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Kimpton InTouch Hotel Credit with $50 Haiti Donation

Posted in January 25th, 2010
by Ric Garrido in 2010 Winter Promotion, Kimpton Hotels, Kimpton Hotels InTouch, Kimpton Hotels promotion

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 Weekend Rate Sale, Book by Jan 12, Stay by Feb 28

Posted in January 6th, 2010
by Ric Garrido in 2010 Winter Promotion, Hotel Rate Discounts, Kimpton Hotels, Kimpton Hotels InTouch, Kimpton Hotels promotion

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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Hotel and Airline Articles I’ve Read Lately

Posted in April 10th, 2009
by Ric Garrido in 2009 Spring Promotions, Airline Frequent Flier Programs, California Hotels, Carmel Hotels, Hilton HHonors, Hotel Room Rate statistics, Hotel industry forecast, Hyatt Hotels, Kimpton Hotels, Kimpton Hotels promotion, Priceline.com, Travel Statistics, Travel economy, Travelocity.com, USA hotel rates, elite frequent flyer, frequent flier, global hotel rates, personal reflections

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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San Francisco Summer Sale Kimpton Hotels

Posted in July 17th, 2008
by Ric Garrido in Kimpton Hotels, Kimpton Hotels InTouch, Kimpton Hotels promotion, Summer 2008 Special Offers

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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Best Rate Guarantee – Starwood and Kimpton Hotels

Posted in July 3rd, 2008
by Ric Garrido in Best Rate Guarantee, Kimpton Hotels, Starwood Hotels, Starwood Preferred Guest

On Monday this week I came across two hotels with significant rate differences on their hotel websites compared to rates returned through a Travelocity search for downtown San Francisco hotels for July stays.
Hotel Triton, a Kimpton Hotel, San Francisco – $189 best available rate on Kimpton site ($161 AAA rate);$99 to $104 on Travelocity and [...]

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Kimpton Hotels – Stay 3, Get 1 Night Free Summer Promotion

Posted in June 18th, 2008
by Ric Garrido in Kimpton Hotels, Kimpton Hotels InTouch, Kimpton Hotels promotion, Summer 2008 Special Offers

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.
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Making Contact with Kimpton Hotels InTouch

Posted in April 17th, 2008
by Ric Garrido in Elite frequent guest, Kimpton Hotels, Kimpton Hotels InTouch

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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Rocky Mountain Wired Less in Colorado

Posted in February 22nd, 2008
by Ric Garrido in Elite frequent guest, Hilton HHonors, Hilton Hotels, Hotel Reviews, Hotel points exchange, Hyatt Hotels, Kimpton Hotels, Marriott Hotels, PointStretcher, USA travel, hotel loyalty programs, personal reflections

Hyatt Regency, Denver – lobby
“Now his life is full of wonder
but his heart still knows some fear
Of a simple thing he cannot comprehend
Why they try to tear the mountains down
to bring in a couple more
More people,
more scars upon the land”
-John Denver
Pim and Colorado aligned for a wired less eclipse this past week. Pim is my [...]

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