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Hilton has brought on their partner Small Luxury Hotels of the World which has been a bit more exciting than we expected it would be. In today’s Frequent Miler on the Air episode we’ll discuss more. Watch the full episode below, or listen on your favorite podcast platform....

Podcast: Hilton delivers luxury through SLH | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep263 | 7-12-24

Hilton has a weird hybrid approach to free night awards. Like IHG, they no longer publicly assign hotels to categories and can therefore dynamically price award nights. But, really, they don’t. They do dynamically (over) price premium rooms, but not standard rooms. Behind the scenes, they maintain a categorization and assign standard room award prices to each property (or to each category… or something). They seem to also maintain an internal peak/off-peak type of approach in that some properties have different standard award prices at different times of year. Due to category-ish award pricing, it’s possible to get outsized value from Hilton points when cash prices are high compared to their relatively fixed award costs. That’s the good news.

What are Hilton points worth?

Earn double points on Marriott Homes & Villas stays of 3+ nights. A “stay” is defined as three (3) or more consecutive nights spent at the same property, regardless of check-in and check-out activity. Registration of Marriott Bonvoy Member’s Marriott Bonvoy account is required for this promotion. Members...

Marriott Homes & Villas: Double points on 3+ night stays.

Earn 3,500 bonus points when booking Marriott stays of 2+ nights & using promo code M41. Valid on stays through August 18, 2024. There are a limited number of rooms available for this promotion. Guest must book reservation using promotional code M41 in order to receive bonus points. Offer applies...

Marriott promo: Earn 3,500 bonus points for every 2+ night stay with promo code M41

There’s a new transfer bonus out this morning: Chase Ultimate Rewards is offering an 80% transfer bonus to IHG Rewards, but most people probably shouldn’t consider using this transfer bonus except to top off for a highly valuable award given the fact that IHG points have relatively low value and can at times (including through 7/3/24) be purchased for just 0.5c per point.

80% transfer bonus to IHG from Chase Ultimate Rewards

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Fans of Frisco's Chicken were left reeling as the beloved Peruvian-style eatery announced the closure of all its locations in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The chain, known for its delicious food and strong community values, posted a heartfelt note on its doors, informing customers of the devastating news.

Favorite Chicken Chain Suddenly Closes All Stores, Heartfelt Message Found on Doors

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are two of the biggest celebrities in modern times. While much of the happenings between the two involved their marriage and divorce, there are bigger things for them to focus on. Most notably their children.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s Son Diagnosed With Rare Skin Condition

Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) plans have become all the rage for companies in the last few years as a way to entice customers to pay for goods, services and travel that they can’t afford to pay for out of pocket right now. For the most part, these plans...

Buy Now Pay Later plans no longer payable with Chase cards from 10/10/24

Click the card names below to go to our card-specific pages for more information and to find a link to apply. 75K Miles + up to $250 in statement credits ⓘ Affiliate. Limited-time offer: For a limited time, earn 75,000 Miles once you spend $4,000 on purchases within the first 3 months of account opening, plus receive a one-time $250 Capital One Travel credit in your first cardholder year - that's equal to $1,000 in travel. Also, earn unlimited 2 miles per dollar on every purchase, every day.

Higher Capital One Venture Rewards welcome offer: 75k points + $250 Capital One Travel Portal credits

Save 20% when booking Southwest award flights and using promo code MAX20. Must book by June 30th and travel between August 20th and November 20th. 20 percent promotion code savings valid for one-way or round trip Wanna Get Away® and Wanna Get Away Plus® fares booked on Southwest.com® from June 28-30, 2024 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time (the “Booking Period”) and flown between August 20-November 20, 2024 (“Travel Period”). Travel to/from Orange County (SNA) excluded. Promotion code savings are applied before government taxes and fees.

Southwest Sale: Get 20% Off Both Cash and Points Bookings

Mark your calendars: if you have Bilt points, Monday will be a great day to consider transferring them. If you’d like to fly Air France or KLM in business class, we published a couple of helpful tricks this week, whether that’s how to find a calendar of availability or how to book via chat with Virgin Atlantic. Read about all that and a lot more in this Frequent Miler Week in Review.

Bigness from Bilt, tricks for booking Air France & KLM, updated hotel point values and more [Week in Review]

I thought you didn’t like flying American? That’s what my wife asked when I booked our business class award flight to London. A decade ago, I had terrible luck with American. Around 70% of my trips were delayed or cancelled. I assured my wife that AA has improved a lot since then. I hadn’t had any significant issues with AA in several years. It will be fine, I answered her.

My AAdventures AAtempting to fly AA to London

Upgraded Points has discovered a ton of standard award availability at the Conrad Bora Bora Nui during the Summer/early-Fall of 2024. Rooms are available between June and October, including multiple 5-night blocks(meaning it will work for 5th-night free stays). When there was wide open standard award availability a few months...

Conrad Bora Bora: Great availability July-September 2024

Hertz has quietly doubled the rate to rent a car using your Hertz Rewards points during most of the year. A reader tipped us off to the fact that Hertz is pricing free night awards at the “Any Day” rate meant for “peak” dates for more than 2/3 of the year at every single Hertz rental location we’ve checked. That effectively doubles the number of points that you’ll need to use for a single free day on 249 days out of the year or more at every airport we’ve checked.

Stealth devaluation: Hertz prices most days peak, doubling free day costs

Hertz has repeatedly earned itself negative publicity over the past couple of years. Unfortunately, they are at it again. After previously reducing the expiration timeline for points from needing activity once every 18 months to once every 12 months, Miles Talk reports on a new restriction that came from Hertz via email today: now points expire 5 years after they are earned, regardless of activity. That’s a huge bummer that is no doubt tough to track and designed to create even more breakage in a system that’s already of marginal value at best.

Hertz expiration policy now hurts even more

In February, we posted about “enhancements” that were on the way for the Chase Marriott Bonvoy Bold card. Now, those changes are live and along with them comes a best-ever welcome offer of 60,000 points and a 50k free night certificate after $2K spend. Given the minimum spend required, this is a very good offer, much better than the previous one of 30k points with no free night certificate.

Marriott Bonvoy Bold Card Best Ever Offer: 60K points + 50K Free Night Cert

Receive $300 after opening a new Chase Total Checking account and setting up a direct deposit. Receive $200 after opening a new Chase Savings account, depositing a total of $15,000 or more in new money within 30 days, and then maintaining a $15,000 balance for 90 days. Receive $900 by...

$900 bonus with a new Chase checking and savings account

Years ago, Greg wrote an excellent post about the “Earn and burn” fallacy. In it, he suggests a better strategy is to “hoard and cherry pick”. If you’ve been a Hilton hoarder for years, your cherry trees hit harvest season yesterday with Hilton’s wider launch of the partnership with SLH. Still, not everyone is a believer — a few readers commented about their disappointment with SLH. I’d argue that even if you didn’t make a great booking yesterday, the Hilton SLH partnership is sunny news for Hilton point hoarders who have been hunting for an opportunity to cherry pick.

SLH is a big win for Hilton hoarders

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Southwest isn’t the only one running a sale today. JetBlue is running one too, giving 25% off when using promo code FALL2024. You’ll need to be quick though as bookings have to be made by tonight (July 10). The Deal. Save 25% on JetBlue flights when using promo...

JetBlue sale: Save 25% with promo code FALL2024 (Book by 7/10/24)

A (perhaps over-inflated) claim was made last year about the volume of charges being put on Delta credit cards each year. This week on Frequent Miler, we encourage you not to contribute to that, discuss why (and, importantly, how) you might want to spend on Hilton cards given the partnership with SLH, Greg has a misAAdventure with AA, and a bunch of resources have been updated. Read on for more from this week at Frequent Miler.

Why you might want to stop spending on Delta cards (and start spending on Hilton cards?), misAAdventures, and more [Week in Review]

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Hilton for Business double elite nights promo – useful even if you have Diamond status

Earn double elite night credits at Hilton properties when enrolled in the Hilton for Business program. Direct link to join Hilton for Business. Offer is limited...

Hilton for Business double elite nights promo – useful even if you have Diamond status

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