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Priority Club: more points needed for hotels
IN BRIEF | Sitting on a stash of Priority Club reward points? Then you'd better move fast on your next reward booking. Fr...
AusBT Awards 2011: Best Airport Hotels
Best Australian Airport Hotel: Holiday Inn Melbourne Airport With a convenient location within walking distance of all Melbour...
Call the hotel concierge before you arrive
Heading to a new city on your next business trip? Take the research and review-hunting off your to-do list and leave in the cap...
Singapore Marriott gets $24m makeover
Singapore’s landmark Marriott Hotel is set for an extensive (and expensive) renovation of all rooms as the second stage o...
Starwood & China Southern point swap
IN BRIEF | A new partnership between Starwood and China Southern has opened up a one-way point swap between their loyalty progr...
Why is Australia so full of apartment hotels?
Australia seems to be the land of 'apartment hotels', with an ever-increasing number rising up newly built or converted from ex...
Photo Tour: Mandarin Oriental, Paris
Paris' Mandarin Oriental has unveiled its sumptuously decorated suites, following the hotel's opening earlier this year. If you...
What makes a great airport hotel?
Most business travellers have logged plenty of time in airport hotels. Some are a haven, even an unexpected oasis, with the ser...
Free upgrade to Accor A|Club Platinum
UPDATE | Some readers attempting to register their current A|Club membership for an upgrade are now getting the message th...
Pullman Jakarta Central Park opens
Business travellers can add another international-standard business hotel in Jakarta to their list with the opening of the Pull...
New Westins in Ningbo, Xiamen & Xi'an
Travellers to Ningbo, Xiamen and Xi'an will have new international-standard business hotel options when three new Westin hotels...
Novotel & Microsoft's hotel room of the future
Funky design, fold-away furniture, gesture-recognition technology and plenty of screens. That's how Microsoft and Novotel see t...
New Rydges hotel at SYD International
Hotel group Rydges is building a new hotel for Sydney Airport, located within the airport precinct at the international termina...
Do hotel rooms really need a desk?
Is a writing desk a must-have for a business traveller's hotel room? If you'd asked me that question a year ago, even six mont...
Travel tip: snap a pic of your hotel room number
TRAVEL TIP | Ever got in the hotel lift in the middle of a long business trip and realised you don't remember which floor your ...
Travel tip: always ask for two hotel key cards
"How many key cards would you like?" Many solo business travellers just ask for one, but here's why you should say "two". For ...
Refurb'd rooms for Shangri-La Sydney
It'd be hard to improve on the view from Sydney's Shangri-La Hotel, perched as it is atop a hill in The Rocks district overlook...
Mantra on the Park apartment hotel refurbished
Melbourne apartment hotel Mantra on the Park has just completed a full upgrade to all its 144 rooms. Located at the top end of...