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0:27 Conrad at The Grand LA
7:42 Oceana Santa Monica LXR
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As always great post!
Question – I booked award nights via points for 5 nights in a row . I patch it up whenever I see availability. If I release it back to inventory to try to book it again to take advantage of the 5th night free, will it work?
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I used a free night cert at the Conrad in August…it was fantastic!
🎨awesome video
🎨 Thank you for reviewing these hotels. We were considering using our Hilton free night reward at the Conrad but decided to use it at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfont Resort. I recognize that the latter isn’t as new or expensive as the Conrad but it fits our plans better. We’ll definitely take our certificate to the Conrad next time!
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🎨 great post
🎨🎨🎨 visited the WA Beverly Hills in August for honeymoon, sent an email to the hotel a few days prior and got upgraded from king room to deluxe king junior suite with diamond status. Pretty amazing experience and unexpected as I understand the policy there is no room->suite upgrades for diamond members.
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Awesome videos!!!
For the oceana hotel. Parking sucks. Had to utilize their valet parking or else I will not have a place to park my car. 😩
Great video! Santa Monica local here – Oceana is always busy and heard similar reviews as yours. WA is always a solid pick. It’s beautiful. I’m excited to check out the Conrad, maybe in the Spring. Oh, and the Broad – it’s pronounced like “road” not “rod”. (Or like “brode”). Anyway loved the video and content as always! 🎉
I really don't understand. Who gets 6 aspire card. How do you manage to use the 250 airlines credits on all of them.
How would you even use 250 resort credit on all? Will you have 6 different stays in a year at resorts or book 1 stay somehow using 6 cards? Will you go out of your way to find a hotel that coded as resort just to use the credit?
With free night stays, for economy travelers I don't think it has that much value. People usually booking 4 to 5 days for vacation. I don't think someone would just stay one night at expensive hotel to get hight cpp and move the rest of the nights to a cheaper option. Most people might just use it for the cheaper option. I would value it at 150 to 200 max . As most of my stays are Hamptons which are avaliable most places and easy to find during road trips.
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🎨Awesome video good sir. As we climb higher on our credit card journey, a trip out to LA is in the works. Thanks for the reviews.
Correct my if I'm wrong, but doesn't Amex only allow one Hilton honors card per account?
Love these videos
Who cares if you stayed at Motel 6 motels when you were a kid. My parents would always stay on motel row on US101 in San Francisco. The fact that they took you somewhere is awesome. I remember all the experiences that we did in San Francisco, not the cheesy motel we stayed at. Great video on the hotels in Los Angeles. Maybe do another of one in San Francisco or Napa?
🎨 That's funny, I just used my Asipre Free Night Cert at the Oceano Santa Monica just this past March of '22. Loved the property and the hospitality! High-end boutique feel. I agree that while the view is amazing, getting to the actual beach is not a short walk!
I would happily stay there again or recommend to anyone!
Sure some of these have nice overall properties and amenities and expensive in hotel restaurants, but the rooms are still looking like any other low end hotel room. I guess it is relative to the location but you could get a pretty amazing Airbnb somewhere in the country for $1000 a night and have an entire house or condo. Granted can't use points for it though. Appreciate all of the work on this video though. Thanks for sharing
Ive only had Jean George's in Vegas but it was amazing.
Quick question, how long does it usually take to get the FNC from the Aspire when you get approved. Still hasn't shown up for me and its been around a month
How do you keep track of all of the good points conversions? Is there a website for it?
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For family of four, grand wailea Waldorf Astoria is always my first pick for points and night certificate 😊
🎨 Awesome video, Seb, and thanks for the amazing suggestions! I'm hoping to go back to Cali within the next couple of years, so this is really helpful.
May I request a similar video but for Marriott properties? Marriott launched 2 new cards and revamped the Brilliant, so that might be a good review video on the cards and hotels in LA.
(Broad is pronounced like road, broh-d)
One question.. when you and your partner have 6 Aspire cards in total, are you able to use all the $1,500 airline incidental credits and $1,500 resort credits? If yes, how? Thanks.
Where did you use your $250 credit from Aspire?
Thank you so much for making this video. We travel to LA a couple times a year and typically stay at a Hilton property as I was gifted Diamond status before COVID. I was able to book 3 nights at the LXR Oceana for next month's trip for only 98k MR points + 28k Hilton points. The room would have been $4,578.00 cash price.
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