Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Category Archives for hotel loyalty programs.
In 2016, I stayed 94 nights in hotels. I paid $5,510 for 93 of those hotel nights on six trips to Europe with 61 hotel nights and one trip to New Zealand with 7 hotel nights. The remaining 26 hotel nights were in USA hotels for travel to Las Vegas, southern California and New Orleans. London…
The Shrinking Value of Hotel Loyalty Programs is an article examining changes to Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Marriott and SPG by Vikram Singh, global hospitality and travel strategist. The central argument he makes is most travelers are more focused on hotel location than hotel loyalty points, complimentary upgrades due to status and loyalty amenities. My sentiments…
If you had told me 5 years ago Wyndham Rewards and Choice Privileges hotel loyalty programs would be considered U.S. News & World Report top hotel rewards programs for consumers in 2016, I might have laughed in your face and given you many reasons why these programs suck. Ask me today? I have to say…
This weekend I made most of my hotel reservations for 2 weeks in Slovakia and Austria next month. Similar to Krakow, Poland, where I traveled last month, Slovakia has a mix of high and low hotel room rates and hotel reward rates using points. Some hotels are low room rates with high reward night rates,…
This is a follow-up to my discovery last week that someone redeemed over 200,000 points from three of my hotel loyalty program accounts in Club Carlson, Choice Privileges and IHG Rewards Club for New York hotel reward stays over a five day period. These were fraudulent hotel reward stays I discovered had happened as I…
My stay last week at Best Western Leidse Square Amsterdam had me thinking generally: What is the whole point of a hotel loyalty program? Points for booking free and reduced rate room nights are a big part of it, but the significance of earning points as a motivator for choosing hotels based on brand assumes…
Loyalty Traveler December 2015 Hotel Promotions Guide One big hotel industry story this past month is Marriott International is buying Starwood Hotels. Rumors in 2015 had Wyndham, IHG or Hyatt buying Starwood. Other Marriott Rewards changes make reward nights elite qualifying and Marriott Rewards will introduce Cash + Points rewards in early 2016. Loyalty Traveler…
When I googled ‘price of beer prague’, one of the main websites listed is www.priceoftravel.com. The page gives Prague a backpacker index $43.08. The beer portion of that is $4.00 to $5.50 per day. Sounds good to me for my travels next month. www.priceoftravel.com – Prague Backpacker Index The backpacker index is the sum for…
Here is my big list of current hotel loyalty promotions for bonus points, free nights and rate discounts in the major hotel chains. There are also links to stories on some of the big program changes in 2015 for each hotel chain and loyalty program. This is a copy of the August 2015 Hotel Promotions…
Quality Inn Downtown Inner Harbour Victoria has a fantastic location in the capital city of British Columbia. At only three stories high, you won’t find a harbor view like you might have at the Marriott and soon-to-open DoubleTree around the corner in high rise buildings. The 70% savings on the price compared to those upper…
