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DAILY GETAWAY RETURNS WITH DAY 1 OF CHOICE HOTEL POINTS

4/3/2016

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The Daily Getaway for this year are here again. The schedule for 5 weeks of deals is already published and we have same deal partners as last year except the Wyndham Hotels is back again (with not that great of a deal though!).  The Day-1 of the deal starts from 04/04 and has one of my favorite deals of Daily Getaway which is purchase of choice privileges points. The deal is similar to the last year where you can buy points ranging in cost from 0.4 cent/point to 0.45 cent/point. The good thing is since Choice privileges has revamped some of it terms of points expiration where points DO NOT EXPIRE if there is any qualifying activity including that of "points purchase" within 18 months from last activity. That essentially means you no longer have to worry about point expiration at set 2 years period anymore (the previous points expiration policy). 
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Daily Getaway 2016 Week 0
So, below are few highlights (most are same as last year) of why this is a good deal:
  • Choice Privileges typically sells the points at 1.1 cent/point ($11 for 1000 points), so this one is good deal compared to that.
  • Best use of choice points is in Europe where you get real good value in hotel redemption especially in shoulder season. Since point can now be extended as long as you have any activity within 18 months of last earning/point redemption; you do not have to worry about its expiration at set date. 
  • You can transfer 6000 Choice privileges points to 1800 Southwest rapid reward points and those points DO COUNT for Southwest companion pass. So it would be equivalent of buying Southwest points at a rate of 1.33 cent/point which considering you get closer to Southwest companion pass is not a bad deal.
  • You can also use points + cash for redemption which could be good deal especially in Europe and thus extending the value of your points further.
  • There are 4 different package on sale and you can buy at max 2 of each kind (so total of 8 packages). Typically Choice Points sell out fast, so if you really need them move fast to purchase them on Daily Getaways!
That being said below are the 4 offers available and you can buy 2 of each kind. You can look at the details of the offer here:
  1. 36,000 points for $155 -- 0.431 cents/point
  2. 32,000 points for $132 -- 0.413 cents/point
  3. 20,000 points for $90 -- 0.45 cents/point
  4. 40,000 points for $160 -- 0.4 cents/point

So, go ahead and make your purchase. The sale starts at 1 p.m. EST on 04/04/2016
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DAILY GETAWAY FOR WEEK OF 03/30

3/29/2015

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The daily getaway for Week-2 will start on 03/30. There are couple of hotel points sale promotion which you might be interested in. The first one of interest is for Best Western Points which is on 03/30 and the other one for Choice Privileges Points on 04/03. There are other hotel getaway sales for "The Palazzo", "Venetian" and "CAESARS" as well as for "Universal Studios" but those are not that interesting in my view. Below is the snap shot of what's available for Week-2.

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Daily Getaway week-2 deals
Best Western Points Deal - $55 for 10k points - 0.55 cent/point value - 03/30:
  • Best Western typically sells the points at 1 cent/point. So its 45% discount from that price. But the difficulty with Best Western points is to get good value out of them.
  • One of the best bargains using Best Western points is to use them for stay in "Stockholm, Sweden". There are lot of Best Western hotels there and reasonably priced on points so that you would really get good value out of them.
  • Best Western points do not expire. (good news?)
  • You can buy 5 packages of 10k points each. So the limit for buying is 50k points per Best Western Rewards account.

Choice Privileges Points Deal - Various packages = 0.4 cent/point to 0.45 cent/point value - 04/03:
  • Choice Privileges typically sells the points at 1.1 cent/point ($11 for 1000 points), so this one is good deal compared to that.
  • Best use of choice points is in Europe where you get real good value in hotel redemption especially in shoulder season. But do remember that Choice points expire on December 31st, 2 years after the year you earned them. So make sure you buy only if you have good use of them. 
  • You can transfer 6000 Choice privileges points to 1800 Southwest rapid reward points and those points DO COUNT for Southwest companion pass. So it would be equivalent of buying Southwest points at a rate of 1.33 cent/point which considering you get closer to Southwest companion pass is not a bad deal.
  • There are 4 different package on sale and you can buy at max 2 of each kind (so total of 8 packages). Typically Choice Points sell out fast, so if you really need them move fast to purchase them on Daily Getaways!
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NEWS FROM AROUND THE WEB..

9/14/2014

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I wanted to cover some of the interesting developments in travel arena within last month. Here they come:
  • JetBlue has lowered the minimum amount of miles required for Award travel. The Award redemption now starts at 3500 TrueBlue points only instead of 5000 they used to charge earlier!
  • IHG into the nights promotion can earn you up to 50,000 IHG points or 2 free nights with only 3 stays even for new members. You can enroll in IHG Rewards Club program NOW and avail of this offer. If your plan includes any travel and hotel stay from now till 31st December 2014, you might want to look at this promo. 
  • Choice privileges is also having a promo where you earn 1 free night (technically 8,000 points) just after 2 stays from now till 12th November 2014. The best usage of Choice privileges free night is for stay in Europe specially in Sweden.
  • Get FREE AVIS First Status if you have any World Elite MasterCard. As a bonus you also get 2-day weekend car rental certificate after you activate your membership. Get more scoop on this here.
  • You can also get National Executive Platinum status for free if you have World Elite MasterCard. Also do not forget there 1 free night car rental for every 2 rentals of 2 days or more which runs from now till January 2015.
  • Also Mighty Travels has launched a cool tool to identify best award ticket price by just entering Source and Destination. Also do for Hotel Awards, there is already a cool utility called AwardMapper. It does not cover all the hotel chains, but is pretty good and covers eight chain of hotels.
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DAILY GETAWAYS - CHOICE PRIVILEGES POINTS

6/23/2013

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The upcoming Daily Getaway promotion for sale of Choice Privileges points is one of the upcoming sale promotion. It is scheduled for 27th June and has variety of points set on sale for a price as low as ~0.377 cents/point.
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The offer is a "buy" if you are looking to use them primarily for your stays in Europe where the off-season hotel room costing $200 can be had for as low as 8000 points. The other good use of the choice points is for a family travel stay. Since a Choice Hotel Reward stay can have up-to 4 guests on a single reservation with no difference in points required, it would give a good bargain for stays where otherwise 2 rooms would be required or there would be extra cost for more than 2 guests. Also do remember that you are buying "Choice Privileges Points" regardless of what the Daily Getaway advertisement says, so you are not guaranteed stay at the hotels mentioned for the amount of points mentioned nor you are limited to use your points at a specific Choice hotels mentioned. You can essentially spend the points as you like. (even transfer to airline miles if you wish to, although I would advice against it unless you are topping of your mileage account for specific redemption)

Below are the offers available with limit of 2 per package type and in total of 8 per Choice Privilege account. 
  1. 20k points for $102 (0.51 cent/point) or $91.8 (0.459 cent/point) if paying with AMEX credit card.
  2. 32k points for $134 (0.419 cent/point) or $120.6 (0.377 cent/point) if paying with AMEX credit card.
  3. 36k points for $156 (0.433 cent/point) or $140.4 (0.390 cent/point) if paying with AMEX credit card.
  4. 40k points for $166 (0.415 cent/point) or $149.4 (0.374 cent/point) if paying with AMEX credit card.
As you can see from the list above you could essentially stay at a hotel which costs 8k points/night for up-to 5 nights at a cost of $150. That's a great bargain if this hotel has even a cost of $50/night.

Note: If you are looking to solely purchase the points to transfer to Airline Miles than the Wyndham Reward Points Daily Getaway Sale on 2nd of July is something you would be interested where essentially you are buying points at a cost of 1.35 cent/airline miles. (8k Wyndham points transfer to 3.2k Airline miles into AA, UA, US and DL airlines mileage program)
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