Roll your own hotel elite status | Ep222 | 9-30-23
Frequent Miler on the Air
English - September 30, 2023 10:34 - 1 hour - 109 MB - ★★★★★ - 414 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture Leisure Aviation points creditcards miles travel Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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