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Valentine’s Day Destination of the Week: Paris

February 10, 2012

TPG Managing Editor Eric takes us to the City of Lights for a bit of a romantic twist for Destination of the Week. As Valentine’s Day approaches, we thought we’d pick one of the world’s most romantic cities as our next Destination of the Week: Paris. Paris needs no introduction. A center of culture and [...]

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Intercontinental Bora Bora 2 Bedroom Suites for Only 30k Points a Night

January 19, 2012

Priority Club is in the process of changing the number of points needed to redeem for free nights (read: they are increasing the amount of points needed to book many hotels). 40,000 used to be the maximum amount of points needed for an Intercontinental, but as of today many are now at 50,000. However, it [...]

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Rooms Now Bookable for Chicago Seminars

January 11, 2012

As mentioned last week, I am currently working with Rick, The Frugal Travel Guy, to organize this year’s frequent flyer Seminars, which will take place in Chicago from October 12-14. You can now book rooms at the host hotel, the Holiday Inn Elk Grove Village. Registration for the actual seminar isn’t yet open because we [...]

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List of Reduced Price Hotel Promo Awards

November 24, 2011

Several hotel loyalty programs have discounted award nights, which are rotating lists of hotels that will let you redeem free nights for a fraction of the points needed regularly. Priority Club just updated their list, so I thought I’d list include the others as well: Priority Club PointBreaks: Free nights for only 5,000 Priority Club [...]

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Maximize Your Points and Miles This Holiday Shopping Season

November 21, 2011

One of the easiest ways to rack up a ton of points is by shopping online. Airline and credit card shopping portals make it very easy – all you have to do is click their simple link to your retailers website and they’ll automatically kick you back a certain number of points (usually based on [...]

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Reminder: Get Points and Miles From Everyday Dining

November 8, 2011

Dining programs are free, easy ways to earn miles. Every single one of your debit and credit cards should be registered to a participating program–if not, take a couple minutes and sign-up for some. Once your credit cards are linked to a program, you’ll automatically earn miles every time you visit a participating restaurant. I [...]

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Free Points for Using Topguest

October 3, 2011

Free points are my favorite kind, so I cherish an opportunity to build my balances without breaking the wallet- unless it takes up a lot of my time. Topguest is a way to get free points just by using social media sites Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter, Gowalla and Instagram. The whole concept is that hotels want [...]

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Sunday Reader Email Question: Can I Get Points for Booking Corporate Travel?

September 25, 2011

TPG reader Adam writes: “My girlfriend recently got a job as a receptionist. She’ll be doing all of the travel booking for the company … however, individuals will be using their corporate credit cards to book. Are there any rewards programs (hotel, air, or AmEx) that allow assistants to make points for choosing that hotel/air program [...]

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How to Use Hotel Elite Status to Force Room Availability

September 20, 2011

I’ve been a top-tier member of multiple hotel chains over the years and there’s one benefit I’ve never used – the guaranteed room availability perk that is included with many of them. Generally, I book my travel in advance and I can usually find ways to get a reasonably priced room at my preferred property. [...]

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Sunday Reader Email Question: Which Hotel Credit Card is Best?

July 31, 2011

TPG reader Evan writes: “I don’t travel very often for my job but I am very good, thanks to you, at getting a lot of miles via my credit card to use for a nice vacation or two every year (usually one big and one small). I spend about 20-30K a year on my credit [...]

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My Ranking and Strategy With the Current Chase Credit Cards

July 19, 2011

Chase announced a new United card, “The Explorer,” and the deal is a bit of a dud – with a 25,000 point sign-up bonus, 10,000 for spending $25,000 a year and 5,000 points for adding an additional user. There are some decent benefits for those who don’t have elite status on United, but want enhanced service [...]

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Intercontinental Madrid Royal Ambassador Experience and Junior Suite Review

July 7, 2011

As I mentioned last week, I’m a brand-spanking-new Intercontinental Royal Ambassador, due to a very generous TPG reader. Being very anxious to try out my new status, I decided to split my 5 days in Madrid to 1 night at the Intercontinental, 3 at the Westin Palace (my Madrid go-to property) and one more at [...]

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How to Maximize Priority Club Points and Save on Stays

July 2, 2011

As a new Intercontinental Royal Ambassador, I’ve been trying to figure out the ins and outs of the Priority Club and Ambassador programs so I can pay as little as possible for my stays and earn the maximum amount of points possible. While every hotel chain has its quirks, I’m finding that maximizing Priority Club [...]

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My Intercontinental Royal Ambassador Tenure Begins

June 29, 2011

A couple months ago a super generous TPG reader offered me a nomination to Intercontinental Hotel Group’s Royal Ambassador program. To be honest, I had always heard about this program, but always wrote it off because I never stay at Intercontinental Hotels. I can usually maintain top tier elite status on Hyatt and Starwood, so [...]

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$75 MasterCard Giftcard Rebate for Priority Club/Intercontinental Hotel Group Weekend Stays

May 24, 2011

From now until August 31, 2011, you can earn a $75 MasterCard giftcard when you stay at a Intercontinental Hotel Group property (Intercontinental, Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, Hotel Indigo, Staybridge Suites, Candlewood Suites) for two consecutive weekend nights. Register here. This can also be stacked with their double points and 15k promotions (and any others they decide [...]

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Amazing Deal: Chase Sapphire Preferred 50,000 Point Bonus and First Year Fee Waived

May 16, 2011

Update: Sapphire Preferred sign-up bonus offer is now reduced to 40,000 points. Capitalizing on lucrative credit card offers is the foundation to any robust points strategy. In the past two months I’ve banked over 350,000 points from leveraging my credit- 100,000 points for the Amex Platinum, 100,000 for the British Airways Visa, 150,000 for Citi [...]

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New Priority Club PointBreaks List for Stays Thru July 30, 2011

May 10, 2011

It’s been speculated that Priority Club would be discontinuing their uber-discounted “PointBreaks”  hotel promotion, where you can get free nights for a mere 5,000 Priority Club points. However, Priority Club just announced a new list of properties that are available for booking from now until July 30, 2011. There are a decent number of nice [...]

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Priority Club Double Points or Miles Promo 2011: May 16-Aug 15

May 6, 2011

From May 16 – August 15, you can earn double points or miles on all Priority Club hotels (Intercontinental, Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, Hotel Indigo, Staybridge and Candlewood Suites). While this isn’t the most revolutionary promotion of all time, PC points can add up when you stack them with all of their other promos, like [...]

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Cheap Priority Club Points on Sale Today at Noon

April 27, 2011

Today’s installment of Daily Getaways are several packages of Priority Club points. These points can be redeemed for all Intercontinental/Priority Club (Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, Indigo, etc) with the lowest Point Breaks hotels going for 5,000 points a night and the nicest Intercontinental properties cost 40,000 points a night. As with the other auctions, these [...]

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Up to 5 Free Hyatt Nights With Chase Sapphire Preferred – Waived Annual Fee

March 29, 2011

UPDATE: 50,000 point Sapphire Preferred sign-up bonus offer is no longer available. Chase is now waiving the $95 annual fee for the Sapphire Preferred and offering 25,000 Ultimate Rewards points when you spend $3,000 in the first three months. While it is not widely publicized, Ultimate Rewards points transfer to Hyatt, Continental, British Airways, Marriott and [...]

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Hilton Announces Vanilla Spring Promotion

March 25, 2011

Hilton announced their April 1 – June 30 promotion and it’s pretty boring if you ask me. The promotion is a straightforward 1,000 extra points per night, up to 91,000 points during the promotion period. Registration is required. While it is certainly better than nothing, I think this promotion is much less generous than Hyatt and probably [...]

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Priority Club Spring Promotion – Up to 15,000 Bonus Points

March 24, 2011

Between April 1 and June 30, Priority Club is rewarding their members with up to 15,000 points. To put this in perspective, a free night at a top tier hotel is 40,000 points, so this promotion is a nice little bump, but nothing to get wildly excited about. One of the major aspects that I [...]

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The Venetian/Palazzo Joins Priority Club Hotel Rewards Program

March 23, 2011

While I’m not the biggest fan of Las Vegas, I always end up going there a couple of times a year, whether I like it or not (and free flights certainly help!). However, I’m always disappointed at the number and quality of points earning hotels. There are very few of the major hotels participating in [...]

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Priority Club PointBreaks List for March and April Published

March 1, 2011

The March and April PointBreaks list is now live and while it’s not very exciting, I think it’s a little bit better than the last round which had no InterContinental properties. This time there are three: San Jose Costa Rica, Merida Mexico, and Aqaba Jordan. Not the hottest destinations, but not bad for only 5,000 [...]

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