Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Hilton Honors sent me a last chance email reminder yesterday for 100% bonus points on points purchases by December 18, 2018. I am definitely a buyer of Hilton Honors points at $5.00 per 1,000 points. I have a few hotels in mind for summer 2018 travel in Romania and Poland where 10,000 points buys a…
Several Star Alliance airlines have Los Angeles to Moscow priced at $398 round trip for travel from January to May 2019. An interesting feature of this low fare is the potential for long overnight layovers in a variety of cities including Toronto, Zurich and Munich. SkyTeam has fares slightly higher in low $400s round trip…
Brazil has not been on sale too much in recent months from what I have observed in Google Flights airfare searches, so seeing $585 round trip from Los Angeles to Sao Paulo, Brazil widely available through 2019 with oneworld alliance airline LATAM stands out as a good deal. Onward flights to destinations throughout Brazil and…
Choice Hotels sent me an email today for 15% off the flexible rate for a hotel booking made by December 21 for a stay completed by January 31, 2019. The offer is good at Choice Hotels worldwide and offers flexible cancellation terms. This is a targeted promotion applicable only for one booking by the email…
There is a great opportunity to lock in low fares for a summer trip from San Francisco to any of more than a dozen cities around Europe with low one way fares from TAP Portugal on their new SFO-LIS flights launching June 10, 2019. An interesting feature of these deals is a round trip ticket…
BiddingforGood.com has three travel auctions to buy Marriott Rewards Platinum elite membership status ending Dec 17 at 11:00pm Central time. At time of publishing, the bids were $180, $197 and $219 to submit a higher and potentially winning bid for one of these auction items. Marriott Rewards Platinum elite usually requires 50 nights in a…
Best Western Rewards, Choice Privileges and Wyndham Rewards all share a feature not seen in Hilton Honors, World of Hyatt, IHG Rewards Club and Marriott Rewards – each of these three lower market segment hotel chains have some hotels offering higher category rooms at standard reward rates. The challenge is finding which hotels offer higher…
Air France and SkyTeam airlines have San Francisco to Vienna on sale for $416 round trip for departures from January 14 through May 6. Add $84 for self-selected advance seat reservations for four flights ($32 each transatlantic and $12 each European segment). Checked bag adds $60 each way. Air France San Francisco SFO – Paris…
Xiamen Airlines has discount Business Class tickets from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia priced at $2,588 round trip for travel departures from Feb 28 through October 2019 for several dates each month, except July. These flights are 787-8 and 787-9 aircraft via Xiamen, China. One Mile at a Time reviewed the LAX-XIA 787-9 business class…
One of the Europe fare deals I have been watching this week is United-Star Alliance San Francisco to Rome. My wife loved our three days in Rome last June and she would like to return to the ‘eternal city’ – preferably in cooler weather, which makes January to May 2019 low fare deals of interest…
