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Every year, I enlist the credit cards I am using and the ones I am junking. Here is the list of cards in my pocket at this point of time. I’m surely on the look out for more opportunities to earn miles and points, so help me filter this list further to make it better!
Starwood is not yet merged with Marriott, but they have a new proposal on the table for a much higher cash amount. Will the board of Starwood choose this deal over the Marriott one?
Hello from Mumbai, where we are almost set to bid goodbye to February 2016.
It has been a week catching up on a lot of loyalty program changes apart from new stuff that has been coming up about promotions from Etihad and IHG. Also, there is a big JPMiles Giveaway inside.
Here is hoping you will find the posts useful.
The season for hotel category adjustments is here and while we have shared with you the changes for IHG and Marriott, now Starwood has announced its category changes for 2016. The change will come in to effect from March 1, 2016. As a quick reminder Starwood hotels globally range between categories 1 to 7 and operate under the following brand names. Global Impact Overall 282 Starwood hotels have been affected this year with the category change. 168 hotels are going up and 114 are going down the index, clearly indicating that overall the Starwood portfolio has gotten expensive. The regions with maximum number of increases are US, Europe and Asia and there have been significant category decreases in Canada, Russia…
Hello from Nashik, where we are for the long weekend.
It has been a week catching up on some loyalty program news, but mostly about the #redcarpettrip and other trip reports which we have added to the blog.
Here is hoping you will find the posts useful.
Hilton HHonors has been offering a liberal status match promotion, which will get you up to HHonors Diamond status all the way till March 2017.
Here is how to get in on the promotion and submit your information for a status match. But act fast, because the opportunity is only open till January 11, 2016.
In 2015, I spent time at 7 luxury resorts in the hills and on beaches, apart from many other hotels in cities over the year. Here are some of the best resort experiences we had over 2015, all the way from India to Bora Bora to Maldives!
HDFC Bank Diners Club has some great promotions for travel and dining, which makes it a great card to hold in your wallet if you want to earn miles and points in India.
However, as I found out over the last quarter of 2015, they have an incredibly bureaucratic and clueless team to deal with the transfer, and the process is manual and very irritating. It took me over 2 months to get my points transferred from HDFC Bank’s point currency to the mileage programs I wanted them transferred in.
Do read through this before you decide to pick up these cards, and perhaps we can compare notes in the Comments section?
Shipra and myself just got back from a megatrip over 22 days, where we flew Singapore Airlines Suites Class, the Etihad Apartments, went to Los Angeles, Bora Bora, Las Vegas, Dallas, Washington D.C. and New York and had some amazing experiences.
This is a recap of the trip in pictures, while we get set to post an elaborate trip report for you, along with all the details!
Hyatt Gold Passport last night announced on Twitter the offer to give an outright status match to top-tier members of competing hotel chain’s loyalty programs. This helps you to Hyatt Diamond status till March 2017, along with 4 suite upgrades which can be confirmed at the time of reservation and some other nice perks.
Here is how to help yourself to the diamond status by making an application to Hyatt Gold Passport.
Indian Loyalty Programme Expert Ajay Awtaney walks you through the good and mostly bad of the Taj Inner Circle Program which has been revamped today and hides a lot of not so good changes under some good enhancements.
