This offer is only for new members of the Omni Hotels Select Guest loyalty program. Guests who select free nights as their earning preference will receive double credit for hotel nights stayed between November 1 and December 31, 2009.

Omni Hotels Select Guest Double Nights Enrollment Link

Omni Select Guest members have the choice of earning a free night for every ten nights or 500 airline miles per stay. These are mutually exclusive preferences. The new member promotion allows a guest choosing free nights to earn a free night with just 5 nights stayed during the promotion period.

A member normally earns a free night after 10 paid nights. The 10 qualifying nights do not need to be in a single calendar year. Omni Select Guest membership remains active as long as there is hotel stay activity in the previous 24 months.

Omni Hotels Select Guest membership levels

Gold Level is the base level membership for members with fewer than 2 stays or 5 nights in a calendar year. Benefits include free wi-fi.

Platinum level is reached with 6 nights or 3 stays in a calendar year.

Black level is reached with 20 nights or 11 stays in a calendar year.

A clause in the terms and conditions indicates a member can receive room night credit towards the free night for up to two rooms during a hotel stay. This is a strategy to keep in mind when traveling with others who do not mind letting you take all the credit for the hotel stay. 

“If a Qualifying Member reserves and pays for more than one room, free night awards or mileage awards are earned on a maximum of two rooms during such stay.”                         (Omni Hotels Select Guest T&C link)

Just hope your co-worker or relative doesn’t pull a Keith Moon on the hotel room with a TV set tossed out the window or cherry bomb down the toilet.

Omni Hotels Links

Omni Hotels Select Guest Airline partners (member must choose miles or nights as earning preference).

Omni Hotels in North America (43 properties)

Hey Dude, Where are my credit card Miles and Points?

Beginning in January 2010 American Express will not transfer points to your hotel loyalty program account with Hilton or Starwood if you are late with your monthly payment. The change will affect co-branded American Express credit cards with Hilton, Starwood, Delta Airlines, and JetBlue.

Getting your points or miles for the statement period of late payment will cost $29 for a reinstatement fee. The miles and points reinstatement fee is on top of the late payment fee and the possible higher interest rate triggered from a late payment.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20091118/ap_tr_ge/us_travel_flight_plan_credit_card_fees

Starwood Preferred Guest

New Members Offer for Instant SPG Gold Elite through February 2011 (normally requires 10 hotel stays or 25 nights in a calendar year), plus 1,000 bonus points per night through March 31, 2010.

Details:  http://boardingarea.com/blogs/loyaltytraveler/2009/11/20/my-midas-touch-gives-new-spg-members-starwood-preferred-guest-gold-elite/