Roll your own hotel elite status | Ep222 | 9-30-23
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Want to get elite treatment at hotels without investing the time and effort in enough nights for elite status? Instead of spending fifty or sixty nights a year in hotels with one brand, you can simulate status with some simple tricks.
00:00 Intro
01:52 Giant Mailbag
06:08 Card Talk: Bank of America Alaska Airlines credit cards
https://frequentmiler.com/as/
https://frequentmiler.com/asbiz/
https://frequentmiler.com/alaska-airlines-companion-fare-guide/
20:10 What crazy thing....did Delta do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/delta-may-walk-back-some-of-their-recently-announced-changes/
26:09 Award Talk: Alaska and JetBlue status matches for Delta elites
https://frequentmiler.com/alaska-airlines-offering-status-match-to-draw-disappointed-delta-frequent-flyers/
https://frequentmiler.com/jetblue-offering-very-generous-status-match-to-delta-elite-members/
33:56 Award Talk: PointsYeah improvements
38:23 Main Event: Roll your own hotel elite status
41:02 Preferred Partner Hotel Booking programs
https://frequentmiler.com/getting-the-elite-experience-without-elite-status-via-luxury-partner-programs/
45:18 Hyatt / SLH partnership
49:04 Earning more points for paid stays
55:21 Room upgrades
https://frequentmiler.com/how-best-to-book-hyatt-luxury-suites/
1:11:38 Free Breakfast
1:13:28 Is elite status worth it?
1:18:43 Question of the Week: What kind of manufactured spending is safe?
Music credit: 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 Liler on the air starts now. |
| 0:24.6 | Today's main event, roll your own hotel elite status. |
| 0:30.6 | Yeah, you know, last week we talked about airline status and there's been a lot of hubbub about that lately, but the flight only lasts a few hours. |
| 0:36.6 | You're in the hotel several days, so elite benefits or elite like benefits can really make a difference. |
| 0:44.1 | Yeah. And just like airline elite status, a lot of people will do better finding their own way to get |
| 0:50.1 | elite like perks rather than staying in a hotel for like 60 nights or whatever the requirement |
| 0:56.8 | is in order to get that elite status. So we'll get into all the ways you can roll your own |
| 1:01.8 | hotel elite status later in the program in the main event. And first reminder that if you want to |
| 1:08.8 | jump ahead to that segment because you're not interested in all the |
| 1:11.5 | cool and interesting and fun things we're going to talk about in between, you could go to the show |
| 1:15.5 | notes and you'll find a sort of table of contents with the timestamps for each segment of the show |
| 1:20.8 | and you can jump around that way. You can. I don't know why you would, but you can. You'd miss out |
| 1:26.2 | all the good stuff in between like, well, no, you know what? |
| 1:29.6 | I was about to transition us, but we should also remind people to like this video. |
| 1:34.3 | If you like it, if you enjoy it, if you do skip ahead and you're like, wow, this is awesome, |
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