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Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG), the loyalty programme for Starwood hotels (Sheraton, Westin, St. Regis, ALoft etc) has just launched a new promotional game that offers the chance to bag some free SPG Starpoints!
For me, Starpoints are by far the most valuable Points/Miles ‘currency’ that you can collect, so free Points is fantastic!
Whether you use them for Category 1 + 2 hotel stays (just 2,000-4,000 Points), transferring to airline frequent flyer schemes that have great award chart sweet spots but are otherwise hard to collect Miles in (like Alaska + Virgin America), or take advantage of some of the more advanced possibilities like ‘Nights and Flights’, you can get massive value from Starpoints.
SPG have ran games like this in the past and I (+ quite a few readers!) have done pretty well out of them.
This time, there are 1,470 instant prizes randomly time seeded so that the person who plays first after any of those particular times wins a prize.
Instant Prizes:
- 630 x 1000 Starpoints
- 420 x 5,000 Starpoints
- 210 x 10,000 Starpoints
- 210 x Free Night Awards Category 1-5
My reading of the rules is that you can only win an instant prize once over the course of the competition, which is actually great because it makes your overall chance of winning at least something much higher. You can have a read of the the full rules / terms and conditions here yourself, if so inclined.
I didn’t win first time, but hey – I can play every day until 12th September, so there’s still plenty of time!
There is also a ‘Grand Prize’ of 50,000 Starpoints plus five Free Night Awards (Category 1–6), that you get entered for every day you play, but I wouldn’t cross your fingers too hard for that!
Bottom line: free SPG Starpoints are great and there’s a realistic chance of winning a decent chunk (even just 1,000 isn’t to be sniffed at!), so play here.
Who is going to be InsideFlyerUK’s first winner? – post your victories in the comments!
Huzzah, been waiting for one of these since the baseball game earlier this year!
Nothing for me first time round. Hope I didn’t use up all my luck in the baseball game.
Read lots of posts on FT of people winning 1k & 5k points but nothing here on 2 x accs over the last two days.
Nothing for me today on Day 2.
Nothing for me (or family) yet either, but I suspect (hope?) we’ll all get a prize eventually. The problem with the last competition was that you could win more than once, so some people won a lot and others got nothing, but I think this one is like the ones before that so you can only win once.
Day 2 and nothing for me, as yet… Patience and perseverance generally pays off here.
Nothing on Day 3
Drawn a blank on day 4
Nothing here either…..
Nope, nothing for me yet either. Yep, patience and perseverence Tom!
Another blank on Day 5
Ditto for Day 6
A blank on Day 7 too.
snap
No luck on day 8. Only 13 chances left
Looks like no-one has won anything.
It’s obviously just a study into tenacity/stupidity.
What are your losing approaches? I stick with Le Meridien every time.
I try in the morning (UK time) and just pick a random card. Nothing today.
I’ve developed a vast array of losing strategies. I thought that my ‘standing-on-one-leg-while-spinning-round-and-barking-at-my-computer-screen-at-11:27-Aloft’ approach had particular merit (artistically at least, and I would argue morally too), but I’ve heard rumours that others were rather less keen on it, sadly.
That only works if you spin anti-clockwise.#
Meanwhile, IHG have just emailed me with this. Something for a future article?
Earn points without leaving home
Earn 1,000 bonus points for joining and completing your first survey
Dear Andrew,
Start earning towards the rewards you really want, without having to go anywhere at all. Sign up with our newest online survey partner, Opinion Check-In, and earn 1,000 points for completing your first survey. The more surveys you complete, the more you earn—and points are automatically deposited directly into your account. Participating in surveys allows you to share your opinion about the products and services you use every day, so you can count on your voice being heard
Foiled again! – well, there’s always tomorrow I suppose.
Yeah, I noticed the email but didn’t clock the new survey partner which is interesting – I’ll prob put a quick post together about it this evening. Cheers!
Day 10 = a lemon.
The Flyertalk thread, for those who are interested:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/starwood-starwood-preferred-guest/1786266-coming-soon-spg-more-you-here-now-spg-open-more-game-9.html#post27148348
I keep forgetting this one, but when I do remember – nothing.
It’s interesting that such a high percentage of the early adopters won something and then the prizes faded away. Very few winners by the last page of that thread.
When I played the SPG baseball game earlier this year, my win was very early on. Looks like the trend continues!
*wakes up on day 11*
*selects card and wins nothing*
*returns to slumber*
Someone on Flyertalk won 5000 points yesterday. It was the first time he’d selected the card that the site defaults to when the page loads. Worth a go?
Still nothing. Four chances left.
Yep still nothing – the curse of InsideFlyerUK strikes again!
On the contrary Joe, InsideFlyerUK netted me 5k last time round. Prizes have definitely become scarce
Good Point – I’m sure they’re just arranging things so that I win the grand prize!
Nothing again. One chance left. What a disappointment this promo has been.
At least come tomorrow I won’t have to see the sentence ‘Tomorrow could be your lucky day’ again.
You’re not alone, Andrew:
Final chance for me today, but even at the last, nothing doing. A huge disappointment. Ironically, I still got the above message despite today being the last opportunity. Oh well.