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Our first summer 2018 trip 15-hotel-nights itinerary across Europe started in Copenhagen with two nights at Nordic Choice Hotels, then six nights in Lithuania at Radisson Rewards hotels in Kaunas and the Baltic Sea port town of Klaipeda, followed by three nights in the Baltic coast beach resort of Sopot, Poland at Marriott and Sheraton…
Africa makes Marriott and Starwood news with two recent developments. Sheraton Bamako Hotel opens in Mali at SPG category 5 reward nights. Bamako is the capital city of Mali on the Niger River and largest population center with 1.8 million residents. Mali is also where you find the ancient city of Timbuktu. I wanted to…
Starwood Preferred Guest-SPG has what could possibly be its final sale of Starpoints at 35% off through May 31, 2018. This limited time offer reduces the price of points from $35 per 1,000 to $22.75 per 1,000 points when you buy 5,000 or more points. Starpoints can be purchased in increments of 500 points, up…
Marriott Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest have been my least used major hotel loyalty programs over the past five years. My stays at Marriott hotel brands are generally limited to times when they have a MegaBonus free night offer after 2 stays. SPG is a program I held Platinum elite status in for 9 years…
Starwood Hotel stays earn 250 bonus points per night, starting with your 3rd night during the promotion period for stays April 16 – July 20, 2018. Members may earn a maximum 12,000 bonus points during the promotion if you were to stay 50 nights. Promotion registration required by June 30, 2018 at https://spgpromos.com/morenights. Members will…
In early February 2018 SPG published a list with 131 hotels scheduled to drop in reward category on March 6, 2018. There were 54 hotels in North America and 77 hotels in other global regions. Turns out 5 international hotels did not change category and one Luxury Collection hotel appears to have left Starwood Hotels.…
Starwood Preferred Guest is running a Twitter sweepstakes for tickets to NCAA March Madness regional tournaments. This promotion enters its third phase Thursday, March 15 for entries to win tickets to NCAA regional games in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Boston and Omaha happening March 22-25. Promotion entries are limited to US and Canada residents, excluding Quebec.…
This post includes the main February 2018 hotel loyalty promotions from 10 major programs. There are buy points offers with Hilton, Hyatt, IHG and SPG. Choice and Club Carlson are two programs without a current major points promotion. Le Club Accorhotels: Accor Hotels 6,000 bonus points for 3 stays by Sep 2, 2018 (must book…
Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) announces 276 hotels change reward category on March 6, 2018. There are 145 Starwood hotels increasing hotel reward category and 131 hotels decreasing in reward category. I reorganized the SPG list to group hotels by five regions, low to high category changes and separated hotels going up from hotels going down.…
Ten major hotel chains with loyalty programs currently number 134 different hotel brands for earning and redeeming points. Over 25% of these brands became part of their respective hotel loyalty program within the past six years. I have followed these loyalty programs for more than a decade and some of the hotel brands listed in…
