Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Barbara De Lollis published a scoop last week for her Hotel Check-In blog on Starwood Hotels secret elite program, “Scoop: Starwood Hotels runs top-secret loyalty pilot program that targets rivals’ customers”. Since the USA Today article appeared last Thursday the story has spread across the hotel industry journals.
Honestly, I wasn’t going to write about this [...]
Many frequent guests save their hotel points for week-long vacation stays. Carlson goldpoints plus, Hilton HHonors, Marriott Rewards, and Starwood Preferred Guest offer discounted award nights on multi-night stays, but the terms vary between programs. Certain programs offer bigger discounts and the amount of the discount off per night rates depends on your length of [...]
Starwood Preferred Guest announced last week there will be no hotel reward category changes for 2010. That is a good thing – right?
Hilton HHonors adjusted its category levels in January 2010 with a widespread shift of about 82 to 83% of hotels to higher cost reward categories. This was an obvious devaluation of points when [...]
Reuters Travel and Leisure Summit is happening in New York City Feb 22-24. So far I have seen nothing new coming out of the conference reports, but I guess it is news to lots of people.
There is a lot of chatter about rivals going after disgruntled Hilton HHonors members. Here is a good read from [...]
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Here is an example of how this can be quite [...]
Here is a decent Westin Casuarina Las Vegas special rate offer for $109 Sunday-Thursday and $129 Friday and Saturday that includes a 1,500 Starpoints bonus. Book online using rate plan BONUS or call 1-866-716-8137 and ask for this rate. Must book by February 20 for hotel stays through May 27, 2010.
1,500 Starpoints is essentially a [...]
I like to determine the relative value of hotel points. Most hotel loyalty program members have an idea of the approximate value of points in their primary hotel loyalty program. My question is how do hotel rewards in different programs compare to each other?
After ten years of loyalty points and miles analysis, I have found [...]
February 28, 2010 is the last day I can refer new members to Starwood Preferred Guest for an instant upgrade to Gold elite membership. In addition to the benefits of Gold elite through February 2011, the new SPG member will receive 1,000 bonus points for every night stayed through March 31, 2010.
This offer has been [...]
Today I put some more time into analyzing the category changes for Hilton HHonors.
Hilton HHonors = 3,551 hotels (Waldorf Astoria Collection has additional 19 hotels)
USA = 3,139 hotels; 88.4% of hotel properties
International = 412 hotels; 11.6% of hotel properties
Category 7 = 117 hotels
68 USA/Puerto Rico
49 international
22 hotels made double category jump from Category 5 to [...]
Starwood Preferred Guest classifies 16 hotels in their highest Category 7 level requiring 30,000 points per night. A closer look at these hotels reveals that many of these properties are not available for 30,000 points per night despite the elimination of peak season rates for 2010.
SPG peak season rates for 2010 were eliminated for all [...]
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