Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Starwood Preferred Guest classifies 16 hotels in their highest Category 7 level requiring 30,000 points per night. A closer look at these hotels reveals that many of these properties are not available for 30,000 points per night despite the elimination of peak season rates for 2010.
SPG peak season rates for 2010 were eliminated for all [...]
Smith Travel Research in Hendersonville, TN is one of the leading hotel industry data reporters. Last week the company published its 2010 hotel industry forecast. In the first month of 2010 the company is predicting hotel occupancy will remain flat in 2010 and finish the year at 55.1%. This is after an 8.7% drop in [...]
Hyatt has added new G Bonus offers for hotel stays from March 1 to May 31. Hyatt Gold Passport members can frequently earn 1,000 to 2,000 bonus points by paying attention to G bonus offers prior to booking a Hyatt brand hotel reservation. Individual hotels have special bonus points offers (some hotels offer bonus miles) [...]
Starwood Hotels launched the W Hotel brand way back in 1998 as a luxury boutique brand. Since then, other hotel chains have been trying to follow up with an equally successful major hotel chain boutique brand.
Starwood’s Luxury Collection brand added five hotels in 2009 and has signed deals for seven more hotels in Asia [...]
Hilton’s press release yesterday states they added 302 hotels in 2009 following the company’s 2008 banner year with 327 new hotels. Hilton now has over 3,500 hotels globally with nearly 600,000 hotel rooms. Hilton has opened more newly constructed rooms in the US than any other company for the fourth consecutive year. Hilton has more [...]
Fairmont President’s Club Premier and Platinum members who book an “Everyone’s an Original” or “Winter Sale” rate by 12 noon EST, Thursday, January 28 for a stay between January 25 and April 15, 2010 will receive a complimentary suite upgrade certificate valid for a subsequent stay before February 28, 2011. Promotion link with terms and [...]
Update: January 27, 2010 – I interpreted this Kimpton InTouch charity offer incorrectly in my original Loyalty Traveler post. Generally I don’t even bother calling the hotel company to discuss promotion details due to the high probability of getting bad information. This was actually an instance where I talked to a Kimpton Hotels representative before writing the [...]
California has been battered by El Niño surf this past week. Storms turn me on. I am a stormy weather addict. When nature unleashes its full fury of wind, rain, thunder, ice, waves, and snow, there I am, often walking outside in the brunt of unordinary forces, saying “Bring it on! Is that all you’ve [...]
It seems bloggers all over are calculating the value of hotel points and airline miles with regard to Haiti donations – P.Ling in Uptake Blog, Gary Leff in View from the Wing, and Nicholas Kralev in the Washington Times.
I am not going to debate the issue of cash or points for Haiti except to offer [...]
Octopus Travel and InterContinental Hotels Group are auctioning 2-night stays in Presidential Suites (or comparable rooms) at 35 InterContinental Hotels around the world as a charity fundraiser for the Prince’s Trust, a UK charity to assist young adults 14 to 30 years old. Prince’s Trust website link on InterContinental Hotel suites e-Bay auctions.
Link to Octopus [...]
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