The announcement of new higher reward tiers by IHG Priority Club yesterday got me thinking about an article I wrote 12 months ago for InsideFlyer called “Scaling Peaks of High Category Hotel Rewards“. Structural changes to the hotel reward night
Priority Club is spreading word through social media that reward nights will increase at 25% of IHG hotels globally on January 18, 2012 when new tiers are added across all IHG brands. This amounts to around 1,125 hotels increasing in reward
My hotel stay mistakes are relatively infrequent in recent years. The dumbest mistake I ever made was on our 1989 honeymoon in London and thinking a hotel mini-bar was free. Somehow free booze on the Pan Am flight translated in my jet-lagged head to free
The current batch of Point Stretcher dates shows no hotel rewards past December 2011. Hilton HHonors has a history of waiting until all the calendar dates have passed before posting new Point Stretcher dates. Last July Hilton HHonors even sent
Hyatt Stay Certificates and Weekend Certificates are potentially a huge rate savings at some hotels. These fixed-cost certificates cover room and tax. No elite qualification or points credit are earned on certificate stays. A property like my local Hyatt Carmel Highlands is
La Quinta Inns and Suites are a large midscale brand with over 800 hotels in the United States, Canada and Mexico. La Quinta Inns operates its own independent hotel loyalty program. In April 2011 I profiled La Quinta Returns on
Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kelly Slater 11-time world champ surfer and Mark Harmon with the actor crew cast of NCIS were unexpected encounters at the Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel in Dana Point, Orange County, southern California. I didn’t see these celebrities
HELP SHEET #13 – Hotel Elite and Loyalty Promotions. The major offers from each hotel loyalty program are listed first. The number of asterisks from 1-5 indicates my rating for this offer with 4 or 5 being the best value
Most major hotel loyalty programs sell hotel points to frequent guest members. Occasionally you will find hotels where it is simply cheaper to buy the points and redeem a points reward for a hotel stay than pay the published rate.
Priority Club posted new lists of PointBreaks hotels for reward nights at only 5,000 points available for stays to January 31, 2012. These are some of the highest reward night values available to members with the cost of 5,000 points
