To arrive at this, we analyzed the cost
of award nights in both United States Dollars (USD) and points.
Co-branded hotel credit cards earn points towards free nights at various hotel chains and many offer bonuses
of award nights, elite status and amenities with card membership.
This is a chain
of award nights and flights so complex calculating its exact value is difficult.
Co-branded hotel credit cards earn points towards free nights at various hotel chains and many offer bonuses
of award nights, elite status and amenities with card membership.
The figure below provides a general distribution of the cost
of an award night.
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!
19 properties are moving categories with 15 properties seeing the price
of award nights increase and 4 properties seeing the cost fall.
... which shows that if you buy Starpoints at 1.75 cents each this would be the cost
of an award night at each category:
I know this hotel reasonably well and I can't remember the last time that I saw a night available for 40,000 points so, for the purposes of this calculation, I'm going to use 45,000 points as the cost
of an award night.
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).
The Ritz - Carlton award chart is perfectly linear — the cost
of an award night goes up in cost by 10,000 points per tier — so there are no specific category moves which would see a property's award cost go up or down by more than another's.
Luckily, as I didn't really want to part with any more cash on this trip, there was also plenty
of award night availability (although only if I was happy to book 3 or more nights....
The Marriott Rewards chart is mostly linear in nature — the cost
of an award night goes up in cost by 5,000 points per category (between Cat 1 and Cat 2 the increase is smaller)-- so, unlike Starwood's chart, there are no specific category moves which would see a property's award cost go up or down by more than another's.
There are a lot of positives in here and I suspect that European readers will be delighted to see the cost
of an award night at a number of pretty good Middle Eastern properties coming down.
I always recommend that readers find out the cost of a night at the properties they would like to visit (at the time of year they would like to travel) and then compare that cost to the cost
of an award night paid for with points purchased in this sale.
This would leave Joanna 7,000 points short
of an award night at a top IHG hotel (bad news) but would be enough to boost her existing IHG rewards balance high enough to give her another free night (excellent news)....
Hyatt Gold Passport has announced that, from 1 August 2016, 106 of its hotels will be moving up or down in Gold Passport category meaning that 106 Hyatt hotels will see the cost
of an award night change on that date.
You should also consider transferring from programs like Marriott and SPG that offer a combination
of award nights and airline miles.
As you can see from the chart, elite status has a large effect on the cost
of an award night.
Not a bad use
of my award nights I'd say!
This hotel, however, charges a whopping 80 % of the lowest nightly rate to fill in the cash side
of the award night.
The miles we earned for our D.C. stay got us a week's worth
of award nights in Europe for a later trip!
Instead of setting fixed prices, Marriott Rewards actually gives you added flexibility by allowing you to specify a combination
of award nights and paid nights in a single reservation of two nights or more.
Throwing in that we have status with many chains, many
of our award nights were upgraded to Suites and Premium rooms and thus adding to the amount saved.
I'd also love to know about blackout dates and the availability
of award nights for using the 3 free nights.
It is worth noting that this list represents just over 1 % of Hyatt's 500 + properties, though the price
of these award nights has gone up 36 % from the old Category 6 rates.
This would mean raising the cost
of award nights in Category 6 from 22,000 points to about 25,000.
This number is based on studying dozens
of award night bookings and dividing their cost in US dollars by the cost in Starpoints.
It kicks off a flurry
of awards nights including Sunday's Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Grammys and the Oscars.
Not exact matches
Emma Stone won best actress for the musical, and «Manchester by the Sea» star Casey Affleck was named best actor on a
night where U.S. President Donald Trump was the butt
of numerous jokes, capping a Hollywood
awards season marked by fiery protests at his policies.
Including last
night's nomination for The Wolf
of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated for four acting Academy
Awards (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Aviator, Blood Diamond, WoWS) without taking home a single statue.
Jimmy Fallon took the stage at the MTV Video Music
Awards Sunday
night to present the
award for Video
of the Year, but no one probably expected him to arrive quite like this.
Sunday is Hollywood's biggest
night of the year, when A-list stars will strut down the red carpet before cramming into the Dolby Theatre for the 88th Academy
Awards.
The Marina, Mindarie was named Perth's best hospitality venue at last
night's Western Australian Hospitality
Awards for Excellence, joining the State Buildings and Print Hall as the most recent winners
of the prestigious
award.
Professor Ian Constable AO was the recipient
of the inaugural Sir Charles Court Inspiring Leadership
Award at the 2008 Western Australian Citizen
of the Year
Awards presentation last
night.
Tech firms Today We Learned, Circadyn and FreeWheeler have been named the RAC
of WA SeedSpark winners at an
awards night last week, and have each received a cash prize to fund their projects.
Alkimos Beach and Elizabeth Quay have won top honours at the Urban Development Institute
of Australia's national
awards for excellence, presented in Melbourne last
night.
Hulu, meanwhile, made Emmy history as a streaming service winning the
night's biggest
award, while actress Elisabeth Moss also picked up her first Emmy (after being nominated seven times before, but never winning, for Mad Men and Top
of the Lake) in the Best Actress category for The Handmaid's Tale.
The two streaming services pulled off a bit
of a coup at Sunday
night's Golden Globes, unseating Netflix for streaming supremacy at the
awards show by each winning two
awards despite only being nominated three times apiece.
On Sunday
night, many turned their TVs to CBS thinking they'd get to catch the broadcast
of stars walking the red carpet before the 2018 Grammy
Awards ceremony.
After the dust settled at the 75th annual Golden Globe
Awards, Hulu walked away with two of the night's biggest awards in the television categories, while Amazon saw yet another comedy series crowned a critical darling by the Hollywood Foreign Press Associ
Awards, Hulu walked away with two
of the
night's biggest
awards in the television categories, while Amazon saw yet another comedy series crowned a critical darling by the Hollywood Foreign Press Associ
awards in the television categories, while Amazon saw yet another comedy series crowned a critical darling by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
In accepting the
award, which was announced at the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum in Palm Springs, California on Saturday
night, Weiner said: «Let's toast the risk takers, the job creators, the engines
of economic opportunity everywhere -; entrepreneurs.»
Johnson had been scheduled to attend the Golf Writers Association
of America annual dinner Wednesday
night to accept its
award as male player
of the year.
Congratulations to the editors and writers
of MoneySense magazine for winning Magazine
of the Year at the 34th annual National Magazine
Awards in Toronto last
night.
In fact, all
of the previous 10 best picture winners, prior to last
night's win by The Artist, have grossed the far majority
of their box office money before the Academy
Awards.
But A24, a small independent studio founded in 2012, won the most prestigious
award of the
night with its best picture Oscar for «Moonlight,» a drama about a gay black youth coming to terms with his sexuality in an impoverished Miami neighborhood.
Rival Amazon, which has beefed up its own portfolio
of original content recently, also won a few major
awards that
night for its comedy series Transparent.
But for Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima, the jeers at last
night's Game
Awards were one
of the biggest signals to date that gamers support him unconditionally.
Daniels made his comments on the
night of the 67th Annual Emmy
Awards, for which Empire had received three nominations.
The
award was announced during the Grammy's premiere ceremony in advance
of Sunday
night's show, which can be watched live on Grammy.com starting at 12 p.m. PT / 3 p.m. ET.