Hyatt Elite Milestone spending vs Mattress running | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep270 | 8-30-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 31 August 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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CORRECTION NOTE: We've got a correction to add to this episode! In this episode Greg says with the Hyatt Business card you can get back $100 per year on spend at Hyatt hotels: $50 in first 6 monhts and $50 in second 6 months, but we need to correct that! In truth, you can get up to $100 back per membership year, $50 at a time, but you don't have to wait 6 months: you could make two payments in rapid succession to get the full $100. Thanks for your patience with this correction!
Hyatt's elite program can be really valuable - for instance when you reach certain milestones you can get valuable perks, and there's multiple ways of reaching those milestones. In this episode, Greg and Nick debate the best way of getting there.
(01:21) - Multiple readers (coincidentally named both forms of "John") chime in with feedback from recent podcast episodes...
(01:42) - Find podcast Ep269 Alaska/Hawaiian Airlines Wedding Planning here.
(04:21) - Find podcast Ep262 How to get great value from you Platinum card here.
(07:34) - Nick experiences a crazy Hilton resort fee for using the pool
(11:42) - Bilt's September 1 Rent Day promo. Should Greg transfer his points?
Read more about Bilt Rent Day promos here.
(20:58) - Bilt adds Walgreens FSA & point earning
Read more about Bilt rewards adding points-earning at Walgreens here.
(28:34) - Delta (probably gone) : US to Taipei on Delta One from 98,000 SkyMiles (83,300 for Delta cardholders)
Read more about finding this US to Taipei deal here.
(33:26) - Find our World of Hyatt Complete Guide here
(35:10) - Read Greg's post "Hyatt milestone spending -- what's my X?" here.
(36:59) - Read Nick's "Hyatt Milestone chasing: should we all mattress run to Globalist status?" here.
(39:49) - Hyatt Milestone Details: Earn valuable benefits after every 10 qualifying nights starting at 20 nights (but real value starts at 30)...
(47:20) - First let's talk about mattress running...
(52:54) - Credit card spend options...
(52:56) - Learn more about the World of Hyatt card here.
(53:43) - Learn more about the World of Hyatt Business card here.
(56:26) - Which is better - mattress running or credit card spend?
(1:07:33) - A reader just discovered you can redeem Cathay Pacific miles for hotels and wonders if we've heard of anyone doing this?
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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? |
| 0:21.0 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.6 | Today's main event, Hyatt Elite milestone spending versus mattress running. |
| 0:32.9 | Hyatt's elite program can be really valuable. |
| 0:35.4 | There's lots of great things to it, including when you, |
| 0:38.1 | when you reach certain milestones, you can get valuable perks. And there's multiple ways of reaching |
| 0:44.1 | those milestones. We're going to debate what's the best way to get there. Yeah. And, you know, |
| 0:49.4 | no time like the president to talk about this because I just had a great stay at the Grand |
| 0:54.8 | High at Tokyo, enjoyed globalist benefits and was actually just having a conversation with my |
| 0:59.2 | wife about how valuable some of those globalist perks have been. And it never has stood out |
| 1:06.1 | more than after we checked into a Hilton property today. But more on that to come. So we'll talk |
| 1:10.7 | about all that. Don't forget that the show notes are always where you'll find the property today. But more on that to come. So we'll talk about all that. |
| 1:11.4 | Don't forget that the show notes are always where you'll find the timestamps. So if you want to jump ahead to a segment or you want to return to something later on, you can always find the timestamps in the show notes if you just expand the description box. And wherever you're listening or watching, listening to this or watching it, rather, please don't forget to leave us a review, give us a like, leave us a thumbs up, a comment. |
| 1:30.3 | We always appreciate all those things. listening to this or watching it rather. Please don't forget to leave us a review, give us a like, leave us a thumbs up, a comment. |
| 1:30.3 | We always appreciate all those things. |
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