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Today's coffee break, don't take a siesta on Sanesta. back. Enjoy.

Today's coffee break, don't take a siesta on Sanesta.

Sanesta is a hotel chain that we have not paid a lot of attention to in the past,

but that's about to change because there's some interesting stuff going on.

There is. And so we'll talk all about it.

Tim wrote a great post this week. And of course, as always, we have the timestamps in the show notes and pertinent links in the show notes. And so if we talk about this and you say, wow, this is interesting. You should totally check out Tim's complete guide to Sness to Travel Pass because it has all the details in it, even more than what we'll probably get to in the next 20 minutes. So you'll want to make sure you check that out wherever you're watching or listening. Don't forget to like this show. Subscribe to our channel, enable notifications, tell your friends and family. But let's get into Sinesda Travel Pass because this is interesting. I find it most interesting, not even necessarily because I'm in a hurry to stay at Sinesas, but because it's a program that has really come out of nowhere and that I feel like not many people in this space are talking about, yet maybe we should be. So Sanesta now has, believe it or not, and this blew my mind, more than 1,100 properties. I mean, that's way more than what I would have guessed, if you asked me to guess how many there are. Now, their properties, of course, skew towards the value end of things,

brands like Red Lion and America's best value in and things like that. So that's, I think,

the heavier part of their footprint, but they do have some premium brands and some luxury

and lifestyle brands. So these are things like Senesta ES,

Senesta Simply Suites, Essential Select, Royal Senesta, the James Hotel. So there are quite a few

different brands there that may appeal to premium and luxury travelers as well. They don't

have award charts, but that's not necessarily as bad as it sounds because they do have set

award levels. So it's not like a, you know,

price could be anything under the sun. There's set levels between 10 and 50,000 points per night.

And the award costs are pretty reasonable. We've found, Tim found, that the reasonable redemption value

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