BoardingArea blogger Seth Miller of The Wandering Aramean has launched a new site, Hotel Hustle, to help simplify the process of searching
for hotel award nights.
Of course, you could also keep your Choice Privileges points and use
those for hotel award nights, which are typically around 8,000 points per night.
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.
By nominating your breastfeeding friendly establishment
for the
award you are in with a chance of winning a two
night stay with Luxury Family
Hotels.
In one of the biggest surprises of the
night, Wes Anderson's «The Grand Budapest
Hotel» beat out Alejandro González - Iñárritu's «Birdman» to win the Golden Globe
Award for musical or comedy film.
«Boyhood» and «The Grand Budapest
Hotel» earned the top film prizes
for drama and comedy or musical, respectively, at the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.'s 72nd Golden Globe
Awards on Sunday
night.
Nicolas Cage hits the red carpet
for the German Sustainability
Award event on Friday
night (November 25) at the Maritim
Hotel in Dusseldorf, Germany.
He presented her with the New Hollywood
Award for «Brooklyn» at last
night's ceremony at the Beverly Hilton
Hotel, also attended by Reese Witherspoon, Johnny Depp, Channing Tatum, Alicia Vikander and more.
Actor Tom Hiddleston, winner of Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film
for «The
Night Manager,» poses in the press room during the 74th Annual Golden Globe
Awards at The Beverly Hilton
Hotel on January 8, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California.
Best Picture: Boyhood Best Director: Richard Linklater (Boyhood) Best First Film: Jennifer Kent (The Babadook) Best Actress: Marion Cotillard (
for The Immigrant and Two Days, One
Night) Special
Award: Adrienne Mancia Best Actor: Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner) Best Cinematography: Darius Khondji (The Immigrant) Best Screenplay: The Grand Budapest
Hotel Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) Best Nonfiction Film: Citizenfour Best Foreign Language Film: Ida Best Animated Film: The Lego Movie
Ellar Coltrane suits up
for the 2015 Artios
Awards presented by the Casting Society of America at The Beverly Hilton
Hotel on Thursday
night (January 22) in Beverly Hills, Calif..
Best Picture: Boyhood Best Director: Richard Linklater (Boyhood) Best First Film: Jennifer Kent (The Babadook) Best Actress: Marion Cotillard (
for The Immigrant and Two Days, One
Night) Best Actor: Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner) Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) Best Screenplay: The Grand Budapest
Hotel Best Cinematography: Darius Khondji (The Immigrant) Best Animated Film: The Lego Movie Best Foreign Language Film: Ida Best Nonfiction Film: Citizenfour Special
Award: Adrienne Mancia
On the heels of his recent Best Cinematography feting from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association
for his work in Children of Men, Emmanuel Lubezki took top honors in the feature film competition last
night at the 21st annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement
Awards at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza
Hotel.
The Grand Budapest
Hotel won big, too, but it was a
night that also saw Obvious Child star Jenny Slate taking home the
award for Best Actress in a Comedy,
The Grand Budapest
Hotel won big, too, but it was a
night that also saw Obvious Child star Jenny Slate taking home the
award for Best Actress in a Comedy, The Lego Movie winning Best Animated Feature and Life Itself won
for Best Documentary Feature.
After the
awards, guests were chauffeured by Audi to the Grosvenor House
Hotel for the
night's official dinner.
Another downside with
hotel credit cards is that even though most major
hotel brands advertise «no blackout dates»
for award nights, they still may limit
award availability.
Free
hotel nights are the primary
awards for Ritz - Carlton Rewards points.
You can also get much more value via IHG PointBreaks
awards, which are available at a rotating list of
hotels for 5,000 points a
night.
One must spend
nights at
hotels to move up the ranks of this tier system;
for instance, 25
nights at a participating
hotel awards the status of SPG ® Elite while 50
nights awards the SPG ® Platinum status.
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 hote
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 hote
for every two or more consecutive
nights booked using points at one of their
hotels.
A free
night award chart is being introduced in 2019 where the amount of points required
for a free
night will depend on peak, standard and off - peak pricing at all
hotels.
One benefit of your new Marriott Rewards Premier Plus account is an Anniversary Free
Night Award e-certificate every year after your account anniversary, valid for a one night hotel stay at a property with a redemption level at or under 35,000 points, instead of the category 1 - 4 hotel e-certificate valued up to 20,000 points you received on your Marriott Rewards acc
Night Award e-certificate every year after your account anniversary, valid
for a one
night hotel stay at a property with a redemption level at or under 35,000 points, instead of the category 1 - 4 hotel e-certificate valued up to 20,000 points you received on your Marriott Rewards acc
night hotel stay at a property with a redemption level at or under 35,000 points, instead of the category 1 - 4
hotel e-certificate valued up to 20,000 points you received on your Marriott Rewards account.
Category 1 properties are often available
for as few as 7,500 points, which means your bonus can be enough points
for at least 10
award nights at a Marriott
Hotel.
These points can be used
for award nights at more than 4,200 Hilton
hotels and resorts across the globe.
The Fifth
Night Free
Award is only available
for category 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7
hotels.
50 % Off
Award is valid
for a maximum of up to five consecutive
nights at SPG50 participating
hotels worldwide.
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).
Like most
hotel programs you receive reward points
for hotel stays that can be used
for complementary
nights, upgrades and other
awards.
For meeting that
hotel stay minimum, Platinum Preferred Guest members will receive 10 Suite
Night Awards.
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.
But now there are a handful of IHG
hotels where you can pay $ 90 cash
for a 15,000 IHG point discount on your
award night.
And the
hotel chain has a no «blackout date» policy
for award nights!
You can't even use the upgrades or
hotel credits unless you pay
for your room;
award nights aren't eligible.
For each completed
night in any type of suite, a US$ 100
hotel credit will be
awarded.
For example, my husband and I both hold the Hyatt credit card * ($ 75 annual fee) because we both wanted the sign - up bonus — an annual
award night valid at any Category 1 - 4 Hyatt
hotel.
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.
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.
In the last two days the community has been abuzz with Wyndham's announcement that they're doing away with their
award chart entirely and implementing a new «one size fits all» pricing of 15,000 points per
night for all the
hotel chains in their portfolio.
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.
Hotel, 2
nights, 66,000 Club Carlson points (
for a premium room
award — why not, I have the points);
If you are hoping to see some of the matches in Moscow, which is where the tournament starts and ends, the DoubleTree by Hilton Moscow Airport Vnukovo is one of the few
hotels that still has standard
award nights available
for most of the tournament dates.
This is enough
for one
night at a Category 1 property, and it puts you well on your way to an
award stay at a Category 2
hotel.
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:
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.
I bided my time (i.e. set a
Hotel Hustle
award alert) and finally
award availability opened up
for my second and third
nights in Vienna.
If you're going to open a
hotel credit card, you're better off using it
for award nights.
That makes this one of our favorite cards
for earning
hotel nights and
award airfare.