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Monthly Archives for January 2010.

Hilton First Quarter Promo: A Free Night for Every Four Stays or 10 Nights

Loyalty Traveler lays out the Hilton first quarter promo. The registration link will be http://hiltonhhonors.com/anightonus but it’s not yet active. The offer is a free night for every four stays or 10 nights at a Hilton brand property beginning with check-ins on Thursday, January 7 and ending with check-outs through March 31. It’s no Hyatt Faster Free Nights, the gold standard in hotel promos at a free night ever two stays. But it’s impressive coming from Hilton (if somewhat derivative). I’m likely to earn a single free night under the promo, and the high qualification threshold makes it difficult to make mattress runs using cheap paid stays to redeem for expensive free nights. Plus, we don’t yet know all the details (such as whether there are any restrictions on the properties where the free nights…

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Opt into E-Statements for 250 Priority Club Points

Here’s the offer, they say they’re doing it for the environment, yadda yadda. We all know it’s for the savings on printing and postage, but that’s fine, I don’t really look at paper statements much these days anyway. I just wish they wouldn’t cloak it in green rhetoric, like please don’t wash my towels or bedsheets because we care about the enviornment. That may well be true but it’s not the motivation behind expending energy producing those little cards to put on the bed, it’s about the bottom-line and I don’t like being lied to. But I do like points.

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