How to book the world's greatest hotels with points | Coffee Break Ep28 | 10-1-24
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🗓️ 1 October 2024
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Summary
We all get especially excited when we use our points for knock-your-socks-off hotel properties. The Travel and Leisure's Top 100 list can be a useful way to get ideas about which properties have this wow-factor. Every year, Greg likes to go through this list and find which hotels can be reasonably booked with points. In this episode, he'll discuss his findings.
(00:49) - The Best Points-Bookable Hotels in the World (2024) [based on Travel & Leisure Top 100]
See Greg's analysis of points-bookable hotels on the Travel & Leisure's top 100 list here.
(03:40) - How to book the Hyatt, Marriott, and IHG hotels
(04:43) - How to book Hilton/SLH hotels
(06:13) - Leading Hotels of the World / Leaders Club
Learn more about booking Leading Hotels of the World properties via Citi ThankYou points here.
(08:02) - See our How To video for using Rooms.aero for finding difficult award availability here.
(10:09) - Choice Privelages and Preferred Hotels
(13:42) - The Citi Rewards+ advantage
Read more about the Citi Rewards+ card here.
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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 mileer on the air episode. |
| 0:20.8 | This is a standalone segment we're calling coffee break. |
| 0:24.9 | Each coffee break segment will cover a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:30.3 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or your money back. |
| 0:34.5 | Enjoy. |
| 0:41.8 | Welcome to today's coffee break, where Nick and I are going to talk about how to book the world's greatest hotels with points. |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah, I mean, I love to use my points and I love to use my points to stay at great hotels. |
| 0:49.7 | So I'm pretty excited to talk about using points to stay at great hotels. |
| 0:53.9 | So this all kind of started because you found a particular list of great hotels. |
| 0:58.7 | And I mean, of course, there's a lot of lists out there. |
| 1:00.5 | But travel and leisure creates a list of their top 100, you know, best hotels in the world each year. |
| 1:07.0 | And you always kind of take a look at that list, right? |
| 1:09.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.6 | So I went through their top 100 list, which I don't for second agree with is necessarily |
| 1:17.1 | really the world's best 100 hotels, but it's useful to just have a starting point because |
| 1:22.1 | I was curious how many of these can be booked with points and not just at all with points, but to get |
| 1:30.5 | potentially really good value for your points because that's really the game we play, right? |
| 1:35.1 | We try to see whether we can get outsized value with our points and that's the goal here. |
| 1:41.4 | So going through that top 100 list, I found quite a few. |
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