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Citi's transfer bonus to Leading Hotels of the World | Coffee Break Ep27 | 9-24-24

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Aviation, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.9640 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Leading Hotels of the World is a hotel loyalty program with loose affiliation to 400 luxury hotels around the world. You may recognize the name from Greg's recent post about the best points-bookable hotels in the world here.

(00:07) - What is Leading Hotels of the World

Read Greg's recent post about the best points-bookable hotels in the world here.

(01:35) - Citi standard Transfer to Leading Hotels of the World

(02:35) - Leading Hotels of the World Details (and "Leader's Club" points)

(04:05) - Greg's experience sampling Leading Hotels of the World using Citi ThankYou Rewards

Read about Greg's experience with Leading Hotels of the World here.

(06:41) - Learn more about the Citi transfer bonus to Leading Hotels of the World here.

(07:41) - Who do we think this Citi transfer bonus is (and isn't) for?

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0:00.0

This is a Voyescape podcast.

0:04.0

You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com.

0:08.0

Here we go.

0:16.4

This is not your typical frequent mile on the air episode. This is a standalone segment we're calling

0:22.9

coffee break. Each coffee break segment will cover a single topic related to miles and points.

0:30.2

And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or your money back. Enjoy.

0:44.3

Today's coffee break, city's transfer bonus to leading hotels of the world. What's this all about, Nick? Well, leading hotels of the world is a loyalty program that is a loose affiliation of apparently over 400 luxury hotels around the world. So if you're familiar with small luxury hotels of the world, SLH,

0:58.2

and I know many listeners will be because of SLH's affiliation with Hyatt previously

1:02.8

and now their affiliation with Hilton.

1:05.4

If you're familiar with SLH and what that is,

1:07.6

Leaders Club, or rather leading hotels of the world, rather,

1:10.7

is essentially a very

1:12.5

similar thing. So it's more of like a loose marketing partnership than a brand identity, perhaps.

1:19.6

Leaders Club, I mentioned a second ago, is the name of the loyalty program for leading hotels

1:23.7

of the world. Most but not all leading hotels of the world are bookable with

1:28.4

Leaders Club Points. And Greg has written about the best points bookable hotels in the world for

1:35.0

24. And if I remember correctly, the program with the most hotel booking options out of all

1:41.5

the ones you search, the list of 100 best hotels in the world,

1:45.3

Leaders Club had more than anybody else bookable with points, right? There were 10 of them.

1:49.7

True story. Yep. 10 out of the 28 that were bookable with points where you could get,

1:54.5

where you could potentially get outside's value for your points. So I wasn't including

1:58.2

things like Mr. and Mrs. Smith, where you get poor value for your

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