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This article looks at potential for some hotel deal savings with Marriott and SPG low category hotel rewards. SPG has a 35% discount on points purchased by Dec 29, 2017 reducing the price to $22.75 per 1,000 points. Discount kicks in when buying 5,000 or more points. Members can buy up to 30,000 points. Starpoints…
Sense Hotel Sofia, a member of Design Hotels, is a Starwood affiliated boutique hotel in Bulgaria’s capital city. The 9th floor Rooftop Bar offers terrific panoramic views. The hotel is located one block from Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Bulgaria’s largest Eastern Orthodox cathedral. Sense Hotel Sofia (SPG hotel website) is SPG category 3 at 7,000 Starpoints…
Feeling Grand Walking the Staircase I felt compelled to walk the stairs every step of the way to and from the lobby and my room simply for the wonderful feeling when gliding my hand along the wide Italian marble handrail along one hundred-plus marble stairs from my room at the top 5th floor of Sofia…
Amsterdam has 49 chain hotels in 9 major loyalty programs available for points. The hotels on my Google maps hotel rewards map are either in Amsterdam city or Amsterdam Schiphol Airport hotels. After creating several of these hotel rewards maps in the past week, one of the most time-consuming tasks is determining the reward rate…
Starwood Preferred Guest offers 35% off points purchases when you buy 5,000 to 30,000 points for a rate drop from $35 to $22.75 per 1,000 points. This offer ends 11:59pm June 30, 2017. SPG rules allow a member to purchase 30,000 Starpoints in a calendar year. Why It Matters SPG regularly posts limited time offers…
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,…
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…
I bet 2016 would be an industry record if data were analyzed for amount of weeks hotel points were on sale at discount rates. Hilton HHonors, IHG Rewards Club, Starwood Preferred Guest and Choice Privileges all have points purchase discount promotions running today. I link to those offers in this post and discuss features of…
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…
Deal is Dead before it began. Here is Wyndham Rewards’ explanation. Today’s Wyndham Rewards trade up was offered in the spirit of generosity. Before the offer even began, there were obvious and significant examples of fraud. Much to our dismay and disappointment, we have to cancel this promotion. We will, however, make a donation of…
