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SmarterTravel Picks IHG Priority Club as 2010 Best Hotel Loyalty Program

Priority Club has its attributes, but choosing a best program of the year based on a hypothetical “average traveler” who spends ten nights with five stays a year in hotels? I question the whole premise that an average traveler with

Loyalty Traveler Current Hotel Loyalty Promotions Summary – May 19, 2010

I missed the past three weeks of loyalty promotions weekly updates due to the death in my family and bouncing up and down the west coast since April 28. My life is settling back into a predictable pattern and here

Earning Points for multiple rooms on a single hotel stay

Most hotel loyalty programs clearly state a member will only receive elite qualifying credit for one hotel room per hotel stay. An interesting question on FlyerTalk asked: Is it possible to book two different Hyatt Hotels for the same day and

Weekly Hotel Promotions Summary April 22, 2010

The frequent guest has the choice of many hotel loyalty promotions with little guidance to their relative value. Loyalty Traveler’s summary of current hotel loyalty promotions and limited time offers for the frequent guest are shown below. April 22, Loyalty

Loyalty Traveler HELP Sheet #1 – Hotel Elite and Loyalty Promotions (4-14-10)

After updating the Loyalty Traveler Current Hotel Promotions page yesterday, I realized I hadn’t even discussed some of the major promotions ending this month since writing a summary of Q1 2010 hotel promotions back in December. I have put together a

Steering to Starwood Hotels on Kayak.com without a Paddle

April 9, 2010 Article update:The Kayak.com hotel search feature I lament over in this piece has been returned. It turns out I was not the only user using the feature of hotel chain filtering when searching hotel rates on Kayak.com.

Hotel Points-to-Miles Conversion tables for 9 hotel programs and 7 U.S. airlines

[July 1, 2010 update: Marriott Rewards and American Airlines AAdvantage ended their relationship as of June 30, 2010. Marriott Rewards members can no longer earn AAdvantage miles through the program.] After giving the points-to-miles exchange some more thought since my

Hotel Points-to-Miles Exchange Rates for AA, AS, CO, DL, UA, US, WN

Update 3-30-10: These tables have some useful comparative qualities, but I simplified the tables in this subsequent post to make them more useful. Rather than showing points-to-miles exchanges by airline as shown here, this post from March 30 shows the

Inside the vault of goldpoints plus

There was a reason I had to ambush Heather Passe in the conference hall. At lunch time the day before, the media conference for press Q&A at the Carlson Hotels Global Summit in Orlando brought together top executives like Hubert

Major Hotel Chains in Market to Boost Hotel Brands

The message in the hotel industry is the time is right to buy hotel brands as the market is at a low. The dynamics of the hotel industry may not be relevant to most frequent guests, however, the availability of

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