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Hyatt Gold Passport promotion registration is open for the 16 nights earn 44,000 points promotion running February 1 to April 30, 2012.
Registration is required by March 31.
Hyatt nights completed during the promotion period and prior to registration count as long as member registers by March 31.
Don’t delay. Sign up now!
Gaylord Hotels offers couples the 2nd night free on a two-night weekend stay during the month of your anniversary for stays through May 31. The offer changes for those with anniversary dates June through December to a $100 resort credit for two paid nights.
The catch is you must have proof (i.e. copy of marriage certificate) of your anniversary date in the month of your stay. My wife and I had our anniversary in January so this offer has passed us by for 2012.
Rates are around $199 to about $250 per night for the 2nd night free anniversary offer. The links below are set for the anniversary offer booking.
For travel Now – May 31, 2012, get your FREE night at any of these Gaylord Hotels:
Gaylord Hotels’ Unforgettable Anniversary for travel June – December 31, 2012 includes $100 credit with two paid nights:
This is the first full weekend of February and that means 50% off Priority Club Last Minute Reward Nights for Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at 120 select hotels globally. 91 hotels in the USA this week including the InterContinental San Francisco for 20,000 points per night.
Starwood Preferred Guest has outlined a good balance of new benefits to recognize its frequent guest elite members. The changes coming March 1, 2012 reward hotel loyalty with enhanced upgrade benefits for more frequent SPG Platinum elite members.
SPG Benefits website presentation.
Overview of SPG Elite Changes
SPG Gold members
· Hotel Stay Welcome Gift – Choose from Starpoints (up to 250 points/stay) or free internet or free beverage.
· Lifetime SPG Gold elite membership earned after 250 nights and 5 years as SPG elite member. Award nights from October 1, 2011 onward count.
SPG Platinum members
· Hotel Stay Welcome Gift – Choose from Continental Breakfast for entire stay or Starpoints (up to 500/stay) or local gift.
· 50+ nights Platinum members only – 10 Suite Night Awards. This is in addition to the existing and continuing policy of complimentary upgrades upon arrival for SPG Platinum elites that has been a long time competitive edge of Starwood preferred Guest.
· 75+ nights Platinum members only – Earn 4 points per dollar on hotel spend. Lower tier Platinum members earn 3 points/$1 on hotel spend.
· 75+ nights Platinum members only – Your24 check-in at any hour and maintain room for 24 hours. Check in at 9pm and the room is yours until 9pm 24 hours later.
· 100+ nights Platinum members only – Personal Starwood Hotels Ambassador to help travel planning.
· Lifetime SPG Platinum elite membership earned after 500 nights and 10 years Platinum elite status. Award nights from October 1, 2011 onward count. SPG American Express 5 annual nights credit will not count for Lifetime elite nights. Years of Platinum Elite status earned as a benefit of American Express Centurion credit card membership will count.
· NOTE: Members who achieved the 50 or more nights Platinum thresholds in 2011 will receive their new benefits March 1, 2012.
First the bad news. This is an offer for new enrollees to Ritz-Carlton Rewards or existing RCR members and you are not eligible for the Ritz-Carlton Rewards free night offer if you are a Marriott Rewards member.
Members of The Ritz-Carlton Rewards program as of January 13, 2012 and new members who were not previously members of the Marriott Rewards® program are eligible to receive this offer.
And now the good news. Register for the Ritz-Carlton Rewards free night offer by March 1, 2012. Stay two times at participating Ritz-Carlton Hotels and earn one free night certificate valid for a Tier 1-3 Ritz-Carlton Hotel. You may earn up to two free night certificates during the promotion.
2012 HELP SHEET #2 – Hotel Loyalty Promotions.
The major offers from each hotel loyalty program are listed first. The number of asterisks from 1-5 indicates my rating for this offer with 4 or 5 being the best value offers in my opinion.
January 30, 2012 Update (previous update Jan 9)
Main Q-1 2012 promotions from Top Ten hotel loyalty programs:
Accor A|Club – this Europe-based program offers a variety of global regional bonusesand rate discounts. There does not seem to be one major promotion for the winter quarter.
***** Best Western Rewards – February 6 – April 8, 2012 Free night after 3 stays. This offer is limited to one free night voucher after 3 stays. All hotels globally participate. Must register for promotion before stays. The free night voucher expires June 30, 2012 which is the biggest limitation for this offer. LT post January 23, 2012.
*** Choice Privileges – December 1 – February 29, 2012 2x points for stays or Points + Miles.
***** Club Carlson – January 10 – March 16, 2012 Triple Points for all hotels worldwide is 60 points/$1. Club Carlson already has the fastest earning program for free nights and triple points gets you there so much faster. The highest category hotel reward night requires about $800 in hotel spend. Most hotel loyalty programs will require $2,000 to $4,000+ for a free night at their top hotels – even with promotion bonuses. LT post January 11.
*** Hilton HHonors – January 1-March 31, 2012. HHonors More Points promotion offers 1,000 bonus points per night and 5,000 bonus points per two-night weekend stay with Thu-Fri, Fri-Sat or Sat-Sun.
**** Hilton HHonors – January 1-March 31, 2012. HHonors Bonus Miles with four airlines is stackable with the More Points promotion running concurrently:
***** Hilton HHonors – December 1-April 30, 2012. Must book hotel stay by Jan 31, 2012. Resort Escapes offers one free night globally after 5 consecutive nights at participating Hilton Resorts December 1-April 30, 2012. Must book hotel stay by Jan 31, 2012. Maximum two free nights. LT post Dec 4, 2011.
***** Hilton HHonors 30% points rebate for Points & Money and Premium Room Rewards booked by January 31, 2012 for stays by June 30, 2012. LT post Dec 8.
**** Hyatt Gold Passport – February 1 – April 30, 2012 offers a progressive bonus every 4 nights starting at 4,000 bonus points after 4 nights; 8,000 more points after 8 nights (Total = 12,000 bonus points); 12,000 more points after 12 nights (Total = 24,000 bonus points); and 20,000 more points after 16 nights (Total = 44,000 bonus points).
Hyatt Visa card members earn 25% bonus each 4 nights for up to 11,000 additional points (Total = 55,000 points). You only need to be a Hyatt Visa card member for this bonus. You do not need to charge hotel stays to your Hyatt Visa to earn credit card 25% bonus points.
This is a 4-star promotion for credit card members and frequent guests going for 16 nights. 3-star offer if not going all-in to stay at Hyatt for full 16 nights bonus.
This is a high value deal if you go all in for 16 nights. This offer allows all types of travelers to benefit. This offer will earn at least two free nights at any top tier Hyatt Hotel (two category-6 hotel nights = 44,000 points for places like Maldives, Paris, London, New York). Regular points earned from hotel stays can put you in the 60,000+ points range.
SPG Birth Year rates are probably one of the lesser known rate discounts with the potential to cut your Starwood Hotel stay rate in half. The basic deal is you pay a generally higher than Best Flexible rate for the first night, then pay your birth year for the second night, and third night at some hotels. I was born in 1960 so my rate is $60 per night for the second and third nights. Even better is the flexible cancellation policy for these rates. Many hotels allow day before arrival or day of arrival cancellation with no penalty.
I have been writing about the birth year rate offer since 2009 and SPG has extended this offer for stays through 2012 at participating hotels.
Some changes I noticed in my recent review of these rates:
Hilton HHonors Resort Escapes promotion offers a free night certificate after five consecutive nights at a participating Hilton resort from December 1, 2011 through April 30, 2012. This is one of the best hotel loyalty program offers of the past year.
Hilton resort bookings must be made by January 31 for this promotion. Two free nights may be earned during the promotion period.
Promotion registration is required by Jan 31.
Hilton HHonors Resort Escapes Promotion
Loyalty Traveler analysis
The Inn at Spanish Bay is a Pebble Beach golf course resort built near the Pacific Grove town line. A public access boardwalk from Sunset Drive runs along the sand dunes above Asilomar State Beach to Spanish Bay. 17-Mile Drive and Sunset Drive form the road boundaries of Spanish Bay Resort on the Monterey Peninsula.
Google Maps showing Spanish Bay Resort, Pebble Beach at lower left of image. [click on image to open full-size].
This is not a hotel review of The Inn at Spanish Bay. This is another post in my Loyalty Traveler series “At Home He’s a Tourist” where I share the sights of the Monterey Peninsula from my walks around local communities near my home.
Walking to Spanish Bay, Pebble Beach
Asilomar State Beach and Sunset Drive see a steady stream of cars on any evening with clear skies as locals, workers, tourists, surfers and stoners come down to the wild western coastline to watch sunset.
Pebble Beach has a $9.25 car fee to enter the gates into the private residential lands of this scenic and exclusive southwestern point of the Monterey Peninsula. The famous Lodge at Pebble Beach can be seen from Carmel Beach, but natural barriers make it difficult to access the Lodge walking along the coastline. And climbing up the bluffs to the Pebble Beach Golf Course is certainly frowned upon.
The Inn at Spanish Bay is easily approached by foot or bicycle and there is no entry fee required into Pebble Beach for walkers and cyclists. Spanish Bay Resort was developed in the late 1980s during the years my wife and I lived away from the Monterey Peninsula while going to college and working as teachers in small fishing villages in Maine and north coast California in Humboldt County.
Resort development in Pebble Beach is tough to get through environmental impact reviews. Just recently a project to expand The Lodge at Pebble Beach, the Inn at Spanish Bay and a new build hotel resort for Cypress Point have made headway.
Westin Charlotte Facebook wall posted an offer for 250 Starpoints by signing up for Charlotte Insider eClub by February 1.
This offer is listed on the Westin Charlotte Facebook wall. There is no place to insert your SPG number when signing up for the Westin Charlotte Insiders email list. Westin Charlotte states SPG members will be contacted for their SPG membership number February 1 and 250 points will be awarded by March 1.
The Westin Charlotte Good question! We will be sending out an email to request everyone’s SPG number on February 1st at the end of the contest. Thank you for being a fan of The Westin Charlotte on facebook!
DealsWeLike posted this last night and One Mile at a Time picked up the offer too. Sign up fast since this offer may get pulled early once they realize on Monday morning that BoardingArea readers have created 8,000 new email subscribers and the hotel needs to pay out 2,000,000 points.
Club Carlson offers 2-for-1 and 4-for-2 paid night weekend special rates at hotels in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for members with Gold elite status (35 nights or 20 stays in a calendar year).
EMEA – 2 for 1 generally requires arrival Thursday, Friday or Saturday night.
http://www.clubcarlson.com/2for1
EMEA – 4 for 2 generally requires arrival Wednesday or Thursday night.
http://www.clubcarlson.com/4for2
Basic Rules for these discount rates:
