How to gift free hotel nights | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep265 | 7-26-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 27 July 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
(00:00) - Ever wanted to gift a free hotel night to someone else? In today's episode of Frequent Miler on the Air we'll discuss the ways you can do this!
(01:18) - In response to Greg's post "Hilton Honors is winning me over, but I’d like one more enhancement…" one reader wonders, "Does Hilton pay influencers to do this?" (Read that post here: https://frequentmiler.com/hilton-honors-is-winning-me-over-but-id-like-one-more-enhancement/ (Mailbag)
(03:55) - Updating Card Talk
(05:40) - American Express Gold Card changes go live, including increased annual fee, new "white gold" option, Dunkin' and Resy credits, and more... (Card News)
Read more about the American Express Gold Card here: https://frequentmiler.com/AmxGoldCard/
Catch our episode about the "rumored" Amex changes here: https://frequentmiler.com/podcast-rumored-amex-gold-card-changes-good-or-bad-coffee-break-ep19-7-23-24/
(10:08) - Wells Fargo Attune gives 4% for Amazon.com purchases! (Card News)
(11:38) - "Southwest Airlines Redeye Flights Coming… Finally!" (Crazy Thing)
(14:31) - Southwest will soon offer assigned & premium seating (Crazy Thing)
(17:04) - What is the "Vacations by Marriott Bonvoy" promo? Earn 25k bonus points on 4+ night packages Read more about this Marriott Bonvoy promo here: https://frequentmiler.com/vacations-by-marriott-bonvoy-promo-earn-25k-bonus-points-on-4-night-packages/ (Mattress Running the Numbers)
(23:51) - What are the Citi transfer bonuses through August 17th, 2024? (Award Talk)
(27:53) - Find award space for incredible SLH properties like Calala Island and Grand Hotel Victoria Lake Como, using tools like Rooms.Aero or MaxMyPoint to set alerts (Award Talk)
Read more about using these tools to find availability at properties like the Grand Hotel Victoria Lake Como here: https://frequentmiler.com/grand-hotel-victoria-lake-como-has-wide-open-availability/
(30:21) - Autoslash triggers Altitude Reserve's Real Time Mobile Rewards RTMR (Award Talk) Read more about Altitude Reserve's Real Time Mobile Rewards here: https://frequentmiler.com/us-bank-real-time-mobile-rewards-what-works-where/
Main Event: How to gift free hotel nights
(32:51) - How to gift someone your free hotel night certificates or award nights Read more about gifting hotel nights here: https://frequentmiler.com/gift-hotel-points-free-night-certificates-and-award-nights-booked-with-points-rules-by-program/
(34:19) - Can you gift someone your hotel points? Which programs allow it and which programs don't?
(39:39) - Can you book a hotel night for someone else, using your points? Which programs allow it and which programs don't?
(46:52) - Can you gift a hotel free night certificate to someone else? Which programs allow it and which programs don't?
(52:17) - Which hotel rewards program is the best for gifting nights with someone else?
(55:44) - If someone hears something on the podcast they want more information about, where do they find more information? (Question of the Week)
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder
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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. |
| 0:10.7 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did? |
| 0:15.9 | City this week. |
| 0:17.4 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? The main event. |
| 0:21.6 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.6 | Today's main event, how to gift free hotel nights. |
| 0:30.6 | So sometimes you want to give someone a present and sometimes the best present of all is to give them travel. |
| 0:36.6 | And so we're going to talk about |
| 0:38.7 | ways you can gift people your free hotel nights that you've earned through earning points, |
| 0:45.0 | earning free night certificates and so on as part of our main event. Yeah, I love this topic because |
| 0:51.0 | this is a fun thing to give to someone. You can give them a sort of a fun experience. And it also has outsized value, right? Because the points might be relatively easy for you to earn, but worth quite a bit to the recipient. So it's also, you know, a gift that enables you to be more generous, perhaps. But don't forget if you want to find direct links to the different time stamps. You want to jump ahead to a segment or you want to come back to it again. You can always find those in the show notes, expand the description box, wherever it is you're watching or listening. And please don't forget to like this video. Give us a thumbs up. Leave us some feedback. Give us your thoughts about gifting hotel free night certificates and points. We always love to hear from you. |
| 1:28.2 | Right. |
| 1:28.6 | Let's drag out this week's giant mail bag. |
| 1:30.7 | Today's giant mail comes from Ted. |
| 1:32.6 | This was in response to my post. |
| 1:34.7 | Hilton honors is winning me over, but I'd like one more enhancement. |
| 1:38.5 | In that post, I kind of raved about how I was more interested than ever at collecting |
| 1:43.9 | Hilton points and free night certificates. |
| 1:46.0 | And that's mostly because they added these small luxury hotels of the world properties as bookable with Hilton points and free night certificates, |
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