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Airline Points for Hotel Stays? PointsHound is Making It Happen

4 days agoTravel / Hotels : HotelChatter

Regardless of your approach to cashing in the hotel and airline loyalty points you accrue during your travels, one thing we can all agree on is that we want more of them. We've seen partnerships between industries before that helps to...Show More Summary

Four Points by Sheraton Accelerates Worldwide Growth with Opening of 175th Hotel and Targets 200th M

Four Points by Sheraton Accelerates Worldwide Growth with Opening of 175 th Hotel and Targets 200 th Milestone in 2014 STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Powered by an in-demand platform of comfort, style, and value, that's "best for...Show More Summary

SPG Double Take May 1- July 31 registration

Registration for the Double Take current promotion with Starwood Preferred Guest is open. This promotion offers 2 bonus points per dollar. There are many nonparticipating Starwood hotel properties for this offer. Check the list carefully for your planned stays. The best part of the promotion is the mobile booking bonus of 500 points per stay [...]Show More Summary

The Sacred Mountain of the San Luis Valley

Having been a school teacher for ten years I have a thing about being on time. This morning I woke up in the Comfort Inn Durango, Colorado. A nice hotel with a price under $80 after tax. And one stay away from 8,000 points with Choice Privileges stay two times promotion through May 15. An [...]Show More Summary

Vacation Bliss May Be Hiding in Your Forgotten Rewards Points

Getty Images With summer vacation season approaching, the hunt for great travel deals has moved to the top of a lot of to-do lists. But as you're clicking around the Web for cheap flights and bargain hotel rooms, and crunching the numbers...Show More Summary

Why J Sainsbury, Standard Chartered, and InterContinental Hotels Group Should Lag the FTSE 100 Today

LONDON -- The FTSE 100 is sitting on another new five-year record at the time of writing, having gained 14 points to 6,571 so far today. Driven by positive earnings reports and economic optimism from China, the index of top UK shares...Show More Summary

RLJ Lodging Trust Reports First Quarter 2013 Results

RLJ Lodging Trust Reports First Quarter 2013 Results - First quarter Pro forma RevPAR increased 10.6% - First quarter Pro forma Hotel EBITDA Margin increased 150 basis points BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- RLJ Lodging Trust (the "Company")...Show More Summary

CSCO, VMW, HPQ On Point in Vegas; Arista Rising, Says Lazard

It’s a busy week in Las Vegas. In addition to EMC‘s (EMC) user conference, EMC World, at the Venetian Hotel, there’s also the annual Interop networking conference, featuring 350 exhibitors and 10,000 attendees, by some estimates. The show will see a host of presentations from Cisco Systems (CSCO), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), VMware (VMW), Juniper Networks (JNPR), [...]

Qantas Launches ‘Complete Itinerary’ iPhone App

Qantas Airways is a new free app for iPhone and iPad devices that allows customers to buy airfares, book hotels, flag sales, view their Frequent Flyer points and check-in for domestic flights; all from inside the app. More »      

W Hotels turn 15

HotelNewsNow has an article this week, “W put ‘lifestyle’ on map 15 years ago,” sharing some insight into how W Hotels impacted the development of lifestyle hotels. Interestingly the comments on this article point to Kimpton Hotels as launching this trend a decade earlier, but without the marketing power of SPG to push the concept [...]Show More Summary

Four new French Hyatt properties now bookable with points

In February I wrote about the four new properties in France for which Hyatt signed management contracts. As a refresher, these properties are as follows: Hotel Martinez will be rebranded Grand Hyatt Cannes Hotel Martinez Palais de la Mediterranée Hotel and Casino will be rebranded Hyatt Regency Nice Palais de la Mediterranée Concorde Lafayette will [...]Show More Summary

Lifehacker Hotel Vlog: Four Points By Sheraton LAX

One of the perks of working at Lifehacker is staying in a lot of different hotels, around Australia and around the globe. Hotels have a lot in common, but it’s the little differences that stick out, as this video of the Four Points By Sheraton LAX proves. Actually, maybe that should be flush out... More »

Esoterica: Historical Hauntings at Harper's Ferry -- Hotel Security Catches Ghostly Vandal -- Near-Death Experiencer Claims She Talked to God

Historical Hauntings at Harper's Ferry John Brown believed he could free the slaves, and he selected Harpers Ferry as his starting point. Determined to seize the 100,000 weapons at the Arsenal and to use the Blue Ridge Mountains for guerrilla warfare, abolitionist Brown launched his raid on Sunday evening, October 16, 1859. Show More Summary

Bits ‘n Pieces for April 28, 2013

News and Notes from Around the Interweb: Club Carlson has announced hotel category changes. The category that each hotel is assigned to determines how many points the property will cost. It appears that about 100 hotels will be getting more expensive for redemptions, while about 150 hotels will be getting less expensive. The changes go [...]Show More Summary

Travel Credit Cards Promise Savings, But At What Cost?

3 weeks agoLifestyle / Travel : Gadling

Travel Credit cards that offer a sign-up bonus or cash back, or accumulate points that can be translated into savings on travel are surely worth a look. If just changing from one card to another will bring free flights, hotel stays,Show More Summary

Hotels Apps That Go Beyond the Basics

Most hotel apps cover the basics these days: a browsable database of the brand's properties, a reservations booking system, a way to watch your loyalty-program points. But these smartphone and iPad apps stand out for the creative extras they offer.

Four Points Chicago Downtown/Magnificent Mile

One block west of North Michigan Avenue, the major shopping district and upscale retail section of Chicago called the ‘Magnificent Mile’ is Four Points Chicago Downtown-Magnificent Mile. The hotel is next to Trader Joe’s supermarket for access to food and drink when a restaurant is not in your meal plans.    This hotel stay was [...]Show More Summary

Free Upgrade to Priority Club Elite Gold & 10,000 Bonus Points

I read that IHG  hotels, which include Holiday Inn and Crown Plaza, will soon start to offer free WiFi to members of their Priority Club. I thought this was a good move, as the £15 a day charge to get online at the Holiday Inn London Bloomsbury was one of the negative issues about my [...]Show More Summary

Bars & Pubs - Anzac Day at the Taren Point Hotel

Thu 25 Apr The Taren Point Hotel has one of the rowdiest two-up rings in the city, Starting at 11am and attracting around 400 people each year. There’ll be food...

SPG 3x points at Europe Starwood Hotels June 1 – Oct 31, 2013 (mainland China members only)

Here is a taste of how it feels to have a promotion not targeted for US residents. SPG members who reside in mainland China can earn triple points at 68 hotels in Europe for stays from June 1 to October 31, 2013. Triple points means 6 points per dollar (2 base points + 4 bonus [...]Show More Summary

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