For hotel stays, you are still be better off using a hotel co-branded card and booking through your hotel's website, since $ 6,667 spent on a co-branded card is enough to earn 1 or more (in some cases many more) free
nights at any hotel chain property except a Category 7 Starwood property, which would require $ 8,750 or $ 7,000 on the co-branded American Express, depending on your elite status.
We've signed up for a number of these cards in the past year or so, usually our sign up bonus has been free
nights at the hotel chain; Hyatt, IHG, Marriott.
As will free
nights at a hotel chain you hate or one located in areas where you never travel.
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Cards in this category frequently give away free complimentary
nights at certain
hotels and
chains.
With a co-branded
hotel credit card, you can only book free
nights at a
hotel within that
chain.
Co-branded
hotel credit cards earn points towards free
nights at various
hotel chains and many offer bonuses of award
nights, elite status and amenities with card membership.
This card earns award
nights at Hilton
hotels around the world and gives you HHonors Status with the Hilton
chain.
While you might not know whether you'll be able to use a
night at a particular
hotel chain, you can be confident that you'll find a use for cash.
I like to use that card to book my
hotel stays since I earn
hotel points and elite qualifying
nights by booking directly through the
hotel chain, and can then redeem my Arrival miles for travel purchases
at an equivalent of 1.11 cents each, with partial redemptions allowed in increments of $ 25.
Chains like Starwood and Hyatt routinely charge $ 500 to $ 1,000 per
night at their high - end
hotels, so using 30,000 points for those rooms is often more cost - effective.
One of the nice features of these free
nights tied to
hotel credit cards is that the
hotel chains let you use them even
at some of their nicest
hotels, where a one -
night stay can cost hundreds of dollars.
By examining the various point density charts, you can decide where the rebate value of your
hotel spend will be highest: which
chain will reward you with free
nights at the properties you want to stay the most quickly?
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is entering the fast - growing midscale
hotel category with a new
chain called Tru that's aimed
at attracting younger, tech - savvy travelers with large lobbies, digital check - in and rooms for less than $ 100 a
night.
In this blog post I compared the value of the different co-branded
hotel credit cards by showing how much non-bonused spending you would have to charge to the card in order to earn a free
night at each
chain's bottom -, mid -, and top - tier properties.
Most airlines award flyers «status» based on flying a certain number of miles within a year, typically
at 25,000, 50,000, 75,000, and 100,000 miles, while most
hotel chains award a status typically based on number of
nights per year stayed.
Co-branded
hotel credit cards earn points towards free
nights at various
hotel chains and many offer bonuses of award
nights, elite status and amenities with card membership.
That means the
hotel chain changed the number of points needed to redeem a free
night at certain
hotels.
Hilton was the last
hotel group to tweak the number of points needed for an award
night right
at the end of 2015 so IHG is the first of the big
chains to blink in 2016.
High end Hyatt properties can be found starting
at 20,000 points per
night, whereas other
chains present entry level
hotels at this price point.
Under the promotion, members of the
hotel chain's Marriott Rewards loyalty program will be able to earn a free
night after their second paid stay
at over 4,000 participating
hotels through May 15.
BWR is the only major
hotel chain rewards program that: never expires rewards points; and allows guests to earn points
at more than 4,200 Best Western
hotels that can be redeemed for free
nights or merchandise.
For more flexibility, choose third - party booking sites Those who travel less often or aren't loyal to a particular
hotel chain may prefer to book through third - party sites such as Expedia, Orbitz or Hotels.com (all of which are owned by Expedia) that have rewards programs that let you earn free
nights or other perks based on your stays
at any of the properties that list on those sites.
This credit card lets travelers earn free
nights at independent
hotels even when staying
at chains; The only
hotel credit card to offer double points
at any
hotel.
If you don't travel all the time for leisure or for business, spending 50 plus
nights at a
hotel is not easy and it might seem impossible to ever obtain top status with many of these
hotel chains.
New credit card lets travelers earn free
nights at independent
hotels even when staying
at chains; The only
hotel credit card to offer double points
at any
hotel.
It offers a reward rate of 10 %
at more
hotels than all the
chain hotels combined, redeemable after 10 paid
nights with few restrictions and no effort to hunt down promotions, watch point levels are worry about point devaluations.
A view of Waikiki beach and its string of high - rise
hotels at night, from the groin (jetty) that extends from the Outrigger Reef on the Beach
Hotel (it's to the left of the Halekulani
Hotel, the property pictured here on the very left - the Reef is one of the most luxurious of the several Waikiki
hotels that make up the gay - friendly Outrigger
chain).
Marriott has announced a new promotion for potential enrollees to sign up for its Marriott Rewards program in exchange for awarding them a free
night — after two paid stays
at any of the
chain's 3,000 - plus
hotels in over 70 countries.
Best Western Rewards is currently (through November 30) offering double points on every stay, and from November 1 through January 31, it has a special offer of free
nights for just 10,000 points each
at any of its North American properties — including some of the nicest
hotels in the
chain (see post).
I constantly found myself reference both the
hotel credit card section to see which credit cards earn what, and a section detailing how much money would have to be spent in order to earn enough points for a free
night at each of the major
hotel chains.
Also, both the
hotel chains offer 5th
night free promotion that can help you travel around the world paying pennies!!!!! With most
hotels costing an average of $ 100 I value combined sign - up bonuses from the two cards worth
at least $ 2500 and this is a fantastic deal.
With a co-branded
hotel credit card, you can only book free
nights at a
hotel within that
chain.
I asked for a spot in the center of the city somewhere between $ 100 and $ 250 a
night, and not
at a
chain hotel.
Many of the major
hotel chains, such as Hilton and Marriott, will also give loyalty members the fifth
night free if they pay for
at least four consecutive
nights at the same
hotel through the
hotel's website or travel service.
When you're looking for a
hotel rewards card, always make sure that you have options for your points which extend beyond free
nights at the particular
hotel chain.