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Airline frequent flyer programs were much simpler for me to understand than hotel loyalty programs when I started collecting miles and points over 20 years ago. The problem with figuring hotel loyalty programs for a leisure traveler is the lack of experience when you have no necessity to spend 50 to 100 nights a year…
IHG Free Nights Faster January 15-April 30, 2019 is a promotion requiring completion of member targeted tasks for bonus points. My offer consisted of 6 tasks for 52,550 bonus points. I needed to complete 5 of 6 tasks for an Achievement Bonus of 16,850 bonus points. Three hotel stays in Warsaw last week completed 5…
InterContinental Warsaw was stay #2 of 3 stays I planned for IHG Rewards Club ‘Free Nights Faster’ promotion to maximize bonus points earned with hotel stays in Warsaw, Poland over the past week. When rates dropped to $99.73 for advance purchase on February 6, I figured that was a great day to book IC Warsaw,…
Warsaw is the city where I am on track to pick up 3 hotel stays with 3 hotel nights for $300 to earn 43,000+ points. My first of three stays was Holiday Inn Warsaw City Centre. This stay completed two of my bonus points tasks for IHG Free Nights Faster (Jan 15-April 30) earning 2,000 bonus…
IHG Rewards Club PointBreaks list of hotels has posted for discount reward nights on stays through May 31, 2019. This is a slim list at 95 hotels worldwide, which debunks the rationale originally offered for adding hotels at 10,000 and 15,000 points that saw 200+ hotels offering discounts on PointBreaks lists a year ago when…
As a leisure traveler the interesting research for me is figuring out how to use hotel loyalty program promotions to maximize the rebates I receive for my hotel spend. Currently there are three good value promotions for March-April 2019 hotel stays with Best Western Rewards free night after two stays, Choice Privileges 8,000 points after…
Nine major hotel chains with loyalty programs currently number 152 different hotel brands for earning and redeeming points. Most of the major chains had at least one new hotel brand become part of their respective hotel loyalty program within the past year. Smith Travel Research provides a hotel industry standard market segment ranking for most…
February 2019 is a pivotal time with Marriott Rewards changing to Marriott Bonvoy on the February 13. That means new category 8 reward category will kick in soon with hotel redemption rate rising from 60,000 points to 85,000 points per reward night on March 5, 2019. We should see the impact of peak and off-peak…
IHG Rewards Club ‘Free Nights. Faster.’ promotion runs January 15-April 30, 2019 with targeted tasks for different members. One of my tasks is book two stays as ‘IHG Rewards Club Bonus Points Packages’ to earn 6,600 bonus points. This article is a deep dive analysis into the cost of IHG Bonus Points Packages for hotels…
IHG Rewards Club has a new buy points bonus promotion for purchases made January 24 through February 28, 2019. Buy 5,000 to 19,000 points and receive 50% bonus points. Buy 20,000 to 100,000 points and receive 75% bonus points. IHG Rewards Club has three different price points: 1,000 – 10,000 points = $13.50 per 1,000…
