Score free hotel upgrades with these three tips

When it comes to hotel upgrades, loyalty gets you everywhere. This advice from money and travel expert Matt Granite, who has three tips for making the most out of your hotel stays. His first tip: Join a hotel's frequent traveler program. Granite says you will be ten times more likely to get a suite upgrade. Watch the video above to learn which hotels have the best status programs along with his other two tips.

Matt Granite is a consumer reporter with Gannett's WKYC station in Cleveland. His ''Work Your Perks" report offers tips to consumers who are frequent flyers.

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