Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Marriott Bonvoy is making a significant adjustment on March 4, 2020 when about 2,200 hotels change hotel reward category. These changes are significant in that 70% of these hotel category changes are located in the USA (1,548 hotels) and 87% (1,291 hotels) of these USA hotels will see a reward night rate increase of one…
Best Western Rewards has a flash promotion for 3,000 bonus points on every stay booked by February 23 and completed by April 19, 2020. The main thing to know about this offer is the member registration deadline is Monday Feb 10, however, eligible bookings can be made through February 23. Best Western Rewards 3,000 points…
Accor Live Limitless, designated by Accor Hotels new loyalty program moniker ‘ALL’, has a new 6,000 bonus points promotion for 3 stays completed Feb 14 to June 7, 2020 worldwide. The main restriction on this offer is once you have registered, then all three qualifying stays must be booked by March 6. 500 Rewards points…
IHG Rewards Club has unveiled their new promotion to earn up to 4x points for stays from February 15 to May 15, 2020, but the registration page is not yet operating correctly. This offer is structured based on total nights completed and differs from their last 4x points promotion based on stays. The previous offer…
World of Hyatt is selling points at 25% discount through February 29, 2020 dropping the rate from $24 to $18 per 1,000 points. A member must buy at least 5,000 points for the discount rate to apply. A member may buy a maximum 55,000 points in a calendar year. Hyatt had a 2019 Q-4 offer…
A trip to Krakow, Poland for New Year’s 2020 seemed attractive to us for two reasons. Firstly, we had never been to Krakow for New Year’s Eve. In 2016 we arrived on Christmas Day from closed-up Bratislava, Slovakia to find a well-attended and lively Christmas Market in Krakow’s Old Town Market Square with most old…
January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This year, January 27, 2020 commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Soviet forces liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau Forced Labor and Extermination Camp in the final months of World War Two. U.S. population surveys indicate nearly half of U.S. adults could not name a single World War Two concentration camp.…
Some of the best value opportunities with Choice Privileges are using points for hotels in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, places where finding a hotel for under $100 per night is difficult in most Scandinavian cites most dates of the year. With a Ryanair flight from Krakow, Poland to Stockholm, Sweden Skavsta Airport NYO and an…
Bikes, bikes, bikes, all across Amsterdam. There are estimated to be as many bicycles as residents in Amsterdam, about 850,000 of each. Bicycles outnumber cars 4 to 1 among city residents. As a tourist in Amsterdam for a week last month, many of my photos included bicycles as the focal point or bicycles as part…
Park Plaza Vondelpark Amsterdam remodeled since my last stay a few years ago. This hotel has been my go to Radisson property in Amsterdam as the chain’s lowest priced hotel within the city center. The hotel’s tagline is “A natural habitat for curious travellers”. The location next to Amsterdam’s 1865 well-developed 120-acre Vondelpark means time…
