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Old Oct 15, 2014, 2:07 am
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Old Oct 20, 2014, 2:19 am
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Originally Posted by conde
Oh by the way.. there is a very creepy feature from the new SPG web site. If signed in and researching rates for a particular location, an email from Starwood will follow, with a subject "There's still time to finish your booking for xxx".
That's not new, I used to receive those with the old website as well.
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Old Oct 20, 2014, 3:04 am
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Originally Posted by Oxon Flyer
My spg password contains both capital and lower case letters.

If I key in my password all in CAPITAL letters, it logs me in.
If I key in my password all in lower case letters, it logs me in.

Yikes.
Fidelity takes it one step further and converts your password to the phone keypad equivalent. So if your password is "goD" any capitalization, 463, g6d, 46d, G6d, etc all work. Hooray for tiny possibly password spaces at financial institutions.
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Old Oct 20, 2014, 6:15 am
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One of the promos showing in the horizontal scrolling display at the top of the homepage tells me :

Earn up to 3x Starpoints.
You're registered. Book to earn up to 3x Starpoints through December 15.
I'm not signed in.

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Old Oct 20, 2014, 3:07 pm
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Is there any way to search for hotels by airport code in the new site, or has that function been removed ?
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Old Oct 20, 2014, 5:05 pm
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Originally Posted by Oxon Flyer
One of the promos showing in the horizontal scrolling display at the top of the homepage tells me :



I'm not signed in.

I see this kind of thing regularly on many sites, including the old *wood site. Cookies I suppose. You still have to log in to do anything transactional.

Cheers,
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Old Oct 20, 2014, 5:10 pm
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Originally Posted by Oxon Flyer
Is there any way to search for hotels by airport code in the new site, or has that function been removed ?
Not sure I'm understanding the question; all you have to do is type the airport code into the 'location' box when starting a search.

Cheers,
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Old Oct 20, 2014, 5:21 pm
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Originally Posted by Flews
Not sure I'm understanding the question; all you have to do is type the airport code into the 'location' box when starting a search.
That doesn't work.
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Old Oct 20, 2014, 7:52 pm
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Originally Posted by Oxon Flyer
Is there any way to search for hotels by airport code in the new site, or has that function been removed ?
Yes you can, but it is certainly not intuitive.

At the top of the home page, click on the dropdown BOOK & REDEEM.

On the right side of that page, click on HOTEL DIRECTORY & MAP.

At the bottom right of that page, in the box labeled Hotel Name Keyword Search click on Advanced Search.

On that page, under Search Options click on Airport and enter airport code.

As I said, not intuitive but the function is still around.
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Old Oct 20, 2014, 8:15 pm
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Originally Posted by LovetoTravel83
That doesn't work.
Works just fine for me.

Update - works for the first ne I tried, my home airport YYZ - but isn't working for others I treed after reading the preceding posts.

Cheers,
Last edited by Flews; Oct 20, 2014 at 8:27 pm Reason: Update
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Old Oct 21, 2014, 1:53 am
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Originally Posted by controller1
On that page, under Search Options click on Airport and enter airport code.

As I said, not intuitive but the function is still around.
^

I had got as far as the Hotel Directory & Map page, but hadn't noticed the Advanced option. I did try the 'Airport' filter, but discovered this is useless : it shows all properties at cities which have an airport (eg everything in Chicago) rather than properties actually near the airport.

Originally Posted by Flews
I see this kind of thing regularly on many sites, including the old *wood site. Cookies I suppose. You still have to log in to do anything transactional
Interesting one this - it was on a standard desktop where more than 1 user logged into spg, and the last one to log in was not registered for that promo.
Makes you wonder if, with the website being optimised for one-user tablets, the design and/or testing for traditional multi-user desktops is not as rigorous as is used to be.
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Old Oct 21, 2014, 9:59 am
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Please bring back the BRG link in the bottom left corner of every SPG page!

Also, would like my Lifetime nights posted on the opening page when I log in.
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Old Oct 22, 2014, 1:52 am
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Proofreading error :

The text of the Platinum Welcome gift is the same as Gold.
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Old Oct 22, 2014, 5:25 am
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Using Chrome and can't find area to log-in on homepage:
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/preferredguest

After one minute of browsing the the new site I'm not a fan. The basics aren't there, Ie. one click to my stays or activity (vs. hover then click). Get that right then focus on your new geeky functionality.
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Old Oct 22, 2014, 5:33 am
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Originally Posted by milesunited
Using Chrome and can't find area to log-in on homepage:
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/preferredguest
Works OK on Chrome for me

Top right : Click on "USERNAME OR SPG NUMBER", or on the V next to it, and it then unfolds to show a password field.
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Old Oct 22, 2014, 5:56 am
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Originally Posted by Oxon Flyer
Works OK on Chrome for me

Top right : Click on "USERNAME OR SPG NUMBER", or on the V next to it, and it then unfolds to show a password field.

Doesn't work for me.
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