✏️ June 2026 Update — Well, what do you know… the pendulum swung! Barry Sternlicht got the Starwood name back from Marriott and relaunched Starwood Hotels — but WITHOUT points. I wrote my full reaction, including the W Istanbul story and what Marriott’s $13.6 billion actually bought, right here: Starwood Is Back — Without Points….
Getting the Best Price on Travel In my previous posts I said that even though I am very big on points / miles, most of my travel, be it flights or hotels, is paid travel. With that said, I always get the best deal unless it’s just an emergency or urgent, as most of my…
I travel a lot more than most people in my rural area of Oklahoma, and even my other home of Acapulco, Mexico, so I get asked alot by some of my friends and acquaintances how I travel so much. For a while I found it an invasive and a somewhat tacky question and I just brushed it…
As I stated in my last post I was doing both the “mail-in” and stay part of the IHG Priceless Surprises Promotion. I just finished my last 14 of 94 entries that I will put in mail today, and last night I received my first 49 email entries allowing me to select a floor, and…