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In 2018, I booked 85 hotel nights across 10 hotel loyalty programs with only 2 non-chain nights. I regularly read leisure traveler arguments for hotels.com being a better rebate value at 10% of your average spend than hotel loyalty programs. Hotel loyalty programs bring my nightly room rate down to about $50 per night over…
Nearly brain dead after traveling 24 hours straight from Stockholm to Monterey with only five hours sleep in my own bed, I turned on the TV to watch a show, The Nazi Jewel Heist on the American Heroes Channel. Schloss Frederichshof was built in 1889-1893 near the town of Kronberg, north of Frankfurt, by dowager…
World of Hyatt More Points is a promotion running February 15 to May 15 for 1,000 bonus points per night at a Hyatt brand hotel worldwide, MGM Resorts M-life property or Small Luxury Hotels of the World partner hotel with Hyatt – beginning with your second stay. Members receive an additional 500 bonus points per…
World of Hyatt announced hotel award category changes for 259 hotels worldwide effective March 18, 2019 at 11:01pm CST. Overall the changes are even-handed with 130 hotels go up one category and 129 hotels go down one category. For years I have railed about hotel loyalty programs depopulating their lowest award categories rather than redistributing…
On the first Saturday of January we landed in Fort Lauderdale when our British Airways flight arrived 45 minutes late to FLL from London Gatwick. We missed our American Airlines flight connection by 20 minutes by the time we reached that terminal. We walked up to the American Airlines ticket counter after missing our flight…
Nine major hotel chains with loyalty programs currently number 152 different hotel brands for earning and redeeming points. Most of the major chains had at least one new hotel brand become part of their respective hotel loyalty program within the past year. Smith Travel Research provides a hotel industry standard market segment ranking for most…
World of Hyatt members can buy points with 30% bonus points through February 22, 2019 when buying 5,000 or more points. This reduces the purchase price from $24.00 per 1,000 points to $18.46 per 1,000 points. Members can buy up to 55,000 bonus points in a calendar year and bonus points do not count toward…
‘Next time book KLM nonstop Amsterdam to SFO’ is Kelley’s request. Our trip shutdown clock was two days more than planned after completing 13 wonderful days of travel from San Jose to London to Windsor to Amsterdam, then back to London for our British Airways flight to Fort Lauderdale and onward flights home to California.…
There are three World of Hyatt promotions for bonus points and miles you can use for December 2018 stays, but you had to register for two of them by November 30. That is kind of a drag for an offer like 1,000 AA bonus miles per stay when the registration date ended less than half-way…
The initial list of Small Luxury Hotels of the World properties in the World of Hyatt partnership launching December 6, 2018 includes only 54 hotels in 12 countries. See my previous article for stay and redemption benefits World of Hyatt members receive at participating SLH hotels. This article looks at 11 SLH hotels in United…
