I’ve been receiving a lot of queries about the HDFC Bank Diners Club credit cards of late, and the list of transfer partners. Here is a list of transfer partners valid across all the three variants of the card.
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I am loving the HDFC Bank Diners Club Black Credit Card
HDFC Bank Diners Club Credit Cards come with an unexpected benefit. Tonnes of targetted and secular reward point promotions. Here is a low down on some of them, and how to make the most of it.
Marriott Rewards Gold for just 4 stays!
Marriott Rewards offerred their Gold Status for two years for just 4 stays. It was an irresistable offer to pick up and had to be taken! More details inside!
My 2015 Indian Credit Cards Mileage Earning Strategy
Credit Cards play a huge role in earning miles in the current scenario around India. Here are all the credit cards I am spending on currently, along with my rationale for each of the credit cards. Have a look.
Took me a month to get my Citi Prestige 4th night free benefit!
Citibank offers the 4th night free benefit, which is one of the real money saving aspects of this lifestyle card. However, it took them a month for a simple reservation to be made for me. Here are the details about this botch up from Citibank.
Club Carlson devalues most of their award chart, except India
Club Carlson just put their redemption chart on fire, and here are all the details about the devaluation coming up June 1, 2015. The good news is, if you are looking to stay at an Indian property, your redemptions mostly got much cheaper.
The Novice Perspective: identifying my travel style
Shipra is my fiancée and the first of contributors at the blog. She has worked with one of the largest airline conglomerates in the world, and is now based in Mumbai. Shipra has lived, worked and travelled across 4 continents. We travel often enough, together and separately. These are her perspectives, as she gets used to the world of business and leisure travel and our hobby! The Novice Perspective: Initiating my Fiancée to Points & Miles The Novice Perspective: Getting used to Airport Lounges The Novice Perspective: Benefiting from hotel loyalty programs The Novice Perspective: Maximising hotel promotions is a fun game! The Novice Perspective: Choosing credit cards to fuel the travel passion The Novice Perspective: Airline loyalty pays off…
Hotel Review: Holiday Inn Resort, Goa
IHG’s only resort property in India, which turned out into a very underwhelming stay with a devil may care attitude from the staff. They are in the hotels business, not in the hospitality business, my take!
The Novice Perspective: What is your motivation to travel?
Shipra is my fiancée and the first of contributors at the blog. She has worked with one of the largest airline conglomerates in the world, and is now based in Mumbai. Shipra has lived, worked and travelled across 4 continents. We travel often enough, together and separately. These are her perspectives, as she gets used to the world of business and leisure travel and our hobby! The Novice Perspective: Initiating my Fiancée to Points & Miles The Novice Perspective: Getting used to Airport Lounges The Novice Perspective: Benefiting from hotel loyalty programs The Novice Perspective: Maximising hotel promotions is a fun game! The Novice Perspective: Choosing credit cards to fuel the travel passion The Novice Perspective: Airline loyalty pays off…
JetPrivilege offering 20% bonus to convert Card & Hotel points to miles
c JetPrivilege, Jet Airways’ frequent flyer program, runs a campaign to offer you a bonus for all your points (credit card points etc.) to be converted into miles. In 2013, they offered a 20% bonus on converting hotel points to miles, apart from a credit card conversion bonus of a similar amount. They’d have run higher promotions in the past, and in 2012 it used to be 25% bonuses. The promotion is back, albeit for a limited time, for 2015, and this time around, JetPrivilege is offering 20% extra miles for your conversion of points to JP miles. The conversion bonuses run between March 2, 2015 to March 31, 2015. Which means any request that gets completed within this time…
SPG announces 2015 category changes: India gets lots of category downgrades
It is that time of the year when hotel loyalty programs make adjustments to their hotel categories. The category of a hotel depicts how many loyalty points should your be charged to stay at the hotel, or how many points required for cash+points and so on. Very recently, Hyatt adjusted their category charts, and a lot of India hotels dropped a category down. Here is a full list of all the hotels [PDF] which are going to be adjusted. I read that 22% of the hotels are going to be impacted by this move, which means if you have an award stay upcoming you should be interested in this. The new prices go into effect as of March 10, 2015,…
