Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Sweet Auburn is a place in Atlanta, Georgia I had never heard of before this week. While at the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, the opening doorway as you enter the museum area on the left wall is a corridor with photos showing white people and the word ‘White’ in neon. On…
After a 2-night stay including breakfast at JW Marriott Atlanta Buckhead for $71, I made my way by MARTA train and public bus to Marriott Atlanta Century Center/Emory Area for a $23 hotel stay. Both of these hotel stays were booked using free stay certificates I won in the 2017 Marriott Omaha Business Council auction…
Six Kimpton Hotels in Portland and Seattle have an IHG Rewards Club promotion for 10,000 bonus points per night for stays from Sep 26 to Feb 28, 2019, but you must book your stay by October 10, 2018. 10% off BAR + 10,000 bonus points/night for nonrefundable rate This promotion grabbed my attention when I first…
Hotel Napa Valley is now a member of Choice Hotels Ascend Collection and currently available for 20,000 Choice Privileges points. Hotel location is in Napa city center a few blocks from the downtown historic business district. Neighborhoods in the area contain many older California style Victorian Houses. Hotel Napa Valley has 21 rooms including 2…
Since 2014 I have won some great Marriott hotel discount deals through the Marriott Omaha Business Council annual fundraiser for Children’s Miracle Network. Their 2018 auction closed September 21 and JW Marriott Atlanta Buckhead received a winning bid of $150 for two nights with breakfast. Last year I won this same two nights with breakfast…
Frontier is an airline I have flown three times in the past year for domestic trips to Denver, Miami and this week to Atlanta. Their low prices motivate me to buy tickets. Their low cost carrier add-on fees motivate me to travel light. Frontier Airlines ticket priced at $48.20 each way for a $96.40 round…
Hotel loyalty points have no value until you redeem them for something of value. This article examines the value of hotel loyalty program points based on my 60 reward nights in 2017 and 52 reward nights so far in 2018. This is a continuation of my article: What are hotel points worth? In my case,…
Three ways to pick up hotel loyalty points: earn hotel points from hotel stays and associated spend and activity; earn hotel points from credit cards; buy hotel points. Frequent Miler, One Mile at a Time and The Points Guy, all have a page on their websites detailing their estimated value of hotel points. These individual values are…
One of the hotels that caught my eye on yesterday’s IHG Pointbreaks list is QO Hotel Amsterdam at 15,000 points per reward night. This hotel is already off PointBreaks and back to 40,000 points less than 24 hours later. QO Hotel Amsterdam has 288 rooms with 12 suites in a 21 story new build high-tech design.…
