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by Ric Garrido
There is a lot happening at Hilton HHonors. Waldorf Astoria moves in at the Maldives, Czech Airlines added to exchange partners, Triple Virgin Flying Club miles, Freddies Award Wins, dining partners, and all this is just some of the events for April 2009. There is plenty happening at Hilton HHonors. The Freddie Awards are hosted…
by Ric Garrido
Hilton HHonors has a 10,000 points bonus offer for a 3 night or longer stay at a Conrad Hotel between April 1 and September 30, 2009. Offer is valid at all Conrad Hotels and may be earned multiple times throughout the promotional period. Conrad Hotels reservation link. Registration is required prior to your stay. Link…
by Ric Garrido
Coach Air Travelers to Pay for Premium-class Excess? Joe Brancatelli has a great read from the Washington Post on the long term outlook for air travel. He predicts the economics of premium cabin extreme makeovers these past few years will result in higher economy class fares for the leisure traveler coming soon as the profitable…
Waldorf Astoria is Hilton’s luxury hotel brand. Two rebranded properties in Europe resulted in two new Waldorf Astoria Collection hotels. The Hilton Cavalieri rebranded last fall into Rome Cavalieri – Waldorf Astoria Collection, and the rebranding of the Westin Trianon Palace to the Waldorf Astoria Trianon Palace Versailles, France. Trianon Palace has four night reward…
Hilton HHonors VIP Rewards and American Express HHonors AXON Awards Hilton American Express cardmembers have access to a four night discount award for an HHonors Category 5 or 6 hotel. The AXON5 award at 125,000 points or AXON6 award at 145,000 points save 15,000 points on the HHonors rate for a 4-night award. HHonors VIP…
by Ric Garrido
Hilton HHonors hooked up with Miles & More to offer two-night hotel stays in Europe at select hotels. Loyalty Traveler looked into the value of a miles-for-hotel-stay exchange. There are several categories of hotels grouped within mileage redemption opportunities. 36,000 miles from Miles & More is sufficient for a weekend stay at these Hilton…
The best redemption value for Hilton HHonors points is generally a high category hotel on a HHonors VIP Reward of six or more nights. Hilton Auckland, New Zealand What do you do when after a year of traveling you have 100,000 points and you want a vacation in three months at a Category 6 hotel…
The beginning of the calendar year is the time to consider your hotel loyalty plan for the year. All the major hotel programs are currently offering promotions and Marriott Rewards kicked off the 2009 promotions with the start of the 25,000 points Megabonus yesterday. Marriott Residence Inn, Pleasanton, California February is here and so is…
by Ric Garrido
The morning of the promotion meltdown for $19.28 luxury hotel rooms with the Leading Hotels of the World on October 1, 2008 I spoke with Adam Burke, Hilton Hotels Senior Vice President, Customer Loyalty. First question to Adam Burke that morning was “Have you heard about the LHW promotion fiasco? The website was down and…
This is the week of the 2009 hotel loyalty programs’ promotion launches. Hilton got the jump with a Tuesday start, Starwood’s first quarter promotion launched yesterday, Hyatt will launch tomorrow and Priority Club goes into effect on Monday, Jan. 12. Marriott Rewards members must wait until February 1 for their promotional bonus. Loyalty Traveler has put…
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