Loyalty Programs
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World of Hyatt Category Changes for 2019
World of Hyatt has published its annual award chart updates that will take effect on March 18, meaning the number of points required for a free night at some hotels is changing.
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Marriott Hotel Category Changes For 2019
Marriott recently unveiled Marriott Bonvoy, the new loyalty brand replacing Marriott Rewards, The Ritz-Carlton Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG). Now they have announced the first hotel category changes under the new program. This is an annual tradition, but changes this year are much worse than usual. View from the Wing has the number. A…
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Earn 7,000 Bonus Hilton Points with 5-Day Car Rental
Hilton sent out a promotion today that can earn you a bonus of 7,000 Hilton honors points for renting a car for 5 days. Offer Earn 500 Hilton Honors Bonus Points per rental of a completed Qualifying Rental. Plus earn an additional 500 Hilton Honors Bonus Points per rental day for 1-day to 4-day rentals,…
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Marriott Announces New Unified Loyalty Program, Marriott Bonvoy
Marriott today unveiled Marriott Bonvoy, the new loyalty brand replacing Marriott Rewards, The Ritz-Carlton Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG).
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You Have 10 More Days to Book IHG Hotels with Old Prices
At the beginning of the year announces changes to categories for its hotels. I wrote about the changes for this year about a week ago. Those changes were supposed to go into effect on January 14, 2019 but it now looks like has pushed back that date. The changes will now go into effect on 2019.…
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IHG 2019 Point Changes Summary, 696 Hotels Change Categories and 82% Go Up
There’s a total of 696 IHG properties in total will be changing category this year, about the same number as last year. About 82% off hotels that are changing categories, are going up.
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How to Earn Miles and Points Without a Credit Card
If you don’t have a credit card, but still want to earn miles and points, check out these six options that will help you fill up your rewards programs accounts.
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Total Rewards Will Rebrand to Caesars Rewards, Plus New Benefits
Caesars Entertainment will rebrand its popular Total Rewards program to Caesars Rewards in early 2019. You can find the official announcement here. You can visit a Caesars Rewards Center with your valid ID beginning February 1, 2019 in order to get a new Caesars Rewards card printed. New cards will not be mailed to members.…
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Dunkin Warns DD Perks Customers of Data Breach
Dunkin’ Donuts has issued a warning to its ‘DD Perks’ customers, saying a third-party might have gained access to their account information. “Although Dunkin’ did not experience a data security breach involving its internal systems, we’ve been informed that third-parties obtained usernames and passwords through other companies’ security breaches and used this information to log…
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New Apple Ultimate Rewards Store, Use Points at 1¢ Each
Chase has announced the new Apple Ultimate Rewards Store. The newest enhancement to Chase’s rewards platform gives Chase Sapphire, Freedom and Ink cardmembers the ability to redeem points to cover all or a portion of Apple products purchased through Ultimate Rewards. As a special limited time offer, cardmembers can redeem one Ultimate Rewards point for one…
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Amex Membership Rewards Adds Avianca Lifemiles as New Transfer Partner
American Express and Avianca Airlines announced that Card Members enrolled in the Membership Rewards® program can soon transfer Membership Rewards® points to Avianca with LifeMiles.
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Hilton Improves Its Best Rate Guarantee
If you like Hilton then there’s some good news. They have upgraded their Best Rate Guarantee policy and have actually made it better. Chains always try to get you to book directly with them, but price matching is not the easiest feat. With the new changes Hilton jumps ahead of the curve and makes their…
