Starwood Q2 2014 Promo is here!
Starwood has announced their next promotion: Earn Away, Get Away. With the SPG® Earn Away global promotion, beginning May 1st, earn triple points on stays that include a Sunday night (Saturday at hotels in the Middle East) through July 31, 2014. Any stay that does not include a Sunday night will earn double Starpoints (on eligible stays.) You must register by June 30, 2014 to participate.
You can register for this promotion here: Registration
Upon reading the fine print I found that “Eligible Stays with at least one night in the earning period will receive a bonus,” which means that if you have a stay checking out on May 2nd, you’ll earn the bonus on that stay – which is super for me as I fall into that bucket!
Here’s a little bit of the fine print: Registered members can earn bonus Starpoints® for every eligible stay between May 1, 2014, and July 31, 2014 (the “promotion period”), at participating Starwood hotels and resorts.Members who earn double Starpoints will earn an additional two (2) Starpoints per eligible US$1 spent (for a total of 4 Starpoints per dollar). Members will earn an additional four (4) Starpoints per eligible US$1 spend (a total of 6 Starpoints per dollar) with eligible triple Starpoint stays. Elite-level extra Starpoint earnings and other bonuses will not be doubled or tripled. Only the base two-Starpoints-per-dollar earnings are doubled or tripled. There is no limit to the number of bonus Starpoints that can be earned during the promotion period. Offer is eligible with other Starpoint promotions, however each offer bonuses independently of each other and are not combinable. An Eligible Stay is defined as one or more consecutive nights paying an Eligible Rate in the same hotel regardless of the number of check-ins or checkouts that occur and post to the member’s Starwood Preferred Guest® account. Eligible Stays with at least one night in the earning period will receive a bonus. An Eligible Rate is any rate that is eligible to earn Starpoints in the Starwood Preferred Guest program. A description of SPG®-participating hotels and resorts and of Eligible Stays and Eligible Rates, can be found at spg.com under Terms & Conditions of the SPG program. See Section 1.4 b iii for the complete definition of Eligible Rates, but note that certain prepaid rooms, where the booking is made through a third party (including but not limited to travelocity.com, expedia.com, orbitz.com and delta.com), are not Eligible Rates and do not earn Starpoints or qualify for promotional earnings.
There are over 1,000 participating hotels and resorts. (You can find a list of non-participating hotels here.) Here’s the list of US Hotels not participating:
UNITED STATES
Alabama
- The Westin Huntsville
California
- Aloft Cupertino
- Four Points by Sheraton San Jose Downtown
- Four Points by Sheraton Ventura Harbor Resort
- Le Méridien San Francisco
- Sheraton Anaheim Hotel
- Sheraton Cerritos Hotel
- Sheraton Fisherman’s Wharf Hotel
- Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel
- Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel
- Sheraton San Jose Hotel
- The St. Regis Monarch Beach
- The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites, Los Angeles
- The Westin Palo Alto
- The Westin South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa
Colorado
- Sheraton Denver Tech Center Hotel
- Sheraton Denver West Hotel
- The St. Regis Aspen Resort
Connecticut
- Sheraton Stamford Hotel
Florida
- The Westin Tampa Bay
- Walt Disney World Dolphin
- Walt Disney World Swan
Georgia
- Sheraton Suites Galleria-Atlanta
Illinois
- Aloft Chicago O’Hare
- Four Points by Sheraton Chicago Downtown/Magnificent Mile
- Four Points by Sheraton Chicago O’Hare Airport
- Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers
- The Tremont Chicago Hotel at Magnificent Mile
- The Westin Chicago River North
- The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center
- W Chicago – City Center
Louisiana
- Sheraton Metairie – New Orleans Hotel
Maryland
- Sheraton Silver Spring Hotel
Massachusetts
- Sheraton Framingham Hotel & Conference Center
- Sheraton Needham Hotel
- The Westin Waltham Boston
Michigan
- The Westin Book Cadillac Detroit
New Jersey
- Sheraton Atlantic City Convention Center Hotel
- Sheraton Parsippany Hotel
- The Westin Jersey City Newport
- The Westin Mount Laurel
- The Westin Princeton at Forrestal Village
- W Hoboken
New York
- Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel
- The St. Regis New York
- The Westin New York at Times Square
- The Westin New York Grand Central
- W New York
- W New York – Downtown
- W New York – Times Square
- W New York – Union Square
Ohio
- Sheraton Suites Akron/Cuyahoga Falls
Oklahoma
- Aloft Tulsa
Oregon
- The Westin Portland
Pennsylvania
- Sheraton Erie Bayfront Hotel
Tennessee
- Sheraton Nashville Downtown Hotel
Texas
- Aloft Dallas Downtown
- Aloft Frisco
- Aloft Las Colinas
- Aloft Plano
Washington
- Four Points by Sheraton Downtown Seattle Center
- Sheraton Bellevue Hotel
- Sheraton Seattle Hotel
- The Westin Bellevue
- The Westin Seattle
- W Seattle
Wisconsin
- Four Points by Sheraton Milwaukee North Shore
Hi Stacey,
Thanks for the post! I actually stayed at a SPG property that is NOT on the list of non-participating locations from 04/25 through 05/04. I didn’t register for this promotion prior to my stay. Now I have, after reading your post. Will I still be able to get the promotion for the stay? I’ll be calling SPG to find out as well and will post a follow up after talking to them.
Thank you!
@Sal – sorry for the late reply. Yes, you should get credit for the stay as long as you resister for the promo by the “register by date”