Ask your hotel concierge to write down addresses for taxi drivers, and remember to take a hotel card with the address in Chinese characters for the return trip.
Those consumers who amass at least 30, 000 miles with the same airline or 20 nights at the same hotel chain per year should get an airline credit card or hotel credit card tied to their particular company of choice.
Their competitor analysis includes not only other airline programs but also hotel and credit card loyalty programs.
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To get a foretaste of what is to come, try hiring a car or booking a room at a top hotel without a credit card.
These reward points are in addition to those offered by the loyalty programs run by airlines, hotel chains and credit card companies, and can be redeemed for discounts on subsequent future bookings on Expedia.
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It can be found everywhere in the corporate world, from credit-card companies to hotel chains to the retail trade.
And of course, there is the fear of civil-libertarians that road or hotel fees recorded on a card could be used to prove that suspects had been at the scene of a crime.
Outsourcing services, whether a bank outsources its credit-card business or a hotel its reservations, is harder to manage than outsourcing the manufacture of chips or tyres.
But after you've set things up, the site will continuously fetch the latest points balances, expiration dates and reward opportunities from all your flight, hotel, car rental and credit-card programs.
One California hotel manager recently called to redeem her card, he says, confessing that she nabbed 20 business cards from a fishbowl in the lobby of nearby rival La Quinta in an attempt to find prospective customers.
If you love to travel, get either a generic travel rewards credit card or a card tied to your favorite airline or hotel chain.
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Thus, for those who redeem rewards frequently, the free flights, complimentary hotel stays and fringe benefits (preferred status, VIP access, etc.) outweigh the risk of devaluation and make airline or hotel credit cards hard to beat by any other type of rewards card.
We disclosed to the auditor that her reconstruction of her time (21 hours) dealing with this issue was supported by the receipts from all the vendors, her telephone records with calls to all the vendors, her airline tickets (evidenced by American Express card statements) for flying to the property, her rental hotel while dealing with the property, and sworn affidavits from the vendors who dealt only with her.
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Moreover, the success of the original card design has spawned imitators from grocery club cards to transit cards to hotel key cards.
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Credit-card companies have long enticed users with an array of rewards programs, from airplane miles to hotel rooms and cash back.
Just like with fluffy hotel robes, the full cost of any pilfered Kindle will be charged to a guest's credit card.
When we arrived at the hotel where I was staying the driver again completed the order with my drop-off time and took my credit card using the tablet.
Dormer likely had access to the hotel from having been honorably discharged from the Navy Reserve -- which would mean he'd have an ID card -- said the Navy spokesman.
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