Family Travel Gets More Appetizing as Starwood Resorts Launches First "SPG Kids Pass” Offering All-Inclusive Food and Beverage

Big news for the littlest guests at Starwood resorts around the world: SPG Kids Pass has arrived. Now kids 12 and under can enjoy food and drink on an all-inclusive basis throughout their stay at nearly 150 Starwood resorts.

Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) includes a wide selection of the most sought-after resort properties under the St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, W Hotels, Sheraton, Le Méridien, Westin, and Four Points by Sheraton brands. Experiences range from the enchanting Walt Disney World Dolphin, a Sheraton Hotel, Florida, to the alluring Westin Maui Resort & Spa, Ka’anapali, Hawaii, to the stunning St. Regis Punta Mita, Mexico and the breathtaking Westin Resort, Costa Navarino, Greece.

SPG Kids Pass is available for easy purchase at check-in – or anytime during a stay - for a flat daily rate of just $10-20 on average, depending on the resort destination. Kids will enjoy all-inclusive access to a variety of dining options, including children's menus, buffets (where available) and beverages, at participating properties during their stay.*

"Our guests have told us how much they love the family-friendly feel at Starwood resorts and we wanted to enhance that experience. After piloting the program earlier this year, and getting great member feedback, we’re excited to now offer the benefit at nearly 150 resorts around the world,” said Matt Avril, President Hotel Group for Starwood Hotels. "By making mealtimes easy and fun for kids, we’re aiming to give the entire family an even more enjoyable vacation experience.”

SPG Kids Pass is available exclusively for members of the award-winning Starwood Preferred Guest® (SPG) program. Guests who are not yet SPG members can enroll in SPG complimentary at check-in – and treat their kids to the SPG Kids Pass the minute they join. New SPG members can immediately begin accumulating Starpoints®- the SPG program’s valuable form of currency. Frequent travelers worldwide have often recognized Starwood Preferred Guest® for having the industry’s best redemption program, faster points accumulation and zero blackouts on Free Night Awards. Through the SPG Moments program, members also get access to once-in-a-lifetime experiences such as private clinics with sports heroes, walking the red carpet at the hottest movie premiers and meeting today’s biggest music stars.

SPG Getaway Free

During SPG’s current Getaway Free promotion, every three stays at a participating Starwood hotel or resort worldwide will earn Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) members a free resort night- with no limits on the number of resort nights they can earn. Like all SPG rewards, the Getaway Free award is flexible and simple. Here’s how it works: From May 1 through July 31, SPG members who stay three times at any of the more than 1000 Starwood hotels or resorts worldwide will earn one free Resort Night Award. Award Nights can be redeemed at approximately 200 resorts worldwide – seven days a week - through December 21 with no blackout dates. Best of all, Getaway Free awards are combinable – so the more frequently you stay, the more free nights you will earn to make a long resort getaway. SPG members can register for SPG Getaway Free at spg.com/getawayfree.

SPG Launches SPG.com/Resorts, Including First Member-Generated Favorites List

SPG members and other guests can experience Starwood resorts for themselves at the new web site, spg.com/resorts. Along with live webcam images of Starwood resort properties around the world, the site lets guests find the perfect resort by interests like Beach, Cuisine, and Family activities. The launch of the site also coincides with the unveiling of the inaugural user-generated "SPG Member Favorites” list. For the first time, SPG invited thousands of its most well traveled members to identify their favorite resorts across the following nine categories: Best Family Experience, Best Beach Resort, Most Romantic Retreat, Best Exotic Escape, Best Golf Getaway, Best Island Paradise, Best Spa Indulgence, Best Winter Adventure and Best Small Wonder. For a complete list of all SPG Member Favorites visit spg.com/memberfavorites.

*SPG Kids Pass does not include in-room dining or mini bar items. Children must be accompanied by a paying adult for all food orders placed.

About Starwood Preferred Guest

The SPG program’s breakthrough policy of No Blackout Dates at the world’s most sought after collection of hotels, reinvented the hospitality loyalty program when it launched in 1999. By creating a program centered on its members, SPG has developed the most passionate and knowledgeable membership base in the hotel loyalty space. Through its use of new technologies and innovative channels such as SPG.com, SPG.com/stayconnected, SPG.com/flights and others, SPG continues to innovate and lead the industry. By offering No Blackouts on standard rooms at over 1,000 hotels and resorts in nearly 100 countries, No Blackouts on hundreds of airlines, and once in a lifetime experiences available through SPG Moments at spg.com/moments, the program has proven to be a big draw for the world’s most frequent travelers, and a significant competitive advantage for Starwood. For more information about Starwood Preferred Guest please visit SPG.com or call (877) – STARWOOD.

About Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with 1051 properties in 100 countries and territories with 145,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood Hotels is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels, resorts and residences with the following internationally renowned brands: St. Regis®, The Luxury Collection®, W®, Westin®, Le Méridien®, Sheraton®, Four Points® by Sheraton, and the recently launched Aloft®, and Element SM. The company boasts one of the industry’s leading loyalty programs, Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG), allowing members to earn and redeem points for room stays, room upgrades and flights, with no blackout dates. Starwood Hotels also owns Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts. For more information, please visit www.starwoodhotels.com.