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Reminder : 40,000 IHG Rewards Club points just to register & stay 3 times!

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IHG’s most interesting promotion is the Book Direct promotion where you can earn 40,000 points by just completing 3 stays in 2017. You get 1000 points just to register. Not just that, I maximized this offer last year by combining it with Accelerate and earning 75,000 points. Here’s how you can do it too.

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What? I paid more tax on my hotel stay in India than in UK or Ireland??

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I am red all over my face seething with some sort of pent-up anger. I’ve just discovered that luxury is taxed differently in the western world as compared to India as compared to south-east Asia, and boo-yeah, we are paying a lot more taxes on those hotel stays now as compared to earlier. Nice moneygrab, eh?

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An English Summer: Introduction

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In this edition of The English Summer, Shipra & I travel to the UK and onwards to Ireland for some rest & recuperation in luxury. We flew some new airline this time around, and stayed at a few new luxury hotels. Check out the trip report which spans U2, Hyatt Regency London, InterContinental Dublin, JW Marriott Sahar Mumbai and Park Hyatt Goa Resort & Spa along with travel on Air India and British Airways.

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Earn a free night at Category 9 Marriott Hotels

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Marriott Rewards is running a social media promotion where you can earn up to 45,000 points, good for a Category 9 redemption, by clicking and tapping your fingers. They are giving away 1,000 points just for connecting and following them on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Here are all the details you need to know.

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