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Next month I am heading to Nice and Monaco on the French Riviera. In travel planning I generally seek to balance earning and burning points and align my hotel stays with best value promotions and low rates. During two weeks in Europe I plan to earn 17,000+ Wyndham Rewards points with two stays through the…
Gdansk charmed me to such a degree on my first visit in February 2017 that I went again with my wife in June. This city of 400,000+ is a Baltic seaport town and a strengthening tourism magnet for its Old Town environment. Old Town Gdansk is a densely touristed compact space filled with centuries old…
TopHotel.news has an article looking at the Top 10 hotel brands with new build hotels under construction in the USA. The top nine brands in the list are either a Marriott or Hilton owned hotel brand. Choice Hotels ranks at number 10 with Cambria Suites. 1. Aloft Hotels – Starwood (Marriott) = 44 hotels. 2.…
Hilton hit two milestones May 25, 2017. Tru by Hilton Oklahoma City Airport became the first property to open in the new midscale brand. This hotel also marks Hilton’s 5,000th hotel property worldwide. Tru by Hilton was announced in January 2016 at ALIS – Americas Lodging Investment Summit. In March 2016, the first property announced…
Hilton Honors has a purchase points offer for 80% bonus points when you buy 5,000 to 80,000 points by February 17 at $10 per 1,000 points. Turned out I needed 5,000 points this morning when I came up short for a reward night in Reykjavik, Iceland. $50 purchased 9,000 Hilton points. I only needed 5,000…
I violated my own rule and booked a nonrefundable room rate at DoubleTree Kosice, Slovakia when I believed I had found a slam dunk best rate guarantee claim. The deal is I booked a prepaid room rate at 63.20 EUR, the lowest rate shown on the Hilton webpage search for my dates. This same hotel…
Hilton HHonors extended its double points global promotion available since the beginning of 2016 for another four months. From May 1 to August 31, 2016 earn double points for hotel stays worldwide. Double points means double base points = 20 points $1. HHonors Points and Points earners receive 25 points per dollar, plus elite bonuses.…
Hilton Worldwide puts hotels in Europe, Middle East and Africa on 30% summer sale rates for bookings made May 19 to August 23 for weekend stays May 22 to September 27, 2015. These are prepaid, nonrefundable rates. Hilton HHonors members save an additional 5%. Summer Sale promotion terms. “Weekend” is defined in Europe as Friday,…
Yesterday I posted Live testing Hilton Best Rate Guarantee where I found an exact match room discount on Expedia.com for Hampton Inn Denver Downtown. I booked a $149 room rate on Hilton and then submitted a Best Rate Guarantee claim against a $124 rate on Expedia. Hilton’s response time was less than 8 hours to…
I have seven hotel nights planned for Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas in two weeks. Hotel rates are really expensive in the cities of Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina. I filed three best rate guarantee claims for Aloft Jacksonville Airport, Jacksonville Marriott and Hampton Inn Charleston/Mt. Pleasant-Patriots Point. Only the Jacksonville Marriott was approved,…
