{"id":10856,"date":"2022-02-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=10856"},"modified":"2022-03-16T22:19:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T22:19:52","slug":"enjoy-free-breakfast-room-upgrade-100-credit-and-more-with-mastercard-travel-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2022\/02\/21\/enjoy-free-breakfast-room-upgrade-100-credit-and-more-with-mastercard-travel-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy free breakfast, room upgrade, $100 credit and more with Mastercard Travel Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Amex has FHR and Visa has its Luxury Hotel program<\/a>, and it shouldn’t surprise you that Mastercard runs a similar hotel booking service too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The service is called Mastercard Travel & Lifestyle<\/a>, provided by TEN<\/em>. You must validate your eligibility by entering the card number, and then if approved you could create an account to access more information. It’s unclear what cards are eligible as it’s likely down to the individual contracts between banks and Mastercard, but in general you need a premium card such as the World Elite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mastercard World Elite is no longer rare in the UK. I vaguely remember that HSBC Premier World Elite was participating, but it doesn’t work anymore, and I’m not sure if my memory is wrong or the partnership has been withdrawn. My Curve Metal doesn’t work either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway you should give your Mastercard a go. Finally my China-issued World Elite card works and I gained access to the platform. Similar to Amex they offer priority restaurant reservations and early access to event tickets, but I’ll focus on the hotel-booking part today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you perform a hotel search, you’ll see hotels with a green label indicating that they are part of the Mastercard Luxury Hotels collection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apologies for the Chinese text and confusing price in CNY – it seems to be bound by the card issuing country and I can’t switch the language or currency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are 37 labelled properties in London, and here are some rate \/ benefit examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conrad London St James<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kimpton Fitzroy London<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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St Pancras Renaissance Hotel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andaz London Liverpool Street<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Their database of room types seems quite messed up, which is very often inconsistent with what the hotels have on their end. However I don’t think it’s a big deal, and you should have an idea what the room type actually is anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you may have noticed, the benefits can be quite different from one property to the other. In fact if you are a veteran of the hotel games, you probably would know how it works at this point. Yes, unlike Amex Fine Hotels and Resorts, Mastercard doesn’t own its own program. Instead it acts as a travel agency which can book customers into individual hotel chains’ elite rates, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n