Hilton HHonors introduced Points & Money rewards in 2011 requiring only 50% points of a standard reward night with a cash copay.  The initial announcement was discussed in my May 9, 2011 post on Hilton HHonors Points & Money Rewards when there were only a few hotels offering the reward.

Hilton HHonors officially launched Points & Money Rewards in late 2011 and the FAQ briefly included a table showing the cash co-pay for each hotel category level. The Hilton Points & Money copay table was removed from the Hilton website within a few hours of my October 3, 2011 post on Hilton HHonors Points & Money Rewards.

The table was replaced by this wording: “The number of points required to redeem Points & Money Rewards varies by room, hotel, and booking date.” Read More…

May 2012 promotions from Top Ten hotel loyalty programs:

Links to my Loyalty Traveler posts provide more detail and promotion analysis for each offer.

Most hotel loyalty promotions are two to four months in duration.

The easiest way to quickly see a list of all hotel loyalty promotions discussed on Loyalty Traveler is to check my Loyalty Traveler Facebook page. All Loyalty Traveler post links feed into Twitter and all my tweets feed into Loyalty Traveler Facebook.

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U.S. Travel Association Daily Getaways offer for Wednesday May 2 is Hilton HHonors points at a rate under $5.00 per 1,000 points. The regular purchase price for HHonors points is $10.00 per 1,000 points through the Hilton website.

Here is a recap of my post last week when the same deal was offered. The only thing I have changed is to add a section on HHonors American Express AXON 4-night reward stays for an even greater discount than HHonors VIP rewards for category 6 and 7 hotels. Read More…

U.S. Travel Association Daily Getaways offer for Wednesday April 25 is Hilton HHonors points at a rate under $5.00 per 1,000 points. The regular purchase price for HHonors points is $10.00 per 1,000 points through the Hilton website. Read More…

This week I realized that Marriott Rewards MegaMiles ending April 30 offered a good value rebate when earning 2,000 Virgin America Elevate points on hotel stays. The current Marriott Rewards MegaMiles is ending soon, but keep this analysis of Virgin America Elevate points in mind for future opportunities with Marriott and other hotel chain frequent flyer bonuses. Read More…

British Airways Executive Club is offering 25% Avios bonus points on hotel point transfers between April 20 and June 20, 2012 from eight hotel partners:

• Le Club Accor
• Club Carlson*
• Hilton HHonors
• Hyatt Gold Passport*
• InterContinental Hotels Group Priority Club
• Marriott Rewards*
• Shangri-La Golden Circle
• Starwood Preferred Guest*

* I placed an asterisk next to the four programs I think are the only hotel programs worth using for this bonus offer. Read More…

Hilton has a Twitter promotion running from today April 19 through Friday, April 27 10am ET –3pm ET daily for a chance to win two Tribeca Film Festival tickets in New York.

@HiltonOnline will post a tweet at or around 10am ET each day.

Today’s tweet: Read More…

This post shows tables I created  for the hotel reward category distribution between Hilton HHonors and Marriott Rewards. The tables illustrate how hotel category reassignment plays into the overall value of hotel points when it comes time to redeem what you earned.

Let’s face it. Hilton and Marriott dominate the American landscape for business travelers due to the number of hotels around the country at a variety of market segments from upper midscale to luxury hotels. Each chain is poised to break the 4,000 hotels worldwide benchmark in the next couple of years. Read More…

The 117 hotels dropping reward category April 30, 2012 are mostly from the two mid-tier HHonors categories 3 and 4. 49 category-4 hotels currently at 30,000 points per reward night will drop to category-3 at 25,000 points per reward night. Another 47 hotels will drop from category 3 to category-2. These new category-2 hotels will require only 50% points at 12,500 points per standard reward night in May 2012 compared to the reward rate now. Read More…

Hilton HHonors is bumping 330 hotels up one hotel reward category on April 30, 2012. One of the biggest impacts for members is going to be the change of 38 hotels rising from category 2 to category 3 which doubles the points required for a standard reward from 12,500 points per night to 25,000 points per night.

In all fairness to Hilton HHonors, 47 hotels are dropping down to category 2 from category 3 and will be half the points from April 30. Also, 49 hotels are dropping from category 4 to category 3, however, 77 hotels are rising from category 3 to category 4.

This post shows the current category 2 hotels rising to category 3 hotel rewards on April 30 by location. All but two of these hotels are located in the USA. Read More…

Hilton HHonors is moving 330 hotels up one reward category on April 30, 2012. Hilton HHonors published a hotel list but there is no country, state or city information included on the list.  I have made tables showing the hotels going up to Hilton HHonors rewards category 6 and 7 and hotels rising to HHonors category 5 on April 30 in these two linked posts.

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