Richard Branson purchased with partners Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas back in March 2018 and are currently in a process of converting it to a Virgin Hotels (expect the conversion to be complete sometime in 2020).
Hilton made an announce yesterday that this hotel would become part of its Curio Collection and Honors loyalty program once open.
Today’s Airfare of the Day goes to Delta and their premium economy sell-up round trip fares between New York and Barcelona, on Air France operated flights via CDG.
Remember that you can always email me or send me a message via Facebook or Twitter with your airfare-related findings or questions.
A LoyaltyLobby reader sent us an email about IHG Rewards Club InterContinental Royal Ambassador to Ambassador downgrade that he had received despite spending considerable amount of time and money at ICs in 2018.
Remember that you can always email us, send a message via Facebook or use Twitter and include photos too. We’ll try to cover Reader Questions & Comments here several times a week.
Our Whine Wednesday topic this week is about airlines that still squeeze passengers into middle seats even though they are booked in premium cabins, especially Business Class.
Nowadays most airlines changed to a 1-2-1 configuration for their current generation Business Class but there are still plenty of carriers that don’t offer single seats and – even worse – have a 3/4 seater middle seating section.
Radisson Rewards launched at the beginning of this month a Weekends sale for stays in Europe, Middle East and Africa through December 29, 2019 that ends on Thursday (January 31).
Members can save up to 30% off of Friday, Saturday & Sunday nights stays (Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the Middle East) if booked by January 31.
United Airlines leadership team appears to understand that they have an issue with customer satisfaction (don’t all US legacies?).
Now, United’s leadership has decided to turn the service/experience around and make sure customers feel it (I am starting feel scared at this point – don’t want to get hurt).
Marriott Rewards has launched an Advance Purchase Rate for stays at select hotels in Japan.
Members that book anywhere 14 to 90 days in advance can save up to 30% off of their stay.
There are weekly if not daily reports of misbehaving passengers on flights (we don’t often cover them) and they occasionally result in diversions to get the difficult people off the flight.
We rarely learn if there were any penalties applied for the significant diversion costs. Now we know what one WestJet passenger was ordered to pay who went crazy on a WS1 flight from Calgary to London Gatwick.
Hilton Honors launched back in December their Asia-Pacific up to 35% off sale for stays through September 30, 2019 that is ending on Saturday this week (February 2).
The sale offers rates that are anywhere 5% to 25% off of Best Available Rates (BAR) and Hilton Honors members are eligible for an additional 10% off (excluding Greater China).
Le Club AccorHotels runs Private Sales in Europe, Australasia, Middle East, South America and Asia weekly unless there is a global Super or Private Sale going on.
Le Club AccorHotels revamped these Private Sale pages months ago and content is gone from some while still available on others.
Today’s Airfare of the Day goes to Turkish Airlines and their business class excursion round trip fares between Toronto and Venice.
Remember that you can always email me or send me a message via Facebook or Twitter with your airfare-related findings or questions.
We were in contact with a reader who currently has trouble with World of Hyatt trying to use his Explorist Club Upgrades after he booked a “Third Night Free” promotional rate advertised on Hyatt’s own website.
Hyatt claims that his rate in ineligible to use the annual Club Upgrade Certificates even though booked through their own channels which doesn’t make any sense.
Hilton Honors made several changes to its program in early 2018 (read more here) and one of the enhancements was the ability of certain Diamond members to gift Gold or Diamond status.
Members that reach 60 nights during their membership year can gift Gold status and once they hit 100 nights Diamond (if they gifted God previously this status will be upgraded). The deadline to gift the status based on the 2018 membership is on thursday this week (January 31).
JetBlue has launched a new buy & gift 50% bonus campaign for purchases made through February 4, 2019.
Members can both buy and receive up to 120,000 TrueBlue points every calendar year. You can buy up to 30,000 TrueBlue points per transaction (can do several) before any possible bonus.
