Loyalty Battle: Marriott vs IHG | Ep146 | 4-16-22
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Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Is the new IHG One Rewards set to top Marriott Rewards? While it won't dethrone Hyatt atop the loyalty rewards mantle, IHG One is looking surprisingly strong.
1:38 Giant Mailbag: Is the Apple card a better beginner card?
6:15 What crazy thing . . . did Caesars Rewards do this week? The un-matched get rematched.
8:24 Mattress Running the Numbers: Hyatt status fast-track
https://frequentmiler.com/get-hyatt-explorist-status-free-shortcut-to-globalist-status-targeted/
16:48 Maint Event: Marriott vs IHG
https://frequentmiler.com/ihg-one-rewards-new/
https://frequentmiler.com/how-to-earn-2-years-of-ihg-club-lounge-membership/
1:12:35 Question of the Week: Is there a trick to finding Qatar availability?
https://frequentmiler.com/avios-sweet-spots-for-award-tickets-british-airways-iberia/
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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. |
| 0:10.8 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? The main event. |
| 0:21.6 | Frequent Milo on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.6 | Today's main event, loyalty battle Marriott versus IHG. |
| 0:32.6 | Ding ding ding. |
| 0:33.6 | Gloves are coming off. |
| 0:35.6 | IHG announced their brand new IHG1 rewards program this week. |
| 0:41.4 | And for the first time ever, we can legitimately talk about their loyalty program and compare it to |
| 0:50.1 | the other big chains and say which is better because they brought out some really nice features. So I think. Which is a big surprise, right? We'll talk more about it. It is a big surprise. I mean, I go on vacation for a week and like the biggest news ever comes out here. Right. I mean, you're talking about I HG and I'm like, wait, I, I, who? We're talking about the same group here? |
| 1:14.5 | Yeah, you've been, you've been on vacation and totally unplugged, right? Right. |
| 1:18.8 | Don't know what's going on. So that'll make for a fun discussion. It'll be like, you'll be going, |
| 1:25.6 | they did what? Right. You can relive it all again. Everyone who saw the news this week can relive that feeling through me today. |
| 1:31.1 | All right. Well, you know, when we get to the main event, we're also going to talk about why are we not comparing them to Hyatt and Hilton? And the short answer is because |
| 1:36.6 | those are both much better in certain ways. But I think the Marriott v. IHG is the interesting comparison, and we'll get into |
| 1:46.6 | why and how and who's better when we get to that part. First, of course, we've got the giant mail |
| 1:51.5 | bag. Giant mail comes from David. David says, I recently listened to your podcast episode |
| 1:59.1 | about the best starter card. |
| 2:01.6 | I was surprised to see that the Apple card wasn't part of the discussion since it has a variety |
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