Hotel Ivy Minneapolis opened in 2008 as a hotel and residential building in downtown Minneapolis. A unique feature of the hotel is its incorporation of a historic building into the modern main skyscraper structure. My photo (on left, if
Four years ago in 2010, I attended the Carlson Rezidor Hotels Group annual conference in Orlando, Florida. That was a significant year for the hotel chain consisting of Radisson and Radisson Blu, Park Inn, Country Inn & Suites and Park
This post looks at 139 Starwood Hotels being reassigned to a lower hotel award category on March 4, 2014. Fewer points for a hotel night is a welcome change, but are these hotels in places you travel? Or places you
The problem with running a recurring promotion like Choice Privileges 8,000 points after two stays or Marriott MegaBonus is the flak that arises when the promotion is downgraded. Choice Privileges last promotion from 12/12 to 2/19 offered 3,000 bonus points
Wyndham Rewards is offering 5,000 bonus points per stay at 79 Wyndham and Wyndham Garden hotels in the USA and Canada from February 12 through May 14, 2014. There is no limit to the number of times this bonus may
Club Carlson is raising the hotel award category at 114 hotels globally and lowering the hotel award category for 67 hotels, effective March 15, 2014. Around 9% of the portfolio of 1,300 hotels or so in Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group,
The USA was the global hot spot for hotel rate increases and occupancy in 2013. The number of Starwood hotels rising in award category in the USA at 73 comprises about 1 in 8 hotels across the country. This post
Since 2010 I have attended the annual Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group Conference as a media representative. For me, the value of the hotel conference is getting insight to the hotel industry from an inside perspective as a blogger focused on
Hilton Minneapolis is one of the hotels I visited earlier this week. This post is a hotel review in pictures. The hotel is a large urban hotel with 821 rooms. There are 40 King Junior Suites and floors 24 and
Club Carlson announced changes today including a reduction in elite bonus points for Silver and Gold members, elimination of the online booking bonus as a standard feature and a new category 7 hotel award level at 70,000 points. On the
