38. Revolutionize Your Travels: Discovering the Power of Capital One Venture Miles!

Points Talk®: Your Travel Dreams, Made Possible by Points

Alex, Pam and Jess

Places & Travel, Education, Society & Culture, How To

4.9 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Hey there, travel enthusiasts! It's Alex, Pam, and Jess—your fellow Travel Mom Squad. Today, we're all pumped up to spill the beans on one of our most treasured secrets: Capital One Venture Miles!

First we dive into the cards that earn Venture miles or Spark miles (the business version).

Then we discuss how to improve your odds of approval for Capital One cards. They can be kind of quirky, but we have some tips!

The real gems are the Venture and Venture X cards. The Venture X, the premium personal card, may have a $395 annual fee, but when you look at the benefits, it's a steal!

The Venture X also boasts some of the best airport lounge access, perfect for family travelers like us! Capital One lounges, Priority Pass lounges, Plaza Premium lounges—you name it, you get in! Plus, it gets even better with primary rental car coverage.

Finally we cover some sweet spots when it comes to redeeming those Capital One miles. You don't want to miss this!

So, fellow adventurers, Capital One Venture Miles are here to make your travel dreams come true. Don't wait, hit play now and join us in the full episode to unveil the secrets of the enchanting Venture Miles and how they can revolutionize your travel journey. Happy traveling, friends!

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Links For This Episode:

Capital One Venture card: https://my.travelfreely.com/card?id=28&ref=hms

Capital One Venture X card: https://my.travelfreely.com/card?id=726&ref=hms

Episode Minute By Minute:

00:02 Listen in on our favorite ways to redeem Capital One Venture Miles
02:00 Jess highlights the three personal cards that earn Venture miles
02:21 Jess highlights the three business cards that earn Venture miles
10:51 Pam gives her review of the Venture X card
16:41 More Venture X perks like rental car coverage and status
20:42 Alex talks about some ways that you can redeem your Venture miles
23:57 How to combine and transfer Venture miles
26:10 Pam and Jess share their favorite ways to use Venture miles
29:10 Vacasa vacation rentals through Wyndham Rewards is a good option for lodging
41:30 Alex's favorite way to use Capital One Venture miles

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to Points Talk with the Travel Mom Squad, previously known as the Travel Hacking Mom Show.
0:05.8	Follow the links in the show notes to stay up to date with what the Travel Mom squad has been up to.
0:10.5	What do Taylor Swift, Jennifer Garner, and the Travel Hacking Moms all have in common?
0:15.9	We're all fans of Capital One. Keep listening as we discuss our favorite ways to redeem Capital One
0:21.8	Venture Miles. Welcome to the Travel Hacking Mom Show. We are three moms who've discovered
0:26.8	how to leverage credit card welcome offers to get hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel
0:31.2	expenses for nearly free. We've used credit card points and miles to take vacations to places like
0:36.5	Hawaii, Paris, Greece,
0:38.6	the Maldives, Italy, and so much more.
0:40.8	And the best part?
0:42.1	We each still have an 800 plus credit score.
0:45.0	Imagine being able to book a vacation without having to check your bank account.
0:48.2	It's totally possible and we're here to show you how.
0:51.0	Hey, I'm Alex.
0:52.5	And I'm Pam, Alex's mom. And I'm Jess. We are travel hacking moms.
0:57.9	We are super excited to talk about Capital One Venture Miles today. Honestly, these miles weren't that
1:05.2	good just a couple of years ago. They had really good marketing like Jennifer Garner and Taylor Swift, but in the last
1:13.6	couple of years, they have really stepped up their game. A couple of years ago, they improved
1:19.2	the transfer ratio for their miles. So you used to not be able to transfer them one to one to
1:24.7	their transfer partners, which made them a lot less valuable. And they added
1:29.4	a bunch of airline transfer partners. And so it was almost like overnight, Capital One went from
1:36.3	like no one in the point in mile space really ever talking about them much to all of a sudden
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