DBS has launched a new spend and win contest called “Win the Suite Life” with a total of 50 Singapore Airlines Suites tickets up for grabs:
- New York (5 pairs)
- London (5 pairs)
- Paris (5 pairs)
- Sydney (5 pairs)
- Shanghai (5 pairs)
The qualifying period for this contest started on 13 April 2018 and runs until 31 December 2018. Winners will be announced on 1 February 2019. You can find the full T&C here.
If you win, you must redeem your tickets between 1 March 2019 and 31 May 2019 and travel between 1 March 2019 and 31 December 2019, subject to availability at the point of redemption. Fortunately, these tickets book into a revenue bucket (see below) so availability isn’t likely to be an issue.
What are the mechanics of the promotion?
You need to book a trip (defined as a transaction on airlines, hotels (including AirBnB) or travel agencies) using your DBS/POSB credit cards and register it through this link. Your trip must not have started yet at the point of registration.
There is no requirement that the trip booking was made during or before the qualifying period. In other words, if you booked a trip in January 2018 with your DBS/POSB card and travel in May 2018, you can register this trip.
You earn chances to win based on the following allocation:
Any spending incurred before 13 April 2018 will not count, however. So in our above example, whatever you paid in January 2018 for your trip in May 2018 will not count towards your total. It will, however, unlock your eligibility to participate in this promotion with your subsequent spending.
Spending is cumulative and your chances will be calculated at the end of the promotional period (i.e after 31 December 2018). Note that there are exclusions as to what counts as qualifying spend, with the usual suspects not qualifying.
Tickets come with no surcharges, earn 200% miles
You don’t actually have a choice of where you go if you win (the tickets are assigned randomly), although you can pay the fare difference if you want to swap your destination (one wonders how much it’ll cost to swap Shanghai with, say, New York…)
What’s nice about this promotion is the relative lack of strings attached to the prize. Your pair of Suites tickets book into ‘A’ class, which is a revenue fare bucket and hence much easier to find space for. You’ll also earn 200% mileage accrual, and there’s no taxes or surcharges that you need to pay. UOB could learn a thing or two about giving away free air tickets…
If Suites isn’t available for your preferred flight timing (eg for Sydney, where some flights are operated by 77Ws and others by A380s), you can fly in First Class instead. Be warned- no shows will result in your entire prize being forfeited.
Conclusion
This is a pretty epic promotion, all things considered. You’re quite likely to be using the DBS Woman’s World card anyway for your online flight and hotel transactions (at least those which are paid in full online), with the DBS Altitude as your backup option once the Woman’s World is maxed out.
Be sure to register your trip once you have one to get your chance counter accumulating.
SQ A380 flies to NYC?
*sorry.. I can answer my own qn.. via FRA*
I have never won anything in my life haha
Kinda confused on the part of 1 chance for normal non travel retail spend. Does it mean all other spending automatically qualify without the need to register a trip?
you must register to even qualify in the first place.
But the registration page has a whole compulsory section of “Your upcoming trip”. How should I fill out the registration form if I went out to buy a frying pan with my DBS card tonight?
And regarding Aaron’s reply below to Confused, it really seems quite silly to qualify for a contest that carries zero chance! Sounds like the whole bit about trips-that-were-booked-using-DBS/POSB-cards-prior-to-this-promotion-but-not-yet-embarked-on-qualifies is totally irrelevant?
I believe you must have a trip booked and paid with dbs cc to register. After the registration, any spending will qualify either for 5, 1 or 0 chance depending on the nature of the spending. You need not register every single local payments.
Think easier to switch mindset and de link registration and spending.
Trips that were booked using DBS/POSB cards prior to this promotion but not yet embarked on qualifies for the draw, as long as you register the trip before embarking on it. But DBS didn’t say how many chances this trip will earn? Would I be correct to assume it’ll be 1 draw chance?
this trip “qualifies” you to participate in the competition, but the $$$ you spend don’t count towards your chances.
so basically
step 1: qualify
step 2: earn chances
obviously step 1 and 2 can be combined if you buy your trip right now and register. but if your trip was bought in jan, you just qualify, it doesn’t earn you chances.
i know, it’s confusing.
So if you charge four $250 travel-category transactions do you get 5×2=10 chances or 0?
I believe it’s 10 chances.
The T&Cs, under the “Chance Allocation” table, says “…accumulated across all
DBS/POSB Credit/Debit Cards posted during the Qualifying Period”. Aaron also rephrased it: “Spending is cumulative and your chances will be calculated at the end of the promotional period (i.e after 31 December 2018).”
Sorry if this is an inane question. Does the DBS WWMC earn 4mpd for air ticket purchases too within the first $2000 / calendar month? I thought 4mpd- earning online purchases only refer to bags and shoes and stuff (that I don’t buy online as a guy)
WWMC earns 4mpd for all online transactions, regardless whether you buy girly things or not.
Does hotel booking through agoda and such website satisfy the registration requirement?
Gotten the answer already. It’s considered
do I have to registered each time when I use different DBS/POSB CC after bought ticket/hotel booking? thx
This is one of the most ill-conceived promotions I have ever encountered. Its complicated and confusing and lacks transparency. Good effective consumer promotions should always be simply and easy to participate. Not this one. I have been in correspondence with DBS and everyone whom I spoke to seem to be practising “tai chi” because the front line managers do not seem to know how the promotion works and so they transfer my call from one department to another. I have spent almost $20k since the promotion started and had only one miserable sms to advise I have received 10 chances and this, only after pushing and prodding them for a reply. Then, I hear no more. I asked how do they select the winners, the answer …. “we leave it to the computer to decide the winners”. No draw numbers so you don’t know if you have won or not. Just leave it to them to decide! Call this transparency? Even Lotto offers me draw numbers so I can check if I win or not. I am not going to use my DBS credit card for my next overseas travel which comes up in 6 weeks time. I will use another bank’s credit card. They call this “an epic promotion” – more a promotion of epic disaster and confusion!
anyone know if DBS cancelled this promo? They’ve been suspiciously quiet and deleted all info on it from the internet…
Registration expired at 31 Dec 2018
Draw will only be conducted on 1 Feb 2019
https://www.dbs.com.sg/iwov-resources/pdf/cards/promotions/win-a-suite-life-promo-tnc.pdf
And so I received sms from dbs that I earned 72 chances of winning a pair of tickets 😂 We’ll see on Feb. 8th!
Earned 40 chances here – fingers crossed! Good Luck! 😀
received sms stating 134 chances. top 25%. lol
when the result is coming
when is the result out and where do we check it?
Why no result?
No result 🙁
Result is here: go.dbs.com/sg-suitelife1