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 (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
This week’s Deal Dispatch brings you the opportunity to earn bonus miles on a number of airlines: Triple miles on airberlin and double miles on Virgin America. JetBlue is offering new members 3,500 points! If you are flying them already – great. If you have a trip planned and not sure about the airline, this
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
This weeks’ Deal Dispatch brings you a Valentine’s Day Sale from KLM for trips around Europe from EUR99, short-haul trips to Miami from the freezing North-East from $109 and an escape to the stunning Iguazu Falls in Brazil from Boston from $599! To stay in touch during those trips, you can snatch a Chromebook from
Every year in February, the Philippine travel industry holds the countries largest travel fair, for industry representatives and travelers alike. You can learn a lot about the regions in the Philippines as well as the neighboring countries and what they have to offer. Anybody should be able to find a new destination to discover! And
While devaluations of frequent traveler programs are unfortunately pretty common these days – Philippine Airlines’ Mabuhay Miles program devaluated their miles last year by up to 50% – this years award changes by Philippine Airlines are a massive overhaul and serious devaluation of your miles of up to 184% – the worst I’ve ever seen!
This week’s Deal Dispatch brings you an update on IHG Rewards Club’s latest devaluation – you have a few days to book hotels at the old rates, so be quick. There are also fare sales at Alitalia for global travel and at Singapore Airlines for flights from the Philippines, so lots of ways to save
My first credit card after moving to the US was a Citibank American Advantage card – and I still hold it today. If you live in one of the American Airlines hubs or fly them regularly, you probably have seen their credit card advertisements and it sounds like a good deal! Read my recommendations, whether
This week’s Deal Dispatch brings you one of my favorite promotions, IHG Reward Club’s PointBreaks promotion with hotel room from only 5,000 points/night. And to get there, you can take advantage of Air Berlin’s Global Sale with good deals on business class flights!
hoteltonight is a free smartphone app developed for last-minute hotel bookings at deep discounts. It’s a great idea: If a hotel room isn’t booked on that day, it’s probably going to be empty. Selling it at a big discount to travelers willing to book last minute fills the room and adds to the bottom line
This week’s Deal Dispatch brings you cheap flights on Delta from the US to Borneo and