Sentences with phrase «award night»

This credit card effectively meant that a 2 - night weekend break at a Club Carlson property never cost me more than the price of a single award night....

Personally I wouldn't pay $ 450 or $ 370 for a hotel room so this promotion would be no good to me if I was looking to book an award night.

An award night at a Cat.

If redeemed before May 31, 2015, you could get more than 10 free nights if redeemed with the benefit «Bonus Award night.

It gets worse one category up where an award night costs 20,000 Starpoints ($ 490 in this promotion).

If you hold «Club Carlson Visa Card» the value of these points can be doubled due to the exclusive benefit «Bonus Award Night» — When you redeem Gold Points for 2 or more consecutive Award Nights, your last night is free.

Award night will vary from 28K to 67K Hilton Honors points a night.

An award night for the same date would cost your 28,000 Hilton Honors points.

If you notice the hotels going in category, there are many hotels in India and Asia that are going down in Category, which means you need less points for an award night.

If you spend $ 12,000 in a year, you will get a voucher for an award night at a Hilton property.

However, given you can purchase 80,000 points, it does allow you to buy points to claim an Award night outright.

With free nights starting at just 5,000 points, your next award night can be right around the corner.

... which shows that if you buy Starpoints at 1.75 cents each this would be the cost of an award night at each category:

The card comes with a $ 75 annual fee but I got it back in the glory days when it came with one of the single best credit card perks of the time — a free award night when you redeem points for two or more award nights (up to 50 bonus nights per year).

Hilton HHonors isn't my favorite hotel rewards program because it links the number of points you need for an award night to the cost of a room on that particular night (more or less).....

Hilton was the last hotel group to tweak the number of points needed for an award night right at the end of 2015 so IHG is the first of the big chains to blink in 2016.

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.

As of 30 March 2016, 24 Hilton properties will cost more HHonors points for an award night while 14 properties will require fewer points — this is a comparatively tame set of changes.

Ritz Carlton properties are categorized in to Tier 1 - 5, you get your 5th award night free when you redeem 4 nights.

In March 2014 Club Carlson introduced a new top - tier in its program which immediately raised the cost of an award night (at one of the better hotels) from 50,000 to 70,000 points per night — a staggering 40 % price increase!

Yes, I could always save up two year's of credit card bonuses which would be more than enough for an award night at any Club Carlson property in the world....

Always ensure that your account has 5000 points or more to take advantage of Pointbreaks or any award night sale, since you can generate as many IHG points as you like using this method.

A category 4 award night will normally cost 15,000 points under the new award chart.

Hilton have said there will be no change to the maximum number of points that will be charged for a standard Award night.

Nearly all hotel loyalty programs will split their properties into several categories, with a certain number of points required for an award night for each property in a specific category.

Marriott has a large foot print across the world, so it should be relatively easy to find an award night.

Every point they earn is pure profit that can be used to book an award flight or award night.

Because Chase points are some of the most flexible travel rewards points in the business, you can also redeem them airline travel when you want to book an award flight in addition to your Marriott award night.

IHG properties are more expensive now then they have ever been in the past (form an award night point of view) so it's absolutely critical that you work out the math behind any trip you're looking to book.

What I grew up thinking of as a luxury brand now has many more affordable budget properties — a huge number, in fact, that brings down the weighted average revenue per award night for Hyatt vs. Starwood.

The figure below provides a general distribution of the cost of an award night.

The fact that Hilton may sometimes charge up to 95,000 points for an award night is compensated for the fact that it can offer 15 points per dollar, while Hyatt offers only 5 points per dollar.

The Hyatt Credit Card gives out a free Category 4 award night each year, and it's become more difficult to use each time category changes are announced and some favorite properties move from Category 4 to 5.

If you don't have enough points, you can purchase up to 5,000 points — enough for at least 1 GoFast award night — at a price of $ 11 for 1,000 points, close to the value of the points.

Gold members, a level reached after five qualifying nights, get all Blue - level parks as well as an upgrade to a preferred room, late check - out, a dedicated member services line to call, and a $ 10 credit per award night for a local experience.

Blue - level members receive free Wi - Fi at all properties and a credit of $ 5 per award night redeemed towards a local experience.

MORE FLEXIBILITY TO USE HILTON HONORS POINTS: POINTS & MONEY Hilton Honors is the only guest loyalty program where members can redeem their Points for an award night or a stay using a flexible combination of Points and money.

This is a free award night, and as a Category 2 property, requires just 8,000 Hyatt Gold Passport points, easily transferred over from Ultimate Rewards.

Point density takes into account 2 variables: your elite status with the chain in question (and use of a co-branded credit card, if applicable) and the desired hotel category you aim to redeem your points in, and generates a single number: the number of dollars you need to spend to generate that award night redemption.

To give the most trivial example of point density, here's the amount of money that has to be spent with each hotel loyalty for a non-elite member using a third - party credit card to earn an award night at a top - tier property in that program, notwithstanding any promotions:

The deal gets even better because with Starwood you get the fifth award night free on five - night stays.

Plus, when you have Marriott Silver status, you will get the 5th award night free after booking a stay of 4 consecutive nights.

30,000 Marriott points could get you one free award night at a category 6 property, or 2 free nights at a category 3 property.

A Starwood Preferred Guest elite paying for stays with the American Express co-branded credit card earns 5 Starpoints per dollar spent at Starwood properties, and would have to spend $ 2,000 on paid stays before they earned enough points for a single award night at a mid-tier property.

For 15,000 points, you can book an award night.

On the other hand, a Starwood Preferred Guest elite paying for stays with their co-branded credit card and being reimbursed by their employer for those stays wouldn't have to pay a penny for an award night at a mid-tier property; they'd just have to wait until their employer had spent $ 2,000 on their behalf.

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.

That's less than ideal, but since Marriott Rewards points are seldom worth even a cent each on award night redemptions, I don't consider it a great sacrifice given the potential upside of the experiment.

On the hotel side of things, you often can expect the co-branded credit cards to provide at least mid-tier elite status that may get you late checkout or a room upgrade, and the best ones even give you an annual award night that can offset the cost of the annual fee!

As a Category 4 Hyatt property, you can even use a Category 1 - 4 award night that you earn each year just by having The Hyatt Credit Card from Chase.