Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
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.
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Global Traveler has published their 6th annual reader travel survey based on the responses of 25,000 participants. Published in the December 2009 issue, the survey results cover 60 travel categories of airline, hotels, and loyalty programs.
Here are some of the hotel category winners:
Hyatt Hotels Park Hyatt brand ranked #1 for Best International Hotel Chain.
Park [...]
Starwood Hotels launched a cyberMonday 72-hour sale today for select resort properties in the US, Caribbean, and French Polynesia. Rooms must be booked by Wednesday, December 2 for stays from January 1 through April 30, 2010. These limited time offer rates are nonrefundable.
The best deals I saw was for Le Meridien Bora Bora (property link) overwater bungalow [...]
AAA has released their 2010 list of 5-Diamond hotels and resorts. (AAA 2010 list pdf link) As usual the list is dominated by Ritz-Carlton and Four Seasons. One great thing about Ritz-Carlton hotels is the ability to use Marriott Reward points for stays. Marriott Rewards offers great deals for multiple night stays with discounts starting at [...]
There are three swimming pools at the St. Regis Monarch Beach. Across the Grand Lawn from the hotel is the main Ocean Pool. The name implies it might be a seawater pool, but it is actually a heated freshwater pool with views of the ocean from the pool area. The Lagoon Pool was primarily occupied [...]
The St. Regis Monarch Beach resort opened in 2001 and is one of five high-end hotel resorts along the Orange County coast. The hotel and restaurants have an ocean view, but resort-owned Monarch Bay Beach Club on the beach is a half-mile away from the hotel. A golf cart shuttle leaves from the front of the [...]
My only regret is I spent my last two Starwood Preferred Guest Free Weekend Nights at the St. Regis Monarch Beach, Dana Point, California. If I knew a month ago what I know now, I would have burned six free nights at the Mobil 5-star, SPG Category 6 St. Regis Monarch Beach. I rank this [...]
Lake Las Vegas
Lake Las Vegas is 17 miles east of the Las Vegas Strip, just past the suburb city of Henderson. The lake itself is a 320-acre private lake surrounded by a 3,200-acre Tuscan inspired resort complex of hotels including the Ritz-Carlton, Loews Resort (formerly a Hyatt Resort), MonteLago Village Resort, residential communities, a [...]
Arrival:
We arrived at the St. Regis San Francisco around 3:30pm. I drove into the city since we spent a couple of hours in Golden Gate Park earlier in the day before driving into the downtown area. The park, slightly larger than Central Park, New York if that has meaning for you, is on the [...]
Luxury Hotel Marketing Gurus: Use Loyalty Programs to Boost Occupancy
The Double EQM offers from American Airlines and United Airlines this week are the kinds of promotions I think Tim Winship of Frequentflier.com had been expecting to see from the industry for the past couple of months. Here is a link to Tim’s SmarterTravel blog from [...]
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