Luxury lodging... on points | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep252 | 4-26-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
There are many ways to book luxury hotels (credit card points, hotel points, etc) and this can be a great way to stay in some amazing luxury accommodations you'd never justify paying cash for. We'll dive into this today.
(01:43) - Please share an experience when a positioning flight had not gone to plan, perhaps share a "Positioning Flight From Hell" type of experience. (Mailbag)
Read about Greg's positioning flight mayhem here.
(06:23) - On our Instagram post, @marriottbonvoy's account trolls Hyatt by saying "Fortunately for our guests, we don’t play games with welcome gifts, points, and awards at Luxury locations such as St. Regis, JW Marriott, W Hotels, The Luxury Collection, and more but that’s just us." (Crazy Thing)
See our post: Marriott Platinum Elite Free Breakfast Simplified
(12:12) - 30% transfer bonus Amex to Virgin (Mattress Running the Numbers)
(15:17) - MaxFHR.com (Award Talk)
(17:09) - Equinox credit for massages (Award Talk)
(21:10) - Bilt’s new Rent Day snoozer
(24:27) - Bilt BLADE
Read more about the Bilt Blade partnership here.
Read Greg's Blade flight review here.
(30:01) - Hyatt’s sad rollout of Mr & Mrs Smith
Main Event: Luxury lodging... on points(41:52) - Find our "Which is the most rewarding hotel loyalty program? | Ep193 | 3-11-23" here.
(42:54) - Major hotel chain luxury brands
(43:34) - Hyatt
(45:53) - Hilton
(47:55) - Marriott
(54:03) - IHG
(58:12) - Wyndham
(59:10) - Read Nick's post about free cruise opportunities.
(59:34) - Choice Privileges
(1:01:36) - Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH): Book with Hilton points (coming soon).
Read more about the Hilton SLH partnership here.
(1:05:49) - Preferred Hotels & Resorts
(1:09:05) - Leading Hotels of the World (LHW)
(1:11:23) - Fine Hotels & Resorts & The Hotel Collection
(1:13:28) - What's the best way to start on the Marriott credit card journey? (Question of the Week)
See our chart for figuring out which Marriott cards you're eligible for.
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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. |
| 0:26.9 | Today's main event, luxury lodging on points. |
| 0:30.7 | We're going to talk about the many ways you can book luxury lodging with points, hotel |
| 0:36.8 | points, credit card points, different kinds of points, |
| 0:39.0 | and get outsized value so that you could stay at some unbelievable properties that you would |
| 0:44.0 | never have thought to pay cash for, but you could do it with points and get away with it that way. |
| 0:49.3 | Yeah, that's really the, I don't know, it's become the fun part of the game for me as going |
| 0:53.1 | to places like that that I would never have thought to go to, even just today. We were in the car talking about some places to extend a trip that, like, it just never would have crossed my mind to do that before our points in miles. So it's, I think this is kind of the fun part of the hobby, especially on the hotel side, because you get to spend days at this place. I mean, we often talk about flight redemptions, but the hotel redemptions, you know, arguably could be more important for a lot of people since you spend more time there. So it would be fun talking about some of the luxury options for that today. But before we get deep into that, I want to remind you that you can always find the timestamps in the show notes. So if you want to skip ahead to a specific segment or you want to return to one, because we've got a jam-packed show today with stuff that maybe you'll want to go back and listen to again. Remember, you can just check the show notes for those timestamps. And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like the video. Give us a thumbs up. Leave a comment. let us know what you thought, let us know what we got right or what we got wrong or how you think about it differently in the comments we love to hear from you. So there you go. All that out of the way. Let's see. We need to drag out this week's giant mailbag. Yep. Today's giant mail comes from Matt. Matt says, I recently subscribed to your YouTube channel after many months of viewing |
| 2:02.0 | many of your videos and reading blog posts on your website. I appreciate all the knowledge and |
| 2:06.8 | wisdom that you've put into your content. I have a question and a request regarding positioning |
| 2:11.2 | flights. In my recent frequent miler content exploration, Greg mentioned positioning flights. |
| 2:19.4 | I've yet to go on a positioning flight |
| 2:21.2 | in order to then fly on a valuable flight award redemption. |
| 2:25.6 | My skepticism about using this potentially amazing strategy |
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