If you're a beginner finding this first step hard because you don't have a specific travel goal in mind, rather just a larger objective of scoring an award flight or reducing the cost of your next trip with
a few free hotel nights, not to worry!
Not exact matches
If you stay at
hotels even a
few nights a year, these benefits can be extremely valuable — especially considering Marriott gold status comes with
free breakfast for two in the
hotel's executive lounge or, if there isn't a lounge, its restaurant.
Hotel - branded cards can offer you great benefits, one being
free nights from the start as long as you meet the necessary spend in the first
few months.
There have been a
few hotels I've visited where I check in with Gold status and the clerk starts trying to chat me up because I must be some international globetrotter (I am, but that's not how I earned the status...) To sweeten the pot, when you redeem points for two consecutive
nights, every third
night is
free!
However, the Prestige's 4th
Night Free benefit can be used at practically any
hotel, hostel or resort worldwide with a
few limitations and exclusions.
If you don't stay in major cities or care about fancy
hotels, use
fewer points for more
free nights.
Many
hotel - branded credit cards give big bonuses equivalent to a
few free nights.
While the average redemption is around 16,000 points per
night, members can get a
free night for as
few as 8,000 points — one of the lowest
free night thresholds of all major
hotel programs.
The fee goes up from $ 75 to $ 95 but there's also a
few upgrades 10
free Priority Pass Lounge passes and One Weekend
Night Reward at a
hotel or resort in the Hilton portfolio after spending $ 15,000 in purchases on the Card in a calendar year.
Knowing how to get a
free night stay at a
hotel comes down to just a
few key things.
Prefer to stay on the grid and hit the city, New York is a pricey and competitive
hotel market, but you can put your points to work for a
few free nights at the Hilton Grand Central.
Some of these
hotels meet the 40,000 point requirement and can be an excellent getaway to redeem your
free anniversary
night and tack on a
few additional
nights in the process.
Hyatt is a much smaller
hotel chain than SPG, Marriott, Hilton, etc. but it does have a
few nice Park Hyatt
hotels that can make the 2
free night signup bonus worth ~ $ 2000, depending on where you redeem them.
The
free nights are good at almost any Hilton
hotel worldwide, with a
few exceptions.
A
free night at a Category 6 Starwood
hotel will set you back 20,000 — 25,000 Starpoints per
night, though there are a
few properties with limited -LSB-...]
PointBreaks are reduced award redemptions at IHG
hotels (Intercontinental, Crowne Plaza,
Hotel Indigo, Holiday Inn, etc.) that require just 5,000 Rewards Club points for a
free night, and change every
few months.