Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Airfare from USA to Australia this week offered the lowest ticket prices in years at $580-$640 for round trip travel from major California airports to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Melbourne and Sydney are expensive hotel cities. Average room rate in Sydney is about $250 AUD or over $175 USD. With hotel occupancy in Sydney around…
IHG Rewards Club is running a promotion today for 5,000 points to the first 10,000 submissions of a selfie on Twitter or Instagram with required hashtags. Post a Tweet/Instagram post that includes a photo of himself/herself at home or at an IHG hotel with the hashtags “#HomeWithIHG”, “#RewardsOffer”, and “#ad” and the handle “@ihgrewardsclub” (“Submission”).…
This article is an introduction to some of the basics in using Choice Privileges points for reward nights. Choice Privileges represents over 6,000 hotels worldwide. I will follow up this article focused on good value hotels using Choice Privileges points for deals in the USA, Australia and Europe. Choice Privileges is my most used hotel…
Norwegian Airlines moves London Gatwick flights from Oakland to San Francisco SFO on Sunday, March 31 with a launch date low fare of $144.90 one way. This airport change excites me due to San Francisco SFO being a much easier commute for me driving from Monterey. I love Norwegian Airlines, but the biggest drawback for…
United Airlines has Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, Australia on sale at prices under $600 round trip from LAX and SFO for travel from next week into late 2019. Low fares are widely available every month through October 2019, except January and July. American Airlines and Oneworld have similar fares from San Jose SJC to Brisbane,…
Tuesday November 27 is the last day to buy Radisson Rewards points with 100% bonus points reducing the price to $3.50 per 1,000 points. Members can purchase up to 80,000 points for $280 with this offer. The promotional sales price ends at 11:59 Central Time, 9:59pm Pacific. This promotional rate offer matches the lowest rate…
IHG Rewards Club released its list of PointBreaks hotel reward night discounts for stays through February 28, 2019. Out of curiosity, I checked to see if some of the hotels in Europe are available for December 31 reward nights. Hotel Indigo Antwerp, Holiday Inn Helsinki-City Center and Holiday Inn Vilnius all have reward night availability…
IHG, InterContinental Hotels Group, has six bonus offers ending this week on Friday November 30: 25% off hotel rates worldwide for stays Nov 26-March 31, 2019, 15% off Points and Cash for stays through December 31, 2018, 10,000 bonus points for InterContinental Ambassador membership, 50% more points on IHG bonus points rates for stays through…
IHG Rewards Club released its latest list of PointsBreak hotels for stays through February 28, 2019. There are hotels priced at 5,000 points, 10,000 points and 15,000 points. IHG 15,000 Points Hotels United States ALABAMA Hotel Indigo Birmingham Five Points S – UAB COLORADO Holiday Inn Express Boulder FLORIDA Candlewood Suites Miami Airport – Doral…
Last week I drove over 800 miles from Monterey, California to Disneyland using three InterContinental Hotels Group hotels in three different brands to fulfill the one task I had to complete to earn 38,400 bonus points during the current IHG Double Points Plus More Sep 16-Dec 31, 2018 promotion. Candlewood Suites Santa Maria $72.80 base rate;…
