Hilton Triple Your Trip promotion is super!

Hilton HHonors has announced its promotion for Q3/Q4 of calendar 2015, which is the annual Triple Your Trip promotion, valid for stays between 1 September and 31 December 2015. The promotion offers triple points for weekend stays (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) and double points for stays Monday through Thursday.




Registration is required here. The promotion itself is rather identical to the ones they ran in 2014 and 2013. The double and triple points are calculated based on the total folio (final bill), averaged out for number of nights, and then applying the bonus. So for instance, if you have a net folio valued at the equivalent of US$ 1000 total for 7 days (an entire week), then:
  • base points = 10,000 (US$ 1000 @ 10 point per eligible $ spent)
  • average base points per night = total base points / number of nights = 10,000 / 7 = 1428 (decimal ignored).

Bonus points calculated as:
  • for weekend stays - 2,856 bonus points a night x number of weekend nights (Fri, Sat, Sun)
  • for weekday stays - 1,428 bonus points a night x number of weeknights (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu)
So total points = 10,000 base points + [ (2,856*3) + (1,428*4) ] bonus points = 24,820 points.


However, there are big changes to some of the associated aspects:
  • One, there are no excluded hotels. That means all of Hilton HHonors' 4300+ properties are participating in this promotion. 
  • Two, there's a customised bonus points offer on the first stay during this promotion. I got one for 2000 bonus points.

And if you've been targeted for any sort of promotion such as this fast-track offer for HHonors Gold valid till March 2017, you could stack that on top of this Triple Your Trip promotion too!

All in, this is a super time to stay with Hiltons and, if applicable, make use of the fast-track to Gold offer as well.

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