I love it when they do this – they do not force you to choose one promo over the other. So the SPG Aeroplan promo gets you 9,000 points when you stay five nights – on top of the Take Two…
SPG Take Two is here!
The fall SPG promo is here! Double Starpoints on all stays from Sep 1 to Dec 15. 2,500 bonus points on every 5 nights (up to 20 nights / 10,000 points). Pretty good promo, although not as good as the…
Starwood SPG points devaluation
Looks like it’s hotel re-valuation season. I posted earlier about the Starwood Cash and Points devaluation; now it seems Starwood regular points have been devalued, as well. Hurry before March 5th to redeem your points, as that’s when the rates…
New SPG American Express point promo until April 11, 2013
Looks like for 2013, Amex has increased the points available for new SPG cards to 20,000 (from the previous 10,000). This is VERY good. See my earlier post on cash & points changes, which isn’t as good, but SPG points…
SPG Cash & Points changes
SPG Cash & Points has been one of the better programs to date – offering the opportunity to stretch SPG points to get higher value redemptions – and some of them have been very attractive. It’s not that it’s coming…
40% off hotel bookings!
This is not going to last long. USAA members get 40% off final booking cost on http://www.explorecruisetravel.com using coupon code USAA1. If you do not have a USAA membership, go sign up. I won’t go into the details on who…
Additional Starwood+Aeroplan promo!
A new Starwood+Aeroplan promo is up. It isn’t as lucrative as the one that was around last December (get 5,000 points for hotels – and get another 3,000 on top if at least 3 nights are in Canada), but this…
Best Rate Guarantee programs at hotels
With the proliferation of discount hotel booking websites and margin erosion, hotels have been desperately trying to bring people back to their sites. To do that meant letting people pay the lower rate – which generally means two things: 1)…
Starwood promo is up! 18,000 points for 20 nights
The Starwood promo is up! It’s unfortunately not as exciting as it could be, as it’s “only” 18,000 points – I rather preferred the triple points that December brought (by paying for several people in one shot, I accumulated 29,000…
Club Carlson first 2013 bonus is here!
I have previously written about how I find Carlson to be one of the better hotel programs – they snuck in quite unexpectedly with their 50K per night promo last year, and I discovered a whole new hotel chain that…