It’s Amazon Prime Day and these great travel products are on sale! If you fly coach often (or have a frequent flier in your life that does), here are some great travel products and gadgets I recommend to help make your next economy class flight more enjoyable (or at … [Read more...]
Good Deal for Road Trippers: Choice Hotels Free Night Promotion Returns
If a lengthy road trip is in your plans this spring, take a look at this new promotion. The Choice Hotels free night promotion is back. Officially called "Stay Two Times, Earn a Free Night", the promotion accrues one award night per two stays. Now through April 27, … [Read more...]
Make the Most of Triple HHonors Points Promotion, Now Through January 31
Earlier this year, Hilton announced its annual 4th quarter promotion. This time, the promotion featured double HHonors points for any booking at any Hilton-family property through December 31. Furthermore, guests could earn triple HHonors points for stays booked … [Read more...]
Earn a Free Alaska Airline Flight after Just Two Flights
Alaska Airlines offers among the BEST ski promotions of any airlines each year, teaming up with resorts to offer free skiing and snowboarding around the Western United States. Each year Alaska Airlines travelers are rewarded with free lift tickets, discounted hotel … [Read more...]
Four “Free” Nights at Atlantis in the Bahamas Could Be Very Costly
View from the Wing shared a deal on Wednesday, in which the Atlantis casino in the Bahamas is offering some people four free nights at its resort if you complete six hours of "rated" play. I've heard good things about Atlantis and know a few family friends who have been … [Read more...]
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Is Still Blocking Award Redemptions
Most hotel loyalty programs guarantee award nights will be available whenever a "standard room" is available for sale. Ordinarily this policy works great. Who can argue with no blackout nights? Hyatt Gold Passport Free Night Awards apply when standard rooms are … [Read more...]
Hilton US Summer Weekend Flash Sale
Hilton is having a 72 hour flash weekend Summer sale and is discounting rooms across the United States by 15% for the last two weekends of Summer! With only two weekends left until most kids go back to school, this could be your final chance to soak up some rays, … [Read more...]
This Mistake Cost One Hotel Guest 90,000 Points (and Possibly More)
Link-bait headline aside, I wasn't quite sure how else to describe this story. FlyerTalk member zaunstar was staying at an InterContinental hotel in Beijing for 34 nights and had a final hotel bill of over $9,000. Anticipating this when he checked in, he signed up for … [Read more...]
Seahawks 12th Man discount – 12% off Alaska Airline Flights To/From Washington State
Washington residence rejoice! First Alaska Air added flights to Phoenix for the Super Bowl, then they gave away a number of tickets for Russell Wilson’s Fan Flight II, and now Alaska Airlines is taking 12% off all flights to and from Washington, because we are ALL … [Read more...]
Are Loyalty Programs Without Blackout Dates Always Better?
Why don't airlines like Southwest and JetBlue have award charts that spell out the cost of their frequent flier awards? Charts make it easier to determine the cost of an award redemption: for example, knowing that you'll need 60,000 miles for a roundtrip economy ticket … [Read more...]
