For a long time, Google Flights has been the gold standard for flight price tracking and research, but the Google Hotels tool has not been nearly as robust — until now. Google.com/hotels has officially launched hotel price tracking globally, including for individual hotels. Google calls it “the perfect way to snag a great deal this…

World of Hyatt is about to launch a newly complex award chart that will make the cost of some of our favorite hotels substantially higher in some cases, so big fans of the program (like myself) have been getting busy booking aspirational properties ahead of the changes. I’ve blown through a whopping 402,000 World of…