2022 Bonvoyed Awards | Ep182 | 12-24-22
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This week, we throw regular segments out the window and cover your end of year checklist before diving into the 2022 Bonvoyed Awards, where we discuss which program has Bonvoyed us the worst in 2022.
01:37 Elite status
https://frequentmiler.com/marriott-titanium-achieved-heres-how-i-sprinted-to-the-finish/
06:34 Expiring free night certs
https://frequentmiler.com/gift-hotel-points-free-night-certificates-and-award-nights-booked-with-points-rules-by-program/
13:41 Airline fee credits
https://frequentmiler.com/amex-airline-fee-reimbursements-still-works/
18:36 Now is the time to apply for Amex Platinum cards
20:14 Saks credit
https://frequentmiler.com/platinum-card-saks-credit-what-can-you-get-at-saks-with-50/
24:34 Fine Hotels & Resorts or The Hotel Collection
https://frequentmiler.com/find-your-own-fine-hotels-resorts-deals/
29:12 Dell credits
35:50 2022 Bonvoyed Awards
37:00 Radisson International
38:35 Hilton's war on breakfast
43:17 Emirates
45:17 Delta's Triple Threat
51:39 Capital One Venture X
54:08 American & United
57:18 Chase Pay Yourself Back
1:05:20 Question of the Week: Where is Aalborg?
Music credit: Annie Yoder
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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. |
| 0:26.8 | Today's main event, the 2022 Bonvoid Awards. |
| 0:32.1 | Yeah, you excited out there to get Bonvoid? |
| 0:35.4 | We're going to discuss which loyalty programs credit cards etc bonvoid us |
| 0:42.2 | the worst in 2022 and we're so we'll we'll pick uh two winners so to speak uh well up to two nick and i |
| 0:52.1 | will each pick a winner if it happens to be the same one then there'll be only one winner this year. We'll see. Today's show is kind of going to be a main event double header, though, because instead of our usual segments, we are going to discuss also, in addition to the main event of the Bonvoid Awards, we're also going to discuss the end of your checklist. |
| 1:16.6 | So we're recording this near the end of 2022. |
| 1:20.6 | And there's a bunch of stuff that if you're into rewards, you need to be taken care of before the year completely ends. |
| 1:30.0 | We're going to discussing what we've done or are still in the process of doing to fill out our checklist. |
| 1:39.0 | And hopefully that'll help you finish your checklist as well. |
| 1:43.0 | So we're going to start there. Let's get into the end of |
| 1:46.5 | your checklist and we'll start with elite status. A bunch of elite programs have requirements |
| 1:55.0 | that you have to meet by the end of the calendar year in order to get elite status for the next year. |
| 2:03.6 | What have you been doing, Nick, to meet your elite requirements? |
| 2:08.6 | Dragging my feet mostly. So I need a few more nights. So actually, I take that back. I realized I was |
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