Le Club AccorHotels has launched promotion for staying at two hotels in Israel between August 20 – November 30, 2018.
Members can earn double points for a stay at Ibis Jerusalem City Center or David Tower Hotel Netanya MGallery by Sofitel if booked August 15 – September 20.
IHG Rewards Club has launched new promotion for stays at six Kimpton Hotels in Northeastern US through October 19, 2018.
Members can save up to 25% off of their stays and earn 10,000 bonus points for east stay if booked by August 23.
A Malaysia Airlines passenger publicly posted on Facebook (MH Facebook Group) today that he caught a fellow Business Class traveler red-handed stealing from his carry-on which had been stowed in the overhead bin.
The carry-on had been removed by the criminal and taken to his own seat during the boarding process – unfortunately for the thief, the victim wasn’t traveling alone and a colleague notified him that his bag had been removed.
Starwood’s website and app both went offline just before midnight on Friday and it won’t be before Monday before account combine functionality has been rolled out to all members.
The website and the app (both white label SPG versions of the current Marriott ones) should be working later today. SPG members need to update their Android and Apple apps.
Hotels are slowly joining the electronic payment wave and introduce payment terminals for Alipay, Apple Pay and WeChat payments though in many cases the technology doesn’t seem to work properly.
When trying to pay for the hotel bill at a Grand Hyatt this week the terminal wasn’t even operating properly – couldn’t be switched on at all when my friend tried to use Alipay.
A LoyaltyLobby reader sent us a question using Twitter about a delayed bag on Lufthansa flight that required passenger to purchase items to get through their trip at their destination.
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Hilton Honors members have been able to earn points for online purchases made through its Shop-To-Earn Mall but this service will end on September 1, 2018.
Members can make purchases on the platform until 11:59PM ET on August 31st and the associated Hilton Honors points will be deposited to members accounts.
It doesn’t seem to be a warm welcome to the new CEO of Air France-KLM that hasn’t yet has his last day at the office at the Air Canada (read more here).
Now, KLM pilots are effectively joining Air France ones demanding higher salary and more time between flights or work stoppages could begin in four weeks time.
Marriott Rewards and SPG programs are merging tomorrow into the same platform (Marriott’s) and members should expect that the websites and apps are intermittently offline for the day (let’s hope that not for longer).
SPG members, hotels and reservation information are ported to the Marriott platform (probably already done) so this change mostly affects Starwood, although may cause instability is something goes wrong.
Le Club AccorHotels has launched new promotion for stays in Northeastern Brazil between August 15 – October 31, 2018.
Members can earn double points for stays at these beach cities if booked August 15 – September 30.
Finnair passengers on a flight AY1763 from Helsinki to Rome were in for a delay on Wednesday. After captain had given the intro speech on the ground, everyone was asked to leave the plane due to “passenger miscount”.
The flight was boarded again two hours later and there were new captain on the helm. The previous one had been taken on a police car from the plane based on the passenger reports on the Finnish media.
Our Fabulous Fridays topic this week is about gadget charging stations that many hotel brands have now set up in their lobby to offer guests the option to charge their mobile devices on the go.
Especially the select service brands targeted to a younger audience such as aloft and moxy have started putting these stations up but I’ve previously seen them at a Hilton and Le Meridien as well.
