Is This The Most Limited Promotion Ever? 10,000 Bonus Starpoints At Tribute Portfolio.

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In April this year Starwood announced yet another brand for their collection – Tribute Portfolio. Starwood already had nine different brands (including W Hotels, The Luxury Collection and Sheraton) so they clearly thought that one more would make it a nice, round, even ten.

Tribute Portfolio is meant to be a collection of 4-star independent hotels brought under one banner….a bit like Starwood’s Luxury Collection which does the same for 5-star hotels. The plan for the brand is to have 100 hotels by 2020 (a collection of existing and newly built properties) and to have the hotels keep their own name…just with the words “a Tribute Portfolio Hotel” at the end.

Starwood has now launched a promotion whereby guests will earn 2,000 bonus Starpoints for every eligible stay at a Tribute Portfolio hotel between 12 October and 20 December (up to a maximum of 10,000 Starpoints).

In principle that sounds great until you realise that there are currently only two Tribute Portfolio hotels in the whole world! Two! A third is scheduled to open on 3 November (almost a third of the way through the promotion period) and a fourth is scheduled to open on 4 December (a little over 2 weeks before the promotion ends).

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a more limited list of hotels participating in a major hotel group’s promotion.

Current hotels:

The Great Northern Hotel – London, England

Royal Palm – South Beach, Miami

Opening soon:

The Riviera Palm Springs – Palm Springs, California (Opening 3 November 2015)

The Kiroro – Yoichi-Gun, Hokkaido, Japan (Opening 4 December 2015)

Not only are there so few hotels from which to choose but it doesn’t appear as if you can book rooms at the Palm Springs or Hokkaido properties yet. When you search for the properties on the Starwood booking page they simply don’t show up when you enter dates after their supposed openings.

Nevertheless, if by some miracle this promotion is of some use to you, registration is now open and you can sign up HERE.

Other than the fact that there are only two bookable hotels in this promotion there doesn’t seem to be anything  too onerous in the Terms & Conditions.

T&C Highlights:

  • Register by 6 December
  • Max 5 stays will earn Starpoint bonuses
  • Promotion period 12 October – 20 December 2015

Have you ever come across a more limited promotion from a major hotel group? Let me know in the comments if you have because I’d love to hear about it.

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