Marriott has announced a strategic partnership with Didi in Greater China. Higher-tier Didi Luxury Ride members can match directly to Marriott Platinum, and Marriott is also launch...

IHG has relaunched the China Southern Airlines membership match terms (you can check them on IHG’s WeChat official account). The terms are very much like a “frequent flyer program,...

IHG announced that starting in 2020, free Kindle e-books will no longer be offered to members. I think that’s a real shame. As a Platinum member, it used to be nice to get two book...

When traveling, there are times when you need to book accommodations through an OTA. Today, we’ll introduce Hotels.com and ways to stack savings....

After Hilton quietly raised the standard room redemption cap at Waldorf Astoria Maldives Ithaafushi to 120,000 points back in February this year—and claimed there would never be a...

This post summarizes where IHG’s lowest-tier 10,000-point award hotels are located outside the United States (not including Points Break properties), along with an analysis of stac...

In this first installment, we’ll look at hotel redemptions in China’s capital, Beijing. I imagine many readers, like me, connect through Beijing from time to time, and sometimes st...

This post compiles the distribution of IHG’s lowest-tier 10,000-point award nights in the U.S. (excluding Points Break) and analyzes stackable promotions....

This article will provide a detailed list of the current global distribution of Hyatt 5,000-point rooms (Cat 1) and analyze stackable offers....

We continue using Hilton’s official Point Explorer to look at the remaining 10,000- and 15,000-point redemption hotels worldwide. The selection below uses the Max redemption rate,...

A detailed look at where the remaining Hilton hotels bookable for just 5,000 points are located around the world, so you can truly see how to open one card and stay in hotels for a...