Conrad Bali – the hotel that proves that elite status matters!

Greetings from the Conrad Bali! Full review of this amazing property coming soon, but I wanted to quickly highlight why I think this hotel defines the reason many of us value elite status. The best loyalty elite statuses come with many perks. Sure, the perks are watered down more often than we would like, but […]

Hilton Garden Inn Bali, Ngurah Rai Airport – is this the best Hotel Value Anywhere? Can be had for $20 per night!

I don’t know if it’s the best value in the world, but let me lay out the case, and see where we end up. Consider All This – We arrived in Bali from Singapore at about 8:30 in the evening, so the plan was to stay the first night at the Hilton Garden Inn Bali, […]

Reminder – 2 days left to buy Hilton points with up to a 100% Bonus

Just a reminder that if you have any upcoming Hilton stays you are planning, to check and see if buying Hilton Honors points can save you some money. There is a current promotion ending at 12 Midnight ET on January 26th that effectively allows you to buy points for 1/2 cent each. Sign into your […]

No help from Hilton Honors on Doubletree Cariari embarrassment!

Last week I wrote about an incident I experienced at the Doubletree Cariari in San José, Costa Rica. You can read the details about it here, but the bottom line is that the front desk clerk assumed my friend, who had come to visit me at the hotel, was a prostitute, and tried to charge […]

Blatant Disrespect at the Doubletree Cariari – Costa Rica

In the last 30 days I have spent a total of 14 nights in three separate stays at the Doubletree by Hilton Cariari San José-Costa Rica, and I even wrote a nice review of one of my stays as part of the Costa Rica resource I’m assembling. I’ll need to update that post with this […]