Early last week, I stayed at Hilton Grand Vacation’s newest property – Elara, in Las Vagas. The building itself is fairly new, but it very recently became a Hilton. I am told that the Hilton Grand Vacation sign was just put up a few days ago. Before that it used to be a part of Planet Hollywood. It is a Hilton Grand Vacation resort, which means you can buy up suites there, but also a hotel, which is how I ended up staying there.
The hotel is beautiful and its location …

As I blogged a couple of weeks ago, I just redeemed 480,000 United miles for four business class tickets to India. My mileage balance has now fallen below 200,000 miles. This has left a deep desire in my mind to ramp up some miles! With the large balance I had, I had started taking it easy and had been focussed on other programs and credit cards with points like Chase Sapphire. It is back to getting UNited miles now.
Here is what I have been doing:
Applied for the new United MileagePlus® …

The BoardingArea.com homepage stopped updating for some time over the last couple of days. If you are like me, you probably go to the homepage to see what all the wonderful bloggers at BoardingArea are writing, instead of visiting their individual blogs. It is a wonderful single page view of all the people who matter in the Airline Mile and Hotel Point Blogoshpere. When it came back up yesterday, it of course picked up in real time and all the wonderful posts for two days were missed. I had been …

Yes! We have our two winners for the Hyatt Gold Passport 44,000 points giveaway! We had 6304 entries in all. I used random.org to find the two winners and they are:
Winner #1:

Michael D, with the entry Andaz Wall Street.
Winner #2:

Jenn J, with the entry Hyatt Place Nashville/Opryland, Tennessee.

CONGRATULATIONS to both winners. Please reply ASAP to the emails I have sent you to verify your email IDs. You will be contacted then by Hyatt to get your points. You will receive 22,000 Hyatt Gold Passport points each.
Thank you to …

Today is the last day of the Hyatt Gold Passport 44,000 point giveaway. The contest ends Midnight EST, tonight, Sunday, March 4th. As I described in the original, you can enter as many times as you want. You just need to make sure the comment you leave is a real Hyatt property, and no two of your comments are consecutive – let someone else comment before you do. So, go forth and enter to win!
Note: Comments to this post will not be considered as entries. Please leave your comments on …

Hyatt has been very generous. They have an absolutely great promotion running (details later in this post), but they have also made points available to bloggers to give away to their readers. I am going to give away 22,000 points each to 2 lucky readers!
Let’s start with the Hyatt promotion. Here are the details of this awesome promotion – it is truly one of the best in the market:

For every 4 nights between February 1 and April 30, members earn additional points and Hyatt Visa also earn an extra 25% …

Here at UnRoadWarrior we are always looking for ways to better serve our readers. Our mission is to provide the best information and expertise on Airline Miles and Hotel Points to the un-roadwarriors. Travellers, who are not experts, don’t have the knowledge and certainly don’t have the time to search thru hundreds of forum threads, blog posts and news articles to get the latest and greatest information. We do that for you, while also providing you with the expert advise from our writers.
To further focus our efforts in 2012 (we …

These come for me in two favors: one where I never even knew I could have earned extra miles (or extra EQM) till it was too late and second where I did what I needed to do to earn the miles, but the miles never posted and I lost track, till it was too late. … I use a spreadsheet to track all activity that has taken place which I think should earn miles – eating out, filling out surveys, customer service events, signing up for promos, etc.

If you had taken advantage of earlier promotions and had bought all 48K points, your out of pocket cost would have been ~$1350 compared to $2k if you had bought the rooms with cash. Now that Starwood award stays count towards elite status, there is no reason to pay them out of your pocket.

This is our 200th post! I was hoping to make this some sensational story that will rock the Airline Miles world, but no such luck… I want to thank all our readers and supporters for being with us on this journey. Thank you for all the feedback and support. Do keep coming back, reading and sharing.
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