Earn 1,500 Marriott Bonvoy Points With Every Stay Summer 2019
You can earn 1,500 Marriott Bonvoy frequent guest loyalty program points for all stays of a minimum of two consecutive nights — starting with your first stay — at greater than 7,000 participating hotel and resort properties worldwide between Tuesday, July 2, 2019 through Monday, September 16, 2019…
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One Simple Way to Reclaim That Resort Fee Which You Paid
“Would like more information on reclaiming resort fees as referenced in Section 4, please” is what Txrus — who is a reader of The Gate — asked in the Comments section of this article pertaining to four reasons why mandatory resort fees may finally be disappearing, in which I asked, “Did you know that attorneys general in many states in the United States — but not Nevada, in which the practices is widespread in cities such as Las Vegas — have reportedly said that the practice of implementing mandatory resort fees is unlawful; and that guests can reclaim resort fees?”
You only need to spend as few as 60 seconds worth of your time and effort to…
Save 40 Percent in Orlando 2019 With Marriott
You can save 40 percent off of retail room rates — seven days per week — when you stay at your choice of nine different participating resort properties in Orlando between Sunday, August 25, 2019 and Thursday, December 19, 2019…
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Revised June 2019: Redeem 10,000 Hilton Honors Points Per Night at These Hotel and Resort Properties
Four days ago — on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 — I posted this article pertaining to 157 hotel and resort properties through which you can redeem 10,000 Hilton Honors points per reward night; and that article turned out to be inaccurate because the last time this tool from Hilton called Points Explorer was updated was Saturday, May 4, 2019.
Believe it or not, the Points Explorer tool was…
Is Obfuscation of Information the Way to Conduct Business These Days?
The number of companies which seem to use the obfuscation of information as a way to conduct business with consumers seems to be increasing — and not just with companies in the travel industry.
The elimination of award charts by numerous lodging companies and airlines — including…
Save 30 Percent in Hawaii 2019 With Marriott
You can save 30 percent off of retail room rates — seven days per week — when you stay at your choice of ten different participating resort properties in Hawaii between Sunday, August 25, 2019 and Thursday, October 31, 2019…
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Why Are You Surprised That Resort Fees “Provide Real Tangible Value” to You?
You have probably read the astonishment by authors of multiple articles about a quote which was attributed to Vijay Dandapani — who is the chief executive officer of the Hotel Association of New York City — in response to the new policy of Booking.com pertaining to charging commissions to hotel and resort properties which impose mandatory resort fees on their guests, as he actually sees value in mandatory resort fees for hotel guests.
“Resort and urban fees provide real tangible value to the guest and there is plenty of empirical evidence that a majority of guests have no problem with it, and appreciate the value offered…
Redeem Only 10,000 Hilton Honors Points Per Night June 2019 at These Hotel and Resort Properties
In addition to your choice of 23 hotel and resort properties through which you can redeem only 5,000 Hilton Honors points per night, what if I were to tell you that there are no fewer than 157 hotel and resort properties in 18 countries where you can redeem only 10,000 Hilton Honors points per night?
Thanks to this tool from…
4 Reasons Why Mandatory Resort Fees May Finally Be Disappearing
Mandatory resort fees — and their brethren, which include mandatory destination fees and mandatory facilities fees — have been the scourge of the lodging industry in the United States and several other countries…
…but although now is not exactly the time to celebrate — just yet, anyway — evidence exists that the heyday of these nefarious fees may actually be starting to wane; and at least four reasons have been cited…
Save 40 Percent at Westin Resort Properties In Mexico 2019
You can save 40 percent off of retail room rates — seven days per week — when you stay a minimum of three consecutive nights at your choice of three premium Westin Vacation Club resort properties in Cancun or Los Cabos in Mexico from Sunday, August 11, 2019 through Thursday, December 19, 2019…
…but you must…
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