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It seems all the hotel chains are in a mad rush to secure our business in early 2018. In a similar vein to IHG’s offer, a number of other hotel brands have announced their New Year incentives. Here is our round up of some of the best hotel rewards to give your hotel points balances a boost in 2018.
Hilton promotion
This promotion allows you to earn a 2,000 bonus for every stay between 1st January and 30th April. In addition, for every five stays, you get 10,000 extra points. There is no limit however on how many you can earn.
Let’s say you manage five stays, you will earn 20,000 points in addition to your normal earnings from your stay.
What you need to do
You need to be an Hilton Honors member to benefit but it is free to register and you then benefit from free wi-fi (don’t most places offer that anyway?), digital check in, points towards free nights and a guaranteed discount. HIlton Honors members also enjoy a range of other benefits once they achieve Silver and Gold status.
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Find out how you can further boost your Hilton Honors points with a Hilton credit card.
Marriott Megabonus
With this Megabonus offer, you can earn up to 3,000 points per stay, starting with your second stay. Weekday stays bag you 2,000 points whilst weekends get a 50% uplift netting you 3,000 points. There is a maximum points bonus of 50,000 so for most mere mortals, this will likely be sufficient.
What you need to do
You must register by the 31st March 2018 and stays at participating hotels qualify between 16th January and 15th April. As with Hilton, you must be a Marriott Rewards member.
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For other posts on Marriott that you may enjoy, read ‘Who rewards most? Marriott Rewards or Hotels.com‘ or ‘What’s the use of the Marriott Best Rate Guarantee?‘
SPG Great Weeks, Grand Weekends
I have fallen in love with Starwood in the last year, having stayed at a number of their very cool properties, such as the Aloft in Liverpool and Nest Hotel in Incheon, South Korea. Sadly, they don’t have huge numbers of hotels in the UK, but the ones they do have are top quality.
Their offer is naturally similiar to that of Marriott given that two have now become one. They are offering double Starpoints for every stay from your second stay and 500 bonus Starpoints for a weekend stay.
What you need to do
Again, you need to register by the 31st March 2018 and stay between 16th January and 15th April. You must be a Starwood Preferred Guest member and staying at a participating hotel. If you want to further boost your Starpoints, the AMEX SPG Card is a great addition to your credit card arsenal.
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For other posts on SPG, check out the following; Treble Your SPG Rewards, and Eight Free Nights. You will soon see why I have become such a fan of this hotel rewards programme.
What deals are taking your fancy?
Which deals will you be chasing in 2018? We would love to know.
Thanks for sharing these great deals. . Thanks for letting us know with these great Marriot Deals. I will definitely share with my friends too.
These are all excellent rewards and deals, Anne and Jason! Thanks for the informative and enlightening post from which I’ve learned a lot!
These look like quite an offer and rewards. Benefits too sound interesting,.Will sign up with them and will share it with friends too for sure.
Thanks for the heads up on these rewards – we’ll be traveling with Marriott next month so will definitely sign up for the Marriott Megabonus – I totally missed hearing about it, so appreciate the post!
I must admit that hotel rewards is something I have totally overlooked so far but once again this article shows me I should really get into it! I know someone who uses rewards from Marriott and always goes to Marriott and gets some pretty good deals. I’m missing out!
Thanks for sharing these great deals. While I am mostly a Marriott traveler, I would also consider both other brands due to the special points. I loved that Marriott offered twitter points for answering a football question each Sunday these past 16 weeks. 😉
Hi Melody, oh god. How did I miss that? That is brilliant
I’m totally not into the hotel points game but I should be! I stay overnight enough 🙂 And may as well start racking up the points to get some free stays! Thanks for the info on the promotions.
Havent got into the crazyness of hotel rewards yet but all good to know information
I have never actually tried the world of hotel rewards. This post is so useful and it definitely inspires me to try it out. I am definitely going to sign up for these rewards. Thanks for letting us know we need to register by the 31st March 2018 and stay between 16th January and 15th April. Now I can start planning.
I haven’t done hotel rewards yet, but it’s great to know places like Hilton and Marriot participate in that! The Megabonus especially is a good deal.
I haven’t gotten into the world of hotel rewards yet, but several friends are, and also really love the Starwood and Marriott programs. Seems like the benefits add up so quickly, and their loyalty to the programs speaks highly of their goodness!
Well, this is all good to know! I love taking advantage of all travel promotions, and I am definitely going to sign up for these. Here’s to lots of great travel deals in 2018!