I was developing a piece on Best Western’s Free Night summer promotion and today I came across Tim Winship’s piece on SmarterTravel.com. I hadn’t considered the airline miles earning angle in my Best Western promotion analysis. Ironically, the central topic
How small is too small for a comfortable hotel room? I have stayed in hundreds of hotel rooms. I have lived in hotel rooms at around 2,000 square feet of multi-room living space. I have had hotel rooms where I
Rate Search History May 2009: The Westin Tabor Center is the showpiece of Starwood’s Denver hotels. Rates were highly variable for this hotel. Weekday rates were $289 for most of the month of May. Even weekend rates for Friday
Stayed 5-28-09 Link to Sheraton Denver West hotel homepage: http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/search/hotel_detail.html?propertyID=883 Sheraton Denver West is across the city and a world apart from Sheraton Denver Tech Center. This hotel offered great value. From the time I started looking at Denver hotel rates
Stayed Wed 5-27 and Sat 5-30 Rate Search History: The hotel was priced at $74 for weeknights and $59 on Friday and Saturday when I first started my searchs at the end of April 2009. On May 5 the
Marriott Rewards has a free night offer after three stays. The free night is limited to the lowest Category 1 to Category 4 hotels for redemption. This restriction greatly limits the usefulness of the certificate in the 8 hotel redemption
SPG Promotion Progress: Paid $685 and received estimated $2,760-$3,960 in hotel and airline travel value. Kelley observed the hallways at the century old Westin St. Francis and The Palace Hotel in San Francisco have wide hallways on the room floors.
Marriott Vacation Club Awards will change July 16, 2009 to be a category based award level corresponding to hotel categories used for other Marriott Rewards hotels. Points required for a Marriott Vacation Club Award will also change and as with
The room can make all the difference in a hotel. Sitting at 350 vertical feet above the street with a view of San Francisco is a higher stratosphere. There is about 150 square feet of glass in four large floor-
Marriott Hotels has a fast-track elite status offer for qualifying paid hotel nights from May 11 through June 26, 2009. This is a short window of 47 nights when your nights will count double towards 2009 elite qualification. Registration is
