Hyatt Adding New Diamond Benefits, Including Elite Benefits For Friends

Hyatt has just announced some new elite benefits, which go live in the coming weeks. It's great to see that hotels continue to invest in improving the guest experience for elite members, while the opposite seems true of airlines.

Guest of Honor elite benefits, effective March 1, 2015

This is a really cool new benefit which shows Hyatt is really trying to extend hospitality between the traditional elite ranks. When you make a points booking for someone else as a Diamond member, that guest will receive all your elite benefits. The benefit is described as follows:

"Beginning March 1, members can extend their Diamond in-hotel benefits such as Regency Club or Grand Club access, free breakfast and late check out to family or friends when they transfer a free night stay using Hyatt Gold Passport points. By extending Diamond privileges to a members’ friends or family on an award stay, Hyatt is providing the warmest possible welcome and an extraordinary on-property experience."

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5 US habits I lost in Chile

Being hyper punctual and expecting others to be as well? Given that one up!



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Travel Strategy: Book Your Winter Holidays Award Now

If you are considering an award booking for a 2015-2016 winter holidays trip, you should not wait any longer to complete your booking. Back in September, I wrote a similar article about summer 2015 award bookings. The premise for that article applies for 2015-2016 winter holidays awards: if you want to complete a successful award […]



from Frugal Travel Guy http://www.frugaltravelguy.com/2015/02/travel-strategy-book-your-winter-holidays-award-now.html

A Picnic on the Melting Sea Ice by a Hagglund

Hagglund Experience If you’re ever in Christchurch, New Zealand, be sure to visit that Antarctic center. They have this crazy Hagglund ride that shows off all the amazing things these machines can do. Did you know they can even float and move forward in water? Daily Photo – A Picnic on the Melting Sea Ice […]



from Stuck in Customs http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2015/02/12/a-picnic-on-the-melting-sea-ice-by-a-hagglund/

I canceled my order from Sam’s Club but they took my money anyway

from Elliott http://elliott.org/problem-solved/canceled-order-sams-club-took-money-anyway/

Braunau Am Inn Journal: In Adolf Hitler’s Hometown, Trying to Overcome a Legacy of Evil

An Austrian city is struggling, still, with what to do with the house where Hitler was born in 1889.

















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What if humans disappeared?

"Would the planet be better off without us, human beings?"



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Hyatt Launching Two New Diamond Benefits March 1: Gifting Status on Award Nights, and Lounge Access

Hyatt Gold Passport is introducing two new benefits for top tier Diamond members. Ability to Make Your Friends and Family Diamond for an Award Stay Hyatt calls the program ‘Guest of Honor‘ — starting March 1 when a Diamond member redeems points for someone else’s award stay, that person will receive Diamond benefits for the […]

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Amazing feature length Parkour flim

Follow athletes Gian Marco Oddo, Massimiliano Takacs, and Luigi Lorenzi as they jump, flip, spin, and handspring their way across Southeast Asia.



from Matador Network » Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/tv/art-flight-parkour-amazing-feature-length-parkour-flim/

6 Discoveries from Near and Far: Volume XXXII

Things I found on long walks in foreign cities, or perhaps when someone posted them on Twitter



from The Art of Non-Conformity http://chrisguillebeau.com/6-discoveries-from-near-and-far-volume-xxxii/

3.5 min music video shot in 5 secs.

Shot over the course of five seconds along 80 meters of road, this three-and-a-half minute music video features 80 people and a flying cat.



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Starwood Corporate Now Involved In W Barcelona Investigation

For those of you not up to date on the saga of my mom getting robbed/lots of creepy stuff happening at the W Barcelona, here are the previous posts:

-- My Mom Got Robbed In Our Hotel!

-- Pick Pocketing Or Premeditated Crime? You Tell Me!

-- The W Barcelona General Manager Chimes In -- You Won't Believe This

It goes without saying that I've lost faith in this hotel. It's one thing if you have an apathetic duty manager. It's another thing if you have an apathetic director of rooms. But when the general manager is possibly the most apathetic of all, that tells you all you need to know about the hotel.

To clarify, while I've vowed never to return to the W Barcelona, this doesn't impact my love of the SPG brand otherwise, because I don't think what happened at this hotel is in line with the values of the chain.

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United Voiding All Those Cheap Business and First Class Tickets They Issued Today

This morning flights originating in the UK were pricing in Danish Kroner at a price that’s pennies on the dollar what they normally run. You could fly from the UK to pretty much anywhere in the world in business or first class at price hovering around $100 or less. This wasn’t a United-specific glitch, but […]

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Are you as traveled as James Bond?

Can you beat 007's travel record?



from Matador Network » Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/life/traveled-countries-james-bond/

I Heart My City: Melissa’s Miami

Despite her many travels, Melissa Mederos cannot imagine calling any place but Miami home. The Magic City native is as up for an urban adventure as she is exploring the abundant natural splendor that surrounds her city (think Everglades and the Keys). Here are a few of Melissa's favorite things about her hometown paradise.



from Intelligent Travel http://intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/11/i-heart-my-city-melissas-miami/