You may or may not have heard of the Mastercard Luxury Hotels and Resorts the counterpart of the Visa Luxury Hotel Collection. It's part of the Mastercard Travel & Lifestyle services portal where you can book luxury hotels under Mastercard's 3000+ portfolio of hotels with additional benefits at no extra cost.
Benefits include:
Daily complimentary breakfast
Hotel credit up to $100
Room upgrade (when available)
Early check-in and late check-out
Other unique perks
Mastercard Travel & Lifestyle services website
The perks are property dependent and can vary per brand or individual hotel. For example, breakfast might just be continental breakfast in some hotels instead of a full hot breakfast, the hotel credit could be less than $100 as well.
Sometimes you get unique extra perks depending on the hotel like a welcome amenity or in my case last time I booked through the portal for a 3 night stay at the Conrad Bangkok I received double Hilton Honor points for my stay.
Depending on your stay you could get oversized value from this perk alone that would cancel out whatever annual fees you pay for your credit card. The complimentary breakfast alone would automatically save you thousands.
Of course, you have to use your Mastercard credit card to book and full payment is made through the portal but only with select premium Mastercard credit cards as not all Mastercard cards have this perk.
I used my EastWest Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer World Mastercard (a mouthful I know) when I book through the Mastercard Luxury Hotels and Resorts and my BPI Visa Signature when I book through the Visa Luxury Hotel Collection.
Bottomline
The perk is especially great when you don't have elite status as you get elite-like benefits at no extra cost and is usually overshadowed by other credit card perks. I for one don't usually stay at luxury hotels too often so it's great to take advantage of every now on then when I decide to splurge on a 5-star hotel.
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