Booking a five-star escape with only a few days' notice used to mean paying rack rates or settling for whatever room was left.
Adeleranson
Points and miles get all the glory, but the unsung hero of smart travel planning is what happens when things go wrong - a cancelled flight, a lost bag, a sudden illness abroad.
Booking a luxury stay used to mean accepting whatever cancellation terms a hotel handed you, but loyalty tiers have quietly rewritten those rules.