January 28, 2009 | Published in Giveaways, Parenting, Saving Money

Hilton e-Events Sports Parents Giveaway

Soccer, Softball, Volleyball, Baseball, Swimming… the list for extracurricular sports activities can go on and on. And many of these activities require a good amount of travel!

Planning these trips, including transportation and lodging for these large groups can cause a lot of headaches and stress, and all you really want to do is relax, enjoy your time, and play hard, all while having fun.

But we have some great news — Hilton Family e-Events is trying to make these trips a lot easier for the parents to plan! With Hilton Family e-Events, you can book a group of 5-25 rooms online! It’s perfect for sports team travel!

Hilton Family e-Events offers:

24/7 online access, no negotiation, no RFP, no waiting, immediate confirmation
Online contract
Access to over 2,500 Hilton Family hotels (variety of brands, price points and amenities)

Talk about convenient!

It’s not only great for sports events, you can use it for just about any family function! You can even book meeting rooms, guest rooms for business or social events, family reunions, weddings and much more! You’ll receive immediate confirmation of your booking, and 24/7 access to manage your reservation details!

It all sounds wonderful right? Well it gets better…

We get to offer one lucky parent the chance to try out e-Events for free — a prize valued up $3000!

Here’s what you can win, courtesy of the Hilton:

A room block consists of five to 25 reserved rooms a parent can block off for his/her child and their teammates while traveling with their sports team. Normally, guests then use their own credit card to pay for their specific room.

However, our lucky winner and his/her fellow guests will receive a complimentary room block (up to $3000 in value!) courtesy of Hilton e-Events.

To qualify/claim prize the winner must:

Book his/her guest room through e-Events online planning tool.
Book his/her guest rooms in a Hilton Family market at a participating Hilton Family property*
Use the guest room blocks for travel with their child’s sports team (and share with us the name of tournament/sports event his/her child will be playing in)

Hilton will compensate the winner for a guest room block up to and including $3000 in value (average price of a room block).

To enter, simply leave a comment here at this post.

And don’t forget – you can get extra entries in our giveaways… If you already subscribe to our newsletter and/or our RSS feed and/or have our button on your site, you qualify for additional entries. Also, if you tweet or spread the word via facebook, your blog, etc., just leave additional comments letting us know and you will have additional entries. (Your comments are your entries.)

This giveaway is open for entry until Friday February 20th, 2009. The winner will be announced on Saturday February 21st, 2009. This giveaway is open to US and Canadian addresses.

Please see our site’s Terms and Conditions of Use for a complete list of our Contest and Giveaway Rules. This promotion is void where prohibited.

Written by 5 Minutes for Mom Contributing Editor: Monica Brady

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{ 41 comments }

1 Upstatemomof3 January 28, 2009 at 5:22 am: This is my first year as a real hockey mom (first year we are playing real games). And we have a few tournaments coming up that this would be great for.
2 Ronnie Crowley January 28, 2009 at 8:24 am: Love this idea. This is something which works for all kid activities. Would be great to win and be able to share with everyone on the team.

I have a feed so I think I get more chances.

Ronnie
3 Ronnie Crowley January 28, 2009 at 8:25 am: This is for my RSS feed
4 Tara B. January 28, 2009 at 8:53 am: What a fantastic idea!! i have 2 kids that are on the road CONSTANTLY! the stress and money that goes into youth sports travel is insane. I’m definitely going to pass this along to our teams! Thanks for sharing!
5 chyj January 28, 2009 at 9:01 am: oh the traveling soccer team would love this
6 Gina January 28, 2009 at 9:26 am: Wow!!! This would be fantastic to offer our team! My oldest daughter is on a traveling soccer team and it’s often quite a hardship to stay overnight, but driving 4 -6 hours home isn’t an option either! Especially with 2 day tournaments!
7 Gina January 28, 2009 at 9:27 am: Subscribe with Bloglines!
8 Gina January 28, 2009 at 9:27 am: Button up!
9 Gina January 28, 2009 at 9:28 am: newsletter subscriber!
10 Gina January 28, 2009 at 9:28 am: Tweeted! User: Dewgin
11 Christine January 28, 2009 at 9:39 am: sounds like fun
12 Vicky January 28, 2009 at 10:25 am: Enter me please.
13 Debbie January 28, 2009 at 12:37 pm: I’ve never heard of this – how exciting!
14 Debbie January 28, 2009 at 12:37 pm: Bloglines subscription
15 Debbie January 28, 2009 at 12:37 pm: I have your button on my blog
16 Amber Stevens January 29, 2009 at 8:06 am: Woo-hoo! This would be awesome to win!!
17 Amber Stevens January 29, 2009 at 8:08 am: I’m also a subscriber to the feed.
18 cheryl higgins January 29, 2009 at 10:45 am: What a great prize for a scrapbook retreat
19 cheryl higgins January 29, 2009 at 10:45 am: I subscribe
20 Jaime S. January 29, 2009 at 11:28 am: This would be so great for the upcoming softball season! Thanks.
21 Jaime S. January 29, 2009 at 11:29 am: Also a subscriber
22 Ginny January 29, 2009 at 2:32 pm: Thanks for the great prizes!
23 cari king January 29, 2009 at 8:32 pm: What a great prize! We’d love to win!
24 cari king January 29, 2009 at 8:34 pm: I subscribe via reader.
25 Lisa January 29, 2009 at 9:33 pm: Please sign me up.
Thanks.
26 MARSHA January 30, 2009 at 9:31 am: SOUNDS AWESOME
27 Maria Delgado January 30, 2009 at 12:33 pm: I would love this!
28 Maria Delgado January 30, 2009 at 12:34 pm: I get the feed.
29 Maria Delgado January 30, 2009 at 12:34 pm: I get the newsletter.
30 Maria Delgado January 30, 2009 at 12:34 pm: I have the button on my page.
31 Alli January 31, 2009 at 12:51 am: This would be so great! Thanks!
32 c johnson February 1, 2009 at 8:06 pm: thanks for the giveaway!
33 Lindley February 2, 2009 at 6:46 pm: What a great giveaway- I am a basketball tournament director and we have 10-15 traveling teams in our organization as well. This sounds like it would make things much easier!
34 Sharon McEachern February 6, 2009 at 3:59 pm: Every parent who works with their kids in sports activities, coaching or watching and cheering, should be aware of the code of ethics for sports parents. The following is a good example and one that you can copy and hand-out to other parents.

http://www.ethicsoup.com/sports-parents-code-of-ethics.html
35 Bettina February 8, 2009 at 1:24 am: This would be so awesome to win!
36 SarahHub February 11, 2009 at 9:14 pm: My daughter is too young to be on a sports team, but we have a BIG family. This would be a great tool to use for planning a family reunion!
37 LuckyDiana February 14, 2009 at 8:02 pm: Lucking forward to win this one. I have 4 very active kids and their friends to share with.
38 Emily R February 17, 2009 at 3:22 am: This would be awesome! I’m a teacher, so I generally have a more flexible schedule during the summer than my working parents. As a result, I’m the one who usually ends up toting my sister and her friends to softball tournaments in the summer. I’d love to be able to win this!
39 Emily R February 17, 2009 at 3:23 am: I’ve added you to my Google Reader. I think that means I get an extra entry for RSS feed?
40 Stephanie February 18, 2009 at 4:24 pm: ooooh this would be great for my daughter’s karate competitions
41 Zoey February 18, 2009 at 10:01 pm: Awesome idea – I could use this for my son’s NASCAR races!