Following up on yesterday’s Conde Nast 2009 Gold List with these lists of major hotel loyalty program properties. 

Major Hotel Loyalty Programs with Hotels on Conde Nast 2009 Gold List

2009 Conde Nast Gold List Hotels
 

Hotel Chain

Hilton  HHonors                           4

Hyatt Gold Passport                    13

InterContinental Priority Club      6

Marriott Rewards                       29
(Only 6 of 29 hotels are Marriott branded hotels for earning points.  [...]

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Loyalty Traveler wants to hear from Priority Club Platinum elites and Ambassadors. Please share your opinion on the value of Priority Club elite membership as evidenced by hotel recognition in terms of upgrades and amenities during your stays.
I have made a general statement over the years with regards to hotel frequent guest and airline [...]

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The bottom line for the hotel traveler is “How much will my room cost?”
I read a post on *Wood blog about the Mobil Five-Star Award conferred upon the St. Regis San Francisco recently.  I then noticed yesterday the lowest rates I’ve ever seen for the St. Regis San Francisco. 

St. Regis San Francisco, Metropolitan Suite
A spreadsheet [...]

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Portland’s new Starwood luxury hotel has dropped its rates 60% since opening in October 2008.
The Nines from $99 for 99 days through April 18.  Rate Code “99NINES”.

View of The Nines 8th Floor Lobby and Restaurants, Portland, OR
Times are hard for luxury hotels.  I was just reading how two luxury hotels in Dublin have shut down [...]

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Christopher Elliott wrote a recent article, The Disappearing Vacation, where he coins 2009 the year of the ‘naycation’, as in No Vacation for 2009. 
The numbers are looking bleak, particularly on the luxury front of air travel.
Premium air travel fell 11.5% worldwide in November 2008 compared to November 2007, according to a New York Times [...]

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Upscale Your European Stays with Discount Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn Hotels

InterContinental Hotels Group has updated its ongoing offer for a second night free or 2-nights-for-the-Price-of-1-night  promotional offer. The reservation period is for stays between December 12, 2008 and March 31, 2009 for these discount rates.
 
 
Note: This rate needs to be searched through the InterContinental Hotels [...]

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I am on a lonely road and I am traveling,
traveling, traveling, traveling,
Looking for something, what can it be?
    
    All I Want -  Joni Mitchell
 

Mt. Shasta, California view from I-5 near Dunsmuir
 
I heard a blogger panelist at BlogWorld08 in Las Vegas tell bloggers never to apologize for not blogging.  I’m not apologizing – [...]

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Stanford University Day Tripping – So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA October 16, 2008
Rushing out of Monterey I had no idea what the temperature was in Silicon Valley, California.  The 70° Monterey air soon went to 90° on Highway 101 right where Monterey County changes to San Benito County.  Somehow the County line [...]

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LHW 1928 Promotion Saga – LHW Emails Respond to Promotion Disaster
The power of a social network site was demonstrated with the rapid fire posting of information yesterday on the FlyerTalk LHW 1928 thread (page 51 is when LHW responds to promotion meltdown).  Interspersed between the whines and calls for lawyers were cogent posts from an LHW [...]

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Hilton Rome Cavalieri Rebranded as Waldorf=Astoria

Waldorf=Astoria Collection, The Cavalieri, Rome, Italy  (photo courtesy of Hilton)
The Rome Cavalieri has been the premier European hotel property of Hilton International for years.  This hotel was one of the few HHonors Category 6 hotels when I started looking in 2000 for wonderful Hilton Hotels to spend my points.  Unfortunately [...]

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