Not exact matches
Whether you're just looking for a bed for the
night, a convenient location on a business trip, or a luxury
hotel, you can use Marriott Rewards to
book award stays.
In addition, several of the major
hotel programs are featured, and transfers from this program are virtually instantaneous, allowing you to
book airline tickets or
award nights at
hotels that you found before the availability disappears.
A Soho
awards night with David Nicholls, a «very special» Harry Potter screening at the St. Pancras Renaissance
Hotel London and conversations with Michael Morpurgo and Roddy Doyle lead the «eclectic» line - up of this year's London
Book & Screen Week.
One voter will win two tickets to the 60th National
Book Awards on Nov. 18 (and two
nights in the Marriott
Hotel Downtown in NYC).
For example, the Marriott Rewards Premier Credit Card gives users one free
night stay every year, while the Club Carlson Rewards Visa Signature Card
awards one free
night for every two or more consecutive
nights booked using points at one of their
hotels.
Then,
book award nights at Marriott
hotel brands!
In addition to earning twice as many points while
booking a
hotel, cardholders may be
awarded a $ 75 credit for dining, spa, or resort activities (must
book at least two
nights).
When you
book travel through the Chase travel portal, you don't have to worry about blackout dates for
award seats or free
hotel nights.
With IHG PointBreaks, you can
book an
award night at certain IHG
hotels for only 5,000 IHG points.
While it's possible to maximize value further and take advantage of the 10 % Redemption Bonus right away by
booking flights and splitting
hotel nights into separate
bookings over the course of a few days, we'd keep things simple in this case by recommending Tiffany's husband apply his bonus toward the taxes and fees on the Alaska
award bookings, wiping out these costs entirely, and having Tiffany apply her bonus toward the total
hotel booking at Hotels.com.
2 Nights in NYC: For 45,000 points per
night, you can
book an
award stay at a Category 9
hotel such as the New York Times Square H
hotel such as the New York Times Square
HotelHotel.
Schlappig also saved money on travel by taking advantage of Citi's new
hotel benefit, which
awards Prestige cardholders a free
night's stay if they
book a room for four or more
nights.
While Hyatt
award rooms are typically completely free of charge, a tax of roughly $ 5 per
night is levied at all
hotels in Zurich and appears to apply to
award nights, as well; this charge is customarily collected at the
hotel, whether
booking in advance or not.
Whether you're just looking for a bed for the
night, a convenient location on a business trip, or a luxury
hotel, you can use Marriott Rewards to
book award stays.
You can
book award nights at this amazing
hotel for 35,000 points each.
In addition to
booking award flights, you can also
book free
hotel nights by transferring points to IHG Rewards Club, Marriott Rewards, Ritz - Carlton Rewards and World of Hyatt.
The flexibility to transfer the points to partner
hotel and airline loyalty programs allows you to
book free
hotel nights and airline
award tickets.
But the best
hotel transfer value is if you can
book an IHG Pointbreaks
award stay, which is only 5,000 points a
night.
The changes to the
hotel categories mean little without some context, so here is the Hilton HHonors
award chart which shows how many points are required to
book a
night at each category of
hotel:
Prize will be
awarded as a Marriott Rewards Free
Night Stay E-Certificate valid for
hotels in categories 1 - 9 locations (log on to MarriottRewards.com or call 800-321-7396 to
book your E-Certificate).
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.
While SPG members can buy Starpoints to use to
book award nights at upscale
hotels, better uses may be to convert the Starpoints to airline miles...
Even if you were to redeem for a mid to upper - level Starwood
hotel (of which there are quite a few good ones), an
award redemption would cost 12,000 — 20,000 Starpoints which would work out at $ 315 — $ 525 /
night — and you can easily
book nights for less than that.
The
hotel you reserved for the
Award Night will also receive an email and / or electronic transmission of your confirmation of your reward
booking.
ONYX Rewards
Award Night reservations may be
booked for multiple
hotel rooms on the same stay date at the same property provided the member's ONYX Rewards membership number is recorded on each reservation and the required points are redeemed for each room.
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).
While SPG members can buy Starpoints to use to
book award nights at upscale
hotels, better uses may be to convert the Starpoints to airline miles or to convert them to Marriott Rewards points and then use those to
book Flight &
Hotel packages.
Marriott is one of the
hotel brands that offers members of its loyalty program a «5th
night free» when making
award bookings so this can potentially affect your valuation.
That's enough
book a five -
night award stay at a Category 5
hotel every year for the next 30 years.
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 just with points I'd purchased but that's not how everyone feels — different people have different comfort zones when it comes to
hotel prices.
I stayed at the Grosvenor House
Hotel a few years ago and enjoyed its location near the Dubai Marina so, now that
award nights can be
booked there for as little as 12,000 points per
night, I can definitely see myself returning — that»; s pretty good value... especially if you have SPG Platinum status.
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.
Hotel loyalty programs like Hilton, Marriott, and SPG provide you with the 5th
night free when you
book five consecutive
award nights.
As part of my «Battle of the Budget
Hotels» research, I tried to
book an
award night with Choice, but could either not find availability or the point prices were so high that it was not worth redeeming points.
For example, a $ 100
hotel night might mean you get the 15,000 points required to
book an
award stay for one
night.
If you are short of points, IHG (Intercontinental
Hotels Group) lets you
book award nights with a combination of cash & points.
You can usually do better by transferring your points to a travel partner and
booking an
award ticket or
hotel night directly through them.
Living the dream on card rewards Those who don't know us very well may think we are living the high life, but the truth is that our $ 250
hotel room near the line of totality during the eclipse was
booked for 3,000 Starwood Preferred Guest points; our flight to Wyoming was 100 percent free on a private plane thanks to a crazy JetSmarter promotion for those who could prove they had a million miles; our resort complete with water slides and a lazy river in San Antonio was
booked using an annual credit card
award night when the room normally costs $ 300 - plus per
night; our amazing room at the Park Hyatt New York was
booked using 30,000 Hyatt points per
night when the selling price was almost $ 1,000 per
night; and most of our other flights were
booked via a collection of airline miles and credit card points that were primarily earned by leveraging our everyday spending for major rewards.
Another good redemption is
booking five consecutive
award hotel nights as you will get the fifth
night free.
You can also utilize the program's Flight +
Hotel Awards to
book a seven -
night stay at any property plus get a nice haul of airline miles.
Using the 85k point Club Carlson bonus, you could
book 3
award nights at this
hotel.
IHG Rewards points can be used for free
hotel nights starting at 5,000 points per
night, so 675k points could
book 135
award nights.
After watching my starpoints grow very slowly @ 1 / $ on my SPG AMEX to a grand total 12K over 2 - 3 years (it means I spent $ 12K), I just decided to put them to good use and
booked a one -
night cash + points
award that cost me 5K starpoints + US$ 75 at Sheraton Brussels Airport
Hotel in a couple of weeks — a really great «value».
For example, a couple would
book two
nights each at the same
hotel in order to get four
award nights for the price of two.
↓ Take Only Two InterContinental announced changes to their IHG Rewards Club terms and conditions restricting PointBreaks
bookings to two PointBreaks
award night reservations per
hotel.
Rocketmiles is a
hotel booking website and app that
awards thousands of KrisFlyer miles per
night, for stays at properties worldwide.
The Club Carlson credit cards once offered the most generous
hotel card benefits: The last
night free on
award bookings of two or more
nights.
A valid credit card is needed to guarantee any reservation
booked with an ONYX Rewards
hotel even if it is for an
Award Night reservation.
Rocketmiles is a
hotel booking website and app that
awards thousands of Flying Club miles per
night, for stays at thousands of properties worldwide.
Wyndham Rewards is a high - value
hotel rewards program (even
awarded as the best) and having more attractive upper - midscale
hotels available to earn points or
book a the fixed rate of 15,000 points per
night in big cities makes the program even more attractive!