Strategizing Hilton cards, credits, and free nights | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep255 | 5-17-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Hilton's SLH partnership is stirring up some excitement over Hilton, even for people like Greg who haven't bothered with Hilton cards for awhile, so this week we're discussing Hilton credit cards, credits, and free nights.
(02:07) - We forgot about Qpoints last week... (Mail Bag)
(05:10) - Citi Strata Premier (Card Talk)
(10:33) - Citi accidentally made Strata Premier details public (Crazy Thing)
(11:56) - Citi accidentally published FAQ showing that it may be possible to upgrade to Prestige card (Crazy Thing)
(14:10) - Earn Delta MQDs on hotel bookings & car rentals (Mattress Running the Numbers)
(16:58) - AutoCamp now bookable with Hilton points
Main Event: Strategizing Hilton credit cards(20:40) - Hilton is the only major hotel program with easy to get, uncapped free night certificates
(28:28) - Read about the Hilton Honors American Express Card here: https://frequentmiler.com/AmxHilton/#Goto
(28:40) - Read about the Hilton Honors American Express Business Card here: https://frequentmiler.com/AmxHiltonBiz/#Goto
(29:19) - Read about the Hilton Honors American Express Surpass Card here: https://frequentmiler.com/hilton-honors-american-express-surpass-card/#Goto
(30:00) - Read about the Hilton Honors American Express Aspire Card here: https://frequentmiler.com/AmxHiltonAspire/#Goto
(31:18) - Earning free nights
(43:51) - Earning rebates to keep cards net free
(51:22) - Greg's strategy
(1:01:00) - Nick's thoughts
(1:05:01) - Is booking anything better than booking nothing? (Question of the week)
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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. |
| 0:10.8 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.6 | What crazy thing did? |
| 0:15.9 | City this week. |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.9 | 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, strategizing Hilton cards, credits, and free nights. |
| 0:31.6 | I've been more excited than ever recently since we found out that Hilton was going to be not only taking over |
| 0:40.0 | a relationship with small luxury hotels in the world, but actually making it like a full-fledged |
| 0:45.9 | sort of member of the program in a way because you're going to be able to use not just points |
| 0:50.6 | to book these SLH properties, but also your free night certificates. |
| 0:55.0 | And you're also going to get theoretically, at least they told us you're going to get some |
| 0:59.0 | benefits with you have elite status when you stay at these properties. |
| 1:03.0 | And so I'm really excited about what's coming. |
| 1:05.0 | And it's made me think about Hilton credit cards. |
| 1:09.0 | And I haven't had a Hilton credit card for a long time. And so suddenly I'm |
| 1:13.8 | like, I'm in the market for them. And so we're going to talk about strategies for like what |
| 1:18.4 | cards make sense to have. If you have, how do you earn credits on them so they don't cost you |
| 1:23.4 | too much? And what's a good strategy for getting free nights, ringing those free nights out of |
| 1:28.4 | those Hilton cards? I love this because I've been talking up the Hilton Aspire card for years and years and questioning why Greg doesn't have this card. It's, I mean, it's one of the most no-brainer cards out there. And now finally, it pushed him over the edge into the, you know, into the realm of saying, okay, you know what, I do need to have that. |
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