Bonus Status Credits on Qantas Hotels & Holidays

Shangri-La Yanuca Island, Fiji
Shangri-La Yanuca Island, Fiji. Photo: Supplied.

Qantas Frequent Flyer is offering 10 status credits per night on selected hotel and holiday bookings for a limited time, up to a maximum of 100 status credits. This offer is available for eligible Qantas Hotels and Qantas Holidays bookings made from 26 until 31 December 2021.

A range of domestic and international Qantas Hotels and Qantas Holidays packages are eligible for the bonus status credits offer. For example, you could earn 20 bonus status credits by staying two nights at Peppers Silo Launceston. This particular package starts from $418 for 2 nights for two adults and includes a room upgrade, wine & Tasmanian truffles on arrival, and a late check-out.

Hotel packages at Reef House Palm Cove in Queensland are also eligible to earn 10 bonus status credits per night.

Reef House Palm Cove
Reef House Palm Cove. Photo: Supplied.

Eligible overseas hotels include The Fullerton Singapore, Angsana Phuket, Fiji Tokoriki Island Resort and Shangri-La Yanuca Island in Fiji.

You can view the full list of eligible hotel deals and book on the Qantas Hotels website. Holiday offers are available on the Qantas Holidays website. You can also read the full terms & conditions on the relevant Qantas websites.

You can make multiple bookings to earn up to a maximum of 100 status credits in total. You can also add extra nights on top of the included nights with any of the advertised packages, and earn more status credits for the extra nights.

You’ll also earn at least 3 Qantas points per $1 spent on Qantas Hotels & Holidays bookings when you enter your Qantas Frequent Flyer number. But outside of this promotion, status credits are not normally earned on hotel bookings.

Throughout COVID-19 Qantas has offered a range of ways to earn status credits, which count towards your elite status tier, without flying. The most recent such offer was in October 2021, when Qantas offered bonus status credits for redeeming points at the Qantas Rewards Store. In recent months, Qantas has also offered bonus status credits for buying health insurance, redeeming points for wine, filling up at BP and purchasing Qantas Club memberships.

Qantas previously gave bonus status credits on luxury hotel bookings in July 2020. During that previous promotion, the number of status credits earned varied from 5-15 per night depending on the cost of the booking. (This is not the case this time, with all eligible hotel bookings earning 10 status credits per night.)

Even if your existing Qantas status will be automatically extended, the status credits from this offer can be rolled over into your next membership year if you’re eligible for that. The status credits also count towards your lifetime Qantas status credit tally.

Virgin Australia’s Velocity Frequent Flyer program is currently offering an opportunity to earn Velocity status credits on the ground by booking a car rental from Hertz.

Join the discussion on the Australian Frequent Flyer forum: Article: Bonus Status Credits on Qantas Hotels & Holidays [book by 31/12/21]

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Interesting. Not a huge list of options; I was considering a stay at the treasury (Perth). Availability isn't great though prices are similar to what I'd previously seen online.

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I received the email earlier. A huge range in nightly prices for 10 SC per night!

I‘m unlikely to pursue this but the MEL Hilton or DoubeTree could be places I’d book early in the New Year but would forgo HH benefits booking via QF.

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Some nice little boosts there for people if they want it. Thanks for sharing.

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Yea I got momentarily excited when I received the email as I have a soft spot for the Reef House. However, $1400 for 3 nights in a Brigadier room. Hmmm. Here are my sums…

3 nights in hotel, $1,400, 30 SCs
Red e-deal BNE-CNS return, $363, 30 SCs
J return BNE-CNS, $1,458, 120 SCs

Hotel doesn’t look like a value proposition for SC earn. The Silo in Lonny and similarly priced places look like better value, but hard to match the price/SC ratio of a cheap fare.

Cheers skip

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I took to this offer with enthusiasm because we are all able to travel again and I want build status so I can effectively use my QFF points. I clicked on the link in the email promoting this offer and made bookings to stay at Ovolo Woolloomooloo for 10 nights in July. Oddly, I had to book the stay in two day lots. I used the booking engine linked from the offer email so I thought it would not give me availability if the offer was not available for any reason. The booking confirmations made no mention of the status credit offering and I became concerned that something had gone awry and the points may not be forthcoming. Qantas sent an email on 30/12/21 reminding me the offer was about to close and it also included several of the hotels to which the offer applied, including the this Ovolo. On rereading this email I saw some fine print saying the offer at this Ovolo was only good for bookings till 31 May 2022. After many hours on the phone and several written queries I still do not know whether I will get the status credits. Luckly, I made refundable bookings so I can cancel them without penalty.

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Problem solved. I deep down in my soul that qantas will not live up to their end of the bargain based on other issues I have with them. I cancelled all my bookings and sworn not believe them ever again.

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