Club offer for Hilton Gold VIP

I received yesterday a letter from the FC with a new Gold VIP Hilton card as long as i stay at least 4 nights at any Hilton before 30th Nov 06.For the first stay you get

1st stay 1,000 points for FC & 1,000 for Hilton Honnors
2nd Stay 2,000 Points for FC & 2,000 for Hilton Honnors
3rd Stay 3,000 Points for FC & 3,000 for Hilton Honnors
4th Stay 4,000 Points for FC & 4,000 for Hilton Honnors

TOTAL = £10,000 FC POINTS & 10,000 HHONORS POINTS

Good deal eh?

I am currently a Hilton Honnors Blue so gladly transferred my stays over to the new card.

Did anyone else get this?

Originally posted by motherger
I received yesterday a letter from the FC with a new Gold VIP Hilton card as long as i stay at least 4 nights at any Hilton before 30th Nov 06.For the first stay you get

1st stay 1,000 points for FC & 1,000 for Hilton Honnors
2nd Stay 2,000 Points for FC & 2,000 for Hilton Honnors
3rd Stay 3,000 Points for FC & 3,000 for Hilton Honnors
4th Stay 4,000 Points for FC & 4,000 for Hilton Honnors

TOTAL = £10,000 FC POINTS & 10,000 HHONORS POINTS

Good deal eh?

I am currently a Hilton Honnors Blue so gladly transferred my stays over to the new card.

Did anyone else get this?

Yes, I got one too - and wasn't quite sure what to do with it. Does it mean we're changed to gold status?

Claire,

What to do is if you are a blue member call 00800 4446 6677 then tell them you have now got a gold vip and they will transfer all your stays / points to the gold card.Easy peasey!

I don't understand either - please can someone explain

In order for you to remain as a Gold Hilton VIP member you have as stated in letter stay at least 4 times at a Hilton before 30 November 06.If you are a current Hilton member (say Blue) you can transfer your points etc to the gold card by calling :00800 4446 6677.

I dont think you even need to stay there to be Gold VIP, its only to get the 10,000 miles.

I got mine yesterday and read the print as thought there was some catch. Registered and I am gold until April 2007, although it says 2008 on the card....

Originally posted by Gelding
I dont think you even need to stay there to be Gold VIP, its only to get the 10,000 miles.

I got mine yesterday and read the print as thought there was some catch. Registered and I am gold until April 2007, although it says 2008 on the card....

I read it the same way, and certainly worked like that when I received the same offer last year.

I tried to register the details on line for my husband but it asks for a PIN, which we haven't got. Will just use his card for our next booking, so no real problem.

Jilly

Originally posted by jilly

Originally posted by Gelding
I dont think you even need to stay there to be Gold VIP, its only to get the 10,000 miles.

I got mine yesterday and read the print as thought there was some catch. Registered and I am gold until April 2007, although it says 2008 on the card....

I read it the same way, and certainly worked like that when I received the same offer last year.

I tried to register the details on line for my husband but it asks for a PIN, which we haven't got. Will just use his card for our next booking, so no real problem.

Jilly

I've had problems with them too - I think it was a few months ago that there was a promo thing - it was spoken about somewhere on here. I went and tried to log in and could not get it to recognise my login and PIN - I thought my memory was playing tricks, so checked and double checked the details and I was right. Eventually, I couldn't be bothered and gave up. I suspect I won't bother with the latest card thing.

As an aside, when I initially signed up for Hilton points, the first time I used the chain, I hadned over my details and my VS card. Points went on to my V card with no probs, but I had to call a acouple of times to get them on my Hilton account. Didn't inspire confidence!

We got offered one of these in the post this week, however we already have a Gold VIP status card but the miles have never actually been that high on it as stated in the letter that came with the new one from Virgin this week.

We are not sure if we should activate the new one thinkiong prehaps the link with Virgin makes the deal different.

We stay at a Hilton if we go out to Leeds for boozy nights out
( works out about £20 cheaper than a taxi home ) so it wouldn't take us long to earn 10K.

We also have a suite booked for our civil partnership in Sept and a visit to the Dartford one in Oct.

[Bazz]

Originally posted by jilly
I tried to register the details on line for my husband but it asks for a PIN, which we haven't got. Will just use his card for our next booking, so no real problem.

Jilly

Jilly, The offer letter from FC states the PIN on the top of page two (the reverse side).

I called today and was able to transfer the offer to my existing HHonors Gold VIP account - no problems.

How did they choose who to send the Gold Cards to?.

I pay for all of our flights and hotel stays and did not get a gold card[n].
My partner who has never paid for a flight or Hotel room received a Gold card[:?]

Originally posted by Tim
How did they choose who to send the Gold Cards to?.

I pay for all of our flights and hotel stays and did not get a gold card[n].
My partner who has never paid for a flight or Hotel room received a Gold card[:?]

It seems pretty arbitrary. I was a HH blue card holder when I received a gold card on the back of my BA Exec Club membership (also blue) 12 months ago. I merged the two accounts and have used it a few times since, but not enough to renew it when it expires in April 2007. I've now received another HH gold card through the VS offer, so I've merged it with my original account again, and got a 12 month extension to the gold status validity of my original one - result!

Out of interest, the prompt of getting the new card has caused me to change a hotel booking in NY in a couple of weeks time, and I'm now staying in a Hilton family hotel there, so I guess it works for me.

One small point: I notice that the cards I received from the two airline programmes have black embossed type on a gold background, while the 'proper' card has gold on gold. I wonder if that is to allow the hotels to differentiate? Anyway, it'll be a few more miles in the account, so I'm happy.

Best wishes

David

[Bazz]

Originally posted by DavidM
...One small point: I notice that the cards I received from the two airline programmes have black embossed type on a gold background, while the 'proper' card has gold on gold. I wonder if that is to allow the hotels to differentiate? Anyway, it'll be a few more miles in the account, so I'm happy.

Best wishes

David

My "proper" HH Gold has black embossed lettering but the one from FC has black printed lettering [?]

[preiffer]

Yup - those with printed lettering seem to be the temporary (short-term) ones. All of my "proper" cards have embossing.

Is there an echo:D

[Bazz]

Just Paul trying to "up" his post count [}:)][:p];)

Like he needs too [:w]

[preiffer]

Welcome to the land of "Service Unavailable"

Anyway, I've reduced it by 1 to make up for it... [:w]


Ooops - make that 2, I can't really count this one either [:I]

Originally posted by Bazz

Originally posted by jilly
I tried to register the details on line for my husband but it asks for a PIN, which we haven't got. Will just use his card for our next booking, so no real problem.

Jilly

Jilly, The offer letter from FC states the PIN on the top of page two (the reverse side).

I called today and was able to transfer the offer to my existing HHonors Gold VIP account - no problems.

Thanks Bazz - I should really learn to read both sides of a piece of paper[:I]

Jilly

[Bazz]

Originally posted by preiffer
Welcome to the land of "Service Unavailable"

Anyway, I've reduced it by 1 to make up for it... [:w]


Ooops - make that 2, I can't really count this one either [:I]

...and what about the three posts at the bottom of page one? [|:)]


Now deleted.

[Bazz]

Originally posted by jilly
Thanks Bazz - I should really learn to read both sides of a piece of paper[:I]

Jilly

So few corporates used both sides you can be forgiven

I too got one of these offers, though curiously the attached card had my existing Hhonors gold (via Amex Plat) number pre-printed, but with an expiry one year later than expected (04/2008). Since I've hitherto had no success in extracting an actual physical card from Hilton, this fills a gap.

An unexpected surprise is that the bonus miles and points have retrospectively been applied to my last two stays - took me a while to figure out where the extra 3,000 VS miles came from...

Regards,
Barry

[Bazz]

Originally posted by bplatt_uk
...An unexpected surprise is that the bonus miles and points have retrospectively been applied to my last two stays - took me a while to figure out where the extra 3,000 VS miles came from...

Regards,
Barry

Barry that is good news! Where did the retrospctive bonus miles appear, I'm assuming because you say "VS miles" that they were in your FC account or were they in your HHonors account?

Originally posted by Bazz
Barry that is good news! Where did the retrospctive bonus miles appear, I'm assuming because you say "VS miles" that they were in your FC account or were they in your HHonors account?

I spotted in my FC account 1,000 miles and 2,000 credited as 'Hilton Acquisition Offer', then cross-checked with Hilton HHonors and found '1st Stay Bonus' and '2nd Stay Bonus' credited against my last two stays. The regular miles for those stays were separately posted.

Then I remembered receiving the offer letter and all became clear...

I have to say that having only switched to Hilton recently I've been very impressed with their service. While Hilton Gold Cards seem to be somewhat widely available for nothing, I've already benefitted more on three stays than I ever got out of my hard-earned Marriott Gold...

Regards,
Barry

[Bazz]

How long ago were your stays that earned the back dated bonus? Only as coz I had one in May and was wondering if it might qualify.

Originally posted by Bazz
How long ago were your stays that earned the back dated bonus? Only as coz I had one in May and was wondering if it might qualify.

I think you'll be out of luck for May. My first stay was in May, the other two were in July. My suspicion is they've retrospectively applied the offer to stays since the beginning of July, though obviously I can't be 100% sure of the cut-off point.

Regards,
Barry