Hot Tip: You earn SPG elite status
credits on award stays (not just paid stays), which is a rarity among hotel programs.
Not exact matches
Credit earned toward elite status
on paid and
Award stays when you contract for a group or meeting
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 behal
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 behal
on their behalf.
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.
If you're focused
on earning points for hotel
award stays and want those
stays to cost a reasonable number of points, then the Chase Hyatt
credit card could be just right for you.
In other words, your breakeven point is not $ 80 per paid
stay, but rather $ 97.56 per paid
stay — and that's ignoring the points you earn
on paid
stays, which aren't earned
on the elite - qualifying
stays awarded by the Chase Hyatt
credit card.
When you use the Chase Hyatt
Credit Card, you will earn Hyatt points
on every purchase, which can then be used to book
award stays at Hyatt brands such as Grand Hyatt, Park Hyatt, and Andaz Hotels.
Best price guaranteed with special deals from packages & promotions, bed and breakfast inclusive option (not available for online agents and other channels), free roundtrip scheduled shared transfer to Downtown Pattaya per person per booking, spa
credit - THB 500 per room or suite, late check out upon request (subject to availability), 10 % discount
on Food and Beverage in one of our 11
award - winning restaurants (excluding buffets), priority for room upgrade to next room category (subject to availability), be part of special monthly lucky draw to win exciting prizes and have the option to personalize your
stay with unique optional extras
Plus, if cardholders make a purchase,
stay under their
credit line and pay
on time for three billing periods in a row, Citi says it will reduce the annual interest rate
on the card as well as
award 100 points each billing period.
Sometimes
award redemptions offer you really lousy value and it's better to just pay with a
credit card and earn points / miles
on the purchase and
on the flight /
stay.
The $ 50 hotel
credit is exclusive for Fairmont President's Club members who book the Gold Rush offer
on fairmont.com, and will be
awarded once per total
stay, per room.
Starting today, you can register for a Hyatt promotion where you'll get 10 % back
on your Hyatt
award redemption for
stays between June 1 and September 5, 2017, if you're a Chase Hyatt
Credit Card holder.
If, however, I earned Silver Medallion status with Delta through some
credit card bonuses and without even flying, there's the opportunity to get bonus SkyMiles
on all my hotel
stays and maybe use them for an
award flight down the road.
Club Carlson
credit card holders receive the last night free
on any
award stay of two or more nights.
The flexibility of a stopover (
staying at a destination more than 24 hours after landing en route to another destination)
on a one - way international
award (2 total for round - trip flights), 2 open - jaws (departing from a different city than the one you landed in), and Starwood Preferred Guest and Alaska
credit cards to generate points and miles would be the first option I would consider.
But if you really want to optimize your Club Carlson
award redemptions, you either need a Gold status or a US Bank
credit card, since it gives you the status entitling you to pay 50 % points
on a 2 - night
stay.
Starting
on Wednesday, November 4th at 7 a.m. GMT, guests who book a three night minimum
stay on Hostelworld.com in London, New York, Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam, Rome, Dublin, Berlin, Prague or Budapest will be
awarded with a $ 10 sleep
credit towards their next Hostelworld.com booking.
That makes
staying up to date
on the
credit card marketplace imperative for a successful
award - travel strategy.
One thing to keep in mind for Hyatt
stays is that you can extend the value of your
awards even further simply by holding the Hyatt
Credit Card from Chase, which offers automatic Platinum Status (check out my post
on the value of Hyatt Elite Status for more info).
For example, while the US Bank Club Carlson
credit cards offered the last night free
on award stays, there was no limit to the number of 2 - night
stays you could book at half price.