Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Category Archives for 2009 Fall Promotions.
This holiday season has revealed some incredible rock bottom bargain rates for hotels. The city of Denver has special Mile High Holidays promotional rates for over 40 Denver area hotels starting at $52.80 per night. Link to Mile High Holidays hotel list. Participating hotels offer the low rates for the month of December and some…
December is the month for securing elite status. People in the know, those frequent guests and fliers making mattress runs and mileage runs this month, know that a few unnecessary hotel room nights or a few thousand miles of unnecessary airline flights are truly necessary. Some loyalty travelers are frantically booking travel solely for the…
by Ric Garrido
Earn 10,000 points using Promo Code 10KSTAR2. Westin at Home store link. This promotion is being advertised on the SPG homepage. The value of 10,000 points, currently $280, is a little more than the $225 shipping charges. Good deal if you are in the market for a Westin bed. I think the periodic 20% discount…
by Ric Garrido
Choice Hotels has launched their winter promotion for triple points or miles beginning with your second stay for stays with arrival date from December 10, 2009 to February 28, 2010. The promotion gives members 30 points per US$1 on hotel room rate spending. My analysis shows there is good value in using this promotion to…
Last week I was driving around downtown San Francisco. My wife had one request for me to fulfill on my day away. The task was simply to stop by Saks Fifth Avenue on Union Square and buy some Chanel makeup. I dutifully set off on the task, taking the bus from outside the Marriott Hotel…
Costco is selling Hyatt Check Certificates. The price is $79.99 (no tax) for two US$50 Hyatt Check Certificates. I purchased some yesterday. Hyatt Check Certificate fine print The primary restriction with Hyatt Check Certificates is you can only redeem check certificates for payment in excess of the face value of the certificate. Hyatt Check Certificates…
Hyatt Gold Passport answered Loyalty Traveler’s call for helping Passports with Purpose build a school in Cambodia by generously donating 50,000 points as a raffle prize donation. All you need is a single $10 raffle ticket to enter at the Passports with Purpose Donation page for a chance to win 50,000 Hyatt Gold Passport points.…
InterContinental Hotels Group started a December Tweet Away promotion with Priority Club points giveaways and special hotel rate deals at http://twitter.com/ihg_deals. Each day in December at a random time during the workday an IHG_Deal tweet will direct the Priority Club member to retweet a phrase or answer a trivia question within a specified time frame…
Global Traveler has published their 6th annual reader travel survey based on the responses of 25,000 participants. Published in the December 2009 issue, the survey results cover 60 travel categories of airline, hotels, and loyalty programs. Here are some of the hotel category winners: Hyatt Hotels Park Hyatt brand ranked #1 for Best International Hotel…
Hyatt Gold Passport is sponsoring a 50,000 bonus points prize through Loyalty Traveler to help build a school in Cambodia via the Passports with Purpose fundraiser. The fundraising goal of $13,000 will provide money to an independent non-profit organization, American Assistance for Cambodia (AAfC), founded by American journalist Bernie Krisher. The Rural Schools Project is…
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