I spent a few nights at the Fairmont Royal Pavilion in Barbados last week, as part of a longer stay on the island.  I will do a mini-review of the hotel at some point (summary: not as good as Sandy .....

I spent a few nights at the Fairmont Royal Pavilion in Barbados last week, as part of a longer stay on the .....

4 Nov 20214 November 2021 by Rob Burgess • 43 comments

The old Travelodge Heathrow Terminal 5 has reopened under the Ibis brand. Interestingly, it has been split into two. The building now consists of a 56-room Ibis hotel and a 241-room Ibis Budget hotel. .....

The old Travelodge Heathrow Terminal 5 has reopened under the Ibis brand. Interestingly, it has been split .....

19 Oct 202119 October 2021 by Rob Burgess

As we covered the other day, Hilton is withdrawing from the Tesco Clubcard scheme at the end of 2021. If you had started redeeming for Hilton vouchers after the end of the Avios / Tesco partnership, .....

As we covered the other day, Hilton is withdrawing from the Tesco Clubcard scheme at the end of 2021. If you .....

14 Oct 202114 October 2021 by Rob Burgess • 48 comments

As travel begins to restart, we have brought back our regular round-up of the best hotel promotions currently running. All of the information in this article can also be found on our ‘Hotel .....

As travel begins to restart, we have brought back our regular round-up of the best hotel promotions .....

5 Oct 20215 October 2021 by Rob Burgess • 6 comments

Accor Hotels, which owns Novotel / Ibis / Mercure / M Gallery / Sofitel / Pullman / Raffles / Swissotel / Fairmont etc, has brought back its generous promotion to earn 6,000 bonus Accor points. You .....

Accor Hotels, which owns Novotel / Ibis / Mercure / M Gallery / Sofitel / Pullman / Raffles / Swissotel / .....

24 Sep 202124 September 2021 by Rob Burgess • 5 comments

News in brief: British Airways resumes flights to San Diego British Airways has announced a date for restarting flights to San Diego. A thrice-weekly service (Wednesday, Friday, Sunday) will begin on .....

News in brief: British Airways resumes flights to San Diego British Airways has announced a date for .....

19 Sep 202119 September 2021 by Rob Burgess • 43 comments

Almost all hotel loyalty programmes let you transfer you points into certain frequent flyer schemes.  What is far rarer is for a frequent flyer scheme to let you transfer your miles INTO a hotel .....

Almost all hotel loyalty programmes let you transfer you points into certain frequent flyer schemes.  .....

9 Sep 20219 September 2021 by Rob Burgess • 18 comments

After a number of months operating as a Red List quarantine hotel, the Sofitel hotel at Heathrow Terminal 5 opened to the public again on Monday night. As a reminder, this is the only hotel that is .....

After a number of months operating as a Red List quarantine hotel, the Sofitel hotel at Heathrow Terminal 5 .....

8 Sep 20218 September 2021 by Rob Burgess

Accor is following IHG – which launched its Vignette brand last month – in launching a ‘soft’ brand for upmarket hotels that want to join its system. Similar to .....

Accor is following IHG – which launched its Vignette brand last month – in launching a .....

5 Sep 20215 September 2021 by Rob Burgess • 24 comments

As we have mentioned a couple of times recently, Accor – owner of the Ibis, Novotel, Pullman, Fairmont, Mercure, Sofitel etc etc brands – is making a big push to enhance its .....

As we have mentioned a couple of times recently, Accor – owner of the Ibis, Novotel, Pullman, Fairmont, .....

27 Aug 202127 August 2021 by Rob Burgess • 8 comments

Etihad Guest is currently running another of its occasional transfer bonus weekends. Weekend, this time around, relates to the Middle East weekend so you need to move your points by Saturday evening .....

Etihad Guest is currently running another of its occasional transfer bonus weekends. Weekend, this time .....

27 Aug 202127 August 2021 by Rob Burgess • 15 comments

As we have covered a couple of times recently, Accor Live Limitless (the loyalty scheme for Novotel, Ibis, Mercure, Pullman etc) is stepping up its UK events programme. This will offer a real .....

As we have covered a couple of times recently, Accor Live Limitless (the loyalty scheme for Novotel, Ibis, .....

20 Aug 202120 August 2021 by Rhys Jones

A very generous deal for London’s The Sloane Square Hotel has popped up on Travelzoo. Click here. Rooms are available for £99 including breakfast. It quotes a typical rate of £273 which seems .....

A very generous deal for London’s The Sloane Square Hotel has popped up on Travelzoo. Click here. Rooms .....

20 Aug 202120 August 2021 by Rhys Jones • 26 comments

As travel begins to restart, we have brought back our regular round-up of the best hotel promotions currently running. All of the information in this article can also be found on our ‘Hotel .....

As travel begins to restart, we have brought back our regular round-up of the best hotel promotions .....

8 Aug 20218 August 2021 by Rob Burgess • 7 comments