17 Surprising ways to save on travel | Ep150 | 5-14-22
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Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Seeking stackery for savings on flights, hotels, rental cars, parking, hotel food, and more? On this week's show, Greg and Nick talk about surprising ways to save on your upcoming trips.
1:36 What crazy thing did Hyatt do this week?
7:57 Mileage running the numbers: Is it worth spending to keep Air Canada Aeroplan elite status?
13:54 Main Event: 17 Surprising ways to save on travel
14:42 Ways to save on gas: Gift cards at the supermarket, Walmart+, Speedy Rewards, and more
https://frequentmiler.com/getupside-2000-bp-gas-stations-added-now-covers-atlanta-chicago-more/
21:30 Save on hotels: Greyhound road rewards, best rate guarantees, Capital One Spring, buying points, shopping portal return
https://frequentmiler.com/best-rate-guarantee-guide/
33:08 Save on Hotel food: Kids menu, Uber Eats, discounted gift cards
38:28 Flights: same-day change, companion tickets, Alaska companion ticket
https://frequentmiler.com/save-money-or-miles-on-flights/
https://frequentmiler.com/alaska-airlines-companion-fare-guide/
https://frequentmiler.com/travel-companion-tickets/
https://frequentmiler.com/skiplagging/
53:25 Save on airport parking
56:05 Save on rental cars: rent from a dealership, Autoslash to rent or track, rent a Uhaul
https://frequentmiler.com/surviving-the-car-rental-apocalypse-by-stepping-outside-the-box/
1:09:06 Question of the Week: Which airline programs allow holding an award ticket to avoid phantom award space?
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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. |
| 0:10.7 | 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. |
| 0:22.2 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:27.3 | Today's main event. |
| 0:28.7 | Surprising ways to save on travel. |
| 0:31.5 | We're not going to be talking about the regular old, you know, oh, there's a sale on a flight or, you know. |
| 0:37.2 | Book an award ticket. The hotel has a deal on, you know, stay five days's a sale on a flight or, you know, book an award ticket. |
| 0:38.3 | The hotel has a deal on, you know, stay five days and get the six night free. |
| 0:42.1 | We're not going to be talking about those like sort of obvious ways to save on travel, |
| 0:45.5 | but rather the things that you probably haven't thought of and we've got a whole like collection |
| 0:49.5 | of those kind of grab bag of ways to save on travel. |
| 0:52.8 | So that should be fun to dive into that. |
| 0:56.2 | First, usually we would have the giant mailbag, but someone amongst the two of us was |
| 1:03.4 | unprepared today. |
| 1:04.7 | Oh, my goodness, come rain or sleet or snow or apparently, apparently. |
| 1:10.6 | No postman. Yeah, no, no. Yeah, no yeah yeah yeah i was a carrier does not |
| 1:14.6 | deliver but you know what i'm going to say is that the reason is that what your your internet has |
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