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 [...]

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Kimpton Hotels has a weekend special offer rate for hotel stays from January 7 to February 28, 2010. Hotel stays must be booked by Tuesday, January 12. Rates from $85 to $199 are truly a sale for several properties I checked.
Rates were as much as $40 per night less than AAA rates and $60 [...]

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Coach Air Travelers to Pay for Premium-class Excess?
Joe Brancatelli has a great read from the Washington Post on the long term outlook for air travel.  He predicts the economics of premium cabin extreme makeovers these past few years will result in higher economy class fares for the leisure traveler coming soon as the profitable premium-class [...]

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Elite status qualification in a hotel loyalty program is the avenue to getting consistent higher-value out of your hotel expenditures.  My rule of thumb with the major frequent guest programs like Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott, and Starwood is high elite status will typically add $100 of value for each hotel night.  Bonus points, complimentary upgrades, special [...]

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Grand Cafe Bar, Hotel Monaco, San Francisco

Kimpton Hotels Low Summer Rates for San Francisco
 
Special summer rates at any San Francisco Kimpton Hotel for stays now through September 1, 2008.      
            Harbor Court Hotel                 $109 (Thursday-Sunday)
            Hotel Triton                            $109 (Thursday-Sunday)
            Serrano Hotel                          $119 (Thursday-Sunday)
            Prescott Hotel                         $129 (anyday)
            Sir Francis Drake Hotel          $139 (anyday, except [...]

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Kimpton Stay 3, Get 1 Night Free Summer Promotion
Kimpton InTouch members have a valuable incentive to hotel stay this summer. Kimpton’s InTouch hotel frequent guest program will give members staying 3 times at any of the 42 Kimpton Hotels in the USA and Canada by August 31, 2008 a free night at any Kimpton Hotel.
Free [...]

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Hotel Monaco, Denver, Colorado
Kimpton Hotels is marketing two hotel summer promotions to provide frustrated airline flyers a bit of cash relief for additional baggage fees and hospitable hospitality treatment for stranded passengers. And registration is not necessary for these Kimpton Hotels offers.WE GOT YOUR BAG
“We Got Your Bag” is an offer to provide the guest [...]

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Hotel Monaco, Denver lobby ceiling

Kimpton InTouch Loyalty Program
Kimpton Hotels is a boutique hotel chain with over 40 hotels in the USA and Canada. San Francisco (9 hotels) and Washington D.C. (7 hotels) are the best covered cities. The Hotel Monaco, Denver (Kimpton has 8 Hotel Monaco’s in the USA) was mentioned in a February blog [...]

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