It's Honors time. No, we're not nervous! It's the Hilton HHonors program, a loyalty guest program that has just announced new ways to rent cars, win points, and maybe even win tickets to the Tonys in New York.
Members who register in the HHonors program (for free!) can earn up to 2,000 bonus points for renting a car through Budget (in the U.S. or Canada) through June 30, 2008.
If you're a fan of Wyndham Hotels, you can now win a resort hotel vacation when you register at the company's loyalty program's new sweepstakes: Play Together, Stay Together.
Each week through September 4, 2008, they'll be awarding one Grand Prize resort stay in cool spots like Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, Las Vegas, and Daytona Beach. Also up for grabs are a few VIP packages with travel, accommodations and admission to the Wyndham PGA golf tournament. Fore!
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Le Méridien Barcelona is one of the Spanish city's more popular hotels, mostly because of its location off the hotspot entertainment boulevard of La Rambla. (Well, perhaps at least until the W Barcelona debuts later this year.)
But the hotel has not been without its problems. When Starwood, which bought the Le Méridien brand in 2005, began assimilating its Starwood Preferred Guest loyalty program to the hotel chain, members complained that their status didn't seem to hold much weight in garnering upgrades at the hotel, noting that staff frequently said suites were not available, despite such rooms capable of being booked online.
Until recently we thought hotel loyalty programs were for Account Executives rolling their business travel points into a family vacation at a bland resort every year or two. However, funny thing happened when we started investigating these programs -- we found some of them are downright useful if you know how to cut through the red tape. This series is meant as a jumping off point to full fledged discussions on each loyalty program we feature. So comment, contribute, question, and cajole here.
The name of Wyndham Hotels loyalty program bothers us--Wyndham By Request. The name sort of implies that you have to ask for your rewards. But nevertheless, Wyndham has over 6,000 hotels so if you are a fan of Wyndham then you should have plenty of places to use your rewards.
You may have noticed...ahem...you should have noticed that for the past two weeks we have been running our Loyalty Program Guide, compiled by our own Barbara Benham. In this guide we have done our best to detail all the member benefits and the fine print of each hotel's rewards program. Did we do our job? Did we miss something? Do you still have questions or tips to share?
Well hit us up on the tipline with your thoughts and questions or better yet, leave comments under each post. For instance SPG groupies should comment here. General comments about our guide (nicely please) can be dropped here.
In continuing with our Loyalty Program Guide we just stumbled across this offer from Starwood Preferred Guests program encouraging new members to stay at a Four Points.
Why? Because you can earn up to 4,000 points. According to this latest promotion:
Just stay four nights at any Four Points by Sheraton hotel worldwide now through November 18, 2007 and receive 4,000 Starpoints®.
If you're already an SPG members you can also register online to take advantage of the offer. That's pretty cool. We just wish we had four nights to kill at a Four Points somewhere.
Until recently we thought hotel loyalty programs were for Account Executives rolling their business travel points into a family vacation at a bland resort every year or two. However, funny thing happened when we started investigating these programs -- we found some of them are downright useful if you know how to cut through the red tape. This series is meant as a jumping off point to full fledged discussions on each loyalty program we feature. So comment, contribute, question, and cajole here.
Choice Hotels includes a variety of places to stay such as Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality Inn, Cambria Suites and EconoLodge. Their rewards program is the ChoicePrivileges program but luckily for you, the points you earn here can be used for more upscale resorts and hotels when you want to take a nice vacation.
Until recently we thought hotel loyalty programs were for Account Executives rolling their business travel points into a family vacation at a bland resort every year or two. However, funny thing happened when we started investigating these programs -- we found some of them are downright useful if you know how to cut through the red tape. This series is meant as a jumping off point to full fledged discussions on each loyalty program we feature. So comment, contribute, question, and cajole here.
Radisson Hotels is in the midst of completely overhauling their rewards program but the good news is that the new Goldpoints Plus will debut on October 28th so if you aren't a member yet, it won't be long to join the new program.
Some of the "enhancements" include earning more points and faster and redeeming more points at more properties and use your points at frequent flyer program.
It's Honors time. No, we're not nervous! It's the Hilton HHonors program, a loyalty guest program that has just announced new ways to rent cars, win points, and maybe even win tickets to the Tonys in New York.
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Until recently we thought hotel loyalty programs were for Account Executives rolling their business travel points into a family vacation at a bland resort every year or two. However, funny thing happened when we started investigating these programs -- we found some of them are downright useful if you know how to cut through the red tape. 
Until recently we thought hotel loyalty programs were for Account Executives rolling their business travel points into a family vacation at a bland resort every year or two. However, funny thing happened when we started investigating these programs -- we found some of them are downright useful if you know how to cut through the red tape. 
