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The Offer
- Order Best Western gift cards now and receive a $50 Bonus Card for each $200 Travel Card purchased.
Max of 5 per customer. The Best Western Travel card does not expire. However, the bonus card does expire on November 30, 2023.
The Fine Print
- Valid June 2, 2023 through June 18, 2023
- Travel Cards can be purchased in a variety of denominations in either USD, CAD, GBP, or EUR
- The Travel Cards can be redeemed at any BWH Hotel Group branded hotel that accepts the Travel Card as payment
- The Best Western Travel Card allows you to fit over 100 countries and territories worldwide into your wallet
- Purchased Best Western gift cards have no expiration date. HOWEVER, BONUS CARDS EXPIRE ON November 30, 2023
- This is an online promotion only and is offered solely to residents of the United States, Canada and the Caribbean
- Bonus gift cards will be sent via email separately from the purchased Best Western gift cards
- For each $200 Best Western® gift card purchased, the purchaser will receive one (1) $50 bonus Best Western gift card. There is a limit of five (5) $50 bonus gift cards that each customer can earn during the Promotion Period (defined below).
- This promotion is available for physical and digital (via email) gift card purchases.
Our Verdict
Nice bonus if you can use it up by November 30th.
Guys 1 questiin.i booked online stay couple of months back and used amex cc.but i am sure they dont charge in advance.
Now can i pay same charge via this gc along with bonus card?
I think they charge when you check in or check out.
The card used at time of booking is just used as a sort of deposit to hold the room. At the properties I’ve done in the past, you can change the payment method later. In the past I would tell them at checkin that I want to use gift cards, and then they tell me they can run them at checkout. I give them the cards/printouts the night before checkout to run in the morning. I tell them not to run any credit cards until I see them in the morning to take care of any remaining balance. I only buy enough gift cards for upcoming stay to leave a small balance leftover to pay with my CC. It works well for me because I have a July 4th spot I like to go to most years with a BW that I use. I’ve been able to utilize this deal like 3-4 times.
Does purchase of these gift cards code as “Travel” for credit card points purposes?
Did you try the link? Once you select the currency you want to buy the travel card in, it goes to givex.com, so it probably doesn’t count as travel, since Givex is a gift card platform, not a travel platform.
Thanks. No I hadn’t gotten that far. Wanted to check to see first.
My Chase Ink card categorized it that way, fwiw. I didn’t use a card that earns a travel category bonus so not sure if it would work. It kinda seems that way unless maybe Chase categorized it based on Best Western being in the name:
Description
Givex* Best Western – Uni
Merchant type
Lodging: hotels, motels and resorts
Method
Online, mail or phone
I tried to give you guys a data point from a Citi Custom Cash. I tried to put an order through, Citi asked for a authentication code during checkout, I put it in but then the order still gave me an error. Now I have a pending charge but no gift cards. Now I gotta wait to make sure that pending order doesn’t post. But the pending charge does kinda look promising on Citi side too. It says Merchant Givex, but it says Hotels/Motels/etc. for category.
Spend Category
Hotels, Motels, Resorts Lodging
Merchant Details
Givex
So my charge on Custom Cash did post (they gave me an offsetting credit since the order failed) and code as “Spend Category
Hotels, Motels, Resorts Lodging” and gave me the 5% Select Travel rewards category.
I have tried 6 different credit cards but non of them go through successfully
Can I buy a single $1000 or has to be 5x $200 to trigger 5 bonuses?
single $1000 works. there’s a message in the cart that confirms how much bonus you are getting
thanks!!
Would this $200/$50 deal stack with this deal:
Stay 2 Nights and Get A $50 Best Western® Gift Card. https://www.bestwestern.com/en_US/offers/hotel-discounts/special-offer/rewardsrush2.html
So can I buy five of the $200 gift cards, use the five (or fewer) bonus $50 cards to pay for the Stay 2 nights and get another $50 gift card?
Since nothing in T&Cs of the “stay 2 night sand get a $50 BW gift card” says any particular way of paying is required, just that it has to be a rate that earns points, you should be able to pay for those 2 or 4 stays with any BW gift cards, in whole or in part.
Can one user a Bonus card for pre-paid stay which is past November 30 ? Also anyone knows if this will trigger AMEX offer ?
Unsure (but I lean towards it not since the link leads to a website Givex.com and all support numbers are Givex’s, 833-632-0867, not Best Western). I have the $20 off $100 AMEX offer on P1 and P2 accounts.
To the first question: No, you have present the Bonus card upon checking in, just like you have to present a credit card during check-in, which requires that stay be before November 30. And I said “before” instead of “before or on”, because sometimes they don’t process the gift card until the following morning.
And I agree with TDD about givex.com making it extremely unlikely that it would work for the Amex offer.