Ric Garrido

SPG Hot Escapes for Category 6 and 7 hotels

This week’s SPG Hot Escapes has 128 hotels with several Category 6 and Category 7 hotels. Most of the high category hotels do

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Marriott Rewards Insiders rumor on program changes

Normally I do not write about rumored changes to loyalty programs, but in this case the MarriottRewardsInsider thread is trending with feedback on

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Don’t Worry, this happens every year at Starwood

A FlyerTalk member noticed his Cash & Points reservation for Athens Grand Bretagne changed this week from 18,000 points + $330  to 30,000

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Where are HHonors and Marriott Rewards 2014 hotel category changes?

Normally Hilton HHonors and Marriott Rewards have announced hotel reward category changes by this date. Were last year’s changes so drastic that these

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Want a small business? Be an Airbnb rental host.

SFGate.com is my regular news read. Recently there was an article about new small businesses opening to serve as host for guests using

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Radisson Blu Polar Hotel Spitsbergen, Longyearbyen is world’s northernmost hotel

Forget Barrow, Alaska and Hammerfest, Norway or Tiksi, Russia. Take a look at any list of the world’s northernmost towns and Longyearbyen, Norway

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U.S. Travel Daily Getaways returns May 19-June 20, 2014

U.S. Travel Association’s Daily Getaways returns May 19-June 20, 2014. A preview of 2014 offers will post May 12, 2014. Daily Getaways are

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Hilton HHonors 2x miles AA/DL/UA for Latin America and Caribbean stays by April 30

Hilton HHonors offers double miles with American, Delta, United and six other airline partners on stays at participating hotels in Latin America by

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Norway in some way for two weeks in September

Saturday I had a travel buzz and pulled the trigger on a $541 United airline ticket from San Francisco to Oslo in September

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SFO-OSL or LAX-CPH $511 to $571 on United in spring, fall, Christmas

United airfare between San Francisco and Oslo, Norway or Los Angeles and Copenhagen, Denmark is as low as $511 and up to $575

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