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Priority Club posted new lists of PointBreaks hotels for reward nights at only 5,000 points available for stays to January 31, 2012. These are some of the highest reward night values available to members with the cost of 5,000 points being equivalent to about $30 for a hotel night. InterContinental O’Hare Chicago is the only…
by Ric Garrido
The column I wrote for InsideFlyer October 2011 is Matching Hotel Promotions to Your Travel Style. The problem with writing an article about hotel loyalty promotions for a magazine are new offers typically come out between the due date for the article (Sep 8) and the time the article is published and online. My Loyalty Traveler column on…
Hyatt Gold Passport offers Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards members 1,800 points per Hyatt stay worldwide from October 1 to January 15, 2012. This is triple points compared to the normal earning rate of 600 Rapid Rewards points per stay. A maximum 10 hotel stays may earn triple Rapid Rewards points for 18,000 Rapid Rewards points. The…
InterContinental Hotels Group has offered one of the best discounts on hotel rooms in Europe for several years with 2 nights for the price of 1 rates at select hotels. These are prepaid, nonrefundable rates, and most of these rates will not earn Priority Club points, but at these room rate savings the risk can…
Drury Hotels has a double points offer for stays booked online at druryhotels.com by Drury Gold Key Club members. Registration is required for this offer. Bonus points will post in December 2011. Terms indicate this offer is for new reservations booked since September 20. Drury Gold Key regular rate for earning points is 10 points/$1.…
IHG Priority Club has another clever promotion to support the launch of its new Best Rate Guarantee policy. There is a five day Tweet-to-Win contest on Twitter giving away 50 free hotel rooms each day in the form of 40,000 Priority Club points per winner. Contest runs from Tuesday, September 20 through Saturday, September 24. This is a 10…
Priority Club’s “Up to 4x More” promotion started this week and runs from September 15 through December 31, 2011. The basic offer allows points earners to receive 500 bonus points per night and miles earners to receive 100 bonus miles per night for up to 40 nights during the 15 week promotion period. The maximum bonus is…
Jared Blank at Online Travel Review posted a Hyatt gift card giveaway on his blog today. All you need to do is leave a comment stating your favorite hotel on his Online Travel Review post for “Win a $200 Hyatt Gift Card” by 5pm Eastern time Friday, September 23. There are 35 comments at the time…
Priority Club PointBreaks are posted for hotel stays through November 30, 2011. InterContinental Dallas and InterContinental Malta are two hotels that stand out as particularly good redemption opportunities at 5,000 points per night. There are several Crowne Plaza Hotels for airport locations in California including SFO, LAX and SNA. Several other airports have Crowne Plaza hotels on…
Accor Hotels had a global press conference September 13, 2011 to announce a new strategic plan for rebranding a large portion of its economy and midscale segment hotels among the 4,200+ hotels in the French based chain. A new hotel loyalty program name with Le Club Accorhotels replaces A|Club. The major change in the Accor brands structure is the…
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