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Deal Dispatch: Daily Getaway 2016 Travel Deals week 4 & 5!

This week’s Deal Dispatch brings you the fourth and fifth week of deals from the Daily Getaway 2016, including deals from Universal Studios, Loews and Fairmont Hotels, Hyatt and Alamo Car Rental! Read my evaluation whether you should jump on any of these deals or rather save your heard-earned money for other travel opportunities.

Deal Dispatch: Daily Getaway 2016 Deals of week 3!

This week’s Deal Dispatch brings you the third week of deals from the Daily Getaway 2016, including deals from Diamond Resorts, Hilton, Hertz and Las Vegas Casinos! Read my evaluation whether you should jump on any of these deals or rather save your heard-earned money for other travel opportunities.

Why you should check out airbnb for your next trip!

Have you been planning a trip and were shocked by the high hotel prices or the need to book multiple rooms for your family? Where you not able to find a nice hotel in the charming old town that you want to explore? Maybe it’s time to try out airbnb, the online provider that connects

Deal Dispatch: Get ready for Daily Getaway Travel Deals 2016!

This week’s Deal Dispatch is a heads-up for the 2016 Daily Getaway travel deals. I reported about them last year and they are back this year with new offers. The offers are available for sale starting April 4th, with new deals available every day for four weeks. I will post the deals as well as

Deal Dispatch: Current Hotel Promotions at Starwood, Best Western and

This week’s Deal Dispatch is focusing on current hotel promotions by Starwood, Best Western and Choice Hotels and . Hotel occupancy has been very high in the US and Europe and many other locations around the world, making it tougher to score a good deal for a hotel. To make the most out of your

How to get the most value from hotel reward points – my favorite tools!

You have earned lots of hotel points with your favorite hotel rewards program or credit card and now you are planning to redeem them for some well deserved free nights? Well, that sometimes is not as easy as it sounds. The smaller hotel chains may not have a property at your vacation destination or there

Savings on last-minute, mobile hotel bookings in Asia – HotelQuickly

UPDATED 2018: HotelQuickly has discontinued operations – read more here! Recently, I reviewed hoteltonight a last-minute hotel booking app for smartphones that pioneered that idea in the US. Today, I’m reviewing HotelQuickly, an app that was “inspired” by hoteltonight and focuses on hotels in Asia. Read my review to find out if it is worth

Deal Dispatch: Hotel Reward Devaluations from Marriott and Starwood – Book Quickly!

This week’s Deal Dispatch alerts you to a coming devaluation of your Marriott and Starwood hotel rewards points. After my recent report of InterContinental hotels changing award levels and hotel categories, now Marriott and Starwood are doing the same. If you have plans to stay using reward points, you should read and make your bookings

Starwood Preferred Guest – is it as good as its reputation?

Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) is the rewards program of the Starwood Group of hotels  and one of the most popular among US business travelers and US bloggers. While I’ve been a member for many years, enjoy some of their brands and reached the top-level Platinum status in the past, the more I traveled globally and

The best hotel rewards promotions in Q1/2016

The first quarter of the year is usually slow business for hotels in Europe and North America – it’s winter, fewer people travel after the big holidays and business travel is slow to kick off. That often results in good hotel promotions to fill all those rooms and a chance to get some good deals

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