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
Sometimes the best strategy for your wallet is to forget the points and save money. Hyatt Stay and Weekend Certificates are a prepaid option to remember when the rate at the Hyatt Hotel is quite high for your dates. This
Some people need a major hotel chain some of the time. Other people desire a major hotel chain most of the time. There are 7 “hotelmart” chains. [I just thought of that term and I like it. Could I coin
Five minutes of your time can save 50% on a Fairmont Hotel stay. If you are thinking, “Yeah, I would like to save 50% on my hotel stay!” then follow my advice. Sign up for Fairmont President’s Club today (membership
My idea of a Loyalty Traveler Walk for Hope team for San Francisco this past weekend was too much to tackle in the last month of Kelley’s cancer treatment. I sincerely apologize to the persons who responded favorably to the idea.
Thousands of Hyatt Gold Passport members are half-way to a free night after checking out of a Hyatt Hotel today, October 1, 2009. Hyatt Gold Passport’s “The Next Big Thing” promotion is huge this year with Faster Free Nights, Stays
If you think being underwater $100,000 on your home mortgage is bad, imagine trying to sleep at night thinking about how your $400 million hotel investment has lost $100 million in value with the real estate crisis of the past
A couple of articles I read this month by Henry Harteveldt and Glenn Haussman discuss hotel website usability. I’d love to read Harteveldt’s Forrester research report, “Using Digital Channels to Calm the Angry Traveler” but the $500 price tag is
Take this Hawaii Dollar and break it in the sand. Just step on it and let it snap like a beautiful sand dollar shell cracking under the feet of unobservant tourists. Crumble Hilton HHonors Hawaii Dollars into tiny grains since
A recently published hotel guest survey by J.D. Power and Associates states hotel guest satisfaction is up over the past year. Embassy Suites came out on top of the guest satisfaction survey for the upscale hotel market segment for the
