Hotel Loyalty Programme Roundup for August 2018

Earn Up to Triple Hilton Honors Points

Hilton is offering its Hilton Honors members triple points on all luxury and resort stays and double points on all other stays within the Hilton Portfolio from 10 September 2018 to 3 January 2019. You can earn 10 Base Points plus an additional 20 Bonus Points for every US$1 spent on stays at Luxury and Resort properties. For all other stays, you get 10 Base Points with an additional 10 Bonus Points (5 Base Points plus 5 Bonus Points at Home2 Suite by Hilton and Tru by Hilton) for every US$1 spent. And Silver, Gold and Diamond members will also earn their Elite Tier Bonus on top of this promotion. There are 5,000 hotels worldwide to stay at and there are no caps and minimum stay requirements. You need to register here.

IHG Get Double Points Plus More

Have you registered for IHG Rewards Club’s Double Points plus other opportunities to earn more? Stay at any IHG Hotel from 16 September to 16 December 2018 to earn Double Points on every stay up to 15,000 points total from your second stay. This was launched on 3 September 2018 and is similar to the Accelerate programme. The offers are customised and different for every member.

The offer we got gives us the chance to earn 59,400 total bonus points if we completed all our offers. We haven’t been able to achieve the previous Accelerate programmes.

IHG Hotels include InterContinental, Kimpton, HuaLuxe, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Avid, Hotel Indigo, EVEN Hotels, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn Club Vacations, Holiday Inn Resort, Staybridge Suites, and Candlewood Suites.

Marriott International Three Loyalty Programmes Become One

Marriott Rewards, The Ritz-Carlton Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest have now been merged into one programme. Members of the three programmes now enjoy unified benefits and one currency spanning the entire loyalty portfolio of 29 brands and over 6,700 participating hotels in 130 countries and territories. However the Marriott Rewards, Ritz-Carlton Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest names will continue to live on until early 2019 where they will combine under a new brand name.

The unified programme allows members to earn on average 20 percent more points per dollar spent and have their Elite status recognised at every hotel. A new F&B benefit has been introduced to give members up to 20% food and beverage savings and allow them to earn up to 10 points for every US$1 spent with a minimum of US$10 spend at participating Marriott International properties in Asia Pacific.

SPG Members points will be multiplied by three when combined. All members earn 10 points for every dollar spent at all brands except Residence Inn, TownePlace Suites and Element which earn five points per dollar spent and Marriott Executive Apartments and ExecuStay properties which earn 2.5 points per dollar spent.

Nights earned at Marriott Rewards and SPG hotels in 2018 will also combine, helping members to achieve Elite status faster. Earn Silver Elite status after 10 nights every year, Gold Elite status after 25 nights, Platinum Elite after 50 nights and Platinum Premier Elite status after 75 nights. All Platinum Premier members surpassing 10 nights and US$20,000 annual spend will enjoy the highest level of personalised service – the popular ambassador programme and other benefits in that tier.

A new Free Night Award chart for redemptions across the entire loyalty portfolio offers the same or fewer points for a free stay at nearly 70 per cent of hotels. Further, members can save 25,000 points per night by redeeming for future category eight hotels priced in category seven until 2019, including coveted all-suites properties. The new Free Night Award chart launched with standard pricing, adding off-peak and peak pricing in 2019.

A collection of close to 120,000 experiences in 1,000 global destinations is offered on the Moments platforms which include Marriott Moments, Marriott Rewards Moments and SPG Moments.

Other new benefits to highlight include:

• All members now earn points for food and beverage, spa and other qualifying incidentals charged to their folio, rather than just the room rate.
• Hotels throughout the loyalty portfolio now have no blackout dates for points redemptions.
• Booking direct on any of Marriott’s digital and mobile channels means members can take advantage of exclusive member-only rates and free Wi-Fi. In addition, both the Marriott and SPG apps offer mobile check-in and check-out and send members alerts when their room is ready. Members can also chat directly with hotel associates before, during, and after their stays using Mobile Requests, and use their smartphones as their room key at more than 1,000 hotels.

Seven Raffles, Fairmont and Swissotel Properties Join Le Club AccorHotels MyResorts Programme

Since the integration of FRHI into Le Club AccorHotels programme, seven new additions have been added to the Le Club AccorHotels MyResorts Programme. Raffles Grand Hotel D’Angkor, Raffles Hainan, Fairmont Yangcheng Lake, Fairmont Sanur Beach, Fairmont Maldives Sirru Fenfushi, Swissotel Phuket Resort Kamala Beach and Swissotel Phuket Resort Patong Beach have joined a list of resort hotels in Australia, Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Privileges and rewards guests can enjoy include specially priced MyGlass beverage offers, MyKids activities and meals, MyTreat sweet cravings or MyWellness packages to revitalise, rejuvenate and re-energise. Complimentary benefits include MyRewards for Platinum members, MyConnect for free wifi on all your devices for Silver, Gold & Platinum members, MyUpgrade for gold and platinum members, MyHost assigned to Gold and Platinum members and MyGuest benefits for guests of Platinum Members.

AccorHotels relaunched the enhanced version of its MyResorts programme late last year at 100 AccorHotels resorts across Asia Pacific. The programme serves as recognition for Elite members to thank them for their loyalty to AccorHotels resorts where they will be pampered. A range of inclusion and rewards are offered by membership tier of which some are complimentary and some chargeable.

10% Savings for Wyndham Rewards Members

Wyndham Rewards members can enjoy 10% off the best available rate at all Wyndham Rewards hotels globally when booking direct, through a preferred corporate travel partner or an approved travel agent. Wyndham Rewards programme offers members a simple earning structure of a guaranteed 1,000 points for every qualified stay, along with a flat, free night redemption rate of just 15,000 points per room per night. Members enjoy benefits of the programme at close to 9,000 Wyndham Hotels & Resort properties and thousands of homes and condos in partnership with Wyndham Destinations.