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.
On Sunday
night, Chancelor Bennett, more commonly known as Chance the Rapper,
used his worship - filled performance to bring Jesus to the center of an
awards show known for anything but...
On Sunday
night, Chancelor Bennett, more commonly known as Chance the Rapper,
used his worship - filled performance to bring Jesus to the center of an
awards show known for anything but its spiritual influence.
Most notably, Paul Thomas Anderson accepting the Robert Altman
Award for ensemble cast
on Inherent Vice where he
used his time to dis American Airlines (a major sponsor of the event) for losing his luggage (read more of our favorite Spirit
Award moments from last
night).
«' Stand Up for Something» also was
used at the CNN Heroes Event, the NAACP Image
Awards, the ACLU Bill of Rights Gala, the LA Women's March and, just last
night, to bring attention to immigration rights
on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
We went
on to talk about the process she
uses to program her festival's dynamic indie films; why she includes indie cartoons in the mix (and how she discovered The Bum Family); and the non-intuitive, but decidedly wonderful, idea to honor both John Sayles and Tommy Chong at this year's festival, Chong
on opening
night and Sayles at the Sierra Spirit
Awards and gala
on May 27).
While antiwar sentiment ran high among both festival participants and Park City locals (some of the biggest cheers during the closing
night award ceremony were for Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tilda Swinton, and Darren Aronofsky, who
used the opportunity to get the antiwar message beyond Park City to viewers watching the festivities
on Sundance Channel), apparently no one considered the possibility of closing down the festival in protest (à la Cannes in 1968) or accepting his or her
award in the name of peace.
You also get a free weekend
night rewards when you
use your card to spend $ 15,000
on eligible purchases in a calendar year, and a second weekend
night award when you reach a total of $ 60,000 in purchases.
On Saturday night, a thought struck me: we were scheduled to head home the next day on AirTran, by way of award tickets booked through Southwest, using points transferred from Ultimate Reward
On Saturday
night, a thought struck me: we were scheduled to head home the next day
on AirTran, by way of award tickets booked through Southwest, using points transferred from Ultimate Reward
on AirTran, by way of
award tickets booked through Southwest,
using points transferred from Ultimate Rewards.
Most importantly, you'll get 4 new Club Lounge Access
awards, which can each be
used on a stay up to 7
nights long.
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.
Fortunately, if you want to redeem at a hotel that costs more than your free
night, you can choose the pay the difference in cash rather than leave money
on the table or be forced to hunt for one where you could
use the exact value of the
award.
The ability to buy points with a 20 % discount could be useful but I don't think I'd get as much
use out of the 4th
night free
on award stays as I'd like to — my IHG stays tend to be 2 - 3
nights in length and a 4th
night would, ordinarily, be more than I needed... I'd be staying somewhere for the sake of staying.
The 4th
night free
on award stays would be a very nice bonus to have and, if you can
use this at one of the better IHG properties, it would save you 70,000 every time you
used it — that's a value of $ 280.
I'm not sure why the credit card bonus
nights can be
used at Miraval but not these
awards, and it's especially surprising considering that Miraval is now one of the brands
on the «Brand Explorer» tracking page.
The promotion allows Starwood Preferred Guest members to save points by being refunded 30 %, 40 %, or 50 % of Starpoints
used on Free
Night Awards at 21 of the program's resorts in the U.S. and Canada.
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.
The flip side of this is that you should never
use this option
on stays of exactly five
nights, nor should you
use it
on longer stays in a way that brings your overall
award nights down to four.
Having options for
using your hard - earned points and miles is always great, and while Marriott's Cash + Points rate differs from the rate offered by other chains, it's a nice way to combine
award nights and paid
nights on a single reservation.
Until about 48 hours prior to departure, I was set
on using my Korean Air
award ticket — which I paid 62,500 Skypass miles for by transferring from my Chase Ultimate Rewards account at a 1:1 ratio — however, those flight times were pretty inconvenient and I would have had to spend the
night in Seoul.
The exact type of
award rooms depend
on the property, and you'll notice that there may be options to
use points plus a cash copay per
night for an upgraded room.
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».
If the hotel you want is in the contiguous US or Canada, that means that you and your partner can
use the 50,000 miles to each fly for free
on saver
award tickets
on an airline like American Airlines, and then have five free hotel
nights at your destination.
As my first hotel in Tallinn
on my Baltic Explorer trip, I selected the Radisson Blu Sky,
using points of the Club Carlson program and the Bonus
Award Night feature of my US Bank Visa card (no longer available).
Winners
on the
night included Supercell, which took home the New IP and Independent Studio
award, Thomas was Alone creator Mike Bithell won
Use of Narrative, while Epic Games» took home the Engine.