Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Today I put some more time into analyzing the category changes for Hilton HHonors.
Hilton HHonors = 3,551 hotels (Waldorf Astoria Collection has additional 19 hotels)
USA = 3,139 hotels; 88.4% of hotel properties
International = 412 hotels; 11.6% of hotel properties
Category 7 = 117 hotels
68 USA/Puerto Rico
49 international
22 hotels made double category jump from Category 5 to [...]
There is heated activity on the hotel loyalty front in these holiday weeks. Hilton, Marriott, Starwood, and IHG have announced 2010 promotions. Hyatt still has the best promotion of 2009 and you can take advantage of this offer through the month of January.
Hyatt Gold Passport “The Next Big Thing” promotion is incredible with combined [...]
A reader’s comment the other day asked if I would give a simple points value for the different hotel chains. I quickly made an educated assessment off the top of my head.
Hilton $6-9/1,000 points
Hyatt $15-$20/1,000 points
IHG Priority Club $7-$10/1,000 points
Marriott Rewards $7-10/1,000 points
Starwood Preferred Guest $35-$50/1,000 points
The comment had me thinking this past week [...]
December is the month for securing elite status. People in the know, those frequent guests and fliers making mattress runs and mileage runs this month, know that a few unnecessary hotel room nights or a few thousand miles of unnecessary airline flights are truly necessary. Some loyalty travelers are frantically booking travel solely for the [...]
Many people prefer airline miles over hotel points. I understand the value equation when your air miles are used for Business and First Class travel, but I have a hard time seeing the value in exchanging 20,000 Starpoints for 25,000 miles to redeem a domestic economy class airline ticket.
When grandma wants to see her [...]
Some people need a major hotel chain some of the time. Other people desire a major hotel chain most of the time.
There are 7 “hotelmart” chains. [I just thought of that term and I like it. Could I coin the phrase?
Too late. I checked and found a discount hotel website HotelMartUSA.com. So, I will [...]
Thousands of Hyatt Gold Passport members are half-way to a free night after checking out of a Hyatt Hotel today, October 1, 2009. Hyatt Gold Passport’s “The Next Big Thing” promotion is huge this year with Faster Free Nights, Stays Count Double, and bonus United miles available in combinable promotions.
In August, I was speaking with [...]
Finding a good email hotel rate offer is hard work. I want to rant about the crap offers that regularly come into my email inbox. Most of the hotel special rate offers I analyze are offers I never write about since they are such blatantly poor value for money. Today I will share the latest [...]
The more complex programmes become, the harder it is for consumers to compare them.
“The average consumer will not try and work out return on spend (the monetary value of earning points), never mind factoring in the value of value-added services, such as, early check-in or access to an executive lounge,” Conradie maintains.
– Razor’s [...]
Marriott Rewards offers a PointSavers discount whereby the rate for a free night using points is reduced by one category level for participating hotels. UK hotels are heavily featured for 2009. The PointSavers participating hotels list is up-to-date.
The PointSavers advertisement is up to 33% savings. This is true if you book a Marriott Rewards [...]
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