Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
One of my best tips for Choice Privileges members is keep 6,000 points in your account for a simple reason. You do not need points or even be signed into your Choice Privileges account to check reward rates for Choice Hotels in cities worldwide. You must have at least 6,000 Choice Privileges points in your…
Choice Privileges brings back its standard 8,000 points after 2 stays promotion February 26 to April 26, 2019. Registration is required before your first eligible stay. This promotion bonus can be earned for every two eligible rate stays during the promotion period. Hotels worldwide participating in Choice Privileges for earning points are eligible stays. Bonus…
LAX to Chicago or reverse route is priced at $54 each way with United Airlines for travel dates March to May 2019. Most availability is in March. Another feature of this sale are low one way fares from some California regional airports, which feed into LAX flights. Monterey to Chicago and Chicago to Monterey is…
Pebble Beach turns 100 years old in 2019. The 250-years-old Lone Cypress on a granite rocky perch above the Pacific Ocean of Carmel Bay has been the trademarked icon of Pebble Beach since its founding. Strong winds from a Pacific storm last weekend broke off one of the main limbs of the Lone Cypress. I…
Allegiant Airlines has a 25% off sale on select routes for reservations booked February 18-20, 2019. Discount applies through 11:59pm PST Wed Feb 20. Discount is reflected in price with no promotional code necessary. Allegiant Airlines Las Vegas LAS – Monterey MRY – Las Vegas LAS $74.00 round trip Fri May 3 – Mon May…
Wyndham Rewards restructures its reward night program once again on April 3, 2019. While the new changes raise the rate for a free night to 30,000 points at some 200 hotels and lowers the rate to 7,500 points for about 3,000 hotels, the vast majority of hotels, some 6,000 properties worldwide will remain at 15,000…
Hotels.com has a 10% off stay ‘Blossom’ promotion code for bookings made by March 8, 2019 for stays completed by April 30, 2019. Most major chain hotels excluded. The 10% coupon offer appears automatically when you open hotels.com on your browser. Hotels.com 10% off Blossom T&C Use this coupon to get 10% off the price…
Wow Air has a Presidents Day sale for $45 tickets one way to Iceland from Boston BOS, Baltimore BWI, Newark EWR and Detroit DTW. My searches indicate this can be booked as a one way ticket for $45 all-in flying with only an underseat carry-on. Lowest round trip I found was $145 for Baltimore to…
SkyTeam Alliance member China Southern has California to New Delhi, India flights on sale for $493 round trip from San Francisco and $513 from Los Angeles for travel in late April and May. These one-stop flights do not even require a long layover in China, which may be desirable or undesirable depending on how you…
World of Hyatt announced hotel award category changes for 259 hotels worldwide effective March 18, 2019 at 11:01pm CST. Overall the changes are even-handed with 130 hotels go up one category and 129 hotels go down one category. For years I have railed about hotel loyalty programs depopulating their lowest award categories rather than redistributing…
