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.…
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SPG 2x-3x points in Europe, Middle East and Africa

Starwood Preferred Guest Earn Your Dreams is a promotion for Double Points 2x, Triple Points 3x and 3,000 bonus points per stay for Starwood Hotels in Europe, Middle East and Africa. T&C for this promotion do not show promotion dates. My rate analysis shows this offer is a promotion with comparable rates available with AAA,…
SPG Take Three May 27-Sep 4 double-triple points for 2 night stays

News breaks today of the summer promotion for SPG members with triple points (6 points/$1) for Starwood Hotel stays of 2 nights or longer including a Friday or Saturday and double points (4 points/$1), if 2-night stay does not include a weekend night for stays May 27 to September 4, 2017. SPG promotion registration required…
USA centric SPG Hot Escapes
SPG Hot Escapes this week has 144 hotels worldwide with 115 in the USA. There are some dates with good discount deals at participating hotels over the next six weeks. You must book these prepaid, nonrefundable deals before midnight Saturday, April 1. Checking out 15 Europe hotels showed Sheraton Krakow, Poland at $76. That seemed…
Marriott PlacePass experiences, growth plans and legacy brands
You may soon be able to redeem Marriott points for 100,000 PlacePass destination travel experiences after Marriott’s recent investment in the Cambridge, Massachusetts travel business. That is a development to keep in mind for 2017. 2016 Hotels and Loyalty Members Marriott International ended 2016 with 30 hotel brands and 1,191,000 hotel rooms in 6,080 hotels…
Starwood Preferred Guest Double Take Jan 16–April 15, 2017

Starwood Preferred Guest Double Take for Double Starpoints on first three stays January 16-April 15, 2017 is a similar promotion to Marriott MegaBonus 2017. Good reason to call this offer Double Take. SPG Double Take promotion requires registration by March 15, 2017. Double Points means 4 points per dollar. Only stays at Starwood Hotels brands…
AA/DL/UA San Francisco to Rome $641, Sicily or Sardinia $651-$670
All three major alliances have Rome on sale in the $640s from January to May 10. There are a few secondary airports in the mid-to-upper $600s for destinations like Bari. Star Alliance also has Palermo, Sicily for $651. I come across few discount airfare deals for Sicily and Sardinia. Rome FCO American/oneworld $653 – $694…
Marriott and Starwood 2016 Room Rates and Hotel Brand Size

This post shares a couple of tables I created from Marriott and Starwood 2016 Q2 financial reports to show the size of each brand in Marriott and Starwood Hotels, along with average daily rates and hotel occupancy for the six months from January 1 to June 30, 2016. The number of hotels and distribution between North…
Top 11 Hotel Chains Worldwide – rise of the megabrands
When I write about hotels, nearly all my pieces cover only 10 hotel chains and 10 hotel loyalty programs, and that is only if still counting Marriott and Starwood as different chains. Within these ten hotel chains are more than 35,000 hotels worldwide. That is plenty of coverage for most of the places I travel…