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There’s a one day opportunity to get better value out of Radisson Americas points with a 25% rebate on redemptions made on Friday, June 23. The chain’s top properties are available for a net of 37,500 points per night under this offer.
With 624 hotels in total, this is just over $1 million per property (abstracting away from real estate). That actually seems low for the business, even though it includes few hard assets.
This seems like a real miss for Hyatt. Though the hotels are more downmarket than Hyatts overall, it would have given them some reach outside of the larger metro areas in the U.S. where they’re strong.
Hotels are collaborating with hospitals in India offering vaccine packages and India’s government is cracking down.
By working together with hotels to offer vaccines, Indian hospitals are creating an explicit price. They’re bundling the goods, and that makes it harder to separate how much you’re paying for an included bath robe versus for a life-saving jab.
Two weeks ago Radisson hotels shared that Radisson Rewards would split into two geographically-distinct programs on June 17, 2021. This is being required by the U.S. government to keep data on Americans separated within the Chinese-owned chain.
When this happens there will also be changes to award redemption, and there will be status matching and points transfer between the programs.
Radisson Hotels was purchased from Carlson by Chinese conglomerate collapsing HNA Group, and then sold to Jinjiang International.
Come June Radisson in the Americas (United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean) will be separate from Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia. And they’re splitting the rewards program in two. This satisfies a U.S. government demand to separate U.S. customer data and firewall it off from its Chinese ownership.
Back in December there was a first-ever 100,000 point signup bonus offer for the Radisson Rewards Visa.
Now though there’s a 120,000 point offer after $3000 spend within 90 days.
Through January 4 the card has an initial bonus of 100,000 points for the very first time — 50,000 after first purchase and 50,000 more after $2500 spend on the card within 90 days of account opening.
In general the chain isn’t my bag. Radissons, especially Radisson Blu properties in Europe, can be quite good though.
Several years ago I wrote about the Radisson JFK being used as a homeless shelter.
I was torn over this. Customers don’t like staying in hotels where the largest in-house group are homeless, but I do think they have a right to stay on property if the going rate is being paid for their accommodations….
Radisson reached out and asked if I wanted to give away points to readers to highlight their credit card. I’m always thrilled to give away points, especially a lot of them, and they’ve provided me with (3) sets of 100,000 point prizes. Each prize is worth up to 3 nights.
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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.
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