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The year is ending and its time to make sure I qualify for Elite status with some of  the hotel loyalty programs I stay at. Marriott points can be lost if you don’t have any activity for a year and LaQuiita points even have expiry dates. I was disappointed that my La Quinta Return  Points vanished,  losing out on  a few free nights.
Luckily, Priority Club points never expire and there are no blackout dates for using awards at Holiday Inn’s.
La Quinta stopped sending me their newsletter when my points expired. I think that that is not smart of them to assume that I had died because I had not stayed at one of their hotels for a few months.  La Quinta Inns and Suites are a large midscale brand with over 800 hotels in the United States, Canada and Mexico. La Quinta Inns operates its own independent hotel loyalty program and they are offering double points at a few hotels and triple points at their newest properties through January 8, 2012. This works out to about 20 points or 30 points per dollar. You can get a free reward night starting at 6,000 points.for their Tier 1. The highest Tier is 6 and you need  24,000 points to stay at one of those hotels.

La Quinta are not 5 star hotels  but you can  redeem points for free nights at select world-class luxury hotel and resort destinations like the The Inverness Hotel Denver, Colorado:
25,000 Points (per night) from 1/1/12-5/31/12 at the Inverness
35,000 Points (per night) through 12/31/11 & 6/1/12-12/31/12 click here to see more hotel destinations

I’m off to ski in Colorado

Únase a La Quinta Returns® y canjee puntos por noches gratis en lujosos hoteles y centros vacacionales seleccionados, de primera categoría, cada uno con elegantes alojamientos en encantadores escenarios naturales.

Spirit Airlines have festive fares starting at $9* each way, for flights to places like: Dallas, Boston, NYC, Chicago , Orlando and Nassau, Bahamas. See the full list here.

Your bags could cost more than that, because they charge for all bags. Carry-on, checked, overweight, oversized, and sporting equipment. You get one personal item free of charge per customer to carry on but the first Checked Bag (At Booking / before check-in) cost you $18 And it cost $23 at check in .

The $9 Fare Club offers members exclusive travel deals, not only in the US but all over the Americas. All the way from Lima, Peru in the South to Plattsburgh, NY in the North. Not a bad deal, eh?

Access to Member only fares sometimes as low as $9! And lower bag fees but An annual membership to the $9 Fare Club is $59.95

Los beneficios de FREE SPIRIT Avion, Spirit programa de viajero frecuente:

• Acceso a ofertas y tarifas exclusivas para miembros.
• Utilice las millas acumuladas para reservaciones de premio, dentro de los Estados Unidos y destinos internacionales.