Business Travel Tips
How to get there, how to get around, where to find stuff and how to ask for it. These are tips from the local insider to make your stay here a breeze
Starwood Hotels $75 Food & Beverage Credit
American Express Gold Card Members can expect some great deals at Starwood Hotels with a new program through the Gold Card Destinations Program. Gold Card Members will now receive a $75 food and beverage credit when they book a stay of two or more consecutive nights at more than 500 Starwood properties around the world, including W Hotels, Westin Hotels & Resorts, Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts and Sheraton Hotels & Resorts.
How do you get in on the deal? Through the Gold Card Destinations program, which is a free …
Date: July 22nd, 2008 |
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Travelocity TravelToos for App Store
The iPhone is by far the biggest news in the communications industry these days. Those who pay attention to these kinds of things should already know about the new App Store. The App Store is a place where iPhone users can score all kinds of great applications for their phones, either for free or for a small price. Travelocity just announced a new iPhone application called TravelTools, created to offer iPhone and iPod Touch users “an innovative set of travel features while they are on the road.”
TravelTools by …
Date: July 22nd, 2008 |
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Airline Boarding Pass SPAM
Sojern, Inc. is a company offering a new service more SPAM to airline passengers on the major carriers in the U.S., including American Airlines, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines, United Airlines and US Airways. The company will provide destination content to passengers when they check-in for flights online.
What’s this? When you go to check in for your flight online, Sojern is going to SPAM you with advertisements from businesses in your destination. It’s an ad on your boarding pass, like those now commonly found …
Date: July 17th, 2008 |
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Vegas.com Free Gas Cards
Those of you traveling to sunny Las Vegas this summer are in for some winnings. Even if you lose every hand at the casino, you can score $50 in free gas from Vegas.com. As of July 7, VEGAS.com is offering customers $50 in free gas and $10 off of hotel reservations. It’s the Cash in and Top Off promotion, targeted at tourists but it will work just as well for business travelers.
In order to cash in on the savings, enter the promotion code “GAS” while during the checkout …
Date: July 15th, 2008 |
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WorldPerks Visa Platinum Card
If you have very good credit and fly with Northwest Airlines and their partner airlines often, the WorldPerks® Visa® Platinum Card issued by US Bank is definitely the airline mileage credit card to consider using. The reason it suits those who travel on Northwest Airlines is the reward system offered with the card.
Quick facts:
Our rating: B+
Interest rate: 14.75% variable
Earning rewards: 5 miles per dollar in certain restaurants; 1 dollar per mile everywhere else
Reward options: Northwest Airlines tickets or at any partner airlines
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When you are using your card, each dollar spent on general purchases earns you a mile. In certain restaurants you can earn 5 miles per dollar. When you sign up you can get up to 7,500 miles bonus and each time you pay the annual fee of $55 you get 55 miles bonus.
Date: July 11th, 2008 |
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San Jose Jazz Festival
Business travelers from the world over make their way to San Jose, California for business or conferences. Next month, travelers to the area can enjoy the 19th annual San Jose Jazz Festival. From August 8 to 10, visitors to San Jose can rock out with more than one hundred bands comprising over 1,000 musicians at Caesar Chavez Park in downtown San Jose. What a great way to finish up (or start) a week in the area. And an excellent way to entertain your people.
Headliners include David Sanborn, Big …
Date: July 22nd, 2008 |
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Platinum Delta SkyMiles Credit Card from American Express
This airline mileage credit card has been designed for those who have a very good credit history. Platinum Delta SkyMiles® Credit Card from American Express is by far the best card of all Delta SkyMiles cards.
Quick facts:
Our rating: B
Interest rate: 14.99%
Earning rewards: 1 dollar earns 2 Miles at participating locations; 1 dollar earns 1 Mile for all other purchases
Reward options: each year a free companion ticket; mileage bonus; upgrade account
Click Here for more Details and to Apply
The owner receives one mile for each dollar spent on general purchases. If you use your card at participating retailers and merchants – which obviously include Delta Air Lines – you get two miles for each dollar spent. On the first purchase, the owner is awarded 20,000 bonus miles. Out of that bonus, 5,000 miles can be used towards upgrade opportunities, mileage bonus and many more.
Date: July 18th, 2008 |
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Homewood Suites Online Room Selection
You know how every single time you check in to your hotel you get the room next to the ice machine? Oh wait, that’s me. Well, these days Homewood Suites is offering HHonors members a nice deal to avoid such travesties. Homewood Suites, the “residential style hotel” by Hilton, is now offering an innovative online Suite Selection tool for room reservations. Suite Selection, a fancy way to say you get to pick your room in advance, is now available to all Hilton HHonors members. Magical, right?
How …
Date: July 16th, 2008 |
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Southwest Airlines Fuel Hedging
So, Southwest Airlines is in WAY better shape than the other large U.S. airlines these days because for years they’ve done something called fuel hedging. That’s why Southwest is actually expanding service later this year, while all of the legacy airlines are severely cutting back on service. Most people who pay attention to this sort of thing have at least heard the term “fuel hedging,” but not everyone has a good understanding of what that means. This YouTube video does a stellar job of breaking …
Date: July 12th, 2008 |
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American Airlines NBA Partnership
American Airlines is the official airline of the National Basketball Association. The airline recently announced a partnership with the NBA, including “several of the league’s most prominent
international grassroots initiatives featuring activities in nine countries.”What does this mean to you? Probably some rocking promotions for you basketball fans out there.
According to the press release, American Airlines will serve as the official airline of 2008 NBA Europe
Live presented by EA SPORTS. That would be the NBA’s European tour, beginning its third year in October. The airline will also work with …
Date: July 6th, 2008 |
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