Double XP Weekend

Bonus XP Weekends are events where players receive bonus experience when training skills. Bonus XP Weekends start on a Friday and end on the next Monday. The bonus experience is gained when performing most normal training activities, but does not apply to things like quest rewards, random event rewards, or D&D rewards. The experience rate during a Bonus XP Weekend is up to 2.7 times higher than normal. The amount of bonus experience decreases over a period of 10 hours, down to just 1.1 times the normal amount. Although Jagex has indicated that non-members may be able to participate in the future, these events have been members only so far. Many players choose to gather as many skill training supplies as they can in the days leading up to a Bonus XP Weekend, so they can train their skills during the weekend. This causes the price of a lot of supplies to rise during that period. When the Bonus XP Weekend is over, the price of those supplies will go down to their former price again.

Sequence of progression during Bonus XP:

Events
To date, Jagex has Scheduled the following Bonus XP Weekends:
 * /March 2010/
 * /September 2010/
 * /March 2011/
 * /September 2011/

Trivia
"If you are taking part in the bonus XP weekends that occasionally run, your bonus XP through the Refer a Friend programme will be taken into account."
 * The following citation of an official source shows a publicly visible confirmation of future Bonus XP Weekends.

- Knowledge base &gt; Refer a Friend (Retrieved at 19 August 2011)


 * The first Bonus XP Weekend showed the first appearance of the XP Counter, located next to the minimap. The XP Counter was later released to all players on 12 April 2010.
 * If you started your Bonus XP Weekend and your membership runs out and you renew it, your counter will be reset to 2.7x.
 * Summoning gave 2.7x experience for the first weekend only, thereafter it only gives 10% more than normal. This is due to the bulk of the time spent being in the collecting of the charms rather than creating pouches. Then during that bonus XP weekend players made pouches and received rapid experience in a short amount of time as well as cutting down on the amount of charms they would have needed to reach that summoning level normally.