Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
In September 2014, I spent 13 nights in Norway staying at 5 different Nordic Choice Hotels in Oslo, Larvik, and Bergen. I also made site visits to several other Nordic Choice Hotels in Oslo and Sandefjord. I had purchased 216,000 Choice Privileges points that year through Daily Getaways for about $900. The rooms I stayed…
Update 4-20-18, 1:40pm Pacific time: Offer is gone. Choice Privileges 55,000 points for $265 sets of points are back on U.S. Travel Association’s Daily Getaways today. You can buy up to 2 sets of points. The 55K Choice Privileges points are a recent change to the Daily Getaways “Last Chance Offers”, a link in the…
Seems like every major hotel loyalty program has discount points for sale this month. Radisson Rewards has a sale for 75% bonus points through Sunday April 22, 2018. This reduces the price from the regular $7 per 1,000 points to $4. Bonus points apply to any purchase amount from 1,000 points to the annual purchase…
Marriott Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest have been my least used major hotel loyalty programs over the past five years. My stays at Marriott hotel brands are generally limited to times when they have a MegaBonus free night offer after 2 stays. SPG is a program I held Platinum elite status in for 9 years…
Cathay Pacific has nonstop flights from LAX to Hong Kong for $468 and SFO to Hong Kong for $520 round trip. Departure dates are May, then mid-August to early December, then Jan-March 2019. This fare sale is widely available on many dates with all alliances through Delta, Air Canada/United and Cathay Pacific for ticket prices…
While this article comes a day after the Daily Getaways Wyndham Rewards points sale, I realized early yesterday morning the post would not be irrelevant if posted one day later. I saw very little chance of Wyndham Rewards points selling out before today. Wyndham Rewards points went on sale April 17 in Daily Getaways at $175 for 15,000…
U.S. Travel Association’s Daily Getaways is in its second week of five weeks of travel offers. Hilton Honors points are on sale today April 16 at 1pm eastern for $5 per 1,000 points in packages of 30,000 points; 100,000 points or 250,000 points. I read three different blogs this morning mentioning the value of 95,000…
Most enjoyable distraction of past few days between working on taxes was tackling the problem of how to get from Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia to Rome this summer. My objective was finding the best balance between low cost flights and best upscale hotel rooms at good reward rates. I redeemed hotel points from eight different hotel loyalty programs…
IHG Rewards Club released its next 2018 Q2 Accelerate promotion for stays May 1 – July 31. You can register now and see your own individual tasks. Lucky at One Mile at a Time and my offers are almost identical for 43,500 potential points, although my offer requires only 2 nights to earn 30,000 points…
IHG Rewards Club reduced the price of points to $10 per 1,000 when buying 26,000 to 60,000 points. I noticed the lower price on March 19 when I posted about the IHG Rewards Club 100% bonus points flash sale $5.00 per 1,000 points rate. Previously the lowest rate was $11.50 per 1,000 points when buying…
