What are the best hotel promos for December 2023?

UPDATE – JANUARY 2024:  This article is now out of date, but don’t worry.  We produce a monthly summary of the top hotel bonus point offers – please click HERE or use the ‘Hotel Offers’ menu above.  Thank you.

Hilton Honors is offering an 80% to 100% bonus when you buy points by 12th March 2024. Click here to buy.

IHG One Rewards is offering a 100% bonus when you buy points by 2nd February 2024. Click here to buy.

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All of the information in this article can also be found on our ‘Hotel Offers’ page which contains details of all of the current offers, together with links to our major articles on each hotel scheme.  However, a positive response from readers – especially our 18,000 email subscribers – means we run this monthly article as a handy summary.

Here are quick summaries and links to the registration pages you need for each offer – do it before you forget. (I apologise to email readers if this block is mangled – scroll down to the main text area.)

The current ‘buy points’ offers running at the moment are:

Current American Express cashback offers

It’s also worth noting the current American Express cashback offers with the big chains. These may be showing on one or more of your cards and may influence which hotels you book this month:

• Get £100 cashback on £250 of Hyatt spend, expires 10th December

• Get £100 cashback on £250 (Bonvoy Amex cards) or £300 (other Amex cards) of Marriott spend, expires 31st December

• Get 9,000 Membership Rewards points or £50 cashback on £200 of Hilton spend, expires 22nd December

• Get £70 back of £300 of IHG spend, expires 31st December

• Get £150 cashback on £750 of Four Seasons spend, expires 31st December

• Get £75 cashback on £300 of Melia spend, expires 31st December

• Get 5,000 Avios (on BA Amex cards) on £300 of Celtic Manor Hotels spend, expires 31st December

Note that each offer is restricted to a list of participating hotels.

Where should you credit your stays for December 2023?

Remember that, irrespective of the offers below, there is never a single ‘best’ offer.

Some offers require multiple stays to maximise the bonus, which you might not do. Some require stays to be a minimum number of nights before a bonus is earned.

You need to factor in any elite status you have, which will earn you additional status bonuses.

More importantly, you need to be able to use the points. There is no value in earning a large bonus in a scheme where you will never go on to earn enough points to get a free night.

Hilton (Hampton, Conrad, Waldorf-Astoria etc)

Hilton has a promotion called ‘Multiply Your Points’.

You can register here.  Our full article is here. It runs until 31st December.

You will earn double base points on all stays, and triple base points in selected key cities.

You need to register in advance of your first stay during the period via the Hilton website here.  Existing bookings count and all Hilton Honors hotels are taking part.

The Hilton booking page is here.

IHG One Rewards is offering ‘2K Points For Every 2 Nights’.

You will earn 2,000 bonus IHG One Rewards points for every two nights you stay between 12th October and 31st December.

Only cash stays count. Reward and ‘points and cash’ nights do not count. Your nights do not need to be consecutive.

We value an IHG point at 0.4p so you are getting a bonus worth £4 per night.

You need to register here. Our full article on the deal is here.

You can book your IHG stays here.

Marriott Bonvoy (Sheraton, Moxy, St Regis, Ritz Carlton, Renaissance etc)

From 12th September to 6th December, you can take part in the ‘Go Your Way’ promotion.

You must read more about the offer here. Registration is now closed, unfortunately.

There are two parts to the bonus:

• You will receive 1,500 bonus Bonvoy points for every stay

• You will receive 3,000 additional bonus Bonvoy points for every 3rd brand you stay at during the promotional period

Existing bookings are OK but reward nights do not count.

We value a Marriott Bonvoy point at 0.5p so the standard bonus is worth £7.50 per stay. This clearly benefits those doing cheap one night stays at a Moxy more than those spending a week at a St Regis.

Our full article is here. The home page for bookings is here.

And finally …..

If you booking a luxury hotel, remember that we can offer you exclusive additional benefits at Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental, Peninsula and similar hotels.  

Click here for details of our luxury hotel booking service in association with Bon Vivant / Virtuoso.  Feedback from readers who have used this service so far has been excellent and we have booked over £1.7 million of rooms so far.

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Hotel offers update – January 2024:

Want to earn more hotel points?  Click here to see our complete list of promotions from the major hotel chains or use the ‘Hotel Offers’ link in the menu bar at the top of the page.

Want to buy hotel points?

• Hilton Honors is offering an 80% to 100% bonus when you buy points by 12th March 2024. Click here.

• IHG One Rewards is offering a 100% bonus when you buy points by 2nd February 2024. Click here.