🏨 How to book dirt-cheap all-inclusives

Estimated read time: 4 minutes and 50 seconds

☀️ Good morning and welcome back to Daily Drop.

Consider this your warm cup of calm before the Black Friday storm hits. Deals are coming, decisions are coming… and we’ve got you covered.

Let’s get started, shall we?

• 🏨 Save 40% on all-inclusive hotels

• 🛍️ Black Friday is here… here’s how to maximize it

• 🎯 Targeted Marriott promos are floating around

• 💙 Blue Friday Sale Is Back

🏨 Save 40% on all-inclusives

Hyatt dropped a Black Friday sale on their European all-inclusives, and the whole thing is shockingly generous.

The discount is up to 40% off, but the real win is the timing: you can book through November 30, 2025, and travel all the way through December 31, 2026.

That’s an unusually long window for a promo like this.

The sale covers a ton of Hyatt’s Inclusive Collection properties across Europe — mostly Spain and the islands — and the discounted prices show up automatically as you search on this site, dedicated to their all-inclusive collection.

It’s very plug-and-play: pick your dates, see the price drop, no promo code nonsense.

And when you go to checkout, you’ll sometimes see a little bonus you can add for €0: a free bottle of wine or cava.

Not everywhere, but in plenty of places — and when it appears, it’s… delightfully obvious. “Would you like this free alcohol?” Yes. Obviously.

To show how good this can get, here’s an example from Alua Tenerife, a place I stayed a few years ago.

It wasn’t fancy, but it was sunny, easy, and the kind of resort where you can mentally clock out within five minutes.

The sale prices I pulled look like this:

• €91 per night for half board (breakfast + dinner) for two people, taxes already included

• €173 per night for the full all-inclusive option

• A free bottle of wine shows up during checkout for this property

Again — that’s just one hotel, but it shows the kind of value this sale can deliver.

And because these are all Hyatt Inclusive Collection properties, your stay earns World of Hyatt points and elite nights, which is a great way to kick off 2026.

If you want a cheap, sun-heavy, fully fed, fully watered escape for next year, this is one of the simplest wins on the entire Cyber Week calendar.

🛍️ Black Friday is here… here’s how to maximize it

It’s officially that week — the one where every website on the planet suddenly screams “up to 90% off!!!” and you briefly consider buying things you didn’t know existed 30 seconds ago.

And honestly? Some of the deals are actually good this year.

Case in point: Apple AirTags for under $18 on Amazon, which is stupid cheap.

I keep AirTags in literally every bag I own — even my tiny city backpack — because losing your stuff is embarrassing, and AirTags save you from that humiliation.

Plus, more and more airlines are quietly relying on AirTags when luggage goes missing… which tells you everything you need to know.

So here’s the fun part:

Amazon’s co-branded card, the [[ amazon-prime-visa.name ]], is currently offering something fun ([[ amazon-prime-visa.signup-bonus-miles ]]) instantly upon approval.

No minimum spend. No waiting for the physical card to arrive. No hoops.

You get approved → the $250 appears → you can immediately use it toward whatever’s already on sale this week.

With $250 of gift cards, you could buy AirTags for the whole family and still have enough leftover for that cute pair of cat socks.

The [[ amazon-prime-visa.casual-card-name ]] has no annual fee, but you do need to be an Amazon Prime member — which, let’s be real, most people reading this already are.

If you’re planning to do any Black Friday shopping at all, this is basically handing you $250 of “treat yourself” credit for free. And the timing could not be better.

🎯 Targeted Marriott promos are floating around

Marriott has been rolling out a wave of targeted promotions this week, and depending on who you are in Marriott’s eyes (beloved child, estranged cousin, random stranger), your offer might look totally different.

One of the more common offers I’ve seen is a simple one:

You earn 1,500 bonus points after your first paid stay, and 3,000 more after your second. Not mind-blowing, but it’s a cute little 4,500-point boost for doing basically nothing.

And here’s the fun twist: Marriott ALSO has a global promotion running right now that gives you 2,025 bonus points per paid stay, up to three times.

And if your stay happens to be at one of their Outdoors collection properties, you get another 2,000 points on top of that.

And yes — all of this stacks. Beautifully.

To show you how silly the math gets, here’s a quick example. I just finished a stay at a Marriott property in Dunhuang, which costs just $60 per night.

If you were to book two separate one-night stays at a property in this price range, here is what you’d rack up for bonus points:

• 2,025 points from the global promo on night one

• 2,025 more on night two

• And the 4,500 total points from the targeted 1,500 + 3,000 offer

And that’s before you even count the normal earnings from the stay itself.

For example, if you have the [[ marriott-bonvoy-brilliant-american-express-card.name ]], you get automatic Platinum elite status. That means you earn 15x points on paid stays (10x for being a member + 5x elite bonus), plus another 6x from the card itself.

So for two one-night stays like the example I mentioned earlier, you’d pay $120 and walk away with 11,070 Marriott points — enough for a free night at plenty of properties, or at least a head start toward one.

And if you click through a portal like Rakuten, you’d squeeze out even more.

Just FYI, these targeted offers are unpredictable.

You might have the one I showed you. You might have a better one. You might have nothing. Marriott’s targeting algorithm is basically a drunk raccoon spinning a wheel. 🦝

But if you have any paid Marriott stays coming up — even cheap ones — this is the time to stack everything:

• Register for any targeted offers in your account

• Register for the global points promo

• And split your stays if you want to maximize the bonuses

One or two cheap nights could genuinely turn into enough points for a free night somewhere else.

That’s all for today, folks! I hope you enjoyed these promos and Black Friday deals… and be sure to tune in this week – there are plenty more deals to come.

Cheers,

25.6065° N, 100.2676° E

With contributions and editing by McKay Moffitt