards, is famous for sweeping views of the Indian Ocean and a presidential suite that lists for 50,000 rand ($ 7,400) a
night.
I can usually find a good
Category 4
hotel when traveling, and these are only 15,000 points per
night for a free
night award.
You can just do two stays of one
night each and you will receive one free
night award at a
category 1 - 5
hotel.
The key is to getting cheap IHG Rewards points is to select a
hotel that allows you to use cash in lieu of 10,000 points and you'll usually find this option where an
award night costs 20,000 points (
category 3 properties).
Hyatt Gold Passport has announced that, from 1 August 2016, 106 of its
hotels will be moving up or down in Gold Passport
category meaning that 106 Hyatt
hotels will see the cost of an
award night change on that date.
The Andaz 5th Avenue is one of Hyatt's
Category 6
hotels so, with
awards cost 25,000 points /
night, our three
night stay set us back 75,000 Hyatt Gold Points.
I stopped being a fan of Club Carlson after it raised the cost of top - tier
awards by 40 %, put most of the
hotels I'd like to stay at in the top - tier
category and then removed my free 2nd
night benefit that came with my Club Carlson Visa...... but I don't hold a grudge
Daily instant - win prizes include 1,000 Starpoints, 5,000 Starpoints, 10,000 Starpoints, or a free
night award at a
Category 1 - 5
hotel.
Redeeming Points: The biggest innovation in
hotel rewards in a while is the simplification of the program to only two
awards: GoFree
awards allow you to redeem 15,000 points for a free
night at any Wyndham
hotel worldwide, doing away with
hotel categories and making it the most simple program on the market.
As of Feb. 1, 2007, a free
night at
hotels in the new
category will cost 30,000 points during low season and 35,000 during high season, an increase of 10,000 points from the existing highest
award rates of 20,000 to 25,000 points.
After removing the Bonus
Award Night from the Club Carlson Visa card (reported here), effective June 1, 2015, more than 200 hotels in the Carlson Group are going up in the rewards category — some by two or even three categories — drastically increasing the number of points required for a free hotel n
Night from the Club Carlson Visa card (reported here), effective June 1, 2015, more than 200
hotels in the Carlson Group are going up in the rewards
category — some by two or even three
categories — drastically increasing the number of points required for a free
hotel nightnight.
Award nights at top
category hotels can be expensive, but the redemptions at low - mid tier
hotels a = offer a great value.
15,000 points is enough for one
award night at a
Category 2 hotel or you can redeem for an award night at a category 1 hotel and still have 6,000 points in your
Category 2
hotel or you can redeem for an
award night at a
category 1 hotel and still have 6,000 points in your
category 1
hotel and still have 6,000 points in your account.
The only positive change is for those who plan to redeem your points for
award nights in India, where a lot of
hotels have dropped to lower
categories, which means you will need less points for
award nights.
Another good value option are the «fifth
night free
awards» — so you can redeem a 5 -
night stay at a
category 1
hotel for only 20,000 points (4 × 5,000), making long stays more valuable!
• Marriott Rewards members who register for this promotion by November 30, 2017 will earn one (1) free
night award at a
category 1 - 5 hotel (value of standard free night award ranges from 7,500 points for Category 1 hotels to 25,000 points for Category 5 hotels) after two paid stays * made between September 12, 2017 and January 15, 2018, at participating Marriott ® pro
category 1 - 5
hotel (value of standard free
night award ranges from 7,500 points for
Category 1 hotels to 25,000 points for Category 5 hotels) after two paid stays * made between September 12, 2017 and January 15, 2018, at participating Marriott ® pro
Category 1
hotels to 25,000 points for
Category 5 hotels) after two paid stays * made between September 12, 2017 and January 15, 2018, at participating Marriott ® pro
Category 5
hotels) after two paid stays * made between September 12, 2017 and January 15, 2018, at participating Marriott ® properties.