Easy top tier Hyatt elite status | Ep 112 | 8-21-21
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
00:41 Giant Mailbag: Is the Sears Shop Your Way Mastercard the best cash back card ever?
5:42 What crazy thing...did Radisson Rewards do?
12:21 Mattress running the numbers: Should Greg use a Marriott free night certificate or earn a new one?
22:07 Main Event: Easy top tier Hyatt elite status. Should you go for it?
https://frequentmiler.com/easy-path-to-top-tier-hyatt-status/
https://frequentmiler.com/my-misadventures-with-a-hyatt-premium-suite-award/
https://frequentmiler.com/how-to-get-top-tier-hyatt-elite-benefits-without-status/
56:30 Post roast / question of the week: Are we grossly under-valuing Hilton points?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:12.0 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:19.3 | Today's main event, easy. top-tier Hyatt elite status. |
| 0:24.9 | Should you go for it? |
| 0:27.2 | Interesting question. |
| 0:27.6 | Nick and I will be debating that question today on Blackshirt Day. |
| 0:31.9 | Black shirt day. |
| 0:32.9 | That's right. |
| 0:33.4 | Did you get the memo? |
| 0:34.2 | Are you wearing your black shirt today? |
| 0:35.4 | We are both wearing our black shirts. |
| 0:37.3 | And so hopefully anyone listening to this is also wearing their black shirt for today. |
| 0:41.3 | I hope so. I hope so. Hopefully you read our minds. |
| 0:43.3 | Right, right. Because if you need to, pause the recording and go get your black shirt on. |
| 0:50.3 | It's black shirt day. But first, let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:54.6 | We have an email from a reader named John. |
| 0:58.4 | And I'm not going to read the whole email, but I'm going to read the subject heading of the email, which is, is the Shop Your Way rewards Mastercard, the new king of cashback. |
| 1:11.4 | In his email, he goes on to say that he has gotten so many promotions for cash back on this |
| 1:19.3 | card. |
| 1:19.6 | So the card normally earns shop your way, useless, mostly useless, shop your way points as |
| 1:26.2 | rewards for spend, but he gets promotions for like cash |
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