10 tricks for spending fewer points for flights & hotels (game show edition) | Ep217 | 8-26-23
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 26 August 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Get your pen and paper and get ready to play along and see if you can beat the blogger as Nick tries to score at least 75,000 points revealing 10 tricks for spending fewer points on your flight and hotel awards.
00:00 Intro
01:52 Giant Mailbag
04:05 Card Talk: Amex Platinum card changes
10:51 Mattress running the numbers: Stand Up to Cancer and earn 50x
14:15 Award Talk
14:20 IHG suite upgrades now apply on award stays
16:41 Finnair is joining Avios
https://frequentmiler.com/finnair-to-start-using-avios-in-early-2024/
19:49 Main Event: 10 tricks for spending fewer points for flights and hotels (gameshow edition)
21:19 How can a person get 1.5 cpp for travel booked directly with travel providers?
https://frequentmiler.com/us-bank-real-time-mobile-rewards-what-works-where/
23:52 How can you get 2 cents per point buying flights with Amex Membership Rewards points?
26:29 Describe two tricks that guarantee lower award prices by flying farther
https://frequentmiler.com/avianca-lifemiles-awesome-mixed-cabin-award-pricing-first-class-for-less/
https://frequentmiler.com/cathay-pacific-asia-miles-mixed-cabin-award-pricing-first-class-for-less/
28:59 Name three ways to incur lower surcharges when flying BA
https://frequentmiler.com/british-airways-adds-option-to-use-more-avios-less-money/
https://frequentmiler.com/business-class-to-london-for-less-with-this-asia-miles-hack/
33:59 How is it possible to fly within Europe for as few as 4,000 points one-way?
https://frequentmiler.com/air-france-klm-across-europe-for-less-sweet-spot-spotlight/
36:32 How can fly business class across the Atlantic Ocean for 55k United miles?
40:38 Name three ways to pay for a regular room award stay but confirm a suite instead
https://frequentmiler.com/incredible-hyatt-suites-bookable-with-points/
43:31 What type of lodging would cost me 67,500 points per night?
https://frequentmiler.com/wyndham-vacasa/
45:43 How could one pay avg of only 67.5 pct of the original award cost for a hotel? (32.5% off)
50:11 How could one pay 55% fewer points for a hotel award?
54:49 Bonus: What are Delta miles worth in SkyClub for premium drinks?
56:42 Question of the Week: What if any are the best ways to book Airbnbs or 2 hotel rooms with points at a reasonable rate?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:10.8 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.0 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.5 | Today's main event, 10 tricks for spending fewer points for flights and hotels. |
| 0:32.8 | And this is the Game Show Edition. |
| 0:36.0 | Ooh. |
| 0:36.3 | Today, yeah, today, Nick has no idea what we're doing. This is the Game Show Edition. Ooh. |
| 0:41.5 | Yeah, today Nick has no idea what we're doing. |
| 0:43.2 | I basically came up with 10. Which is basically the way it works on a daily basis, but today we're recording it to make it official. |
| 0:48.9 | I came up with 10 tricks for spending fewer points in miles for hotels and airfare. |
| 0:55.5 | And I put them together as questions to see if Nick can figure out what are these tricks and can he identify. |
| 1:03.5 | Sometimes I try to get kind of tricky here. |
| 1:06.1 | So I don't think he's going to have an easy time with this one. |
| 1:09.6 | But we'll see. |
| 1:10.2 | Like I'm still on my first cup of coffee, Greg. So I'm a little concerned about how this one's going to go. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. But it's it's like 10 at night here. So I don't understand why you're just on your first cup of coffee, Nick. Because I'm all the way on the other side of the world. We're like totally |
| 1:27.7 | separate right now because we're both traveling, right? So you're you're somewhere in Europe. I am. I am. Yeah, I'm in Denmark. Ah, there you go. All right. So I was there just recently. Nice place. Great. But you just got there. I think so. Beautiful. Yeah, just got here. Yeah. So if I fall asleep in the middle of the show, you know, you should forgive me for that. |
| 1:47.1 | And I'm in Alaska where the sun set at like 11 p.m. last night. So I didn't go to bed particularly early. And so it's not actually that early in the morning right now, but it feels it to me anyway. All right. Enough chit-chat. |
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