Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
“I mean everyone has got to take a road trip, at least once in their lives.
Just you and some music.”
Claire Colburn in the Cameron Crowe movie Elizabethtown.
The next two weeks will likely be different types of blog posts than typically seen here on Loyalty Traveler. The plan is for sporadic dispatches from the road.
Yesterday was [...]
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 [...]
Fall 2008 PointBreaks List Currently Available for IHG Priority Club Rewards Reservations for Stays through November 30, 2008
PointBreaks are one of the best available hotel loyalty deals for the traveler. The new list of participating hotels in the InterContinental Hotels Group for Priority Club Rewards PointBreaks is out and contains nearly 140 hotels around the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Laurence Geller listed some interesting data points in a blog from Jan 18, 2008. His piece discusses the widening divide between Generations X and Y mass consumers and the truly “super-affluent”. In 2006, the affluent spent on average $2,400 on hotels and resorts, while the super-affluent spent $61,200. He argues new brands will proliferate as [...]
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Feb | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| 29 | 30 | 31 | ||||
|
Loyalty Traveler is proudly powered by Boarding Area Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS). - Privacy Policy - BoardingArea on Twitter |