You can pick up a generous €350 hotel credit if you book selected Marriott hotels and resorts for a week in the current BA Holidays sale. It is always worth looking at the British Airways 'Flight + .....

20 Jan 202120 January 2021 by Sinead Archer • 57 comments

I spent 17 nights in the Middle East over Christmas and New Year. I had to use a variety of techniques to get the cost of this trip down, since we booked at short notice and hotel costs were not far .....

18 Jan 202118 January 2021 by Rob Burgess • 81 comments

As we covered on Tuesday, all Marriott Bonvoy members are getting elite night credits equivalent to 50% of the status they earned in 2020. This means that if you were Platinum Elite in 2020, you will .....

15 Jan 202115 January 2021 by Rob Burgess • 65 comments

Marriott Bonvoy has announced a number of aggressive changes to try to win your depleted hotel business for 2021. We have already seen similar moves by Hyatt (halving elite requirements and doubling .....

12 Jan 202112 January 2021 by Rob Burgess • 111 comments

Is it possible to book multiple rooms at the same property on the same night, earn points from them all and have them all count as qualifying nights for elite status or for a promotion? I’m not .....

7 Jan 20217 January 2021 by Rob Burgess • 7 comments

Marriott Bonvoy and Emirates Skywards have a low profile partnership called ‘Your World Rewards’.  It allows you to double dip with Emirates Skywards miles and Marriott Bonvoy points .....

5 Jan 20215 January 2021 by Rob Burgess • 26 comments

In October we headed down to Domes of Elounda in Crete for a week. This hotel has been covered on HfP – most recently in this ‘My Favourite Hotel’ review – and I don’t .....

29 Dec 202029 December 2020 by Rob Burgess • 17 comments

Of all the major hotel groups, Marriott has taken the biggest strides into competing directly with Airbnb with ‘Homes & Villas by Marriott’. Marriott is currently offering a 10% .....

24 Dec 202024 December 2020 by Rob Burgess • 3 comments

This is our review of the London Marriott County Hall hotel on the South Bank. Last month we wrote about the new ‘work from hotel’ packages that Marriott Bonvoy is offering. There are .....

14 Dec 202014 December 2020 by Rhys Jones • 8 comments

This is Part 2 of our review of the London Marriott County Hall on the South Bank. You can read Part 1 of our Marriott County Hall review here. As we said in Part 1, Marriott has introduced three new .....

14 Dec 202014 December 2020 by Rhys Jones • 16 comments

This is our review of the Courtyard by Marriott hotel at London Luton Airport. Bizarrely, this is our first review of a hotel at Luton Airport. I chose the Courtyard on this trip, partly because .....

9 Dec 20209 December 2020 by Rhys Jones • 39 comments

After a positive response to our article about new Hilton properties opening in 2021 we thought we would repeat the format with 10 exciting new Marriott properties. (If IHG wants to get in touch we .....

7 Dec 20207 December 2020 by Rhys Jones • 65 comments

If you’re looking to get yourself some hotel status cards quickly, there is no easier route than getting The Platinum Card from American Express. It comes with SIX hotel status cards.  Five .....

5 Dec 20205 December 2020 by Rob Burgess • 48 comments

Le Meridien Piccadilly, the historic Piccadilly hotel, is leaving Marriott Bonvoy and becoming independent. It will rebrand as ‘The Dilly’ in 2021. The 283 room hotel is currently closed .....

3 Dec 20203 December 2020 by Rhys Jones • Leave a comment