As I posted yesterday, I’m planing a December trip to Hawaii and will spend 17 days there. I showed yesterday how I’m flying to Hawaii from Charleston, SC for $1900 with the main part of trip in First Class. Today…
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. BEIJING — Starwood announced today that they will open 20 new hotels in China in 2013. Starwood has 120 hotels open and more than 100 in the pipeline, making China the company’s second largest hotel market…
By Plush Adventures Walking back to the hotel on Friday night, I hear the words I never anticipated, “Can we go home now?” Rewind 9 hours; having driven in from the suburbs, we are walking towards our hotel for our…
From time to time Starwood Preferred Guest offers some incredible once in a lifetime experiences through the Moments by SPG program. Some of these events are available through auctions while others are set point redemptions. Mommy Points recently did a review on…
If you’re a serious Starwood stayer you probably know what I’m talking about when I say there’s a Starwood Chocolate Factory. Sure, they don’t actually have a factory, but they sure send out chocolates frequently! Sometimes those chocolates come with…
There’s a mysterious hotel that frequent visitors to Starwood’s website might be familiar with if you’ve looked for Bangkok properties over the years. For some time I’ve been watching the proposed timeline for the Starwood Suvarnabhumi (Airport) Golf Resort &…
By Plush Adventures On the first Saturday in May, Omaha, Nebraska rolls out the red carpet for the arrival of the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. For months, I looked for a hotel room for Friday and Saturday night. I could find…
I was very excited to stay at the Westin Times Square this past weekend. It is the second to last Starwood property that I needed to visit to round out my mission of staying in every NYC Starwood property. I…
Many of my regular readers, friends and colleagues know that I spend a lot of time in Thailand and since I had a business project in Thailand for the past 2 years, it meant a whole lot of time in…
If you’re watching official coverage of the Boston Marathon Bombings you’ve likely noticed that officials have held press conferences from the Westin Copley Place Boston. In the wake of many tragedies, hotels have lent support as staging areas for officials,…
Details about Starwood’s Q2 have been posted on their website – Earn double Starpoints® on all eligible stays from May 1 through July 31, 2013, at more than 1,000 participating Starwood hotels and resorts worldwide. Hotels and Resorts Not Participating. Unfortunately for me,…
Nope, it’s not April Fools Day, yet…but you read that right. Starwood has moved many of their corporate executives from Connecticut to Dubai for 1 month. Starwood president & CEO Frits van Paasschen and the company’s top executives will conduct…
I would like to introduce a VeryGoodPoints contributor, Plush Adventures. You can read more about Plush Adventures on my Points People page. John, the author of Plush Adventures will share travel related content to VeryGoodPoints. You can follow him @PlushAdventures on…
After a business trip to The Hague, I had to continue onto Bangkok, Thailand. I couldn’t find a flight that I could upgrade out of Amsterdam, so I booked an evening flight out of Frankfurt. I figured I’d get up…
Every year, SPG members vote on their favorite resorts. The voting is category based and the categories as things like best exotic escape, best beach resort, best family experience, best island paradise, and so forth. This year I was one…
The readers spoke and there seems to be some agreement on the best & worst Starwood hotels. Ironically, a few people also voted the best hotel as the worst hotel. I guess it’s all a matter of experience and opinion…