All of the major hotel points currencies allow you to transfer your points into airline miles.  You will often find the airlines encouraging it – every 9-10 months, British Airways offers a .....

All of the major hotel points currencies allow you to transfer your points into airline miles.  You will .....

1 Jun 20171 June 2017 by Rob Burgess • 29 comments

Just under two years ago, Virgin Flying Club teamed up with hotel booking site Kaligo.com to offer a new way of redeeming your Virgin miles.  You can now use them to pay for hotels .....

Just under two years ago, Virgin Flying Club teamed up with hotel booking site Kaligo.com to offer a new way .....

29 May 201729 May 2017 by Rob Burgess • 8 comments

This is my review of the ANA InterContinental Tokyo hotel. As hotels in Tokyo are incredibly expensive during cherry blossom season it made sense to use points for my stay.  Rob had already bagged .....

This is my review of the ANA InterContinental Tokyo hotel. As hotels in Tokyo are incredibly expensive during .....

22 May 201722 May 2017 by Anika Burnett • 45 comments

IHG Rewards Club (the loyalty scheme for InterContinental, Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, Indigo etc) status is not hugely rewarding, to be honest. The benefits are very modest – almost nothing .....

IHG Rewards Club (the loyalty scheme for InterContinental, Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, Indigo etc) status .....

20 May 201720 May 2017 by Rob Burgess • 51 comments

You can’t accuse airport lounge card Priority Pass of standing still.  After adding a restaurant / bar at Gatwick South (you get £15 of free food and drink by showing your Priority Pass) and .....

You can’t accuse airport lounge card Priority Pass of standing still.  After adding a restaurant / bar .....

19 May 201719 May 2017 by Rob Burgess • 37 comments

Two readers have emailed me recently about IHG’s new Accelerate promotion.  (If you are looking at where to book hotel stays over the Summer, Accelerate is the most generous offer for most .....

Two readers have emailed me recently about IHG’s new Accelerate promotion.  (If you are looking at .....

18 May 201718 May 2017 by Rob Burgess • 50 comments

Welcome to our monthly round-up of the best hotel promotions currently running.  All of the information in this article can also be found on our ‘Hotel Offers’ page which contains details .....

Welcome to our monthly round-up of the best hotel promotions currently running.  All of the information in .....

17 May 201717 May 2017 by Rob Burgess • 31 comments

IHG, owner of the InterContinental, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Crowne Plaza, Indigo and Staybridge Suites brands, has extended its generous discount promotion in association with Mastercard .....

IHG, owner of the InterContinental, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Crowne Plaza, Indigo and Staybridge .....

11 May 201711 May 2017 by Rob Burgess • 28 comments

News in brief: Has Accor scrapped Happy Mondays? Accor’s low key Happy Mondays was actually the best hotel promotion in the UK. Every Monday and Tuesday, Accor would dump its unsold UK rooms for .....

News in brief: Has Accor scrapped Happy Mondays? Accor’s low key Happy Mondays was actually the best .....

2 May 20172 May 2017 by Rob Burgess • 64 comments

If your travels take you to London City Airport or the Excel exhibition centre, you will be interested in a new rash of hotels which has sprung up in the area.  I popped down earlier in the week to .....

If your travels take you to London City Airport or the Excel exhibition centre, you will be interested in a .....

1 May 20171 May 2017 by Rob Burgess • 27 comments

IHG, the parent of Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, InterContinental etc, publishes traveller reviews on its website for each of its hotels. For some time there have been rumblings on Flyertalk about bad .....

IHG, the parent of Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, InterContinental etc, publishes traveller reviews on its website .....

29 Apr 201729 April 2017 by Rob Burgess • 81 comments

This is my review of the InterContinental Hong Kong hotel. I am going to run a few hotel reviews from our recent Asia trip, although they will be shorter and less detailed than usual.  As these were .....

This is my review of the InterContinental Hong Kong hotel. I am going to run a few hotel reviews from our .....

29 Apr 201729 April 2017 by Rob Burgess • 57 comments

IHG Rewards Club, the Holiday Inn, HI Express, Crowne Plaza, InterContinental etc loyalty scheme, has launched a website for its Summer 2017 promotion – IHG Accelerate.  Yes, it is repeating .....

IHG Rewards Club, the Holiday Inn, HI Express, Crowne Plaza, InterContinental etc loyalty scheme, has launched .....

28 Apr 201728 April 2017 by Rob Burgess • 139 comments

There are two ‘buy points’ offers available at the moment which are worth a look and which, because they have been running for a while, you may well have forgotten about. IHG Rewards Club .....

There are two ‘buy points’ offers available at the moment which are worth a look and which, .....

27 Apr 201727 April 2017 by Rob Burgess • 22 comments