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SPG Announces New Partnership With Virgin America

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 Starwood announced a partnership with Virgin America where you can now convert your Starpoints at a 1 to 1 ratio and Elevate members can now earn 2 Elevate Points per $1 spent on qualifying stays at all Starwood Hotels & Resorts. SPG Announces New Partnership With Virgin America SPG® Members Can Now Convert Starpoints® into Elevate® Points at a…

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Earn Double SkyMiles with Starwood Through June 30

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Starwood and Delta have launched a new promotion for their Crossover Rewards members where Delta SkyMiles members can now earn double SkyMiles when staying with Starwood from now through June 30, 2016. You can sign-up for this promotion here. Keep in mind, these are in addition to the regular Starpoints you earn- not instead. Offer Details: Make…

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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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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Anbang Insurance Group has abruptly withdrawn their $14 Billion offer for Starwood making a Starwood and Marriott tie up likely.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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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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HOT: Starwood Recieves Bid From Chinese Company

Starwood is reported by the WSJ to have received an unsolicited bid from the Chinese Company, Anbang Insurance Group. “Offer from a group led by China’s Anbang Insurance Group would pay $76 a share in cash.” HOT: Starwood Recieves Bid From Chinese Company The previous deal with Marriott is valued at $12.2 billion and the…

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Best International Starwood Hotels To Redeem 35,000 SPG Points

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We recently wrote about  the Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express and the Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express.  We then covered the Best Starwood Hotels To Redeem Your 35,000 SPG Points domestically, but we wanted to broaden our reach so below are some great international SPG hotels where you can redeem your SPG points…

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Best Starwood Hotels To Redeem Your 35,000 SPG Points

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We recently wrote about the Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express and the Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express.    We also outlined what 35,000 points will get you, but today we’re gonna take a look at the best hotels to redeem these points at, to receive maximum value: The St. Regis Bahia Beach Resort,…

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What Can You Get With 35,000 SPG Points?

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Yesterday we told you about the Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express or the Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express. What Can You Get With 35,000 SPG Points? Redeem for Hotel Stays: How about a 5 night stay at the beach? With 35,000 SPG points, you can stay 5 nights in a category…

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Amazing SPG Amex Cards

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The Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express and the Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express.  I’d highly recommend applying if you haven’t had one of these cards before. Amazing SPG Amex Cards  Starpoints are extremely valuable and while we are still waiting to see how the Marriott- Starwood merger will shake…

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