Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Loyalty Traveler wants to hear from Priority Club Platinum elites and Ambassadors. Please share your opinion on the value of Priority Club elite membership as evidenced by hotel recognition in terms of upgrades and amenities during your stays.
I have made a general statement over the years with regards to hotel frequent guest and airline [...]
The bottom line for the hotel traveler is “How much will my room cost?”
I read a post on *Wood blog about the Mobil Five-Star Award conferred upon the St. Regis San Francisco recently. I then noticed yesterday the lowest rates I’ve ever seen for the St. Regis San Francisco.
St. Regis San Francisco, Metropolitan Suite
A spreadsheet [...]
Do you live an InterContinental life?
InterContinental Hotels has a weekend Sunday night free offer for select hotels. Click the link to see participating hotels. This offer is for Friday only check-in for a 3-night stay (Check-out Monday) through April 30, 2009. The reservation must be prepaid for two nights at time of booking.
My surprise was [...]
Scottsdale More Your Style? 20,000 Points for a 3-night stay
Camelback Mountain in Scottsdale is resort hotel nirvana in the desert. Think JW Marriott and The Phoenician of the Starwood Luxury Collection. InterContinental Hotels Group has the InterContinental Montelucia, recently remodeled, and at a price much lower than the Marriott or Phoenician.
InterContinental Montelucia Resort & Spa between [...]
Priority Club Rewards is offering 15,000 bonus points for a 3-night or longer stay at the Holiday Inn Club Vacations Orange Lake Resort property in Kissimmee, Florida, near Orlando through December 18, 2009.
Registration is required for this offer. Stay must be booked by 6/1/09.
I see offers all the time for big bonuses of loyalty points [...]
Portland’s new Starwood luxury hotel has dropped its rates 60% since opening in October 2008.
The Nines from $99 for 99 days through April 18. Rate Code “99NINES”.
View of The Nines 8th Floor Lobby and Restaurants, Portland, OR
Times are hard for luxury hotels. I was just reading how two luxury hotels in Dublin have shut down [...]
A Hilton Garden Inn email advertisement caught my attention this morning and almost entirely wasted an hour of my time.
Hilton Advance Purchase Rates – Key words are “Up To”, not 25% Off
I focused on “25% Off” and started writing about this offer. The highlighted words of this offer should be “Up To” since I did [...]
Christopher Elliott wrote a recent article, The Disappearing Vacation, where he coins 2009 the year of the ‘naycation’, as in No Vacation for 2009.
The numbers are looking bleak, particularly on the luxury front of air travel.
Premium air travel fell 11.5% worldwide in November 2008 compared to November 2007, according to a New York Times [...]
Four Seasons, J.W. Marriott, Ritz Carlton, Conrad, Hyatt Resorts, and InterContinental Hotels are hotel brand names you might be surprised to see if you have not visited the travel auction site SkyAuction.com lately.
I focus much of my analysis on hotel loyalty programs since I find chain hotel brands give me the most value for [...]
The morning of the promotion meltdown for $19.28 luxury hotel rooms with the Leading Hotels of the World on October 1, 2008 I spoke with Adam Burke, Hilton Hotels Senior Vice President, Customer Loyalty. First question to Adam Burke that morning was “Have you heard about the LHW promotion fiasco? The website was down and [...]
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