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Hotel Gets Clever, Uses $5 Baggage Claim Carts For Guest Luggage

Oct 15 2022

When you arrive at baggage claim and your luggage is more than you can push yourself, many airports around the world have carts for you to use for free. In the U.S. it’s far more common for you to pay to use a cart, like one from SmarteCarte. You’ll pay around $5 to release the cart at a nearby station, and then you can move your bags from the carousel to your ground transportation. Someone has to collect the carts, and then they get re-rented again.

But what if that $5 paid to rent the cart for an indefinite period of time?

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New Hilton Bonus To Goose Business Travel – Plus Double Elite Nights

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Oct 11 2022

Hilton’s new promotion: is double points on all stays with checkouts by December 31 plus 2000 bonus points for checkouts on a weekday. In addition Hilton is offering double elite night credit for nights stayed October 11 – December 31, 2022. You need to register for both, award stays count, and the offers tell us something about business travel and loyalty right at this moment.

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If Your Flight Gets Cancelled, Marriott Will Charge You Cash For Your ‘Free’ Award Stay

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Oct 09 2022

A Marriott Bonvoy member writes about a recent award redemption experience – a flight delay caused them to miss the first night of their award stay, so they got the free night certificate back and the hotel charged them cash for the missed night. They were fortunate the cash amount was only $153. I’ve seen it as high as $2000.

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Marriott Rebrands Fairfield Inn, Introduces Muslim Prayer Rooms

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Oct 07 2022

Marriott is no longer referring to the Fairfield Inn brand, instead calling it Fairfield by Marriott. I only saw this in the news that Marriott is expanding Fairfield to Europe and the Mideast, from its existing footprint of more than 1230 hotels.

A company built on Mormon values, that distributed the Book of Mormon, will be putting Muslim prayer rooms in hotels in order to gain access to new markets.

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Bizarre Interview With Marriott’s CEO

Oct 05 2022

Marriott CEO Anthony Capuano gave an interview and the whole thing struck me as.. strange?

He incorrectly claims Marriott had the first hotel loyalty program. He talks about resort fees as incredible for customers. And he talks about how much control is necessary over hotel stays, even as they defer more and more to individual owners.

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