Hilton delivers luxury through SLH | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep263 | 7-12-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Hilton has brought on their partner Small Luxury Hotels of the World which has been a bit more exciting than we expected it would be. In today's Frequent Miler on the Air episode we'll discuss more.
(01:07) - a note about the alliteration in "pop-up prison" vs "pop-up jail" (Mail Bag)
(02:56) - IHG Premier 60K certs (Card Talk)
Read more about the IHG Premier 60K cert offer here: https://frequentmiler.com/chase-ihg-premier-card-best-ever-offer-5-60k-free-night-certificates/
(08:37) - Greg booked AA to fly to London and it didn't go very smoothly... (Crazy Thing)
Read about Greg's recent AAdventures (or misadventures) here: https://frequentmiler.com/my-aadventures-aatempting-to-fly-aa-to-london/
(21:38) - Escape lounge on arrival (Award Talk)
(26:19) - Digging in to fare class info when booking via Chase (Award Talk)
Main Event: Hilton delivers luxury through SLH(32:28) - Overview: ~400 SLH hotels bookable through Hilton
(38:09) - Some SLH hotels have suites defined as standard rooms
(39:30) - Gold and Diamond members: space-available room upgrades and continental breakfast for up to two guests.
(42:01) - Excellent Hilton point value possible through SLH
(44:19) - Free night certs & 5th Night Free awards apply to SLH
(47:21) - How to get points
(1:01:50) - How to get free night certs
Read more about the Hilton Aspire card here: https://frequentmiler.com/AmxHiltonAspire/
(1:04:25) - Read more about the Hilton Surpass card here: https://frequentmiler.com/hilton-honors-american-express-surpass-card/
(1:09:08) - How to find SLH award availability
(1:12:21) - Visit Rooms.aero here: https://rooms.aero/
(1:20:59) - Does the Chase Freedom Unlimited card double offer calculate even points that were transferred out? (Question of the week)
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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. |
| 0:10.8 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.6 | What crazy thing did? |
| 0:15.9 | City this week. |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.9 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.1 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Milo on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.9 | Today's main event, Hilton delivers luxury through SLH. |
| 0:32.1 | We're going to talk about Hilton bringing on their partner, small luxury hotels of the world, |
| 0:36.7 | and they brought them on in a big way, |
| 0:38.6 | bigger than expected. And we're going to talk about how to get great value from the luxury |
| 0:43.9 | properties that are now in our reach through points. That's right. And soon to be in your grasp |
| 0:49.6 | after you've listened to those, that was perfect. Like, we're're within reach soon we will help you put them |
| 0:54.4 | within your grasp but before we get to all that don't forget that if you want to jump ahead to |
| 0:58.3 | a specific segment or you want to return to one you can always find the timestamps in the show |
| 1:02.0 | notes you just need to expand the show description in order to find that and wherever you're |
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| 1:16.2 | All right. Speaking of hearing from you, let's drag out this week's giant mail bag. All right. In today's giant mail, we have a letter from Whitney. Now, this was in regards to a recent podcast where we talked about how |
| 1:28.5 | MX has a pop-up that sometimes prevents you from getting new welcome bonuses. And I had a little |
| 1:35.3 | rant that was just in fun saying, I hate it when people call it pop-up jail because we |
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