Important dates for your diary – offers about to close which you shouldn’t miss

The aim of this feature is to summarise flight, hotel and points offers that are ending soon.  Everything listed below has been covered on HfP in recent weeks, but years of experience of running offers for HfP readers has made it very clear that a large proportion like to leave things to the last minute ….

It pulls together the different deals mentioned in our daily articles and on our Top Avios Points Earning Offers, Top Hotel Bonus Points Offers and Top UK Credit Card Offers pages.

Hotel promotions and ‘buy points’ offers

Here are registration links for the current hotel promotions from the major chains:

• Hilton Honors – earn double base points on all cash stays, or on incidental spend on reward stays, from 1st January to 30th April 2025 – register here

• IHG One Rewards – earn double base points on all cash stays, starting with your second stay, from 1st January to 31st March 2025 – register here

The following hotel ‘buy points’ offers are currently running:

• Hilton Honors – get an 80% to 100% bonus with a potentially doubled annual limit when you buy points by 31st December – click here

• World of Hyatt – get a 25% bonus when you buy points by 4th January (annual purchase limit is increased to 110,000 points and you could buy your 2025 allowance between 1st and 4th January to benefit twice) – click here

Credit card offers

Until 14th January 2025, the sign-up bonus on ‘free for a year’ American Express Preferred Rewards Gold is increased to 30,000 Membership Rewards points. This converts into 30,000 Avios. Our full article is here. Click here to apply.

Until 14th January 2025, the sign-up bonus on The Platinum Card from American Express is increased to 80,000 Membership Rewards points. This converts into 80,000 Avios! The spend requirement is changed to £10,000 in six months for this offer. Our full article is here. Click here to apply.

Dates for your diary

Tuesday 31st December

Last day to get an 80% to 100% bonus buying Hilton Honors points – click here to buy

Last day to get £350 cashback on a £700 spend with United Airlines on American Express

Last day for stays to count for IHG’s ‘3,000 bonus points for every two nights’ promotion – click here to register

Last day to earn triple base points at five niche IHG One Rewards brands – click here to register

Last day for stays to count towards the Hilton Honors autumn bonus points promotion – click here to register

Last day to get 20% cashback at 1,300 UK restaurants with Amex Gold or Amex Platinum

Last day to book an event, to be held by 30th June, with IHG to earn double IHG Business Rewards points

Last day to get £75 or £100 cashback via American Express on Marriott Bonvoy stays

Last day to get £75 cashback via American Express on a £300 IHG One Rewards stay

Last day to get £70 cashback via American Express on a £200 stay with Millennium Hotels

Last day to get £50 cashback on £150 of spend with Minor Hotels and American Express

Last day to get £80 cashback via American Express on a £400 stay with The Peninsula hotels

Last day to get 250 Avios for joining the Marriott Bonvoy hotel programme – no stay required!

Wednesday 1st January

FIRST DAY for stays to count towards Hilton’s new ‘double base points’ promotion – click here to register

FIRST DAY for stays to count towards IHG’s new ‘double base points’ promotion – click here to register

Saturday 4th January

Last day to get a 25% bonus when you buy World of Hyatt points, with your annual limit increased to 110,000 points – click here to buy

Last day to get triple Avios at Bicester Village via Qatar Airways Privilege Club

Monday 6th January

Last day to get £100 American Express cashback with £250 of Hyatt hotel spend

Friday 10th January

Last day to get up to 10,000 bonus Heathrow Rewards points with jewellery, watches and technology

Tuesday 14th January

Last day to get 80,000 Membership Rewards points (converts to 80,000 Avios) with The Platinum Card from American Express – click here to apply

Last day to get 30,000 Membership Rewards points (converts to 30,000 Avios) with ‘free for a year’ American Express Preferred Rewards Gold – click here to apply

Thursday 23rd January

Last day to get 5,000 Virgin Points for activating Tesco Clubcard auto-conversion

Tuesday 28th January

Last day to book in the Hilton winter sale (stay at weekends by 21st April)

Friday 31st January

Last day to book Official Heathrow Parking to receive American Express cashback

Last day to book Accor hotels to receive double points (stay by 12th February)