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Choice Hotels Award Rates Rise in Europe for next six months

One of the best values in hotel loyalty programs this season was a blanket of hotels across Europe available for 8,000 points per night through Choice Privileges award stays from September 16 – November 30, 2013. There are dozens of

Kimpton Hotels COOLR 30% off rate + Bottle of Wine

Kimpton Hotels has a COOLR rate offer available for booking through November 22 for stays through January 31, 2014 at 30% off the Daily Rate and includes a bottle of wine. This offer is available for any day of the

Smart travelers game IHG and IHG seeks smart travelers

Two weeks ago in Las Vegas I interviewed Don Berg, Vice President InterContinental Hotels Group Loyalty Programs at the 2013 IHG Americas Investors & Leadership Conference. Generally I do not like interviews with senior executives of hotel companies since I

Hyatt vs. SPG Hotel Award Spend Analysis

Tables in this post reveal a significant impact of being a cardmember of the hotel brand credit card for increasing the earn rate of points on hotel stays with Hyatt and Starwood Hotels. This post follows up the Hyatt-SPG Hotel

Hyatt vs. SPG Hotel Award Category Distribution

This post looks at the distribution of hotels in Hotel Award Categories for Starwood brand hotels in Starwood Preferred Guest and Hyatt brand Hotels in Hyatt Gold Passport. This is a reality check by showing the distribution of hotels in Hyatt

New Loyalty Traveler Hotel Pages

This weekend I started adding pages to Loyalty Traveler on the major hotel loyalty programs. My idea started out as simply having one promotion page and one page describing the hotel chain brands for each hotel loyalty program. Then, I

Hyatt Gold Passport 2014 Award Chart Changes adds category 7 and raises points cost

Hyatt Gold Passport announces a major program change over a three-day holiday weekend in the USA. Of course, hotels never sleep or take vacation days off. Effective January 7, 2014 a new award chart goes into place adding Category 7

Driving Death Valley National Park on Halloween

“Bring your compass because it’s weird to have to eat your friends – Death Valley National Park” is my new t-shirt with an image of a compass rose and a silhouette of four hikers with sticks walking up a rocky

Rad Hotel Game Sweepstakes

Radisson Hotels has a Rad Hotel Facebook sweepstakes where three Grand Prize winners will receive one free night certificate valid for a Radisson hotel in North America. Limited to USA residents, D.C, Puerto Rico and Canada excluding Quebec. Entry period

USA PointBreaks Nov 1-Jan 31, 2014 full list of hotels for 5,000 IHG points per night

The complete list of IHG Rewards Club PointBreaks hotels are out and bookable today. These are hotels offering reward nights at 5,000 points per night from November 1 through January 31, 2014. This is a great deal since buying IHG