The Best Path to Priority Pass | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep248 | 3-29-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 30 March 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
A number of high end credit cards give you Priority Pass membership. Full Priority Pass offers access to airport lounges, restaurants, and experiences (e.g. Be Relax Spa, Minute suites, Game Space etc), which can be pretty useful. But which of the current pathways to this membership is the best, (especially if you'd still like access to those restaurants)?
(01:52) - More feedback on the pronunciation of Qatar. (Mail Bag)
(03:45) - Hilton Honors Business Card, which will be increasing its annual fee from $95 to $195, along with some other changes. (Card Talk)
(14:03) - United Pooling appeared Friday, then disappeared hours later, then re-appeared (Crazy Thing)
(19:19) - You can't use pooled United miles for partner redemptions, only United & United Express (Crazy Thing)
(25:55) - National Car Rental double credit for registered users' weekend rentals between April 4 through June 8, 2024 (Mattress Running the Numbers)
Read more about this National Car Rental deal here.
(29:36) - Regional first class awards for 12.5K, 16.5K, 22K points thanks to Qatar Avios (Award Talk)
(32:00) - Read more about this regional sweet spot here.
(35:58) - Preferred Hotels bookable online
Check out the Preferred Hotels Coffee Break episode here.
(40:31) - Choice Privileges Experiences might be worth a look
Main Event: The Best Path to Priority Pass(45:08) - Full Priority Pass offers access to airport lounges, restaurants, and experiences (e.g. Be Relax Spa, Minute suites, Game Space etc.)
(47:43) - Chase Sapphire Reserve & Ritz lose restaurants
(49:06) - Check out our Card Talk segment of last week's podcast episode 247 where we talked about the Ritz Card and its access to Priority Pass.
(51:38) - Wack-a-mole Alternatives to still get restaurant access with your Priority Pass
(52:48) - Venture X Biz (Read more about the Venture X Business card here.
(53:55) - US Bank Altitude Reserve (8 visits) (Read more about the US Bank Altitude Reserve card here.)
(55:43) - Business Altitude Connect (4 visits) (Read more about the Business Altitude Connect card here.)
(56:16) - Bank Of America Premium Rewards Elite (4 memberships) (Read more about the Bank of America Premium Rewards Elite card here.)
(1:00:15) - UBS Visa Infinite Business (Read more about the UBS Visa Infinite Business card here.)
(1:00:54) - UBS Visa Infinite (Read more about the UBS Visa Infinite card here.)
(1:01:25) - Citi Prestige (no longer available if you don't already have it)
(1:02:09) - Barclays Emirates Skywards Premium World Elite Mastercard (Read more about the Barclays Emirates Skywards Premium World Elite Mastercard here.)
(1:07:06) - Deciding between two hotels, one with cash (and therefore a Hilton points-earning opportunity) or paying Hyatt points. How do you make the choice? (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? |
| 0:21.1 | The main event. |
| 0:22.2 | Frequent Liler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.8 | Today's main event, the best path to priority pass. |
| 0:30.7 | We got some bad news this past week about the Chase Safarer Reserve and Ritz Carlton |
| 0:37.0 | cards, which have priority pass. |
| 0:39.8 | They still will have priority pass as a benefit of each of those cards, but they will note |
| 0:44.6 | those versions of priority pass will no longer let you get free meals at priority pass |
| 0:50.7 | participating restaurants. |
| 0:53.8 | That's a mouthful. I try to say that three times fast. See what I did there. Mouthful. Priority Pass restaurants. Oh, man. You know, our last coffee break, you were full of bad puns and now it's just flowing right into today. I don't know what to make of that, but. But, but anyway, so there have been some big changes is what you're saying in Priority Pass. |
| 1:14.1 | And we're going to have to talk about your best ways to get into a Priority Pass lounge, right? |
| 1:18.5 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:19.4 | There are still ways to get into a restaurant, get free restaurant meals at participating airport restaurants and Party Pass activities and all that kind of stuff. So we'll get into that in today's main event. |
| 1:33.9 | But before we do, don't forget that there will always be links to the timestamps in the show notes. |
| 1:39.3 | So if you want to skip ahead to something or you want to come back and revisit it, you see the notes of in the show notes wherever you're watching or listening expand the description and you can find |
| 1:50.0 | that information and speaking of wherever you're watching or listening don't forget to like this |
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