Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
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In the final weeks of 2019 there seems to be an unprecedented opportunity to buy hotel loyalty points at discount rates. Many of these deals match the lowest price for buying points seen all year. Hotel points have provided me thousands of dollars in hotel rate discounts in 2019 over 65 hotel nights in 8…
This is a follow-up to my article Why I value hotel points at lowest rate I can buy points (June 17, 2019). In my previous piece I shared links to the lowest prices I have seen hotel points in 8 different chain loyalty programs sold for during the past year. This article shows the practical…
Radisson Rewards announced March 1, 2019 changes to hotel reward category for 140 hotels worldwide (hotel list). At 83 hotels moving up to a higher points cost and 57 moving down to a lower points cost, the net effect on the surface does not look bad. About 60% up and 40% down overall. But I…
A $250 per night Best Western hotel in Anaheim would not have been my first choice for a hotel stay when visiting Disneyland, but 10,000 points for a reward night at a hotel across the street from the Disneyland park entrance provided a persuasive change of attitude toward a motel style hotel. We stayed three…
World of Hyatt changed their Points + Cash reward rates on November 1, 2018 from a fixed copay linked to the hotel reward category 1-7 to a copay amount equivalent to 50% of standard flexible rate at time of booking for the stay dates. In general, this change devalues Points + Cash reward nights with…
One of the best known events in Monterey, California is the annual Monterey Jazz Festival and the weekend of September 21-23 is the 61st annual jazz fest. This post compares hotel reward rates as an alternative to the high priced room rates prevalent that weekend. The results will likely surprise you. My reward rate analysis…
While 1,083 Marriott brand hotels increased in points cost for reward nights on March 6, 2018, there were also 45 hotels that dropped from category 6 to category 5 making them newly eligible for free reward night certificate redemptions. Category 6 reward nights at 30,000 points dropping to category 5 at 25,000 points is a…
Club Carlson is raising reward rates at 55 hotels on March 1, 2018. That is not an alarming number of hotels in a portfolio of 1,500+ hotels worldwide. What blows my mind is 11 of these 55 hotels are places I have stayed in the past three years or plan to be in 2018. Loyalty…
As a first time visitor to Key West due solely to the opportunity to book Best Western hotel reward nights at 10,000 points Nov 1, 2017-Jan 31, 2018, my choice for which of the two Best Western hotels on Key West was based on TripAdvisor reviews. Best Western Hibiscus Motel Key West was the right…
This piece is a general overview of how I used hotel loyalty programs in 2017 to stay 86 nights across 9 major hotel chains paying less than $4,000, while pretty evenly balancing earn and burn for 31 paid nights and 55 reward nights. Only 7 hotel nights of my 86 major chain hotel nights were…
