Wyndham Rewards Double Airline Miles or Rail Points for Summer 2008 Stays

With over 6,000 properties in Wyndham Rewards this is an inexpensive way to earn some airline miles with your hotel stays.

Terms and conditions:

-         No registration is required. 

-         Set your earning preference to airline miles in your guest profile. 

-         Participating countries are USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Germany or China. 

-         Hotel stays must be booked by September 4 and stays completed by October 4, 2008.

-         Limit of 4 Stays will earn Double Miles or Points per member

Wyndham Rewards has benefits like free internet just for joining.  Hotel points or airline miles can be earned for stays at 10 hotel brands, including Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, Ramada, Days Inn, Super 8, Wingate, Baymont Inns and Suites, Howard Johnson, Travelodge, Knights Inn, and AmeriHost Inn.  And just 3 stays in a calendar year brings some additional Wyndham ByRequest elite benefits such as preferred location in a hotel.

Regular Earning System for Wyndham Rewards                                                                                      (Double Miles or Rail Points promotion will double the earning shown below for miles).

Wyndham Rewards allows members the choice of hotel stay earning preference:

10 Wyndham Rewards points per $1 hotel rate paid

or

2 airline miles per $1, except Wyndham Hotels earn a set 500 miles per stay.

            Earning rules vary among airline partners:

            2 airline miles per $1

                        American Airlines AAdvantage,

                        Continental Airlines OnePass

                        Delta Skymiles

                        Midwest Airlines Midwest Miles

                        Northwest Airlines WorldPerks

                        Spirit Airlines

                        United Mileage Plus

                        US Airways Dividend Miles

            Air Canada Aeroplan

                    Greater of 2 airline miles per $1  or  250 miles per stay

            SunCountry Airline UFly points

                        2 UFly points per Wyndham Hotel stay or

                        1 UFly point per stay at other Wyndham brands

            Air Berlin

                        500 miles per stay

            Air China Phoenix Miles

                        800 kilometers per stay at Ramada, Howard Johnson, or Days Hotels in China         

                        400 kilometers per stay at Days Inn or Super 8 in China

                        3 kilometers per $1 for stays at Wyndham Rewards hotel brands outside China

            Lufthansa Miles & More

                    500 miles per stay at participating Wyndham Hotels and Ramada Inn

            Amtrak Points (available for stays at USA and Canada hotels only)

                        2 points per $1 at all Wyndham brands, except 500 points per stay at Wyndham                                          Hotels

That $50 Travelodge hotel night can be worth 200 American Airlines miles with the Double Miles promotion.

Double Starpoints for 1^st Anniversary Promotion at 28 Starwood Hotels

There are 28 hotels in North America celebrating their 1^st anniversary as Starwood Hotel members and Starwood Preferred Guest is giving double Starpoints to celebrate.

Registration is required for this Double Starpoints 1^st Anniversary promotion.

Valid for stays booked and completed between July 10 and October 31, 2008.

Only base points are doubled and not bonus or elite points. 

By the numbers:  Regular earning for Starwood Preferred Guest members is 2 Starpoints per $1 in hotel spending. 

Assume $100 room rate for one-night stay

Preferred Guest = 400 Starpoints earned

Gold Preferred = 500 Starpoints earned

Platinum Preferred = 1,000 Starpoints earned (assumes 500 points platinum amenity)

$100 room rate earns 200 base Starpoints.  Double Starpoints will be 4 Starpoints per $1 or 400 Starpoints on a $100 room rate. 

For elites: Gold member would earn a 50% bonus on 200 Starpoints for base spending = 300 Starpoints + 200 Starpoints (double promo) = 500 Starpoints on a $100 room rate.

Platinum member selecting 500 Starpoints amenity can earn 1,000 Starpoints on a $100 room rate.]

Fairmont President’s Club

An article I read last week stated people travel to destinations, not hotels.  That travel writer probably is not a member of the Fairmont President’s Club.  Fairmont Hotels calls itself the largest luxury hotel company in North America. 

Fairmont Hotel Locations: The Fairmont hotel locator shows 15 Fairmont hotels and resorts and 2 residences in the USA and 21 hotels in Canada.

19 International locations from Bermuda to Singapore and includes The Savoy in London.

The original Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco on Nob Hill stands on one of the best locations in the city for a panoramic view.  The Fairmont Hotel chain has gone through a couple of corporate purchases in the past decade and now includes many of the historic Canadian Pacific Railroad resort hotels from the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries.  A couple of years ago the Fairmont Hotels were purchased by a corporation owning the Raffles and Swissotel chains.  Currently the Fairmont President’s Club member receives reciprocal benefits with Raffles Hotels, but Swissotel maintains its own loyalty program called Club Swiss Gold.  Raffles Hotels are expanding rapidly in select international locations and provide additional value to Fairmont Hotels President’s Club members.

Fairmont President’s Club has three membership levels :

Club Membership – Complimentary enrollment and benefits start with first stay, including:

            Free high-speed internet access [a benefit that is rarely free in most luxury hotels]

            Complimentary local and 1-800 calls

            Complimentary health club access

            500 airline miles per stay with any of 8 airline partners:

                        American Airlines AAdvantage,

                        Air Canada Aeroplan,

                        Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan,

                        United Airlines Mileage Plus,

                        Lufthansa Miles & More,

                        Cathay Pacific Asia Miles,

                        Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer,

                        Emirates Skywards.

Premier Membership – Attained after 5 stays or 10 nights in a calendar year, January 1- December 31. 

Member earns 750 miles per stay.

1 room upgrade and 1 suite upgrade certificate awarded with new Premier membership

Status is in effect for remainder of qualifying calendar year and through February of following year.

Member is awarded a $50 Fairmont dining certificate for lunch or dinner.

Certificate for complimentary 3^rd night on a 3 night stay.

Platinum membership – Attained after 10 stays or 30 nights in a calendar year, January 1-December 31.

1,000 airline miles per stay.

2 room upgrade and 2 suite upgrade certificates awarded with new Platinum membership.

1 complimentary night certificate

Member is awarded a $100 Fairmont dining certificate for lunch or dinner.

There is an incentive of bonus airline miles for stays at different properties.

Stays at 3 different Fairmont locations in a calendar year earns 1,000 bonus airline miles.

Stays at 4 different Fairmont locations in a calendar year earns 2,000 bonus airline miles.

Stays at 5 different Fairmont locations in a calendar year earns 3,000 bonus airline miles.

Bonus miles are posted in the first quarter of the year following the year of qualifying activity.  This means you may have to wait a year for your bonus miles if you do the great Canadian vacation in January.

To recap:  A new member of Fairmont President’s Club staying at 5 different locations in 2008 will earn 500 miles per stay, plus 6,000 bonus miles in early 2009 for a total 8,500 airline miles.  In addition, the member would rise to Premier level after 5 stays and miles earned increase to 750 miles per hotel stay.  Premier status earned in 2008 will remain valid through February 2010, unless increased to Platinum status after 5 more stays in calendar year 2008 or 10 stays in 2009. 

Terms and Conditions of Fairmont President’s Club program