Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
IHG Rewards Club Select MasterCard from Chase offers an unrestricted free anniversary night for any IHG hotel worldwide. This article shows how to redeem these free IHG Chase card nights. There was an issue in April 2018 when the new Chase IHG Rewards Club Premier card came out with an anniversary free night limited to…
This week I received a $290usd bank check from LOT Polish Airlines from an EU261 compensation claim I filed against a cancelled Gdansk to Krakow flight in June 2018. My wife received a $290usd check too. We have $580 unrestricted cash to spend. That cash should cover the cost for her next ticket to Europe. This…
Hilton Honors made a major adjustment to hotels last week once again reducing the number of hotels worldwide offering reward nights at 5,000 points. My survey of Hilton Honors reward rates shows only 29 hotels remaining at 5,000 points and another 3 hotels floating between 5,000 and 8,000 points as of September 18, 2018. Loyalty…
IHG Rewards Club has a buy points 100% bonus when purchasing 5,000 points or more. This sale is a good deal if you have an immediate need for a lot of points. You need to spend at least $260 to 52,000 points for the best rate of $5 per 1,000 points. IHG Reward Members can buy up to 100,000 points in a calendar year.
Hilton Honors raised reward rates this past week on a number of hotels that were 5,000 and 10,000 points per reward night. This post is a list of 143 Hilton Honors hotels still at 10,000 points and hotels that were 10,000 points six months ago, based on a list of hotels from LoyaltyLobby.com and a…
One of the new features of Google Flights is the Explore Map shows lowest priced tickets over 6-month period for various airports. Icelandair has round trip tickets from San Francisco to London at $299 through Priceline with a 25 hour layover in Reykjavik on the return or $366 through Icelandair with no layover. Booking through…
Hilton Honors recently raised the reward price on 14 hotels in United Kingdom, Belarus, Poland and Romania that were 5,000 or 10,000 points. Eleven of these hotels were 10,000 points and are now 15,000 to 20,000 points. Three hotels were 5,000 points and are now 10,000 points. These changes appear to have happened in past…
Today I updated my Loyalty Traveler Travels page with new pages for my four 2018 trips taken so far. Jan 2018 Key West and Everglades National Park Feb 2018 Amsterdam June 2018 Copenhagen, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Sopot, Krakow, Rome July-August 2018 Vienna, Bohemia, Auschwitz, Krakow This exercise provided me an update of articles I posted from…
Finnair and American Airlines have San Francisco to Santorini, Greece JTR tickets for $560 round trip for October travel. There is a one stop Finnair itinerary flying SFO- Helsinki HEL nonstop, nearly 24 hours in Helsinki, then Helsinki to Santorini nonstop with one stop return and short layover in Helsinki. I see these prices on…
IHG Rewards Club targeted offer for a 15% discount on the price of points when booking Points & Cash stays by Sep 25 for stays completed by Oct 28, 2018. In past years I have used IHG Points & Cash discount rates to buy IHG Rewards Club points at the lowest price I find for the year.
