Preferred Hotels bookable ONLINE with Choice Points | Coffee Break Ep05 | 3-26-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Choice Privileges has made it easier to book their Preferred hotel partners, finally providing a way to book these online with your Choice points!
(02:41) - Overview of Preferred Hotels bookable online with Choice Points Read about how to Preferred Hotels are now bookable online with Choice Points: https://frequentmiler.com/preferred-hotels-now-bookable-online-with-choice-points/
(04:22) - What's the best ways to get Choice points?
(07:43) - Read about buying points with a (sometimes available) cash and points trick: https://frequentmiler.com/a-sweet-spot-hotel-and-a-rookie-mistake/#Choice_Privileges_Cash_Points_The_cheap_way_to_buy_Choice_points
(10:08) - Particularly exciting hotels in the Preferred Hotels collection (bookable online with Choice Points)
(10:58) - U.S. options...
(13:23) - International options...
(14:18) - iPrefer (Preferred Hotel’s rewards program)
(17:11) - Pros... (here's why you may want to do this)
(18:34) - Cons... (here's what to watch out for!)
(19:46) - Closing thoughts...does this change our approach to looking for hotels or earning points?
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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 mile on the air episode. This is a standalone segment we're calling Coffee Break. |
| 0:24.6 | Each coffee break segment will cover a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:29.6 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or your money back. |
| 0:34.6 | Enjoy. |
| 0:36.6 | Today's Coffee Break, preferred hotels bookable online with choice points choice |
| 0:44.4 | has long been had the option to let you book preferred hotels and resorts with |
| 0:51.3 | their points but it used to be a kind of nightmare process of having to call |
| 0:56.4 | up choice and ask if the person answering the phone has ever heard of preferred hotels |
| 1:04.3 | in their lives. And if they have heard of it, did they know that it was possible to book |
| 1:08.7 | those preferred hotels with choice points? |
| 1:11.2 | And if they knew that, then you could get to the point where they could establish that there was |
| 1:18.1 | availability or not and then pass you off to someone else so you could start the process again. |
| 1:22.5 | So that's how it used to be. |
| 1:23.8 | That sounds like a lot of hassle. |
| 1:25.4 | That sounds like a lot of hassle. |
| 1:26.4 | It's a lot of hassle. But is it fair to say that the preferred hotels are like the choice properties of choice? |
| 1:33.3 | That's a, I was going to say great pun, but I can't get that out of my mouth. |
| 1:37.3 | It's not even great. |
| 1:38.3 | No, it's not a great pun. What preferred hotels and resorts is it's similar to small luxury hotels of the world, |
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