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by Ric Garrido
The former Conrad Chicago will reopen as The Gwen, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Chicago on September 1, 2015. The hotel is SPG category 5 at 12,000 points for a standard reward night and 16,000 points in peak season. There are 300 rooms in a location just off the Magnificent Mile downtown Chicago retail and commercial…
by Ric Garrido
Big news announcement in hotel branding as Hilton signs Chicago LondonHouse Hotel to Curio Collection. There is good reason you likely never heard of LondonHouse Hotel. The hotel will not open for another year in spring 2016. The big deal is its location on the Chicago River in the historic London Guarantee Building designed and…
by Ric Garrido
SPG Hot Escapes offers cold Canada deals this week with 12 hotels in the frozen north, all under $100 per night. From Four Points YVR Vancouver Airport ($76) and Four Points Kamloops ($67) in the western province of BC to Four Points Halifax ($67), Nova Scotia, you can find a hotel room for under $100.…
by Ric Garrido
There are 14 Marriott brand hotels in the Chicago area with two hotels in Chicago offering 2,500 points per night and $25 food and beverage credit Thursday through Sunday from June 11 to August 31. This promotion requires rate code M11. Big Bonus Weekends include these freebies: – Free high speed internet access – At…
Hotel Chicago Downtown is a recent February 2014 addition to Marriott’s Autograph Collection brand. I previously visited the hotel in 2010 when it was Hotel Sax and a Thompson boutique hotel. The location next to House of Blues and near the north bank of the Chicago River is a central downtown location.
by Ric Garrido
On February 12, I set a travel savings task for myself with Challenge tutorial: 7 nights in Chicago for $700 during IPW convention with the objective to find seven nights in downtown Chicago for $700 during a convention with 7,000 attendees. Chicago plans changed within a couple of days of writing my post as I accepted…
Today I took my first look for good hotel rates in Chicago when the big IPW travel trade show of the U.S. Travel Association is in town in early April. 2014 seems to be my agricultural and rust belt tours with Detroit in January, Minneapolis in February and Chicago in April. Hotels love the high…
Marriott Rewards is offering an additional 2,500 bonus points for 2-night weekend stays, Thursday to Sunday, from January 1 – March 30, 2014. This offer is for downtown Chicago Marriott brand hotels. Requires special rate code: MRP. JW Marriott Chicago Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile Residence Inn Chicago Downtown/Magnificent Mile Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel Courtyard…
One of the common misconceptions among leisure travelers is hotel rates are high during Thanksgiving and Christmas weeks when so many families take to the road. In my experience, these are two of the best weeks of the year for finding deep hotel rate discounts. There are few business travelers during these holiday weeks and…
by Ric Garrido
New York has 106,000 hotel rooms open and currently ranks 5th place among U.S. cities for number of hotel rooms, according to the hotel industry data company Smith Travel Research. Las Vegas is the hotel room leader of the USA with 169,100 hotel rooms and Orlando is the other top destination in vacationland with 119,800…
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