However, there are drawbacks to
a certificate for free hotel nights.
Not exact matches
Starts November 18, 2013 at 12:00:01 a.m. EST, and ends on December 31, 2013 at 11:59:59 p.m. EST. (15) total winners each receive two (2) Be My Guest
Certificates each valid
for one
night of
free lodging (one (1) standard room and corresponding taxes) at any Hilton
Hotels & Resorts property worldwide.
New cardholders also receive two
certificates good
for one
free weekend
night at select
hotels after making $ 2,500 in purchases within four months of account opening.
Cardholders receive a
free night certificate with each account anniversary year, which can be exchanged
for a
free night at eligible IHG
hotels worldwide.
Free nights certificate is valid
for 12 months after you receive it and applies
for Tier 1 - 4
hotels.
Once people have the Marriott Rewards Premier Plus credit card in hand, they are also eligible
for an anniversary
free night certificate, which is good
for a
night at one of their
hotels.
While there are a number of redemption options
for Choice Privileges points including gift
certificates and transfers to airline mileage programs, the best use of your points is to book
free nights at
hotels.
Marriott travel packages allow you to exchange Marriott points
for a combination of airline miles and
certificates for free hotel stays of up to seven
nights.
Unless you can cash in on the card's
certificate for three
free nights within the first 12 months, or you are a frequent guest of Ritz - Carlton
hotels, the card may be out of your league.
If you use the
certificate for a
hotel stay that would normally cost you more than $ 85 a
night, the
free night certificate makes up
for the card's $ 85 annual fee.
You also get a
certificate for a
free night at a Category 1 - 5
hotel each year after your anniversary.
You also get a
certificate for a
free night at a Category 1 - 4 Hyatt
hotel each year after your anniversary.
Since Fairmont
hotel rooms come at a premium, we estimate a very high value
for this
free night certificate — up to 150,000 points, depending on where you book your stay.
I predict more people will be seeking these
free night certificates for their ability to use them at more expensive
hotels.
This
hotel card is one of the best due to its low $ 49 annual fee (but still waived
for the first year) and the fact that you will receive a
free night certificate each year you renew the card which you can use at any of their properties.
Keep in mind that this
free night certificate is only good
for Marriott category 1 - 5
hotels.
It's great that the
hotel is paid
for in advance with those
free night certificates, and it's even better when...
Pro tip: Use
hotel points
for lower - tier
hotel redemptions in developing countries and other sweet spots, and
free night certificates at the most expensive
hotels worldwide to maximize your value.
Affiliate blogging creates the opposite result: rather than laying out all the options and weighing them carefully and objectively so that readers can make the decision that works best
for them, credit card affiliate links lead to motivated reasoning: since affiliate bloggers don't think of themselves as bad people, but do write blog posts promoting the credit cards that pay them affiliate kickbacks, it's absolutely necessary
for them to be emotionally invested,
for example, in the absurd notion that the Hyatt credit card annual
free night certificate really is the best way to get a
hotel room in downtown Seattle.
Upon reaching 30 qualifying
nights (Explorist), members receive a
free night certificate for a Category 1 - 4
hotel.
A nice one is the sign - up bonus: You'll earn two weekend -
night certificates for free hotel stays if you make $ 2,500 in purchases within four months of opening your account.
Monday: Fairmont
Hotels in Hawaii and San Francisco Fairmont is offering three
free -
night certificates for the Fairmont San Francisco
for $ 834 and 6
free -
night certificates valid at two Fairmont
Hotels on Hawaii
for $ 2,178.
Bottomline: While there are credit cards with more perks and higher earn rates, the high sign - up bonus makes it a great card to get and the
free night certificate for a relatively low fee makes it a great card to hold (even if you don't use it outside IHG
hotels).
Since I only redeem my
free night certificates for hotels in the top 2 categories, the difference isn't substantial enough
for me to go with Hilton over Hyatt.
It offers great value
for redeeming
free night certificates or points at some very nice
hotels and it's not subject to strict application rules that make getting approved
for it much more difficult.
On top of that, you receive a
certificate for one
free night at any Club Carlson
hotel after charging $ 10,000 a year on the card and renewing your membership.
On longer stays, choosing to redeem your
free night certificates for «maximum value» costs an additional 10,000 points per
night, unless you're interested in moving between
hotels during your stay.
The Residence Inn Gaslamp
hotel is a category 5
hotel and is eligible
for the
free night certificate.
While the difference in points required
for an increase of one category is not that big (a Marriott
hotel moving a category is a difference of 5,000 points), this affects anyone holding
free night stay
certificates that can be used at Category 1 - 4
hotels and Category 1 - 5
hotels.
The fine print with the notice directs you to visit IHG.com/AnniversaryFreeNight «
for a list of
hotels that do not accept the Anniversary
Free Night certificate.»
While there are a number of redemption options
for Choice Privileges points including gift
certificates and transfers to airline mileage programs, the best use of your points is to book
free nights at
hotels.
In another exchange, Twitter agents noted the anniversary
free night certificate would only be valid
for any
hotel worldwide if it is issued before May 1, 2018.
Being a category 5 Marriott property which also happens to be a five - star
hotel, that certainly makes
for a great award or
free night certificate redemption.
The annual
free night certificate valid at many IHG properties and Platinum elite status
for as long as you have the card make this a potentially good value, as most of those
hotels would cost more than $ 89 per
night.
What this does hopefully indicate, however, that AMEX's super premium card will at least be better than this one — perhaps 10X points / $
for use at the
hotels, as well as an anniversary
free night certificate — at what Category level will be where the rub is, but I have got to think that it will be above the current Category 5 with Chase.
We've covered this card's perks — along with how to best redeem your
night certificates — in the past, but today let's take a look specifically at the best
hotels for getting the most value out of your two
free nights.LEARN MORE!
When looking
for hotels for my stay in Hong Kong, the Intercontinental Hong Kong came to mind quickly, especially because I had an IHG
free night certificate.
It was a great promotion as I know many people «stayed» at a Radisson
hotel just
for the sake of getting this
free night certificate.