Hotels FAQ

Question:

Much as been written about the relative value of earning frequent flyer miles with many U.S. based airlines but a search of the world wide web yields virtually no information comparing the various hotel frequent stay/travel programs. Since some of these programs are clearly better than others, one should give consideration to staying with certain hotel chains if earning "free night stays" is high on your priority list! This author has attempted to ascertain what a typical consumer would need to accomplish in order to earn a free night’s stay at a participating hotel chain. Because there are several variables (1-7), such a comparison is not cut and dry! So it only seems appropriate to use one hundred U.S. dollars ($100) as the standard cost associated with a typical one night’s stay at each of the hotel chains being evaluated. This will allow a fair comparison of how each of the major hotel frequent stay programs stack-up against one another. Enrollment in all the highlighted programs is free! Visit http://hotelrewards.tripod.com to see the results!

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n.b. I don’t know who said it but "you can’t please all the people all the time!"  What I have attempted to do here is to compare what an average traveler would need to accomplish under normal circumstances to earn a "free night’s stay" with any of the major hotel frequent guest programs reviewed. In another’s words, I am analyzing and commenting on what falls under the typical bell shaped curve, not the outliers! Sure, there will be free hotel nights to be had (at the extremes) for staying at higher-end properties in far-away lands for next to nothing (ie. redemption of far fewer points than would otherwise be possible). The approach highlighted here is for the average consumer who travels domestically and stays for business or pleasure with well-known hotel chains not far off the beaten path! In the absence of any other such comparisons, "people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw rocks!"  For the years 2000 and 2001, the average daily room rate worldwide for the hotel industry was $113 per night (Pegasus Solutions, 2002) …rounding to an average rate of $100 per night (as was done here for comparison purposes only) is really quite logical !!! To those who disagree… write and publish your own comparison!

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Some rotten POS didn’t care for my assessment so they complained to Tripod.com. To whomever you are… you know where you’re next meal hangs don’t you? Meanwhile, you poured gas on this fire! This is the NEW URL: http://www.geocities.com/hotelrewards

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While it wasn’t me who complained, I don’t think it was your assessment they were complaining about, but the fact you are posting it over and over again across all the newsgroups.  Most people would consider your relentless posting of the same thing across so many groups and replying to posts in newsgroups different then were they were made SPAM. There’s no questioning that you have put some time in putting it together, it’s just your recent spamming of so many newsgroups is sure to piss off the people who consider themselves newsgroup police. Calling people rotten POS’s is sure to keep them happy

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Some rotten POS didn’t care for my assessment so they complained to > Tripod.com. To whomever you are… you know where you’re next meal > hangs don’t you? Meanwhile, you poured gas on this fire! > This is the NEW URL: > http://www.geocities.com/hotelrewards

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