Registration for Starwood’s Double Take Promotion is Live
Just a quick reminder to head over to Starwood’s page for their Double Take summer promotion. I wrote about it here earlier this month. A quick recap of the promotion is as follows: Earn double Starpoints on all eligible stays from May 1 through July 31, 2013 List of hotels not participating Get 500 bonus Starpoints for each [...]
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Mistake to Madrid: Westin Palace Madrid
TRIP INDEX Westin Palace Madrid After chowing down on croissants and beautiful pieces of jamòn and downing 1 Euro beers, we walked the rest of the way to the hotel. It’s a real looker when you come upon it. Planning When planning this trip, there were plenty of hotels to choose from in Madrid, but [...]
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Hyatt Makes Searching for Award Nights Easier
The Hyatt website has received a few enhancements recently. Most importantly, the Free Night search has been revamped in a great way. Searching by City A simple change that many hotel websites already have but Hyatt never did was a smart search. Begin to type in the name of the city and the new site [...]
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SPG Double Take: Starwood’s Summer 2013 Promotion
Starwood’s summer promotion has just been announced. Here is the landing page for the SPG Double Take. Earn double Starpoints on all eligible stays from May 1 through July 31, 2013 List of hotels not participating Get 500 bonus Starpoints for each eligible booking made through our spg.com mobile site, the SPG® App for iPhone® or the SPG [...]
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Burning 300K Hilton disHHonors Points
Planning After the terrible news last week from Hilton about heavily devaluing their award program, Joann and I decided that we needed to burn our stash of Hilton HHonors points before these new changes take effect on March 28, 2013. Thanks to Loyalty Lobby who found out a great loophole that allows one to book [...]
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