Starwood is joining hands with the first social location-based check-in site, Foursquare, to offer additional ways to earn points and a chance to win free resort nights. You can "check-in" on all the offers here.
- Bonus Starpoints confirmed Earn 250 bonus Starpoints when you check in via foursquare with a confirmed reservation at one of our more than 1,000 hotels and resorts between May 1 and July 31, 2011.
- Every check in is your chance to unlock hidden Free Resort Night Awards Every check in through May 31, 2011, is your chance to win a Free Resort Night Award, hidden daily at one of more than 1,000 Starwood hotels and resorts.
- Check in to win a resort getaway With each foursquare check in through July 31, 2011, you’ll be entered to win a resort getaway, including five Free Resort Night Awards and airfare.
Earn more Starpoints® every night with our new promotion. From January 3 through April 15, 2011, you’ll earn unlimited bonus Starpoints two ways:
- Earn double Starpoints every night of the week.
- Plus, earn an additional weekend bonus of 500 Starpoints every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday night — with no limits.
Register now, then book your stays today, choosing from more than 930 participating* hotels and resorts worldwide across all nine distinctive brands, including W®, Westin® and Sheraton®.
Register for SPG® Great Weeks, Grand Weekends by March 31, 2011.
For more information about SPG Great Weeks, Grand Weekends, check out our FAQs.
Here’s a great promotion for those of you who have reached platinum status on Starwood.
Details from the website:
Register to earn an extra Starpoint per dollar on eligible stays from October 1 through December 31, 2010.
As a Platinum member, you’ve shown your continued dedication to our program, so we’d like to thank you with an exclusive Starpoints® offer. You will earn four Starpoints per dollar for every stay from October 1 through December 31, 2010, that occurs after you’ve registered for this offer and requalified for Platinum status for the upcoming year.
- Earn four Starpoints per dollar on all your eligible stays beyond the Platinum qualification of 25 stays or 50 nights this calendar year. That’s one additional Starpoint on top of the three Starpoints per dollar you’re already earning as a Platinum member.
- The extra Starpoint per dollar you earn will be on top of any other bonus Starpoints offers you enjoy during this time period.
Register today and you’ll be on your way to earning extra Starpoints at our more than 1,000 hotels and resorts across nine distinctive brands. More luxury. More destinations.
Register directly on the Starwood promotion site here.
Details from the website:
Earn double or triple Starpoints — with no limits!
Discover a world of endless rewards with our Every Night Counts promotion from Starwood Preferred Guest®. Stay at your choice of more than 850 participating hotels and resorts across 9 distinctive brands, including W®, Westin® and Sheraton® and earn bonus Starpoints® for each night you stay between September 8 and December 15, 2010.
Nights are accumulated across all your stays from September 8 through December 15, 2010. Watch your Starpoints add up and then redeem for Free Night Awards at some of the best luxury hotels and resorts worldwide, Award Flights and more.
Register for Every Night Counts by October 31, 2010.
Starwood recently posted the following promotion to Flyertalk:
Dear members,
I know there has been a lot of speculation and theories about SPG's Q2 promotion of late, and I'm excited to finally be able to announce what is planned! You're the first to get this information - SPG Free Weekends will kick off on May 1st and offer a Free Weekend Night Award for every eligible three stays through July 31, 2010 at any SPG property worldwide. There are no limits on the number of Awards you can earn. When you're ready to get away, you can use your Free Weekend Night Awards through December 19, 2010 at over 920 Category 1-6 hotels across all of our 9 brands -- like W, The Luxury Collection, and St Regis. And of course, there aren't any blackout dates on the Awards, and you can even combine them to use toward a long weekend or to extend a paid stay.
Go to spg.com/freeweekends(which will be put up in a few hours' time) to learn more about the promotion. We've included a full list of FAQ's. Registration will formally begin on May 1st.
Here is a simple summary I have prepared:
- 1(One) Free Weekend Night award for every 3(Three) eligible stays.
- Registration begins 1 May 2010 and ends 30 June 2010. Only 61 days, so do not miss the window.
- Earning period begins 1 May 2010 and ends 31 July 2010.
- Redemption period begins 7 May 2010 and ends 19 December 2010.
- Awards are redeemable only at Participating properties from Categories 1 to 6.
- Free Weekend nights refer to any Friday, Saturday or Sunday except for properties otherwise stated.
Finally, we are ready so fire away.
Thyetus Lee
Another late reminder on a Starwood promotion which started earlier this year.
Earn 2x, 3x or 4x the Starpoints on all your eligible stays.
Start out the year with rich rewards from SPG®, where the more nights you have in your stay, the more bonus Starpoints® you’ll earn. Receive double, triple or quadruple Starpoints
for every night of each eligible stay — with no limits — between
January 5 and April 15, 2010. For example, a three-night stay earns you
triple Starpoints on each night.
Better late than never.
If you’re staying at a Westin between now and May 13, 2010 then make sure you register before April 30, 2010 to take advantage of this promotion.
The conditions:
Register now and stay twice at a Westin® hotel in the U.S. or Canada by May 13, 2010, and you’ll receive a $100 Amazon.com Gift Card. Use it on the new Westin Wellness collection or on millions of other items at Amazon.com.
Be sure to register by April 30, 2010, and stay by May 13, 2010, arriving Sunday–Thursday, to qualify for this exceptional offer.
Valid for Starwood Preferred Guest members on new bookingsmade after registration.
This promotion has been in effect for a while, but it’s worth mentioning since free Internet is always a good thing. It’s only available to Starwood Platinum members and you don’t have to do anything to take advantage of it.
Here’s how it works:
- Log on to the Internet when you get to your room.
- If you receive a prompt asking you to accept the hotel’s Internet access charges, please accept them.
- Because you are a Platinum member, Internet access charges will be eliminated from your final hotel bill.2
The fine print:
Please note that in-hotel Platinum benefits, including complimentary Internet access, do not apply when
the reservation is pre-paid or booked through a third party.
A few Starwood members voiced concerns on how vulnerable the process appears to human error since the charges must be eliminated manually, but folks who have used it have not issues with it incorrectly appearing as a charge.
Looks good to me.
We’ve all seen the attempts at helping reduce waste at the hotel chains. At the Marriott, they have a nice placard explaining how much water is wasted due to laundry and politely ask customers to re-use towels by hanging them up.
A few fellow roadwarriors have noticed Starwood’s spin on green when they received a door tag on their desk with the following:
“You have the option to decline housekeeping service for the day. For helping us conserve natural resources, we are happy to offer you a $5 gift card for use at participating food and beverage outlets within our hotel or 500 SPG Starpoints redeemable at checkout”
At the W in San Francisco they are offering to purchase $5 worth of carbon credits for each day you forgo the housekeeping. Gift cards, carbon credits, and points are great incentives. More hotel chains should take note and offer something similar.
There’s a fair amount of chatter about this promotion among my fellow road warriors. On the surface it looks really good.
Promotion Details:
- Register for SPG Free Weekends now and start earning one Free Weekend Night Award with every two stays through July 31, 2009 — with no limits.
- Awards can be earned and redeemed at more than 875 Starwood Preferred Guest participating hotels and resorts worldwide across nine brands — including Westin, Sheraton, W and more.
- Redeem Awards at over 875 Category 1–6 properties any Friday, Saturday or Sunday night from May through the end of September 2009 — all with no blackout dates on available standard rooms.
- To earn one Free Weekend Night Award with every two stays, register and stay between May 1 and July 31, 2009.
A quote from a fellow road warrior:
“This is one of the best promotions ever I’ve seen Starwood run. The free nights are good at category 1-6 hotels (usually they only go up to cat-4 or occasionally cat-5), and the number of nights you can earn is unlimited (vs. usually capped at two or three).”
A closer look at the fine print in the FAQ (thanks josh):
Is there an expiration date for the Free Weekend Night Award?
Yes. The Free Weekend Night Award can be used through September 27, 2009.
It’s a really good promotion as long as you use it before the end of September.