Starwood

Starwood Preferred Guest sent out a targeted email to elite members who have already achieved Gold or Platinum status this year offering them a $25 certificate off anything that can be charged to their room on a future stay including things like in-room movies, spa treatments and room service. You can actually choose between the [...]

One of the best features of Starwood Preferred Guest points is the ability to transfer them to over 30 airline partners and to score a 5,000-mile bonus for every 20,000 points you transfer. But one question that comes up time and again is, how long exactly does it take for those transfers to go through? [...]

Update: The 30,000-point bonus is no longer available. The bonus is now 25,000 points for the Starwood Amex business and personal cards. Most airline and hotel programs charge steep fees for transferring points and miles to other people, while some have unique family account features. Starwood is one of the most flexible, because it allows members to transfer points [...]

Update: The 30,000-point bonus is no longer available. The bonus is now 25,000 points for the Starwood Amex business and personal cards. One of the best-known and most talked-about features of the Starwood Preferred Guest program is the ability to transfer points to over 30 airline partners at a 1:1 ratio, and the 5,000-mile bonus you get on transfers [...]

Update: The 30,000-point bonus is no longer available. The bonus is now 25,000 points for the Starwood Amex business and personal cards. Starwood just announced the details of their Fall Promotion, Better by the Night, which will run from October 1 through December 20, 2012. Registration is not open yet, but you can sign up for a text message reminder [...]