Marriott announces deal to buy Starwood Hotels and Resorts

Early this morning, Marriott announced that it would buy Starwood Hotels and Resorts. The deal, which has Marriott paying $12.2B in cash and stock, will create the largest hotel chain in the world. The Tale of Two Loyalty ProgramsThis has the potential to be huge for hotel mile and point collectors. Here you have on of…

When a hotel determines your destination

 As funny as this may sound, there are times that I will choose my destination based on the hotel. As you can see from some of our Saturday Specials, here, here, and here, we try to stay in hotels that we have status at.To that end, I’m planning a trip for later this month, and my wife…