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February 4, 2012

Best Credit Cards for Getting Free Hotel Stays

Share I’ve spent a lot of time on this blog helping you get in the air for free with the best airline credit cards.  Today I’ll share some tips on getting free hotels with hotel credit cards. For the sake of this post, I’ll focus on hotel earning opportunities in Honolulu.  Why?  Because I’ve been [...]

Our Hotel Booking Strategy for New Zealand

Share Not surprisingly, when I travel I always like to travel cheap.  While I wish I could report back that I scored the best hotel deals for our  vacation in New Zealand, I was a little disappointed with the results. But they could be worse. We had several thousand ThankYou Reward points from back when [...]

Hotwire Hotels | Tips and Tricks for Booking a Discounted Hotwire Hotel

Share In 2011, our family will be doing more traveling and I wanted to use our upcoming travel planning to offer you some tips on how to get a discount hotel using the hotwire hotels search feature. In our case, we’ll need to be quite selective about the hotel since we will need something with [...]

Ulumani Treetops Rainforest Lodge

Share If you ever get the privilege of visiting Milne Bay Province in Papua New Guinea, you’ll be amazed at the beauty of it all.  Sometimes I just have to pinch myself to make sure this is really my home.  We have been trying to take advantage of the area since we don’t have to [...]

Family Vacations: 7 Advantages of a Condominium or Apartment

Share When you’re vacationing with kids, your accommodations are going to have a huge impact on your vacation experience. In fact, our family is in the process of dreaming up our next vacation.  Here’s the kicker.  We’ve got enough hotel points for 10 nights free hotel (thanks to my Starwood hotel’s points program).  However, anytime [...]

Earn 1,000 AAdvantage points for Hotel Stay

Share The following is from American Airlines: Now through July 31, 2009, when you book your hotel on AA.com, you will earn 1,000 bonus miles for every hotel stay of three or more nights – it’s that easy! And the best part? There are no limits to the amount of hotel stays you can book [...]

Conrad Hotels & Resorts and Waldorf Astoria Promotion

Share I received the following email from a reader from Hilton Hotels, http://www.hiltonluxury.com/Escape/: Close to 90% of travel agents said their clients are looking for a good deal on vacation travel this year, according to an American Express survey.  And this summer, good deals won’t be hard to find. The challenging economy has prompted hotels, [...]

I’m Enjoying A FREE Hotel This weekend

Share As you are reading this I am celebrating my nine year anniversary with my wonderful wife.  We are just north of Toronto in a place called Vaughan.  The best part of all?  We have a free hotel at the Vaughan-Southwest Holiday Inn Express and Suites. Had we not used our Priority Club points here [...]

3 Stays at Select Wyndham Hotels = 10,000 Bonus Delta Miles

Share Here is what Delta has to say about the Wyndham and Delta promotion: Earn more than 10,000 miles when you stay at three brands that participate in the Wyndham Rewards loyalty program from May 14 – September 10, 2009. There are 11 brands to choose from and over 6,000 locations– from affordable hotels off [...]

How to Get As Many As 20,000 Starpoints Without a Hotel Stay

Share Here is what the TD Ameritrade Site has to say: TD AMERITRADE has teamed up with Starwood Preferrred Guest to bring you a special offer. Open and fund a TD AMERITRADE account by June 30, 2009, and earn up to 20,000 Starpoints. The more you deposit, the more points you earn. Start earning Starpoints [...]