IHG Into The Nights Promo Being Honored… Mostly

IHG Rewards Club has one of the most lucrative (and complicated) fall hotel promotions, entitled Into the Nights. It’s valid for stays between September 4 and December 31, 2014, and through the promotion you have to complete various "tasks" in order to earn the highest bonus.

Here's what my original bonus offer looked like:

However, as I wrote about yesterday, IHG seems to have changed the terms of the promotion for many members mid-promotion.

In my case, for example, the requirement went from having to download the IHG App and make one booking in order to "unlock" that bonus, to having to make five bookings through the app. That's a huge change, obviously.

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Scheduled To Fly Lufthansa? Here’s What You Need To Know

If you were supposed to fly on a Lufthansa flight canceled because of the pilots strike, here's how to make the best of a bad situation.



from Travel Feedly http://www.ibtimes.com/if-your-flight-was-canceled-because-lufthansa-strike-know-your-rights-1708115

Should the Details of Your Hotel Stay Remain Private? Should They Be Kept Easily Accessible to Police?

The Supreme Court has granted cert in the case of City of Los Angeles v. Patel, meaning they will consider the Los Angeles regulation requiring hotels make guest records available to police for inspection. The lawsuit is a ‘facial challenge’ to the regulation, meaning it argues the regulation is always unconstitutional as a violation of […]

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Airberlin’s Changing Routes — What This Means For Award Travelers

According to Airlineroute.net, there’s good news and bad news to report about oneworld member airberlin. The bad news: effective May 4, 2015, airberlin is canceling its Berlin Tegel – Miami route, which currently operates four times a week. Dusseldorf – Miami operations appear to remain unchanged. The good news? Airberlin has also announced that they […]



from Frugal Travel Guy http://www.frugaltravelguy.com/2014/10/airberlin-cancels-berlin-miami-route-expands-operations-from-dusseldorf.html

T Magazine: A New Short Film, Starring James Franco, From the Artist Daniel Arsham

Premiering exclusively here, the new collaboration between the two talents depicts the end of the world as they know it.

















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Hotel Review: Radisson Martinique, New York – Club Level

For our recent strategy meeting in New York, the TPG team checked into a variety of hotels around the city. Lifestyle Editor Shayne Benowitz stayed at the Radisson Martinique on Broadway. Here’s her review. Stay tuned for more New York City hotel reviews. My cab turned onto the bustling, slightly chaotic corner of Broadway and […]



from The Points Guy http://thepointsguy.com/2014/10/hotel-review-radisson-martinique-new-york-club-level/

Here’s a new customer service award you’ll actually use

from Elliott http://elliott.org/blog/new-customer-service-award-youll-really-use/

Armchair Inventory Management

I'd like to think that for the most part my blog isn't about drawing conclusions, but rather about starting conversations. For example, earlier I posted about airberlin discontinuing flights between Miami and Berlin. I wasn't saying it was a bad move, but rather just explained why I found it strange.

This post will be different, as I'm going to draw a conclusion -- American's revenue management got a route wrong. Really, really wrong. Even more so than they got award availability between London and New York wrong last weekend. ;)

As I posted about back in June, American will be adding one daily nonstop flight between Tampa and Los Angeles as of November 6, 2014. Currently Delta operates in the market with two daily nonstop flights. It's probably not the most lucrative market in the world, but presumably Delta does decently well between passengers traveling to Los Angeles, other parts of California, Asia, and Australia.

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12 signs your husband is Mexican

#10) You’ve achieved the highest form of respect in Mexico: You love spicy food.



from Matador Network » Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/12-signs-husband-mexican/

Louisiana, Three Ways: NOLA

Homegrown, unique, and thoroughly wonderful, Louisiana has a character all its own. "[It's] is another country," local historian Charles Chamberlain says. "But you better see it soon; who knows how long it’s going to last.” By the time Thomas Jefferson bought the land from Napoleon in that 1803 geopolitical fire sale, he explains, this French colony was well populated with French and Spanish immigrants, refugees from Haiti, and Congolese slaves, all of whom had seeded the land with their cultures, foods, and traditions. Here's a look at New Orleans.



from Intelligent Travel http://intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com/2014/10/20/louisiana-three-ways-nola/

In Transit Blog: Walkabout: Ebola Stokes Fears Among Travelers; Picasso Museum in Paris Reopens

A weekly capsule of travel news curated by our writers and editors.

















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Historic Loss May Follow Rise of Rents in Barcelona

After 20 years’ warning of an impending rent increase, there is 11th-hour resistance to small shops’ being pushed from historic districts by an inundation of international brands.





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Today Only: 50% Bonus On Choice Privileges Points

Choice Privileges is offering a flash sale on the purchase of points through 5PM EST today, Monday, October 20, 2014. Through this promotion they're offering a 50% bonus on the purchase of Choice points.

Ordinarily you can purchase at most 20,000 Choice Privileges points per account per calendar year, though through this promotion that cap is lifted to 50,000 points, plus the 50% bonus, for a total of 75,000 Choice points.

The ordinary cost to purchase Choice Privileges points is $11 per 1,000 points, so that means through this promotion you can purchase points for as little as ~0.73 cents each.

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Opting in for a Targeted Promo, Big New Member Signup Bonus, and Sketchy Changes to a Hotel Promo

News and notes from around the interweb: Some reports of Barclaycard signing up consumers who ask for a targeted spending bonus on the US Airways Premier World MasterCard. 10,000 bonus Qantas points for new members who earn 10,000 points in their first 3 months of membership. United has a 20% bonus for transferring hotel points […]

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Steps to protect guest-facing apps and networks from unwanted hackers

Guest-facing apps are one of the most visible and high-profile rising trends in the hospitality sector. Guest-facing applications enable the guest to ...



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