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by Ric Garrido
This is a personal thoughts piece on how I plan travel. My travel itineraries are planned several moves and months ahead, yet I am still tweaking my hotel stays in Europe two weeks from now. Club Carlson’s Free Fridays promotion motivated me to shift some hotel nights around to Carlson properties for our July travel…
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.…
Instead of booking an American Airlines $650 ticket yesterday to Portugal or Spain, I was writing up the deal for Loyalty Traveler blog, while at the same time planning my trip to fly into Spain or Portugal and fly back to California from Oslo, Norway on American Airlines in July. This was not a ten…
by Ric Garrido
For the past month there have been rumors floated around the financial press that InterContinental Hotels Group, Wyndham or Blackstone Group, the owner of Hilton and La Quinta will take over Starwood Hotels. Now there are stories that Starwood Hotels will buy IHG. Either way, the stories are coming fast and hard that Wall Street…
An article in Bloomberg news states Marriott plans to double its number of rooms in Europe by 2020. Moxy for budget travelers and Courtyard for business travelers are the plans for gaining on Marriott’s 1% market share of hotel guests for Europe. Marriott expects to grow from 74,000 rooms in 2015 to over 150,000 rooms…
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,…
The best hotel deal this past week was my stay at the historic Blackstone Hotel in Chicago. Typically, I think of 100-year-old hotels having miniscule rooms where your luggage may have to sleep on the bed with you. Not the case at The Blackstone, a Renaissance brand hotel, where the room I stayed was a…
Marriott is an official sponsor of World Cup 2014 Brazil. You can win a trip to World Cup 2014 Brazil courtesy of Marriott and Visa when you book a stay during April on Marriott.com for any Marriott brand hotel, stay and complete your stay during the month of April and pay with Visa. Earn one…
The big financial news of the day in hotels is the completion of Marriott International’s acquisition of 116 hotels in the Protea Hospitality Group for about USD $200 million. Marriott is now the largest hotel operator on the African continent. The Protea portfolio includes hotels in seven countries. South Africa = 79 hotels Another 37 hotels…
An interesting graphic I came across shows the number of hotels in the U.S. by the seven largest U.S. hotel chains. U.S. Hotels domestic supply among major U.S. Hotel Chains Hilton Worldwide: 3,382 hotels; 506,455 rooms. Marriott International: 3,110 hotels; 501,070 rooms. Wyndham Worldwide: 5,815 hotels; 451,755 rooms. Choice International: 5,081 hotels; 385,827 rooms. Starwood…
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