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Free Nights & More With Starwood’s New Select Member Offer!

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Starwood is out with a sweet targeted promotion (select member exclusive offer) today where when you register you may be eligible for free nights or bonus points after completing certain stays. There have been several variations reported varying from 7,500 point bonus to a free night at any Category 1-5 hotel after 1 or 2 stays. You…

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Earn Up To 3,000 Bonus Starpoints through June 30

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Starwood seems to have a bunch of promotions currently going on, and here’s one in which you can earn up to 3,000 bonus Starpoints on your stays at participating SPG hotels and resorts in Latin America and the Caribbean. Turn Three Stays Into 3,000 Bonus Starpoints: Register now for our Life’s Better with a Bonus promotion and stay…

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Accor Hotels 1,500 Bonus Miles Per Stay

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Accor Hotels is offering a bonus through May when you stay 1 night at qualifying Sofitel, Pullman or MGallery by Sofitel, at least 2 consecutive nights at Novotel, Novotel Suites, Mercure or Adagio. With this offer you will earn 1,500 additional miles for every qualifying stay. With some fairly inexpensive hotels available (starting around $30), this might be a…

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Earn Hilton Gold Elite Status After 4 Stays

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Hilton HHonors is running a fast track promotion where you can earn Hilton Gold status after just four stays within 90 days for FCM Travel Solutions, (or anyone who is able to register for the offer). They’ve offered similar promotions in the past, so be sure to register if you’re looking to earn Hilton Gold status. You can view the full…

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Starwood And Marriott Tie Up Likely

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Anbang Insurance Group has abruptly withdrawn their $14 Billion offer for Starwood making a Starwood and Marriott tie up likely. According to the WSJ and Bloomberg among other news outlets, Anbang abruptly withdrew their offer. This makes the acquisition of Starwood by Marriott much more likely to go through. My hunch is that those with…

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What Can You Redeem Your 35,000 SPG Points For?

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Consider the Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express and/or the Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express?  I picked up the Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express! What Can You Redeem Your 35,000 SPG Points For? As previously posted…. Redeem for Hotel Stays: How about a 5 night stay at the…

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Benefits Of SPG Amex Card

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Happy Easter! I can’t believe that we are heading towards the end of March already. It seems like just yesterday we were traveling on our New Year’s Trip to Puerto Rico and now all of a sudden, we are nearly a quarter of the way through 2016. Consider earning points with the Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit…

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Hyatt To Acquire Thompson Miami Beach

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Hyatt has entered into an agreement to purchase the Thompson Miami Beach hotel and rebrand it as The Confidante as reported by the Hyatt Newsroom. Once newly rebranded, The Confidante will join Hyatt’s newest collection The Unbound Collection. As a reminder, The Unbound Collection is running a promotion where you can get the third night free at their existing properties.…

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Starwood Accepts Marriott’s New Offer

In a turn of events Starwood is reported to have accepted a revised offer by Marriott over the Anbang group offer they accepted just last week. What we have here is a bidding war for Starwood Hotels and Resorts. Starwood Accepts Marriott’s New Offer The latest bid values the company at $13.6 billion. This is…

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Starwood Agrees To China’s Anbang Purchase

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As reported by CNBC, “Chinese insurer Anbang is set to acquire hotel operator Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide for about $13.2 billion, the firm’s biggest push yet into the global real estate market.” Earlier this week, we posted about the offer that turned the Marriott acquisition of Starwood upside down for the moment. I’m sure many of…

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