Should you have a hotel credit card even If you aren’t loyal to a hotel chain? | Ask Us Anything Ep86 | 5-6-26
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Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Do any of the luxury hotel booking platforms (like Amex Fine Hotels + Resorts®) allow booking for others? If you are hotel chain agnostic, should you have a hotel credit card? We answered these questions and more on the Ask Us Anything hosted live on YouTube on May 6th, 2026.
(00:16) - I have 14999 Delta Sky Miles and need one more lousy point to be able to book an award ticket. I can transfer 1000 points from Amex, but that seems like a waste. I tried to convince Delta support to comp me a point, but they were seemingly unable to help. Any suggestions (other than getting the Delta Amex card)?
(04:03) - If you have complete flexibility to position to any airport in Europe to fly home to the USA, are flexible on arrival airport in the USA/Canada/Mexico, and time wasn’t a constraint, but you would like a good points redemption in J (not first), where would you position to and which airline would you book on?
(08:39) - If you are hotel chain agnostic, should you have a hotel credit card?
(12:24) - Question on 5/24 if over, are there any data points on the United or Southwest business card?
(14:38) - Should we now value Membership Rewards points higher than Chase Ultimate Rewards points? I'd rather have an American Express Platinum Card® than a Chase Sapphire Reserve® Card at this point. Would you guys disagree?
(19:50) - Do any of the luxury hotel booking platforms (e.g., Amex Fine Hotels + Resorts®, The Edit by Chase Travel℠, etc.) allow booking for others?
(22:57) - At what cash back rate do you prefer cash over miles/points (excluding when you are working on a welcome offer)?
(27:50) - Do you think we'll finally see an Ultimate Rewards Hyatt transfer bonus in the future?
(30:15) - Question - Greg has mentioned a few times about being able to pay for the fees on British Airways with Avios, as a card benefit. I can't seem to see how to make that work. Any more details?
(34:43) - For airlines that allow a stopover on an award flight, has your experience required a phone call reservation, or have you booked a stopover online?
(37:03) - Can I apply corporate codes when booking hotels through Rove? Can Rove act like a shopping portal? Get corporate rates and Rove miles.
(39:00) - Is it possible to product change the old aviator if I've had it for less than a year now that it was product changed? I know banks frown upon this before the first annual fee posts.
(40:58) - Barclays American Airlines card transferred to Citi. What would be the best course of action to get the welcome offer on the Citi American Airlines card now that I have one, but haven't previously gotten the welcome offer?
(44:01) - Does the FM team know if I make a reservation with the 25k Atmos Summit Companion certificate, and later cancel the reservation before the original expiry, if the certificate is returned and can be reused?
(44:38) - Can I use Hyatt points for suite upgrades with cash booking through Amex Fine Hotels + Resorts®?
(45:49) - What's each team member's biggest regret in their points and miles journey?
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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. |
| 0:12.2 | Welcome to Ask Us Anything, where the frequent Myler team answers your questions live. |
| 0:19.7 | All right. |
| 0:20.8 | Welcome to Ask Us Anything, our monthly YouTube live. All right. Welcome to ask us anything, our monthly YouTube live. |
| 0:24.7 | I think Stephen, the question to kick us off. |
| 0:27.7 | Yes. |
| 0:28.0 | So first question is from Scott. |
| 0:30.6 | He has 14,99 Delta Sky Miles and needs one more lousy point to be able to book in the water. |
| 0:38.5 | He could transfer a thousand points from MMEX, but that seems like a waste. |
| 0:42.1 | He tried to convince Delta support to comp him a point, but they were seemingly unable to help |
| 0:46.2 | any suggestions other than getting the Delta MX card. |
| 0:49.9 | So he asked this on the Ask Us Anything blog post, so I gave him a few suggestions, but I'm curious if you guys have anything like genius |
| 0:57.9 | that would get him a quick sky mile. |
| 1:01.0 | Well, you said genius, so you must be asking Kerry. |
| 1:05.3 | I'm going to pass on that one. |
| 1:07.5 | Well, my first question would be how many times did you ask Delta customer service to give you one free mile? Because I'd probably call again and hope that you get a better agent because I've definitely heard of agents, not specific to Delta necessarily, but I've definitely heard of agents comping a mile before in that type of situation. They should be able to do that. So that'd be my first course of action. I'd call it a few times if you get some nose and see, because somebody knows how to do that. |
| 1:28.0 | Then... should be able to do that. So that'd be my first course of action. I'd call it a few times if you get some nose and see because somebody knows how to do that. Then after that, if that didn't work, there's the shopping portal. So you could buy something to the shopping portal to earn a couple of miles. You know, spend a dollar or somewhere that's one X. You can earn your one mile. So that would be another way. It might be a little slower, though. If you're looking for an award ticket in the near term, I'd probably just pick up the phone and call a few times. I mean, there's tons of other ways to earn miles with like car rentals and hotel partners and stuff like that. But the shopping portal would probably be my next thought. Tim, you got something else? Oh, you know, I mean, you could do shot. do you could do um I mean off the top of you could you could convert I mean you could do a lot |
| 2:05.9 | of stuff like so you could do a lot of stuff you could do Uber you could do a shop |
| 2:08.7 | Starbucks you could do you could convert um uh hotel points or transfer chariot points |
| 2:14.9 | or stuff like that but this you know if I if this is for first, if I were you, I would never end up with 14,999 points. |
| 2:22.3 | I would do whatever I could to avoid having 14,999 points. |
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