Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Choice Hotels updated its website showing hotel reward rates worldwide for December 1, 2019 to January 31, 2020. Reward nights can be booked for stays within 100 days. Today the calendar has reached the November 30-December 1 date for reservations within the 100-day booking window. You can find seasonal reward rates listed on each hotel’s…
IHG Accelerate Fall 2019 promotion is out for stays from Sep 1-Dec 31, 2019, but do not get your hopes up. Many IHG Rewards Club members, including me, are seeing one of IHG’s weakest promotion offers yet. My Accelerate Fall 2019 offer is for a total 14,400 bonus points and requires a minimum 7 nights…
I might be the only excited American when I see a Scandinavian Airlines SAS sale for ticket buying opportunities on USA to Scandinavia travel. The deal with SAS tickets to Scandinavia is they are usually priced quite a bit higher than other Star Alliance airlines like United Airlines, and especially Lufthansa and Swiss. These periodic…
One of my main tips for leisure travelers is periodically check BiddingforGood.com for hotel travel deals. This week there are dozens of chain hotels in a few auctions posted on BiddingforGood.com ending August 24 and 25. Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Choice and other independent hotels have deals at the present time. Obviously the prices seen…
Hilton Honors revised its status match and elite challenge program. The current rules apply year-round and require a Hilton Honors member who wants a status match to provide proof of current status with another hotel loyalty program. A screenshot jpg. photo image is sufficient. You also need to provide proof of a hotel stay in…
Puerto Rico is on sale from a variety of cities with other airlines besides Spirit. San Francisco SFO to San Juan, Puerto Rico SJU is as low as $259 round trip on Delta for travel for hurricane season travel in September and October. Seattle SEA to Puerto Rico SJU is as low as $269 on…
In July I took a one hour cruise on Prague’s Vltava River. The regular price for a Vltava daytime river cruise is about 350 CZK/$15. With a group of 9 other people we managed a 20% discount on the tickets for a walk-up purchase on the next cruise at 2:20 in the afternoon. We had…
United Airlines has San Francisco or San Jose to Paris tickets for $330 round trip with one stop each way or $426 round trip for nonstop flights. Low prices start in mid-September. United Airlines San Francisco SFO – Paris CDG – San Francisco SFO $425.43 round trip Sunday Sep 22 – Thursday October 3 United…
Bus travel is often the most convenient and least expensive way to travel around central Europe. Train tickets from Krakow to Warsaw Poland on the July 2019 day we needed to travel were priced around $40 per person for a 2.5 hour journey. Flixbus tickets from Krakow bus station were $11.99 per ticket for a…
Frontier Airlines launched a Friends Fly Free promotion today for select Las Vegas routes on tickets purchased from August 12 to August 18 on travel through February 14, 2020. The catch is the buyer must have Discount Den membership or pay $59.99 for an annual Discount Den membership. An example fare I saw is Jacksonville,…
