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 …

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 …

We are approximately at the halfway point of the Hyatt Gold Passport 44,000 point giveaway. The contest ends Midnight EST, Sunday, March 4th. At the time of writing this post there are around 2,900 entries (It was 2,800 when I started typing!). Even if the entries cross 10,000 (it can be done!), the odds of winning are still better than a lottery. Furthermore, 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 …

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% …

In Part I of this post I went over the process I use and recommend for planning out an year of earning and maximizing Airline Miles. (The very same process can be applied for Hotel Points too). In that post I showed how I came upon my ‘gap’ – miles that I had to work for; those that were not in my planned travel or covered by my usual travel run rate. This is where the work is and requires creative efforts to get to your goals.
As I maintained before, …

As I have stated time and again, Priority Club Pointsbreak is probably the best hotel promotion out there. The list of hotels has been updated again for stays until November 30. To see the whole list, go to thisLINK and log in.
There are a few bargains on the list: just 5000 points for an Intercontinental (IC) that normally costs atleast 30K points!
US
INTERCONTINENTAL DALLAS
Middle East
INTERCONTINENTAL BAHRAIN
Asia
INTERCONTINENTAL CHONGQING, China
Dominican Republic
INTERCONTINENTAL V CENTENARIO SANTO DOMINGO
Malta
INTERCONTINENTAL MALTA
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Also, I would like to break the news about the new fitness and recreational amenities for our guests: We are offering a P90X class every Wednesday at 6:00pm. … In addition, we have partnered with The Lakes at El Segundo , a local golf course close to the hotel, that will offer a complimentary medium bucket of balls for the driving range to our guests.

Author’s note: TopGuest has brought to my attention that ‘drive-by’ check-ins to their program can result in people being barred from TopGuest. My intention was never to promote anything that would be against their Terms and Conditions. This was supposed to poke fun at people who ‘drive-by’ for points. I encourage everyone to read my clarification post.
Who would not like to get Hotel Points for just driving by a hotel? No need to check-in. Heck, don’t even bother to park. Just drive by… and wear your seatbelt and obey the …

Takes less than a minute. Enter for the one million bonus point sweepstakes. LINK. Well, Hilton advertizes a lot of benefits but to me, the million points are more important.
The prize also includes

A trip for two to Beverly Hills, California
Four-day, three-night stay at the Beverly Hilton
First-class round-trip airfare
Tickets for two to the Universal Studios HollywoodSM VIP Experience
Tickets for two to an upcoming red carpet premiere of a Universal Pictures movie, including limo service to and from the event

You can get one entry by clicking on “Enter Now” and one entry …

Priority club Pointsbreak is probably the best hotel promotion out there. One can stay at various properties including the top class Intercontinentals for a measly 5000 Priority Club points per night.
The list is now updated for stays until September 30. The list includes four Intercontinentals (IC):
USA
INTERCONTINENTAL SUITES HOTEL CLEVELAND
Middle East
INTERCONTINENTAL AL JUBAIL
INTERCONTINENTAL AL KHOBAR
Asia
INTERCONTINENTAL JAKARTA MIDPLAZA
However the ICs do not last very long. So hurry, if you want to book any of these ICs.
 
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