1) hilton hhonors introduces its third quarter promo a few weeks ago. hotel stays between july 9 and september 30 earn triple base points on fri-sun nights, and double points on mon-thurs nights. registration is required here: triple points promotion
2) starwood introduces its third trimester promo today. hotel stays between september 1 and december 15 will earn double points. every 5 eligible nights will earn a bonus 2,500 points. registration is required here but not yet open: take two promotion
3) and while not a hotel, still very deserving in its own right: kfc's latest coupon book is available online at kfc.ca. choose your province and get your coupons. never pay full price for finger lickin' good food again.
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Thursday, 1 August 2013
Thursday, 18 April 2013
travel hacking -- obtaining free hilton hhonors gold status
it's a travel hack, but live from a lounge provides links and details on how to automatically get hilton hhonors gold status (space available room upgrades, complimentary wifi, water, late check-out, breakfast options etc). it normally takes 20 stays a year, or 40 nights, or 75,000 base points ($7,500 yearly spend). the offer is made to visa infinite card holders in certain countries. this particular offer is now for india. you can create your own indian credit card number via the generator that the blog links to. and then instant hilton hhonors gold
i haven't actually done this for hilton. i figure it's not something that i can maintain the following year, and i'm busy trying to consolidate all of my stays in the starwood program. there have been reports that this is still working. i did use a very similar hack for kingfisher airlines, an airline that was supposed to enter the oneworld alliance before suddenly suspending operations last year. with that trick, i obtained low-tier kingfisher status, which corresponded to oneworld ruby status and thus waived checked luggage on american airlines. i didn't end up booking that american flight, but it would have been nice to have to have.
note: i don't feel bad about posting this on the web ... this has gotten a ton of attention online already.
UPDATE: so i tried this one out, and i had trouble making this work. perhaps the trick has gone stale, perhaps the offer got pulled. however, i leave this up only so that i can link back to it in the future, when it works again :)
i haven't actually done this for hilton. i figure it's not something that i can maintain the following year, and i'm busy trying to consolidate all of my stays in the starwood program. there have been reports that this is still working. i did use a very similar hack for kingfisher airlines, an airline that was supposed to enter the oneworld alliance before suddenly suspending operations last year. with that trick, i obtained low-tier kingfisher status, which corresponded to oneworld ruby status and thus waived checked luggage on american airlines. i didn't end up booking that american flight, but it would have been nice to have to have.
note: i don't feel bad about posting this on the web ... this has gotten a ton of attention online already.
UPDATE: so i tried this one out, and i had trouble making this work. perhaps the trick has gone stale, perhaps the offer got pulled. however, i leave this up only so that i can link back to it in the future, when it works again :)
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