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The Rio has to provide Globalists with breakfast. And they do not like it one bit. So they’re working every angle to dishonor the World of Hyatt program.
Have you ever flown to Europe, landed at 6 o’clock in the morning, and had to wait until 3 p.m. or 4 p.m. to check into your hotel? That’s a miserable experience.
Are they figuring that very few will keep track of whether it’s a designated week to earn points? That’s certainly an interesting experiment in marketing – to see whether the announced partnership and linking gets most of the juice, or whether there’s significant uplift in spend during weeks members can earn 100 points.
Rio Las Vegas was called out by Hyatt for violating elite breakfast benefit rules when they started limiting Globalist entree selections. They’re still doing it anyway, and now have a new devious plan to limit breakfast expense at the property.
Hilton has added 3 SLH properties: Hilton says they are releasing only “limited inventory” now with additional space added as the continue testing, in preparation for broader partnership rollout.
, since Marriott now identifies as mid, they needed another brand to carry the moniker: Project Mid-T, a lower-end Fairfield. Under CEO Anthony Capuano, “Marriott” doesn’t need to stand for anything, they just need to prop up room count. And Mid-T is perfect to counteract rooms-growth Low-T.
My daughter has reached an age where she’s plenty happy spending time away from us, and she loves making friends with other kids. When we were at the Park Hyatt St. Kitts in February she wanted to spend all of her time at the Kids Club (“Island Fort Kids Club”) there. What’s more, while they used to charge for it, it’s now 100% free.
So we’ve been looking for kids clubs as part of our family travels.
There are four major hotel loyalty programs, at least for Americans: Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott and IHG. Hyatt has the smallest footprint but the best benefits for frequent guests. Marriott is great on paper but most inconsistent at the property-level delivering promised benefits. IHG never had much in the way of benefits at all until last year when everything changed. And Hilton stands alone, promising almost nothing.
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Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
