Normally I try to highlight the hotels around the world that treat loyal guest right, but from time to time you run into hotels that just fail on so many levels. As a loyal Hilton Diamond for over 8 years I have become accustom to the standards of Hilton Hotels.
The Hilton BWI airport is ...
As of January 1, 2013, Hilton will adjust the requirements to qualify for elite status.
To qualify for Gold status: 20 stays, 40 nights, or attain 75,000 Base Points within the calendar year. (it was 16 stays, 36 nights or 60,000 HHonors Base Points)
To qualify for Diamond status: 30 stays, 60 nights, or attain 120,000 Base Points. (it was 28 stays, 60 nights or 100,000 HHonors Base Points)
All other tier level qualifications, as well as elite status received through Hilton HHonors credit cards and partners, will remain the same.
Once again I get to write about how Hilton has taken diamond members and bent them over the check in desk for a good screwing. It shocks me how year after year more and more benefits are taken from Hilton’s top tier of loyal guest. To make matters worse Hilton has also added things to the ...
One of my colleagues was organizing a meeting in San Diego, and she asked me for suggestions as to where to hold it. The places she was considering included the Westin Gaslamp Quarter, the Omni, and the Andaz. I've stayed at the Westin before and its fine, but I encouraged her to look ...
Winner of ‘The Best Hotel in the Czech Republic' for the 4th consecutive year at the TTG Travel awards 2011, the Hilton Prague hotel is still one of my favorite Hilton’s out there. I will also like to award the Hilton Prague with an award of my own, the best Hilton Executive ...
This could be my favorite hotel in the US, as I live in Europe I do not experience many US hotels. I have been a guest at the DoubleTree at SEA airport over 10 times now, and I have to say consistency is this hotels best trait and over the past 4 years I have been impressed with seeing ...
I got status matched to Priority Club Platinum from my Hilton Diamond Status a few weeks back. Tonight is my first stay in an IHG hotel, a Crowne Plaza in the UK.
All I can say is how can people be loyal to this program? What the hell do you get from being a Platinum? I’m ...
As a loyal Hilton Diamond for the past 6 years I think I have reached the point were I’m going to jump ship. Don’t get me wrong there are some real nice Hilton Family hotels out there, and they have hotels all over the world. The VIP treatment is very good in Europe and Asia, but ...
I was a guest at the Hyatt at Dulles airport a few weeks back, I checked in around 930pm and had a king bed room booked. When I walked to the desk I was informed that the hotel was sold out and there was no room with a King bed left.. I really did not care; I just wanted to sleep after a flight ...
I had a wonderful 5 night stay at the Conrad Centennial Singapore back in April. I took advantage of the AMEX awards for 4 nights and one Q3FN (Promotional Free Night). before I get into the details of this stay, all I can say is that I was impressed from the time I arrived till the time I walked ...
Since no one is touching this on UPGRD, I'm coming out of the dark for a moment to fill you in on what you probably already knew.
In the past, most Delta (DL) people have moaned about the relative uselessness of SWUs, formerly known as PMUs. I always felt obligated to use them when ...
With our recent podcast on BMI and the growing interest, I figured i'd share a great promo. Wyndham rewards has recently become a partner of bmi and is offering 5,000 miles per stay, up to a total of 20,000 miles.
Details can be found here.
In the states, this promo includes such fine brands as Howard Johnson, Super 8, Travelodge and Ramada.
This is an amazing return for a small outlay of cash.
Hilton family Reward categories have been updated along with point redemption rates, These changes go into effect January 15, 2010.
Updated reward category 1 2 ...