Don’t forget to enter the giveaway for a StarMegaDO4 goodie bag. Starwood and Hyatt are busy expanding again in some interesting and useful places. Starwood announced that the new Westin Houston Downtown is now taking reservations. It’s located right across from Minute Maid Park,…
Courtesy of View From The Wing, Starwood Preferred Guest is selling Starpoints at up to a 25% discount right now. Like all new things, I came to the hobby of collecting miles and points with a ton of excitement and not enough information. But,…
How do you turn a bummer stay into something your daughter can’t stop talking about? It starts with having a convincing and imaginative wife. I posted a couple of days ago asking for reader opinions on compensation for the stay, but there’s still a few…
This is a great reader participation exercise, because I’m very interested to hear what others would do in this situation. I had thought that our one-night stop at the St. Regis San Francisco would be a quick post, but it turns out to be…
I had one of my best point redemptions of all time last year when I redeemed a trunk load of Starwood Preferred Guest points for a tennis lesson with Andre Agassi at the US Open. My wife was the lucky participant and we had…
There’s been a flurry of activity the past 6 weeks in regards to changing values at the major hotel chains. Some good, mostly bad. We had Priority Club, Marriott and Hilton all handing out some well placed kicks to the teeth while Hyatt had…
I’m a bit behind reporting on the recent changes to the Hilton program that broke yesterday. I saw the e-mail when it came out but a crazy schedule pulled me away from banging out a quick post on the info. And, I wasn’t a big fan…
There’s been a bunch of buzz in the blogsphere about a new program Starwood Preferred Guest had coming out called “Crossover Rewards”. Now, I’m a Platinum member of Starwood Preferred Guest so these discussions perked up my ears. The rumors flying around yesterday were…
View From The Wing has confirmation of the upcoming Hyatt promotion. It runs from March 1st to May 31, 2013. The confirmed details are: 3000 bonus points for every 3 nights stayed during the promotion period. 20% bonus for holders of the Hyatt Visa…
I remember when I started writing this blog a few years ago. I had a big pile of miles and points and I enjoyed helping other people plan their travel. So, I figured I would write about it once in a while. I figured…