The Nines, Starwood Luxury Collection, Portland, Oregon The Nines in Portland, Oregon is a recent addition to Starwood’s Luxury Collection brand. Staircase between The Nines 8th Floor lobby and 6th Floor conference rooms The Luxury Collection brand of Starwood Hotels is a
I started out writing today wanting to argue a point about hotel loyalty program comparisons. Quite often a hotel program comparison will state how much spending is needed to earn a free night. Frequently, a table will show how much spending is
LHW 1928 RIP The Good News: Some people got the $19.28 rate for a luxury hotel during the revamped 1928 promotion last Thursday. The Bad News: I wasn’t among the lucky. Although Lucky, BoardingArea.com blogger of “One Mile at a
Marriott Rewards Analysis of January 15, 2009 Program Changes The news of the 2009 Marriott Rewards changes yesterday has been dissected and lamented over a 130-post thread on FlyerTalk in the past 36 hours as I write this piece. Interestingly,
Starwood has a 25% discount promotional rate called “Better Tomorrows” for stays of at least 2 nights. The promotion is actually Pay 1 night, Get 2nd at 50% off. Best savings are for stays of even-number nights 2, 4, 6,
Deeper Insights into USA Today’s 10-6-08 Hotel Loyalty Program Comparisons Highlands Inn, Hyatt Category 5 Hotel. $170 in real Loyalty Traveler hotel spending for a free night worth 18,000 points is a lot less than $3,600 in USA Today’s
Hotel Points Exchange Analysis – Starwood Preferred Guest One of the benefits of SPG membership is the ability to transfer SPG hotel points, Starpoints, into a variety of airline frequent flier miles. The ability to transfer Starpoints into airline miles
Marriott Rewards Advantage is Free Nights Redemption Chart Marriott Rewards competitive advantage over Hilton HHonors, Hyatt Gold Passport, IHG Priority Club, and Starwood Preferred Guest is their “Free Nights Redemption Chart” which offers a progressively increasing per night discount for
Hilton Rome Cavalieri Rebranded as Waldorf=Astoria Waldorf=Astoria Collection, The Cavalieri, Rome, Italy (photo courtesy of Hilton) The Rome Cavalieri has been the premier European hotel property of Hilton International for years. This hotel was one of the few HHonors Category
I could have really benefitted from this FlyerTalk list by SanDiego1K of the Best Hilton Hotels in Europe back when I had one million HHonors points. In 2002 six-nights at any Hilton-family hotel up to Category 5 level was only 100,000 points and
