One of my favorite hotel rewards promotions is Intercontinental Hotel Group’s (IHG) quarterly PointBreaks promotion: You can book a select number of hotels worldwide for only 5,000 points/night. IHG just released the Winter 2016 promotion and you can book stays until January 2017 – find out where I saved big and great value destinations you could, […]
Travel rewards programs stopped being about loyalty a long time ago. Today, they are profit centers that manage a currency of points and miles and you can earn them not only at hotels and airlines, but by using a credit card, earning them for shopping or dining – and even buy them. Check out current
Flight deals continue to come available all around the world – and not only from low-cost carriers! This week features deals from Eva Airlines, a 5-star airline, with flights from the US to Asia from as little as $480 round-trip and from the US to Europe on StarAlliance carriers from only $422 round-trip! Those are
I have reported a few times on deals of Accor Hotels – they run frequent promotions that offer great deals, both to accumulate points or take advantage of big discounts. Today, you can take advantage of either, so check out the details for the current promotions to either collect points and earn Accor Leclub status
With the winter season coming up in the Northern Hemisphere, the chances of finding bargains are up. This week’s Deal Dispatch has round-trip tickets from Berlin, Germany to San Francisco, California, from only EUR331 round-trip!
Now that the summer is over, the deals for fall and winter are starting to come in and it pays to start planning your trip for next year! The tip to “buy airline tickets on Tuesdays” is a hoax and last minute deals are a risky proposition for long-haul flights, so check out the latest
Air Berlin regularly runs topdeal promotions for their award program topbonus, offering award flights at a discount! The latest promotion is under way, offering one-way award tickets from as little as 1,500 miles. Discounts are available for domestic flights in Germany, European and global destinations and are as high as 75% of the regular price!
As the season turns towards fall and winter and hotel occupation goes down, there are more and better promotion from hotels trying to fill their rooms. Accor has one of the best promotions, offering up to 10,000 points (worth $220) after four stays, Hilton HHonors offers Double Points and Marriott offers up to 50,000 points
Christmas and the winter holidays bring some of the most expensive flight tickets from the middle of December till the beginning of January. But the time before and after often is slow for travelers with some great discounts on flights – and they are becoming available now!
You would never stay at a Wyndham, Ramada or Days Inn hotel? I never did until I noticed that they started to move their hotels upscale, overhauled their rewards program and launched aggressive promotions. Their sale of up to 30,000 points during the Daily Getaway event sealed it for me – I could stay at
Have you read the “secret” that you should be buying your air tickets on a Tuesday? It’s a much circulated myth that doesn’t hold up to the real world. The best time to buy a ticket is really more and more during sales events – the airlines have wide sales to get a base load
Are you tired of reward programs where you never seem to earn enough points for a free flight or hotel stay? Don’t stay with any hotel chain that much? Help is on the way: IHG Rewards is running a new promotion to make it easier to earn free points for a free night at one