Interestingly from the HHonors perspective is TMTravelworld reporting yesterday HHonors Diamond memb

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The only additional point to this post s analysis is to check this list of participating properties . Around 150  Starwood Hotels worldwide are not participating. (See the end of this post for the list of non-participating Starwood Hotels for double/triple points promotion.)
The rumor on FlyerTalk is the fall 2010 promotion from SPG is double base points from September 8 – December 15 for one to nine hotel nights and then triple points, applied retroactively, if 10 nights or more are stayed clarion hotel orlando airport during the promotion period.
Double points and triple points are always calculated using base points earning. Starwood Preferred Guest members earn base points at the rate of 2 points per $1 in hotel spend, room rate tax excluded, but incidental spend included in base spending.
Spend $100 on one night and you get 200 bonus points from this promotion. That can be considered a $7 bonus based on the purchase rate of points $35/1,000 points. A 7% rebate is nothing to get too excited about. Stay ten nights and you earn a 15% points clarion hotel orlando airport rebate value. There is little potential value leverage with this offer.
3,000 points is a decent rebate for a single 5-night stay. But if your travel pattern is more likely to be five 1-night stays then the average 300 points per stay in promotion bonus points is not so great compared to many SPG past promotions.
6,000 bonus points is not that big a bonus after ten hotel nights. I recall getting 7,000 bonus points for three stays in 1999. And back then the highest hotel category was 12,000 points per night compared to 30,000 points per night now. The triple points bonus after $1,500 and ten nights works out to 600 bonus points per night. Only stay nine nights and the bonus is just double base points or 300 points per night on a $150 per night room spend.
After $1,500 and 10 hotel nights you will earn 10,000 points sufficient for a free category 4 hotel night. The potential value for 6,000 points earned with the promotion bonus is around $210 ($35/1,000 points) for $1,500 in spend.  A 14% loyalty rebate value in promotion bonus points clarion hotel orlando airport is the kind of return on loyalty investment that will likely drive the elite member to consider another hotel loyalty program for a better offer this fall. Non-elite SPG members may be looking to Hotwire and Priceline for bigger discounts.
Hilton base points = 10 points/$1 and with Points Points earning preference you earn an additional 5 points per $1 for 15 points per dollar. The double points offer promotion results in 25 points/$1.
Starwood Preferred Guest's bonus is dependent only on the number of nights stayed. Spend $1,500 on 8 nights and your promotion bonus is 3,000 points. Spend $1,500 on 10 nights and your promotion bonus is 6,000 points.
clarion hotel orlando airport Interestingly from the HHonors perspective is TMTravelworld reporting yesterday HHonors Diamond members have a targeted offer for a free night after ten paid nights by December 31. No doubt that offer trumps this SPG offer.
clarion hotel orlando airport The hotel chains clarion hotel orlando airport appear to be cutting back on promotion incentives clarion hotel orlando airport since room occupancy is going up. But room rates are still flat in most places across the U.S. I'll be interested to see the impact of weak promotions during the same time period an attempt is made to raise room rates across the hotel market segments.
Business travel is up and predicted to increase in fall 2010, but leisure travel is the unknown factor and I think growth is likely to remain flat as we move along in a stagnant economy for most working people.