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There are 137 hotels on this week’s list of SPG Hot Escapes with 41 hotels in the USA. I look at a hotel like Le Meridien Lav in Split, Croatia at $73 per night for the entire month of March and wish I could move there for a month to secure SPG lifetime Gold elite.…
This post has my list of USA 94 Starwood Hotels with SPG category increase March 10, 2015 ordered by State and City. Starwood released a table ordered by hotel brand. Our best bet this year is pay in the USA when low rates are offered and redeem points internationally where rates are high and reward…
Starwood Asia Pacific has 23 hotels rising in SPG reward night category effective March 10, 2015. 34 hotels drop in SPG category in the region. Here is my Loyalty Traveler table for SPG 2015 category changes Asia Pacific region Starwood Hotels. W Retreat Koh Samui rises to the vaulted level of category 7. Peak Season…
by Ric Garrido
Last week I checked out St. Regis Deer Valley while I was in Park City for the Sundance Film Festival. The location of St. Regis Deer Valley is less than two miles south of historic Main Street, Park City. Free bus service is frequent between the hotel and town. First impressions of the hotel were…
by Ric Garrido
Maintaining a heated outdoor pool in the middle of winter at a ski resort has to be an expensive luxury. Especially when few people use the swimming pool. Twenty years ago my wife and I lived in a house on the coast of Maine with an outdoor heated pool and the electricity bill for one…
by Ric Garrido
Starwood Hotels highlights growth in 2014 and anticipated growth for 2015 in a press release this week. There are some interesting data points. Starwood Hotels opened 74 hotels in 26 countries in 2014. Starwood Hotels signed 175 new management and franchise agreements in 2014. This is the most new deals since 2007. 2014 Milestones Starwood…
SPG Double Play January 5 to April 15, 2015 is a double weak promotion. First, you need to stay two nights or more to earn double points. Then, you also receive 1,000 bonus points for every five nights for stays of any length. 2-night stay earns 2 bonus points per dollar. Earn 1,000 bonus points every 5…
This post shares how I stayed more than 50 hotel nights in 2013 spending less than $100 per night on average for hotel rooms for hotels priced much higher than I paid in most cases. There was a surprising insight given to me by a hotel industry CEO a few years ago, “You can buy…
Bloomberg World Hotel Index from May 2014 found Miami ranked #5 in the world for priciest hotels with an average room rate at $245 per night, making Miami a more expensive hotel city than New York which ranked #10 at $233 per night hotel rate average. The methodology collected room rate data in early May…
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