{"id":852,"date":"2011-08-09T09:10:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T15:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2012-08-07T08:10:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T14:10:35","slug":"winter-getaway-with-starwood-hotel-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"Winter Getaway with Starwood Hotel Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re not thinking about it right now, but if you&#8217;re like half of the people in the US, at some point here soon the leaves will start to change color and we&#8217;ll leave this sunny weather behind for another six months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worldwanderlusting.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/wes1092ag_101449_md.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-851\" title=\"wes1092ag_101449_md\" src=\"http:\/\/worldwanderlusting.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/wes1092ag_101449_md.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a>If you get started now, you could be lazing on this amazing beach at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwoodhotels.com\/preferredguest\/property\/overview\/index.html?language=en_US&amp;propertyID=1092\">Westin Resort in Cancun<\/a>\u00a0for at least 4 nights,\u00a0entirely free of charge.\u00a0 As you&#8217;ve heard us rave about, there\u00a0is a great\u00a0promotion at the moment for the\u00a0Starwood Preferred Guest American Express which will entitle you to 30,000 Starwood points after you meet the $5000\u00a0spending requirement.<\/p>\n<p>Sheldon posted not too long ago about the <a href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/2011\/06\/23\/alaska-airlines-40000-miles-bank-of-america\/\">Alaska Airlines card<\/a>, that would help you connect the dots with some free flights as well.<\/p>\n<p>You may want to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/2011\/06\/17\/build-one-house-get-2-trips-to-mexico-free\/\">our post <\/a>on some of our experiences in the Yucatan&#8230; by the time you&#8217;re finished you may be well on your way to planning a winter getaway.<\/p>\n<p>If you like this idea, also check out these other posts:<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/gdlckjoe.com\/clk.aspx?l=20193&#038;c=15031'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/gdlckjoe.com\/imp.aspx?l=20193&#038;c=15031' border='0' alt=''><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re not thinking about it right now, but if you&#8217;re like half of the people in the US, at some point here soon the leaves will start to change color and we&#8217;ll leave this sunny weather behind for another six &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=852\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[113,115,164,222],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DhXV-dK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}