Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Wow Air has a Presidents Day only sale for $45 tickets one way to Iceland from Boston BOS, Baltimore BWI, Newark EWR and Detroit DTW. My searches indicate this can be booked as a one way ticket for $45 all-in flying with only an underseat carry-on. Lowest round trip I found was $145 for Baltimore…
SkyTeam Alliance member China Southern has California to New Delhi, India flights on sale for $493 round trip from San Francisco and $513 from Los Angeles for travel in late April and May. These one-stop flights do not even require a long layover in China, which may be desirable or undesirable depending on how you…
World of Hyatt announced hotel award category changes for 259 hotels worldwide effective March 18, 2019 at 11:01pm CST. Overall the changes are even-handed with 130 hotels go up one category and 129 hotels go down one category. For years I have railed about hotel loyalty programs depopulating their lowest award categories rather than redistributing…
On the first Saturday of January we landed in Fort Lauderdale when our British Airways flight arrived 45 minutes late to FLL from London Gatwick. We missed our American Airlines flight connection by 20 minutes by the time we reached that terminal. We walked up to the American Airlines ticket counter after missing our flight…
Alaska Airlines has a Valentine’s Day only sale Buy One Get One free offer for 17 routes between California airports LAX, SAN, SFO and SJC to east coast cities New York JFK, Newark EWR, Boston BOS, Philadelphia PHL, Nashville BNA, Baltimore BWI, Raleigh RDU and New Orleans MSY. Travel must be Feb 14 to March…
Marriott Bonvoy launches February 13, 2019. About 400 hotels change category for free night awards on March 5, 2019. Most of these hotels are rising in reward category. The new Marriott category 8 hotel rewards redemption rate will take effect on March 5, 2019. Reward rates at hotels currently in category 7 are 60,000 points…
Fiji Airways and Hawaiian Airlines have Auckland on sale from Los Angeles and San Francisco with ticket prices around $697 for departures through most of 2019. Mid-June and July have least low fare availability. Expedia has ticket prices as low as $640 on some dates. There are Fiji Airways itineraries with overnight layovers in Nadi…
San Jose SJC to Dublin is priced from $456 round trip with American Airlines for travel departures the week before St. Patrick’s Day March 17. Even better than a $456 two-stop AA itinerary is a $472 one-stop British Airways itinerary flying SJC to London LHR. British Airways San Jose SJC – London LHR – Dublin…
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…
