It seems bloggers all over are calculating the value of hotel points and airline miles with regard to Haiti donations – P.Ling in Uptake Blog, Gary Leff in View from the Wing, and Nicholas Kralev in the Washington Times. I
Octopus Travel and InterContinental Hotels Group are auctioning 2-night stays in Presidential Suites (or comparable rooms) at 35 InterContinental Hotels around the world as a charity fundraiser for the Prince’s Trust, a UK charity to assist young adults 14 to
The category shift in HHonors last Friday is a difficult systemwide, global change to analyze. I decided to restrict my initial observations to my local area of the San Francisco Bay region as a way to take a manageable approach
Hyatt Gold Passport offers 2,500 airline bonus miles for American Airlines, Air Canada Aeroplan, and Alaska Airlines with hotel stays of two or more consecutive nights worldwide from January 15 through April 30, 2010. Gold Passport members choosing miles instead
Marriott Rewards has extended its 2009 elite rollover nights offer for the current year. This means nights earned in 2010 above your elite qualification threshold will rollover to 2011. The total points threshold for Marriott Rewards lifetime elite status has
Choice Privileges has made a significant change to its hotel loyalty program for 2010 with the inclusion of reward nights as elite qualifying nights for membership status. Hilton HHonors has counted reward nights for elite membership qualification for years and
Howdy. We arrived with the snow on the busiest travel day of the year at DIA, Wednesday, December 23. Denver International Airport is called DIA around here, also known as DEN for flyers booking airline tickets. Our flight was relatively
Starwood Preferred Guest sent out a “Happy Holidays from SPG” email Friday, December 18. I received a copy. The email reflects on the past 12 months with the $6 billion dollar Sheraton makeover, opening of W Hotels in Barcelona, Spain
Barbara DeLollis published a sneak peek of HHonors 2010 category placement for a selection of Hilton Hotels properties going up, staying the same, and going down. My initial reading of her article left me confused. The numbers did not make
A reader’s comment the other day asked if I would give a simple points value for the different hotel chains. I quickly made an educated assessment off the top of my head. Hilton $6-9/1,000 points Hyatt $15-$20/1,000 points IHG
