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Priority Club PointBreaks and 50% off Mexico Reward Nights

Posted in July 17th, 2009
by Ric Garrido in 2009 Summer Promotions, Buy Hotel Points, Candlewood Suites, Crowne Plaza Hotels, Discount Hotel Rewards, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Hotel Indigo, Hotel Rate Discounts, IHG Priority Club, InterContinental Hotels, InterContinental Hotels Group, International Travel, PointBreaks, Priority Club, Staybridge Suites, frequent guest program, frequent stay program

PointBreaks are one of the best hotel loyalty program discount room offers available. For just 5,000 points per reward night an InterContinental Hotels Group Priority Club member can book a free night.  And even if you don’t have points, the cost to buy 5,000 points is as low as $57.50 to purchase directly from Priority [...]

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Planning for Europe Part 3: London Hotels – IHG Stay 2 Nights for Price of 1

Posted in March 2nd, 2009
by Ric Garrido in 2-for-1 hotel rates, 2009 Winter Promotions, Buy Hotel Points, Crowne Plaza Hotels, Europe Hotels, FlyerTalk, Holiday Inn, Hotel Indigo, Hotel Rate Discounts, IHG Priority Club, InterContinental Hotels Group, PointBreaks, Priority Club, TripAdvisor.com

Part three of Europe Vacation Planning is a look at InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) properties around London for April 10-18, 2009 room rate deals. Hotel search strategies I am using to find low cost, upscale hotel lodging for London is applicable to much of Europe.
European Vacation Travel Planning Part 1 is an example of the [...]

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Priority Club Rewards Buy Points 10% bonus

Posted in October 14th, 2008
by Ric Garrido in Buy Hotel Points, Discount Hotel Rewards, Fall 2008 Promotions, Hotel Indigo, Hotel Rate Discounts, IHG Priority Club, InterContinental Hotels Group, PointBreaks, Priority Club, Priority Club bonus points, Uncategorized

Priority Club Rewards Buy Points 10% bonus
Buying points is a good way to top off the points in your hotel loyalty account for that free hotel stay award.  Until November 6, 2008 Priority Club will add a 10% points bonus to all purchases.  Priority Club raised the price of points this past year to $11.50 [...]

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Starwood Preferred Guest Cash & Points Hotel Awards

Posted in September 26th, 2008
by Ric Garrido in Buy Hotel Points, Cash and Points Award, Discount Hotel Rewards, Hotel Rate Discounts, Hotel category, Luxury Hotels, SPG, Starwood Preferred Guest, W Hotels, Westin Hotels, purchase points

Wanted: Affordable Luxury Hotel Vacation
Solution: Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) Cash and Points Awards
Last April I took a road trip from Monterey, California to Phoenix, Arizona and booked two of my hotel stays using Starwood Preferred Guest’s Cash & Points option for resorts in the Palm Springs and Scottsdale area.   In Palm Springs I stayed at [...]

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Priority Club Increases Annual Purchase Points Limits and Prices

Posted in June 13th, 2008
by Ric Garrido in Buy Hotel Points, InterContinental Hotels Group, Priority Club, purchase points

Priority Club increased the purchase limit for Priority Club points from 20,000 in a 12-month period to 40,000 points in a rolling 12-month period. Unfortunately, the price also increased from $10/1,000 points to $11.50 per 1,000 points, a 15% increase.
This still means a Priority Club member can just buy points for a PointsBreak room for [...]

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JW Marriott Ihilani Resort – Price Too High, Just Buy

Posted in March 12th, 2008
by Ric Garrido in Buy Hotel Points, JW Marriott, Marriott Rewards, purchase points

I was looking back at an article I wrote in October and I used the JW Marriott Ihilani as my example hotel for saving cash by just buying marriott Rewards points. This is text from my article in Hotels-and-Points October 2007. The 12-page newsletter can be downloaded as an Adobe PDF file. It is about [...]

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Spring Break or Spring Broke?

Posted in March 5th, 2008
by Ric Garrido in Buy Hotel Points, IHG Priority Club, InterContinental Hotels Group, PointBreaks, PointSaver, PointStretcher, Priority Club, purchase points

An article appeared today in PR Newswire for Journalists, Economy Foreclosing on Spring Break?, based on a survey by AccessAmerica, a travel insurance company. “Access America survey finds half of American families scaling back spring break plans…or forgoing their vacations altogether”
The not-so-surprising conclusion of the data is poorer families are cutting back on vacation spending [...]

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Got Miles? Get Hilton HHonors Points!

Posted in February 26th, 2008
by Ric Garrido in Airline Frequent Flier Programs, Buy Hotel Points, Elite frequent guest, Europe Hotels, HHonors Double Dip, Hilton HHonors, Hilton Hotels, Hotel points exchange, PointStretcher, hotel loyalty programs

An integrated loyalty program travel plan provides numerous opportunities to use airline miles and hotel points for travel savings. The knowledge of equivalent exchange values for points and miles between loyalty programs allows the traveler to save money on travel. This loyalty traveler is always looking for a good exchange of hotel points and airline [...]

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