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To celebrate the launch of Radisson Rewards (formerly Club Carlson), targeted emails are being sent out to members offering a 30% points rebate when booking award stays.
The Deal
- Redeem points for Free Award Nights and get 30% of your points back after your stay at any of more than 1,100 Radisson Hotel Group properties.
Key Terms
- Redeem by March 11, 2018, for Award Night stays through May 31, 2018.
- This offer is only valid for Radisson Rewards members who have received the private email invitation to participate in the “Flash Redemption Rebate” promotion (“Promotion”) for a thirty percent (30%) rebate of the points redeemed for a booked and consumed Award Night(s) (“Rebate”).
- Promotion is valid on Eligible Award Night(s) stays booked from March 6, 2018 through March 11, 2018, with Award Night(s) stays consumed from March 6, 2018 through May 31, 2018, (“Promotion Period”) at participating properties, including Radisson Collection, Radisson Blu, Radisson, Radisson RED, Park Plaza, Park Inn by Radisson, and Country Inn & Suites by Radisson hotels worldwide are required to participate (collectively, “Participating Properties”).
- Both the check-in and check-out dates of the Eligible Night(s) must take place during the Promotion Period.
- The Rebate will not be awarded at the time of booking. The Rebate will be credited to the Eligible Member’s account after the stay has been completed.
- The Rebate only applies to Award Night (hotel room) stays and does not apply to other reward option redemptions.
- Members may book multiple stays within the Promotion Period of the Promotion.
- The Rebate will be credited as Bonus points to the member’s account after the Eligible Stay is completed and will usually be posted to a member’s account within 4-6 weeks after the conclusion of the promotion on May 31, 2018.
Quick Thoughts
A 30% points rebate for award stays is quite generous, although there are a couple of downsides to this promotion.
The first is that it appears to be targeted. The wording of the promotion certainly suggests that’s the case and they do appear to be enforcing this. That’s because my wife received an email, but I wasn’t invited on either of my Radisson Rewards accounts.
The second slightly frustrating aspect is that points are only rebated for stays booked between March 6-11. We already have a couple of Radisson Rewards stays booked during the promotion period, but we made those reservations a fortnight ago.
That means we’ll have to cancel those reservations and rebook them in order to take advantage of the 30% points rebate. To be fair though, we’d have to do that anyway as they were booked under one of my accounts, whereas we’ll now have to book them under my wife’s account seeing as she was the only one targeted for this promotion.
When Hyatt have run their 10% rebate promotions in the past, they’ve rebated points on reservations made before the promotion started, so long as the stay itself was within the promotion period. It’d have been nice if Radisson Rewards allowed the same thing, but I can’t complain too much seeing as the promotion’s going to be saving us 27,900 Radisson Rewards points. That’s almost giving us two free nights as one of the stays is at a category 2 property which costs 15,000 points per night.
If you can take advantage of this promotion, be sure to make your reservations by Sunday March 11.
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Bring back the free last night with the credit card and then we’ll talk.
Stop living in the past, then we’ll talk.
Thanks for the post. I did receive the targeted email but I’m not having any luck making a reservation. I’ve tried several cities and each one says: “Please correct the areas marked below. The promotional code is invalid for the selected hotel brands.” What city do you see this code working for?
Did you click through from the email where it says ‘Redeem Now’? If so, it looks like it pre-populates the Promotional Code box with ‘REDEEMGPSCIDEM20180306RWCHAMMKTGFLASHSALEPRIMARYIMAGE’ I think that’s an error and that there’s no promo code needed – there aren’t any terms requiring use of a specific code and the nature of that code (it says PRIMARYIMAGE at the end), makes it seem like a mistake.
Yes, I did click on “Redeem Now” and, similarly, it populates that code for me. Whether it’s there or not, I don’t see it discounting my desired hotel in London. And when I delete it, I see the normal pricing (70k). I just got off the phone with client service but they weren’t of help. I was told to insert a promo code of GP. That code works for London, but it doesn’t work (Rate Not Offered is the message I get). Also, GP doesn’t work for one USA city I tried. I don’t know – guess I’ll try again tomorrow.
Thanks
I think you just have to completely delete the code and not use one at all. The promotion isn’t offering a discount when you make the booking now; instead, you’ll be rebated 30% of the points after your stay’s completed.
The email only said that you have to be logged into your account before making the reservation, so I think you can just go ahead and make the reservation without needing to do anything special.
Radisson have just sent another email with a corrected link – it looks like you need to use REDEEMGP in the promo code box.
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