Best Western Rewards isn’t the most generous loyalty program out there, and for that matter, Best Western doesn’t have that many aspirational properties. However, the program does pretty consistently offer promotions.
Best Western has just launched its summer promotion, for which registration opened last week. This has the potential to be quite rewarding, and is valid over quite a few stays.
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Best Western Rewards summer 2024 promo
Best Western Rewards’ summer promotion is now live, valid for stays between May 20 and September 2, 2024, at any Best Western branded property in the United States, Canada, or the Caribbean. With this promotion, you can earn 10,000 bonus points after staying three nights, and you can qualify for this promotion up to twice (for a total of 20,000 bonus points).
If you earn 20,000 bonus points, you’ll then receive an email inviting you to register to earn double or triple points on any additional stays through the end of the promotion period.
There are some more things to be aware of:
- Registration is required prior to your first eligible stay (though it’s fine if you booked before registering)
- While this promotion is open to Best Western Rewards members regardless of where they live, hotel stays must take place in the United States, Canada, and/or the Caribbean, to be eligible for this offer
- Eligible stays include those booked directly with Best Western at non-special discounted rates
- You’re rewarded after staying three nights, no matter what combination of stays you make, whether it’s one stay of three nights, three stays of one night, etc.
- Bonus points will post to an account within two weeks of completing an eligible stay
- Details haven’t yet been published about how the double or triple points promotion will work, which you can qualify for after earning 20,000 points
How rewarding is this Best Western promotion?
Best Western Rewards ordinarily awards 10x points per dollar spent. Personally I value Best Western points at somewhere around 0.5 cents each, meaning you typically earn a 5% return on your Best Western spending. This doesn’t include the rewards you’d earn for credit card spending, plus any bonus rewards you’d earn if you have elite status with Best Western Rewards (and the program has a generous status match offer).
As far as this promotion goes, you can essentially earn 20,000 bonus points after staying six nights, which comes out to an average of 3,333 bonus points per night. At a valuation of 0.5 cents per point, that’s like an incremental return of ~$17 per night. Of course this assumes that you stay exactly three or six nights.
After that, you could be earning double or triple points, which would equate to an extra 10x points or an extra 20x points per dollar spent. At a valuation of 0.5 cents per point, that’s an incremental 5-10% return on Best Western spending.
All too often, Best Western promotions have a very low cap, so it’s nice to see a promotion that’s valid for six nights, and then that unlocks an additional promotion.
Bottom line
Best Western has launched its summer 2024 promotion. Members can earn 10,000 bonus points after staying three eligible nights, and can qualify for the promotion up to twice. Upon completion of that, members will be eligible for a promotion offering either double or triple points.
Do you plan on taking advantage of Best Western’s new promotion?
BW is a fairly underrated program. I find many of their properties comparable to the Hampton/Fairfield/HIXs of the US for sometimes less. Their premium card adds 10x back on top of rewards and the ability to cash in on travel card redemption at a decent point value and still be able to make points on the stay is a nice bonus.
For some reason BW promos only include US, CAN, and to a lesser extent Caribbean. They still produce better promos than most chains, Marriott is the worst, shocking right? lolz
Thank you, Ben, for always posting announcements of BW promos. A loyal BW Platinum to Diamond Rewards member, I always hear about these promos from you first. Sincerely, Dave Saunders