This is a Voyescape podcast. You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at

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Today's coffee break.

Fine hotels and resorts versus the edit.

These are both hotel programs offered by American Express and Chase.

And there's a lot of similarities between them.

They both offer luxury perks like usually free breakfast, a room upgrade and other things.

But there are also big differences between them.

So today we're going to talk at a high level about what are the differences sort of on paper.

And we're going to dive into an experience I had recently

where I had, I used both types of programs at one hotel back to back. And so I can talk about

what happened to me during that experience. Yeah, all right. So high level on paper,

Amex Fine Hotels and Resorts is better in a number of ways. First of all, one of the stated benefits

of the program is daily breakfast for two at all properties. Now, a lot of properties through the

edit offer breakfast, but not all properties apparently do, or at least it's not listed with some

properties, whereas Emmix always lists daily breakfast for two. Now, there are some places like in Las Vegas

where that'll be provided as a dining credit because there's a lot of restaurants at those

resorts. But nonetheless, daily breakfast for two is one of the guaranteed benefits of fine hotels

and resorts. Speaking of guaranteed benefits, the other big one for me is a 4 p.m. late checkout.

That's guaranteed with Ammex Fine Hot fine hotels and resorts and that can be

really beneficial because there are times even like for instance as a hyatt globalist i get 4 p.m. checkout

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