Hilton Triple Your Trip promotion for Q2/Q3 now open

Hilton's last promotion for the summer was the 2x rewards offer. Personally, I spent 3 months without a single stay at Hiltons, which is rather surprising to me! But I do have some upcoming plans, and that's why I think this next promotion for Q2/Q3, Triple Your Trip, is going to help accelerate my earnings a little bit!

The Triple Your Trip promotion offers 3x points for weekend nights (counted as Friday, Saturday and Sunday), and 2x points for the other nights of the week, valid for stays between 1 August and 31 October 2014. To clarify, for the weekends that means base points plus 2x bonus points, and for other nights, it is base points plus 1x bonus points.

Registration is required, and you can do that here. There are some non-participating hotels, but that list is not yet updated (though LoyaltyLobby has put this list up). Nonetheless, you should be able to locate them once they're put up, by going here. FAQs have been updated (earlier, they reflected last year's promo's FAQs), and you can find them here.

You can also earn HHonors points on bookings for up to 2 rooms, which may be useful for some of you folks out there.

I hate to sound like I'm advertising for Hiltons, but I think if you have a decent number of stays, this can help quite a bit. In effect, tripling your points means reaching a target number of points that you need for an award stay, in one-third of the time. Admittedly not all stays are going to be over weekends, but at least this makes sure you can get to those award nights faster.

You may also be interested in these Hilton HHonors related posts, some of which (like the ones for Gold status) you could combine with the Triple Your Trip promotion, to earn a few extra points for status.

• Indian view on hotel loyalty programs - Hilton HHonors
• Hilton HHonors Gold after only 4 stays within 90 days
• Complimentary Gold status for HP employees (you need a HP email address)
• Gold status for Visa Infinite card holders, where you've got to call Visa Infinite
• Immediate Silver and fast-track to Gold for GE employees (you need a GE email address)
• A similar promotion for Accenture employees

The T&Cs relevant to this Triple Your Trip promotion are:

• The offer (“Triple Your Trip”) is valid for eligible stays completed between August 1 and October 31, 2014 ("Promotion Period") at any participating hotel or resort in the Hilton Portfolio (click here for hotels who have chosen to not participate). 
• Hilton HHonors™ members must first register at HHonors.com/Triple prior to check-out of your stay within the Promotion Period. 
• Registered HHonors members will receive the bonus only for nights completed during the Promotion Period, regardless of a check-in date before the Promotion Period begins or a check-out date after the Promotion Period ends. 
• For the Triple Your Trip promotion, the Bonus Points you earn per night are calculated based on the average nightly folio of your total stay (average nightly folio is calculated by taking the total net folio of your stay divided by the total number of nights of the stay). 
• Triple Your Trip Double Points are awarded for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights in your stay. Triple Your Trip Triple Points are awarded for Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights in your stay. 
• For a detailed explanation of how points are issued for Triple Your Trip, please see Frequently Asked Questions. 
• “Double Points” means you will receive a bonus equal to the number of Base Points earned during a stay. “Triple Points” means you will receive a bonus equal to double the number of Base Points earned during a stay. 
• Bonus Points earned on Base Points do not count toward tier qualification. 
• Please allow six to eight weeks from completion of your stay for points to appear in your HHonors account. 
• Offer is not transferable, is not valid for groups and cannot be combined with other select offers.