2021's Deal of the Year | Ep131 | 1-1-22
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Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
1:33 Giant Mailbag: The Venture X vacation rental credit may apply more broadly than you'd expect.
4:31 What crazy thing....did American Express do this week? Unexpected (and clawed back) Uber credits https://frequentmiler.com/happy-holidays-from-amex-gold-cardholders-getting-bonus-10-uber-credits-targeted/
7:12 Mattress running the numbers: Hyatt points for expiring certificates - including club access awards https://frequentmiler.com/hyatt-offering-bonus-points-for-club-access-awards-certs-extending-certs-suite-upgrade-awards/
14:51 Main Event: 2021's Deal of the Year https://frequentmiler.com/2021s-amazing-deals/
First deal: Hyatt makes elite status incredibly easy 19:30 Brex Cash 210K easy points 22:20 Le Meridien Maldives, bookable with 35K certs!
25:48 Amex Expand Your Membership Offers
28:04 Amazing Amex Offers
31:30 Amex Referrals for +4 points per dollar
34:25 Resy Platinum 125x + 15x offer
40:43 Overlapping Amex offers
45:33 240 miles per dollar donated through SimplyMiles
1:09:08 Question of the Week: Is it possible to keep the points game going year after year?
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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. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.7 | Today's main event, 2021's deal of the year. |
| 0:31.5 | Exciting stuff. |
| 0:33.0 | We're going to review the best deals of 2021, |
| 0:37.1 | and we're going to decide which one was the single best deal of the year. |
| 0:42.1 | And it is tough. |
| 0:43.0 | And which one is the second best? |
| 0:44.4 | And which one is the second best, too, right? |
| 0:46.3 | We might, we might, we might, we might come to that too. |
| 0:48.8 | But, you know, it is not going to be easy because 2021 was chock full of just crazy good deals. |
| 0:56.6 | Really? I mean, some of them would have easily been the deal of the year in previous years, |
| 1:00.3 | right? I mean, this year, it's going to be tough because there's a lot of deals. Yes. I mean, |
| 1:04.4 | yes. Yeah. You know, I had, I've been keeping track of, you know, great deals all year long. And in the beginning, I had, I've been keeping track of, you know, great deals all year long. And in the beginning, |
| 1:14.3 | I had, I had on my, on my list, the, the old Amex platinum offer for 100K and, and get 10x at |
| 1:22.7 | gas stations and grocery stores. Acquaint. And, and I, you know, I had that still in the list because it rolled over from last year. |
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