Happy Monday, readers! MasterCard and Starwood Hotels have teamed up on a promotion where anyone with a MasterCard can book via this promotion page and received their third night stay at a participating Starwood Hotel in the Asia Pacific for free. Deets: Must book using a MasterCard via promotion page here. Must book by March 31, 2013. Must complete the entire stay by April 31, 2013. If you want to book via the phone, please make sure to use the rate codes “Mastercard MH3” for hotels and “Mastercard MT3” for resorts……. (click read more!)

A week ago, Starwood sent out an interesting targeted email for Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) members regarding their Bonus Beginnings promotion. (SPG is Starwood’s free-to-join rewards program.) What was interesting about this promotion was not just that it was targeted, but that the promotion offer varies depending on your SPG history. When I plugged in my SPG number, it registered me for an offer where I will achieve SPG Gold Status after just two more stays between now and February 28, 2013. Now, I’m already at 7 stays, so 2…… (click read more!)

Starwood announced yesterday their 2013 first quarter promotion: SPG Power Up – Earn up to 18,000 Starpoints! “With the SPG® Power Up promotion, you’ll earn 2,000 bonus Starpoints® for every four eligible nights you stay (up to 8,000 bonus Starpoints and 16 nights). Top it off with an additional 10,000 bonus Starpoints when you hit 20 eligible nights. And keep in mind: Nights will accrue across multiple stays. Looks like you’ve got real staying power. Come back in early January to register, and stay at any of the hotels and resorts in the SPG program from…… (click read more!)

Starwood Hotels is running a new promotion, which you have to register for, where you receive 30% to 50% of your Starpoints back for award night stays, at select properties (listed below), between October 21st to December 20, 2012! That’s a FANTASTIC way to get back some of your Starpoints for free nights that are already great deals! You have to register for this promotion ahead of time in order to get in on it. You can register at the promotion page here. The following are a list of the hotels/properties where…… (click read more!)

Starwood is running their annual Starpoints sale, where for a limited time you can purchase Starpoints for 20% off. Deets: 20% off sale ends November 30, 2012. With the discount, 500 Starpoints cost $14.00 Each SPG account can only receive up to 20,000 Starpoints annually from purchases You can purchases Starpoints as gifts for other SPG members With the 20% off sale, you are essentially purchasing the Starpoints at 2.8 cents each. While I personally love the SPG program and their customer service, I only value the Starpoints at roughly…… (click read more!)

To sweeten the fall promotion “Better by the Night” that Starwood Hotels is running, Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) members now can earn 250 Starpoints for free simply by checking in on Foursquare during your stay at a SPG Hotel. (Sorry–no mooching this time–this isn’t Topguest, folks!) All you have to do is hop on over to the SPG social check-ins page to make sure you have your Foursquare account linked with your SPG account. Both are free to create, so there really isn’t any reason not to do this. Also, make…… (click read more!)