A new Visit Richmond promotion has arrived, this time offering up to $225 in American Express gift cards for staying at select Richmond hotels through January 2, 2023.
This is a similar to the popular Stay Vancouver deal, but applicable in the City of Richmond, a different region of Metro Vancouver, instead.
Visit Richmond: $125 Amex Gift Card on Your First Night
The promotion is supported by tourism Richmond in partnership with both the Richmond Hotel Association and Pacific Authentic Richmond BC.
The goal is to incentivize Metro Vancouver residents to support local tourism after the recent impact on the international travel sector, while also encouraging Canadians from further afield to visit the city, stay with its hotels, and spend money locally.
To that end, the promotion offers an American Express gift card of up to $125 on your first night’s stay at a participating hotel, followed by an additional $50 Amex gift card per night when you book two nights or more, up to a maximum of three nights.
The full terms and conditions of the promotion can be found on the Visit Richmond website.
There are 17 participating hotels in the Richmond area, and they’ll each offer gift cards of $75, $100, or $125 for the first night’s stay, depending on the hotel’s underlying nightly rate.
Gift Card Usage
These gift cards will be delivered upon checking into the hotel.
In my experience, the check-in staff will often ask whether you’d simply like to skip the physical gift card itself and simply use the amount to offset against your room charge, so you can think of the gift card as essentially a straight-up discount against the nightly rate.
However, you always have the option to pay for the full amount of your hotel bill using a co-branded credit card (such as the American Express Marriott Bonvoy Card) to maximize your points earnings. You can then save the Amex gift card for spending elsewhere along your travels, as once the card is received, there is no requirement to use it by a certain date.
Additionally, you can stack this promotion with the ongoing Marriott Amex Offer or Fairmont Amex Offer to unlock even further savings!
Hotel-Hopping
If you’re staying at a hotel that’s offering more than $50 for the first night, then you’d get a better deal on the first night than on subsequent nights.
While some may be interested in maximizing their return by “hotel-hopping”, you’ll…
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