SPG is offering 500 bonus points for bookings made using the brand new SPG Chinese Android app.
There is no need to register for this offer, but you need to make the reservations using the SPG’s Chinese Android app and stay between August 7 and September 7, 2013 December 31, 2013. You can earn the bonus unlimited number of times.
You can access SPG’s Chinese web page for this offer here. They do have the same web page available in English as well but without any mention of the bonus points.
Conclusion
This is a nice booking bonus for those that have Android phone and have bit understanding of Chinese. Seems that SPG is trying to court the Chinese market with these market specific targeted offers.
Here are the terms and conditions of this offer:
Chinese SPG® App for Android™ Booking Bonus: Starwood Preferred Guest® members are eligible to earn 500 bonus Starpoints® for completed eligible stays between August 7, 2013, and December 31, 2013, (the “promotion period”) that were booked through SPG Chinese App for Android between August 7, 2013, and September 7, 2013. Only eligible stays consumed through December 31, 2013 will receive bonuses. Members may earn a maximum of 500 bonus Starpoints per booking. Booking bonuses are eligible at all properties that participate in the SPG program. Only bookings made through Chinese SPG App for Android are eligible for bonus point Starpoints. Bookings made through English SPG App for Android, English SPG App for iPhone® or Chinese SPG App for iPhone are not eligible to receive bonus Starpoints.
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????: Starpoints ???????????????????????Eligible Stays: An eligible stay is defined as one or more consecutive nights paying an eligible rate in the same hotel regardless of the number of check-ins or checkouts that occur and post to the member’s Starwood Preferred Guest® account. Eligible stays with at least one night in the earning period will receive a bonus. An eligible rate is any rate that is eligible to earn Starpoints in the Starwood Preferred Guest program. A listing of SPG-participating hotels and resorts and a description of eligible stays and eligible rates can be found at spg.com under program terms and conditions. See Section 1.4 for the complete definition of eligible rates, but note that certain prepaid rooms where the booking is made through a third party (including but not limited to travelocity.com, expedia.com and orbitz.com) are not Eligible Rates and do not earn Starpoints or qualify toward promotional earnings.
???????: ?????????????????????,????????????????????,??????????? SPG ?????????????????? ???????????????????,????????? ?????????????? SPG ???????Starpoints???????? ?? SPG ???????????????????????????????????? SPG.com ?????????????????? ?????????????,???? 1.4 ?????,???????(?????? travelocity.com?expedia.com ? orbitz.com)????????????????????,???? Starpoints ??????????????Qualifications and Starwood Terms: All promotions are subject to the Starwood Preferred Guest program terms and conditions, which are subject to change without notice and can be found at spg.com. Offer is applicable to individual members only and not to groups. Not responsible for omissions or typographical errors. Starwood reserves the right to discontinue this offer at any time. To update your communication preferences or learn about our privacy practices, view our Privacy Statement on spg.com/privacy, or access our privacy information line by calling 1-877-782-0071 in the U.S. and Canada or +353-21-4930474 in all other countries. Starpoints, SPG, Preferred Guest, Sheraton, Four Points, W, Aloft, The Luxury Collection, Le Méridien, Element, Sheraton, St. Regis and their respective logos are the trademarks of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., or its affiliates. Void where prohibited by law. ©2012 Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Too bad it only overlaps better by the night for 7 days… If you do 1 night stays form 9/1 to 9/7, you can earn 7000 bonus points in 7 days. If you are working on Platinum re-qualification, this is a good way to to earn loads of points while earning 7 stays. As Platinum, you get additional 3500 amenity points. Then say you spend $700 in 7 days, with the double points promo, that would be 3500 points. A grand total of 14000 points, fair value $400. Not bad at all.
This is a nice offer that you can stack with the next promo starts on September 1 for the first 7 days.
When you say “understanding of Chinese”, it’s incorrect. There’s no language called “Chinese” anymore than there’s a language called American.
The language itself IS called “Chinese”. “Mandarin” etc is just accents of the language. It’s amazing to see people spread mis-information with such confidence. Sigh…
We can agree to disagree. Not the appropriate forum to debate but Chinese is at best “a group of languages” like the Romance languages (French, Spanish…).
I cannot find a “Chinese version” on this SPG app on Android. I actually have the SPG app (in english) on my Android phone. Would using that to book a hotel qualify for that 500 points?
Could be that you need to be in certain market to find the app from Google’s Play Store? There should be a link on that SPG page to download it.