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I admit it, I love Holiday Inn.

I love the ability to earn points with Priority Club through Holiday Inn and then redeem them at Intercontinental Hotels. I was able to take my first dream trip to Bora Bora (staying in an over the water bungalow as a Royal Ambassador) for 10 days by using the points I accumulated through Priority Club. When you mix in the occasional promotion as well, it’s a great program.

There’s also the economic side of it as well. During my trips to Russia, I stayed at the Marriotts like every good American businessman should. Paying $700 a night at the Marriott Aurora and Grand and $500 a night at the Marriott Renaissance seemed perfectly normal.

Then I discovered the Holiday Inn Lesnaya just down the street from the Marriott Grand. At $250-$300 a night, by Moscow standards it’s a steal. It’s the perfect business hotel, close to the Belarusskaya subway station.

Not only do you get the benefit of accumulating Priority Club points by staying at Holiday Inn, there’s a financial benefit as well. I trumpeted the fact that I was saving the company money by staying at the Holiday Inn over the Marriott. I talked it up so much that I convinced others to switch over, while collecting 5000 Priority Club bonuses for the referral.

In summary, it’s good for the company and good for my Priority Club account balance. Everyone’s a winner!

Gary at View from the Wing reports on getting Free Hyatt Platinum Status for 180 days and a Fast Track to Diamond Status.

If you haven’t subscribed to Gary’s RSS feed, you are missing out. I stumbled upon his blog several years ago and have benefitted immensely from learning from his posts over the years.

Last year I signed up for the American Express Hilton Surpass card and easily surpassed the $40,000 yearly spend to become a Hilton Diamond.

I’ve had the Diamond status since fall of last year, but my packet finally arrived last week.

The most surprising thing was the expiration date on the card for my Diamond Status. 03/2012.

This is fantastic news as our planned award trip to the Maldives wasn’t going to be able to happen until latet 2011 / early 2012.

I’ll get my first opportunity to use my Diamond status next week in Anaheim, but having read up on this thread on Flyertalk, my expectations of extra benefits have been tempered a bit.

I have an upcoming stay at the Intercontinental De La Ville Rome. This promotion came just in time.

Go to priorityclub.com/register

Enter in promo code 9589

Earn bonus points every night you stay, and get rewarded faster.

It’s time to start earning at top speed! Earn an additional 1,000 points for every qualifying night you stay from now to 30 April 2010—up to 20,000 bonus points. Register today!

1,000 bonus points or 200 bonus miles with participating airline partners will be awarded on every qualifying night at InterContinental®, Crowne Plaza®, Hotel Indigo®, Holiday Inn®, Holiday Inn Express®, Express by Holiday Inn™, Staybridge Suites® and Candlewood Suites® hotels worldwide between 1 February 2010 and 30 April 2010.

Last year, Suntrust bank was giving 15,000 Skymiles for opening up a checking account – all for $55.

I opened up a personal and business account to get the 30,000 Skymiles for $110. I did the same for my wife.

The deal just got sweeter.

I received four Delta Sky Club one day passes in the mail – one for each account we opened. These will come in very handy on our upcoming International Trip.

Now – Suntrust is offering to give you $100 if you enroll and use online bill pay three times each month for three consecutive months.

Let’s do the math:
30,000 Skymiles for me
30,000 Skymiles for my wife

$100 bonus – $55 account fee = $45
$100 bonus – $55 account fee = $45
$100 bonus – $55 account fee = $45
$100 bonus – $55 account fee = $45

Total: 60,000 Skymiles, $180 in cash, and 4 Delta Sky Club passes.

A special promotion for Florida residents.

Florida Residents Can Save Big – 4 Days for $99

Get 4 Days for $99 with the new 4 Day Dream Pass and enjoy incredible savings*!

Available only to Florida residents, this special offer provides admission to any of the 4 Walt Disney World® theme parks (one park per day) on any 4 days of your choosing, from January 3, 2010 until May 25, 2010 blackout dates apply.*

That’s 4 Theme Parks in 4 days for just $99 plus tax!

Priority Club has decided to highlight the recent point devaluation by Hilton Honors.

They are offering a contest to give 20% of your Hilton Honors balance in the form of Priority Club points to the top 20,000 people, up to 20,000 points.

The best part is that you can earn 1000 Free Priority Club points just for entering even if you have 0 Hilton points.

I’m sitting at 230,000 points which should put me in the top 20,000.

The link is here.