Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Amsterdam is a multicultural city and attracts travelers from around the world. I find it to be one of the most comfortable cities in the world for living. My opinion of Amsterdam is highly favorable after staying in the city hundreds of cumulative nights through one and two week trips to Amsterdam over the past…
All-time record hotel rates across the USA were booked in April 2022 taking the average daily rate (ADR) to $149.90 per room night, according to industry data reports from STR. This is a 14% increase in room rate compared to pre-pandemic April 2019. Some other data points in recent STR hotel industry recovery news. Occupancy…
Comfort Inn Anaheim Resort is one of five Choice Hotels in Anaheim, California – home to Disneyland. This is the highest rated of the five Anaheim Choice hotels on TripAdvisor at 4.3 of 5 and ranked #44 of 128 hotels in Anaheim. Keep in mind the Comfort Inn hotel is not a resort, just in…
Many tourist articles I read on Venice complained about the high price of stuff in the city due to everything having to be shipped in over the water. Honestly, I did not find prices in Venice to be high at all. In general, prices in Venice were less than in my home town of Monterey,…
Oneworld Alliance airline Iberia has flights from SFO to Lisbon, Portugal as low as $582 and Finnair offers Estonia and Lithuania in the low $600s from SFO and LAX for flights in July. LAX has more cities on sale with Finnair including Vienna, Austria; Copenhagen, Denmark and a few cities in Poland like Krakow priced…
This week I am examining different aspects of Hyatt reward nights for potential savings. There are deals to be found on standard rewards, Standard Suite and Premium Suite reward nights. This article examines a couple of hotels for dates when Points+Cash and Premium Suite Upgrade rates might be a better deal than Standard, Standard Suite…
This week I am looking at opportunities for Hyatt Standard and Premium Suites at low category hotels in Europe. The first article in this series examined Hyatt reward rates for various room types at Category 1 to 4 hotels and the price to buy points during the May 2022 sale for $16.80 per 1,000 points,…
This article examines World of Hyatt loyalty program reward rate points tables for low category 1 to 4 hotels. Hyatt points are on sale through May 30, 2022 for as low as $16.80 per 1,000 points. You can buy up to 55,000 points. Buy Hyatt Points webpage. Hyatt Reward Night Room Categories Standard Free Night…
The two mile long Grand Canal of Venice bisects the six districts of Venice, a city rising up from a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea, the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea. The six districts called sestiere are Santa Croce, San Polo and Dorsoduro on one side of the Grand Canal and Cannaregio, San Marco…
Rodeway Inn San Francisco, currently Taylor Street Hotel, has joined Choice Hotels and is accepting reservations through Choice Privileges for stays beginning June 22. The deal here is the hotel has reward nights at 8,000 points per night through August 20 available for booking today. The posted reward rate is 8,000 points through September 15,…
