Yesterday we wrote (access here) about a readers case where Conrad hotel in Miami had sent after stay email from Google’s email address having made it look like it had come from the system that Hilton uses. After we published the piece, we received a statement from the Hilton spokesperson.
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Marriott Rewards released on June 28 (read more here and here) combined award chart that includes all the SPG properties that would in place once the programs are merged (this coming Saturday).
The award chart was supposed to be complete (there were no * anywhere) and has the number of points required for a free night at each hotel in the system (including the previously ridiculously expensive all suite SPG hotels).
Best Western Rewards has launched new promotion for stays in select countries in Asia.
Members can earn double points for up to three times for stays between August 1 – October 31, 2018.
IHG Rewards Club’s Kimpton has released their Last Minute Deals for this coming weekend of August 15 – 20, 2018.
These rates are only available for IHG Rewards Club members, are prepaid and available on select dates depending on the property (see the list below).
W Las Vegas became part of SLS Las Vegas in July (read more here) and now the SLS itself (part of Tribute Portfolio) is exiting Marriott/SPG portfolio effective August 17, 2018.
Marriott Rewards & SPG members won’t earn points and elite qualifying nights or are eligible for benefits beyond this date either.
Le Club AccorHotels runs Private Sales in Europe, Australasia, Middle East, South America and Asia weekly unless there is a global Super or Private Sale going on.
Le Club AccorHotels revamped these Private Sale pages months ago and content is gone from some while still available on others.
With the Starwood SPG and Marriott account transformation looming it’s a good opportunity to remind our readers that hold SPG Platinum status that the options to transfer out very small balances will come to a close as well.
Transferring small and very specific amounts out of SPG was often popular to round up airline account balances and especially to ping frequent flyer accounts that have changed to 18-months mileage expiration policy.
Both Marriott Rewards and SPG sent out emails to respective program members warning them about outages happening this week due to the program merger.
It is business as usual for Marriott, however, that has had constant outages since launching new website in the fall of 2017. You can expect even more outages this week starting on Wednesday.
IHG Rewards Club has launched promotion for stays at brand new Avid brand through December 31, 2018.
Members can earn triple points that are capped at 15,000 for the duration of this offer.
Hilton Honors and American Express have launched a new offer that appears to be open for card members in Japan.
American Express members that register and then charge 35,000 yen or more at participating hotels will get 7,000 yen credit after their stay.
Marriott has a good number of properties on their weekly eBreaks list this week valid for stays this upcoming weekend (Thursday to Sunday).
These properties are usually in North America and the discount for booking the eBreaks offer should be around 20%.
Cash-strapped Hainan Airlines has launched new Diamond Family Package-promotion for the Australian market.
The airline is selling 30 international business class roundtrip tickets for 33,000 AUD ($24K) excluding taxes/fees/fuel surcharges.
Le Club AccorHotels has launched new bonus mile promotion for Royal Air Maroc Safar Flyer member stays.
Safar Flyers can earn unlimited triple miles for stays that are both booked and consumed between July 31 – September 30, 2018.
