InterContinental
Priority Club Changes Points System
Priority Club Rewards, the guest loyalty program of InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, will credit guests 10 points for every dollar spent on qualifying revenue during stays.
The new points system goes into effect on February 15, 2012.
Previously, guests earned 2,000 points per stay, regardless of what was spent at the hotel.
It is expected that most members will earn three times the number of points with the new system when compared to …
Choice, Hilton, Hyatt, ICH, Marriott, Wyndham Launch Roomkey.com Search Engine
Six hotel companies have launched the new hotel search engine Roomkey.com, which provides search and direct booking capabilities for U.S. travelers.
Choice Hotels International, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, Hilton Worldwide, Marriott International Inc., InterContinental Hotels Group and Wyndham Hotel Group partnered to create the new site. Following its launch, Roomkey is to expand to other English-speaking countries and to add features such as independent reviews.
InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco Review
As I headed over to the InterContinental Mark Hopkins, I looked at my watch. It was nearly 4 p.m. The fog would soon be rolling in over the Golden Gate Bridge and the hotel’s Top of the Mark lounge was (according to my mother, who knows such things) THE place to see it.
Perched on the southeastern peak of Nob Hill, a neighborhood in San Francisco that, by the late nineteenth …
InterContinental Boston Review
Centuries ago, visitors to Boston from far away lands arrived by ship in Boston Harbor. Today, the very site of the Boston Tea Party, a milestone event in the American Revolution, is also the location of a gleaming new hotel, the InterContinental Boston. Business travelers can reach the InterContinental in the same fashion, albeit via water taxi from Logan Airport to the hotel’s private dock.
In my case, however, I …
InterContinental Resort Berchtesgaden Review
My memories of my first visit (in 2005) to the InterContinental Resort in Berchtesgaden are many and wonderful. I remember the beautiful drive via the Alpenstraße. I think of the incredible view from my window at an altitude of 1000 meters. I remember the warm hospitality and I remember the food.
Almost five years later, I found myself driving along the Alpenstraße for a return visit.
The InterContinental is set on a …
Le Ciel, Berchtesgaden, Germany
A twisty drive on the Alpenstraße brings the visitor to Le Ciel, a 12-table restaurant that offers dining at an altitude of 1000 meters at the InterContinental Resort Berchtesgaden. The hotel itself is set on a small plateau overlooking the Nationalpark Berchtesgaden in Berchtesgadener Land, Bayern (Bavaria) adjacent to Salzburg, Austria.
On Christmas Day it had started to snow in the late afternoon and the restaurant’s softly lighted interior seemed all …
