Purchase Hyatt Points With 30% Bonus

Through December 10, 2014, Hyatt is offering Gold Passport members a 30% bonus on all points purchases of at least 5,000 points.

If you max out the promotion and purchase 55,000 points you’d receive a total of 71,500 points at a cost of $1,320, which is ~1.85 cents per point. Earlier in the year, Hyatt increased the maximum number of Gold Passport points you can purchase per year from 40,000 to 55,000.

How does this stack up to past promotions on the purchase of points?

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What people get wrong about Colombia

#2) Assume tourists will be kidnapped. Come on, it's 2014.



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35% Bonus On Purchase Of Alaska Mileage Plan Miles

Through December 20, 2014, Alaska is offering up to a 35% bonus on the purchase of Mileage Plan miles.

The bonuses are tiered, meaning the more miles you buy, the bigger the bonus you get, as follows:

-- Buy 5,000 – 19,000 miles: get a 20% Bonus

-- Buy 20,000 – 34,000 miles: get a 30% Bonus

-- Buy 35,000 – 40,000 miles: get a 35% Bonus

You can purchase up to 40,000 miles in one transaction, so if you purchase the maximum allowed 40,000 miles you’d get a 35% bonus, for a grand total of 54,000 Mileage Plan miles. At a cost of $1,182.50 including tax, that comes out to ~2.19 cents per mile.

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Rotana online check-in, Turkish Airlines unleashes apps, Smart ticketing and thetrainline and more…

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel DEVICES in tourism and hospitality for November 2014. Monday November 10 ...



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Up to 35% Bonus on Purchased Miles.. One of the Few Buy Miles Offers to Consider

Alaska Airlines is offering up to a 35% bonus on purchased miles. Limited Time Offer: up to 35% Bonus Give the gift of miles to yourself and earn up to 35% more in Bonus Miles. For a very limited time, you can earn up to 14,000 extra Bonus Miles when you buy miles by December […]

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Hilton Changing Global Cancellation Policy

Several weeks ago, Marriott announced that they would be updating their global hotel cancellation policy as of January 1, 2015.

Through this new policy, guests will have until 11:59PM the day before arrival to cancel their reservations without penalty. This was both good and bad news, depending on the property.

Some hotels previously required you to cancel by check-in time the day before arrival, while other hotels let you cancel all the way through the day of arrival. About three quarters of Marriott properties fit in the latter category, so overall it's a negative change, in my opinion.

Not surprisingly, Marriott isn't the only hotel chain to make such a change. Hilton will also be updating their global cancellation policy as of January 1, 2015.

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New Weekly Show! You Heard it here first!

Day-Of-Critiques! See the Live Critiques that are happening today on my Facebook Page as a special promotional event for the New Thing We Are Announcing Today! Come join the party, and thanks for your support! The New Photography Competition Show – The Creation Wars Come see the new show and support us! (this launches TODAY!). […]



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Insider's Guide to Whistler: Ep. 5

Whistler and families go hand in hand.



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How To Search Saudia Business Class Award Space

Saudia might not be the Middle East's most glamorous airline, but they are the one that releases among the most first and business class award space between the US and the Middle East. Of course that's for good reason -- their premium cabin products can't even begin to compete with what the other airlines of the region are offering, like Emirates and Etihad.

Still, Saudia is a way to redeem Delta SkyMiles for travel to the Middle East/India, no matter what time of year you want to go. As a reminder, Saudia's North America destinations include Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, and Washington.

In the past, ExpertFlyer was the best place to search Saudia award availability. However, reader CG notes that ExpertFlyer is no longer displaying Saudia business class award availability. They are still displaying Saudia first class and economy class availability, though.

As a reminder, the fare classes for award travel on Saudia are as follows:

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Travel made me a better white person

Travel makes it harder to be prejudiced and ignorant of your prejudice. And travel, more than anything else, makes you aware of your privilege.



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Airline bookings on mobiles not a big deal for millennials

Statistics are often insightful and occasionally confusing, and some of the headline findings in a new study from the World Youth Student ...



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The World’s Best Hotel Restaurants

Supposedly these are the Best Hotel Restaurants, although with these lists I often wonder how many the writer has actually been to. My personal favorite fine dining in Washington DC (certainly the most beautiful restaurant space) belongs to Blue Duck Tavern at the Park Hyatt, not on this list. And it’s hard to imagine leaving […]

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WDS 2014 Speaker: Michael Hyatt Examines the Designed Life

Tomorrow we’ll release the first round of tickets for WDS 2015, a global gathering like no other! But first, we’re rolling out a different speaker video every day. Michael Hyatt, author of New York Times best seller, Platform: Get Noticed in a Busy World, spoke about the difference between living by drifting, by being driven,…



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Why traveling is hard for introverts

#1) Getting to know someone romantically, and then being called “intense.”



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Think not how you will experience travel in future but how an 18 year old might

As you might imagine there was much discussion during World Travel Market last week around existing and future technology such as wearables, ...



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