So, SPG has announced its annual category changes for 2016. The number of points needed to redeem a free night in each of the 7 categories has not changed, but hotels have moved up and down between categories.
As a reminder, here are the points needed in each category
All in...
DBS has gone all in on its Altitude cards lately, coming up with some really generous sign up promotions.
A new promotion (until 30 April) offers 8 miles per $1 on purchases at Expedia (min $2,500 in a single transaction, otherwise 6 miles).I don't really use OTAs to book hotels...
One less well-known group of hotels is the Small Luxury Hotels (SLH) "chain", a loose grouping of about 500 independent hotels (locations here)
SLH has a loyalty program and  it's interesting because of the very low threshold needed to earn any sort of meaningful status. The program is free to...
W Bangkok
Impressed by the breakfast! And the great Thai service quality
 Visited October 2015Â
Bangkok is definitely a popular destination for many Singaporeans as well as foreigners around the world.
Having been to Bangkok many times, and stayed in many different hotels, I have not typed a review for some of them.
Remarkably,...
Uber and SPG have a partnership where you can earn SPG points with every Uber ride you take. If you're going to ride Uber anyway, might as well get something more out of it.
For Valentine's Day, Uber is running a special promotion with Starwood Hotels in Singapore offering riders the...
In the wake of more strong SQ financial performance news, I thought it was timely to take a look at how they made that happen. Here is a somewhat dated but otherwise excellent read on HBR about Singapore Airlines' strategy for competing in the global aviation market. To summarise-
SIA: A Premium...
OTAs have reached something of a saturation point in recent times. And to be frank, unless you have some site-specific discount code, all of them offer pretty much the same options, at least when it comes to flights (hotel pricing tends to differ a lot more on OTAs than...
Today I'm going to teach you how to get around number of user restrictions for Wifi. This is one of the most arbitrary and annoying restrictions that hotels/airlines have on their networks.
For example, SQ's new aircraft come equipped with T-Mobile's awesome time-based wifi (whole flight $21.95 as opposed to...