Sentences with phrase «of award nights»

That is why the cost of an award night at many properties seems high.

While the cost of award nights in terms of points has certainly increased, two nights is still two nights.

19 properties are moving categories with 15 properties seeing the price of award nights increase and 4 properties seeing the cost fall.

Several readers have posted questions on blog posts and social media asking what these sign - up bonuses actually equal in terms of the number of award nights.

Not a bad use of my award nights I'd say!

This is a chain of award nights and flights so complex calculating its exact value is difficult.

This would mean raising the cost of award nights in Category 6 from 22,000 points to about 25,000.

Two properties are going up by two categories and see the cost of an award night go from 15,000 to 38,000 points — a 153 % increase:

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

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.

You should also consider transferring from programs like Marriott and SPG that offer a combination of award nights and airline miles.

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....

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.

The miles we earned for our D.C. stay got us a week's worth of award nights in Europe for a later trip!

It kicks off a flurry of awards nights including Sunday's Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Grammys and the Oscars.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

We're only a little over two weeks into 2018 and we've already been told that the hotel chain is significantly weakening its best rate guarantee and increasing the cost of an award night at 499 properties worldwide.

To arrive at this, we analyzed the cost of award nights in both United States Dollars (USD) and points.

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.

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

The cost of an award night isn't changing so the number of Gold Passport Points you need to book an award at any given category of hotel will be staying the same:

As you can see from the normal cost of an award night (in brackets next to the hotel name), the PointBreaks promotion is offering a discount of between 50 % and 67 % — that's not bad if you happen to want to visit Cali, Medellin or Nairobi.

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!

Not only is this a nice 29 % decrease in the cost of an award night but it's also significant because it means that New York City has another central property (this one is a short walk from Bryant Park) that can be booked for 50,000 points... and that could be great value during busier times.

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.

A 65 % increase in the cost of an award night is a big hit to take and I'm sure that a lot of people will have some favourite hotels in the list of properties that suddenly cost a lot more to visit (Starpoints-wise).

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.

Now I just have to keep my fingers crossed that Hyatt doesn't increase the cost of award nights!

As you can see from the chart, elite status has a large effect on the cost of an award night.