The Fun Way I Earned 11,000 Bonus Starpoints This Year

Staying at St Regis BKK this week, which is #9. I really want to check out some Design Hotels, but the lack of benefits have kept me from pulling the trigger. Living in Miami, Royal Palm is low-hanging fruit for a mattress run for Tribute, but again, the vision on the brand isn't clear.

has anyone else earned Starwood's 11,000 point brand bonus this year?

No, but I stayed at Holiday Inn Express last night!

Was planning to, but with one Elements in all of Asia and the Tribute Portfolio ones at opposite ends this wasnt a very attractive proposition.

Hoping to do this next year. With travel I already have planned, I'll hit 8 of 11. W, StR and Tribute will be the 3 left. Staycation at StR San Francisco would be nice...

Always easy to earn points of you are spending money like crazy. I am sure you swimming in points since you only stay on hotels.

The trick is to get points without spending anything or better yet to get points on Lucky's spending, that would be the holy grail.

10 of 11 right now. have a stay at the Element Summerlin to complete the 11 on 12/26. I'll be in Tokyo, so I'll be checking in via app 🙂

@Daniel, will that work? Booking somewhere random, checking in via app, and then getting credit?

If so that would make mattress running a lot easier...

I completed 11-brand stay in November. The most difficult brand was Element for a resident in Far East.
Element Suzhou was as far as Shangri-La!

I hit the bonus! Toughest was Design being based in Chicago, but booked a great opening week rate at the Robey which is brand new and opened over Thanksgiving.

I'm at 10/11 (at the Royal Palm in Miami now) and dying to find a cheap StR between now and EOY. Open to anything in US/Canada (based in BOS). Any suggestions?

The Element Boston Seaport was the only one which was indifferent; finished with St Regis SF! Stayed @ a couple of hotels [Foshay, Minneapolis and Avenue of the Arts, SoCal] which I wouldn't have without---and had great experience.

Tribute Portfolio was the toughest brand to cross off the list, but a quick visit to Southern California earlier this month took care of that and earned the bonus. Like Ben, the promotion was in the back of my mind all year, and it gave me an excuse to try out Starwood's Luxury Privileges program for a post-Thanksgiving stay at the St. Regis in Houston.

@Rob: I also checked out the Robey in Chicago during that opening week. It was worth braving the cold for those panoramic rooftop views!

I made the 11k bonus. I had to force a stay at the W Beijing, which wasn't very convenient to get there. Other stays were just in the course of normal business travel to where I needed to be.

I hit this promotion back in July. The toughes for me was Four Points and St Regis, as well as Design. Did Four Points in Emeryville CA after being in Napa, Design in NYC between trips and St Regis (cheap) in Macau during my Hong Kong/Macao trip (using old AA points for CX First.)

Just hit this goal last weekend at a Design Hotel in a layover in Shanghai. Those were the hardest to work into my travel. They also ran a similar promotion last year.

I hit all 11, with the tough one for me being W. Ended up at W Buckhead in Atlanta, and hated the property. Hated it. I really don't get W at all. But, loved the 11,000 points, which took about a week to post.

I will hit all 11 when I stay at the Tribute in Las Vegas in a 3 days. I stayed in Chicago and stayed 3 days at the W and 1 day at the Robey which is a new hotel. If I wasn't going to do this contest I would have stayed at an IHG hotel instead of the Robey. The 10th stay I just completed at the Gwen, luxury collection, which was only $70 if paid in advance. The hardest thing was getting to Chicago with all the snow and wind and then hoping that they wouldn't cancel my flight.

Anyhow Starwood got one extra hotel stay out of me that would have gone to IHG and in 5 more days I'll have an extra 11,000 points from Tribute Las Vegas.