Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
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Hilton HHonors Category 2 hotels cost 10,000 points per night or 40,000 points for a 5-night stay for HHonors VIP elite. The cost of a category 2 hotel is 50% of the points required of a category 3 at 20,000 HHonors points per night or 80,000 points with 5th night free rewards. Hilton HHonors is…
This post shows tables I created for the hotel reward category distribution between Hilton HHonors and Marriott Rewards. The tables illustrate how hotel category reassignment plays into the overall value of hotel points when it comes time to redeem what you earned. Let’s face it. Hilton and Marriott dominate the American landscape for business travelers…
Hilton HHonors released its list of hotels changing reward category on April 30, 2012. There are 330 hotels going up one category level. There are 117 hotels moving down one category. HHonors has seven categories of hotels used to designate the hotel reward level for all Hilton brand hotels except Waldorf Astoria Hotels. Category 6…
I am developing a new interest for Choice Privileges. Why my interest in Choice Hotels? Yesterday I located a spreadsheet created by FlyerTalk member “SC Flier” in May 2010. The spreadsheet is one year old now and I am just happy to finally have seen it. SC Flier is a name I come across frequently…
Club Carlson Category 6 hotel rewards at 50,000 points per night includes 59 hotels, mostly in Europe and comprise the top level rewards. Some of these hotels cost as much as 135,000 points in 2009 when the standard reward rate for category 6 hotels was 90,000 points and before goldpoints plus had no blackouts for…
by Ric Garrido
There are 162 hotels in Club Carlson category 5 hotel rewards. This category is where the hotels in the USA dwindle to a handful and 9 of 10 hotels in category 5 in the USA increased in reward cost. The rest of the world, especially Europe, offer some of the finer hotels in the Carlson Hotels…
by Ric Garrido
There are 168 hotels in Club Carlson Category-2 hotel rewards list. Category-2 hotels were the largest segment of Carlson Hotels in Goldpoints Plus with 433 hotels or about 40% of 1,070 properties globally. One of the greatest shifts in Club Carlson hotel reward category assignment was the movement of hotels out of category 2 to…
Club Carlson replaced goldpoints plus on March 31, 2011 as the hotel loyalty program for Carlson Hotels which consists of Radisson, Park Plaza, Park Inn and Country Inns & Suites hotel brands. There was a significant shift in the hotel reward category assignments for U.S. properties. Most U.S. hotels were reassigned to a higher category and…
Starwood Preferred Guest annual hotel category adjustments go into effect March 1, 2011. There are 93 hotels moving down in reward night category level and 84 hotels moving up. You have until February 28 to book stays over the next year at the lower category rate for hotels moving up on March 1. This post…
by Ric Garrido
Logically, where does this lead hotel categorization in the future if hotels only go up in category? A fundamental question needs to be addressed whether all hotels can continually improve category status or whether the entire family of hotels is evaluated against each other to set up an allocation of hotels distributed within the categories…
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