Sentences with phrase «award night rates»

What makes this promotion even more attractive is that not only are award night rates reduced by 35 % but the «5th night fee» offer can be used here too — that makes it even «cheaper».

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However, these free night awards are restricted to Starwood and Marriott stays with redemption rates of 50,000 points or less.

> Value: We value Honors points at about 0.4 cents each based on an average global room rate of around $ 100 and 20 - 30,000 points for a Category 4 award night.

This means that if you were already planning a 5 - night award, by paying an extra 32,000 / 30,000 Starpoints, you get 50,000 airline miles — a better transfer rate than regular transfers to airline partners.

This is a definitely a Your - Mileage - May - Vary situation, though, as my checks for award nights with both programs yielded several fair redemption options and several that were quite poor when compared with the cash rate.

Plus, since the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville is just a Category 2 property, I could opt to book a room using the points + cash rate of 4,000 points + $ 55 instead of a full - out award night costing 8,000 points and still receive credit toward the promotion for our stay.

It is possible to find higher redemption rates for your points, but in some cases (especially with lower cost flights or hotel nights), the 1.5 cents per point value can be better than redeeming for an award directly through the airline or hotel programs.

For a week's stay on the island, Marriott's property would require an eye watering 240,000 points, which is actually a discount from the normal daily rate because travelers receive a 5th night free when booking 4 award nights with Marriott.

Award rates start at 20,000 - 25,000 Hyatt points per night for double occupancy and children ages 3 and up will cost additional points.

Indeed, if you could book a standard room at the premium room award conversion rate, it would cost just 41,719 HHonors points per night!

Unfortunately, that's not possible, but booking cheap premium night awards is a good next - best alternative (unless you're booking 5 consecutive nights, in which case the nightly rate drops to 40,000 HHonors points)!

When deciding whether to book a free night or a Cash & Points award, it's also worth looking at the cash rate.

Award rates for this property can be as high as 80,000 Hilton points per night.

Additional Terms & Conditions Award Tickets on partner airlines may require higher rates or a Saturday night stay.

Explorist Club Lounge Access Awards are valid on nights for which the Member has paid an Eligible Rate or has redeemed points for a standard - room Free Night Award, Suite Free Night Award, or a Points + Cash Award, up to a maximum of seven (7) consecutive nights.

This hotel went for 95,000 points per night (the highest award price for a standard room) which came out to a redemption rate of.62 cents per point.

To qualify for this award, a property must have at least four stars and four bubbles on TripAdvisor, and offer annual nightly average rates that are at least 20 percent below the city average and cost less than $ 300 per night based on hotel prices available on TripAdvisor.

So, travelers are awarded bonus miles which appear to be closely correlated the night rate.

In some cases, buying points for an award night can provide a cheaper room than what can be achieved by paying the cash rate for a room.

IHG recently made changes to its award rates, increasing the top tier level to 70,000 points per night.

Hilton has the most expensive award rates in absolute terms, reaching as high as 95,000 points per night.

None of the hotels is, as yet, bookable with Starpoints and none appears to have been given a Starwood Category rating so it's hard to say how much award nights will eventually cost.

This benefit is for Basic Card Members only on Starpoint eligible rate reservations, including reservations made with Free Night Awards or Cash & Points.

The St Regis Dubai is a SPG Category 7 hotel which means award nights start at 30,000 Starpoints and Cash & Points rates are 15,000 Starpoints + $ 275.

Stays in which you used an Award Night or paid through a pre-paid third party channel, do not count as «Eligible Stays» as you did not pay an Eligible Rate.

I'm doing this without looking at the number of award nights booked in each category, the cost of paying hotels for those nights (which does not necessarily reflect their published rates), and all the other sources of revenue for the loyalty program (e.g., issuing points through credit cards).

Add to that the fact that its a Category 5 property which will only require 12,000 Starpoints for an award night and that the nightly rates look like they can be pretty reasonable.....

I suspect that the best use of this will be when people combine the Hyatt Family Rate with an award night booking to make what would be an otherwise expensive trip into a slightly more economical one.

When you participate in SPG's Nights and Flights deal, you get a discount on a 5 night Category 3 or 4 hotel award stay combined with the transfer bonus to an airline partner (at the 1:1 transfer rate only).

EARN - Guest must show membership card at check - in - Mileage credits awarded for paid stays at any room rate - Awards are valid for stays during dates shown - Regular miles shown below are awarded per room, per night - Bonus miles, when available, are awarded per room, per stay - Only 1 award is given per room, per stay - Only 1 occupant is given an award, per room, per stay - Awards are not given to groups of 10 or more rooms - Restrictions may apply.

To make the deal even more tempting, all IHG Rewards award night bookings are flexible and refundable while the best cash price quoted (above) is an advance rate that's not flexible at all.

Even if you absolutely had to have a flexible rate (which in this case costs $ 315 + tax = $ 365 / night) you would still be overpaying by $ 5 / night... and you would be forgoing Hyatt Points and elite status credit by booking an award night.

Note that you can redeem award nights with points + cash rates (if available).

While the brand isn't flawless by any means and while room rates can be high, the fact that the most an award night can cost you is 30,000 points (at the time of writing) makes these properties great for award redemptions.

While travelers can buy Starpoints to use to book award nights at upscale hotels a better use may be to convert them to airline miles at a good rate.

Wyndham Rewards has revamped its program recently, you just need 15,000 points for an award night across 7,500 properties or you can use GO FAST rates — 3,000 points and cash.

In addition, while some discounted rates are available if you pre-pay, award nights often benefit from flexible cancellation policies.

If one of the top IHG properties has a nightly cash rate (including taxes) of $ 370 and costs 60,000 points for an award night then buying points in this promotion would seem to make sense — you'd save $ 25 / night — but that's not the full story.

These rates don't include tax, which is waived on award nights and makes them an even better deal.

I was able to use a GoFree award at the Wyndham Santa Monica when regular rates were $ 460 / night and other hotels even more, making the redemption great value!

I'm glad to see that award nights count towards status, and really hope that Hyatt adds this as a feature to all award stays instead of just the new cash and points rates.

As of Feb. 1, 2007, a free night at hotels in the new category will cost 30,000 points during low season and 35,000 during high season, an increase of 10,000 points from the existing highest award rates of 20,000 to 25,000 points.

The go free award will be valid only for the room rate for one (1) single or double standard hotel room for up to the maximum occupancy of the room, including local taxes but not including incidental charges, except in the case of all - inclusive participating Wyndham Hotels and Resorts properties, where a go free award will also include meals and other amenities for up to two (2) guests for the free night.

As we are aware, Club Carlson has made some big devaluations to its program including removal complimentary second award night, increasing the redemption rates.

Reward night stays and upgrades are subject to availability and blackout dates apply, therefore The Montcalm Club award redemption rates may be not be available at all times.

You can check on a hotel that you have in mind with the Hilton Honors Calculator But because Hilton is eliminating award charts and categories, it will also make it much easier to adjust the points needed (aka devaluate them) until they also reflect a value of 04 - 0.5 ct / pt, eliminating great value options at the lower end of the Hilton brands, like the Hilton Garden Inn on Bali where I stayed for 5,000 points per night when the rate was $ 87 / night a 1.7 ct / pt value or the Doubletree Kuala Lumpur where I paid 10,000 pt / night instead of $ 127 / night, a 1.27 ct / pt value.

This hotel, however, charges a whopping 80 % of the lowest nightly rate to fill in the cash side of the award night.

When you calculate it, the cash portion you get charged on the Points + Cash award calculates to 60 % of the lowest nightly rate for the same night.