HHonors Double Points and Stay Sunday for 4x Points 2010-Q4

Hilton HHonors 2010-Q4 promotion is Double Base Points for all stays, and 4x Base Points for the entire stay if it includes a Sunday night, completed between October 12 and December 30, 2010.

• Promotion dates: October 12 – December 30, 2010
• Double Base Points for all stays (20 points per dollar) or
• 4x Base Points for the entire stay if a Sunday night included (40 points per dollar)
• Points & Points (5 points/dollar) and elite bonuses are additional to promotion bonus
• Registration is required first before stays count:  www.HHonors.com/Sunday 

A wag of the finger to say once again Hilton HHonors is showing a poor promotion roll-out. This offer was printed on a full-page advertisement of the InsideFlyer magazine October issue, page19. Yet, it is now October 8 and the promotion registration link has not gone live as of this writing. (Update Oct. 11 – Registration page went live Monday, October 11)

(UPDATE OCT. 13 – Here is a link to Hilton Worldwide Excluded Properties for this promotion. I wrote this post before the promotion page was uploaded on October 11. It turns out the Hilton New York used in the analysis below is a non-participating hotel for the 4x Sundays promotion. There are about 240 excluded hotels.

And in typical Hilton HHonors fashion the exclusion list is not ordered geographically. Even determining if a hotel is  on the exclusion list is difficult since you have to scroll through each name by brand.)

Loyalty Traveler analysis:

• Sunday October 17 – Friday October 22, 2010
• Hilton New York – Queen Bed ($399 Sunday; $429 Mon-Thur)
• $2,115
• $2,115 x 40 points/$1 = 84,600 points  (21,150 base points + 63,450 bonus points)
• $2,115 x 5 points/$1 = 10,575 points (Points & Points earning preference)
• Total = 95,175 points for non-elite member

HHonors blue member (no elite status) will earn 95,175 points from this very expensive 5-night stay at the New York Hilton. The same hotel spend without a Sunday night stay will only earn 52,875 points.

HHonors Diamond member will receive over 105,000 points with a Sunday night in this stay and probably receive a nice upgrade from the cheapest priced Queen Bed Basic Room.

Hilton Newark/Fremont (San Francisco Bay area)

• Sunday October 17 – Monday, October 18, 2010
• Hilton Newark/Fremont – King Bed with balcony/patio  ($101.15 Sunday rate)
• $101.15 x 40 points/$1 = 4,040 points (1,010 base points + 3,030 bonus points)
• $101.15 x 5 points/$1 = 505 points (Points & Points earning preference)
• Total = 4,545 points for non-elite member for a one-night Sunday stay.

This Hilton HHonors 2010 end-of-year promotion has great points-earning potential for high spenders and good opportunities for the Sunday night guest.

Loyalty traveler promotion rating: 3 keys of 5; (4 keys for Sunday stays)

Excluded Hotels