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4th Night Free and the great Marriott card debate. FM on the Air 2/21/20

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture, Aviation

4.9640 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Are the Marriott credit cards back on the chopping block after Greg's research this week, or are the 35K and 50K free night certs worth the fees? Watch us debate that, discuss a true 4th night free benefit you may be missing, and more.

Timestamps courtesy of audience member Screaming Lincolns:

3:01 FM to go (meet ups) 8:50 Confession time (Greg's Delta Cancellation Fees) 14:16 Greg's Marriott free night certificate analysis 16:48 Nick's retort 19:14 Greg's 50K free night certificate analysis 21:18 Greg's methodology issue 25:07 50K certs' decline for aspirational properties 33:36 How much would you pay for 50K cert? 47:20 Sapphire Reserve's 4th night free w/SBE properties 53:47 Possible points accrual with Sapp Res 4th night benefit? 56:44 Pay 3 get 4 Hyatt nights possible? 1:01:11 (NO-GO) Piggyback Free Night Cert w/Marriott's 5th night free (NO-GO) 1:04:36 Reader Question (FM's Reasonable Redemption Values Page updates)

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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.

0:12.1

Hey, Nick.

0:13.8

Welcome to Freedminle on the air.

0:16.4

Hi there, Greg.

0:17.3

Great to be here.

0:18.5

Nice to see you again.

0:19.8

Nice to see you.

0:20.5

It's been like almost four days.

0:22.5

Right. Not often that I see you twice in the same week.

0:25.2

Right. Right. We actually presented at the Wharton Business School on Monday.

0:31.2

And we had about 90 minutes scheduled to present. And thanks to a little time mismanagement on my part,

0:40.0

you had about 15 minutes, but you did a fantastic job. Well, thank you. No, it was fun. It was a good time.

0:46.2

It's an honor to be invited by a place like that. So, and to be able to have a chance to talk miles

0:51.1

and points to some people who are somewhat familiar, but very curious and at a point in their lives where that'll really come in handy to do some travels. So a lot of fun to be able to talk there. And just, like I said, nice to be invited. So great that they found us and reached out to us to ask if we would like to come and talk about miles and points and credit cards with them. Absolutely. That was great. And so was the FM to go that we did in Philadelphia. That was a lot of fun meeting up with the Philly folks. Yeah, definitely. Philly's got a great crowd of people. We had a great time talking at the presentation and a nice time before and after meeting some of the readers and grabbing a bite to eat. So that was great too. I think it really worked out very well. And I'm

1:28.2

kind of excited about going back to Philadelphia again at some point in the future. Me too, me too.

1:33.1

We didn't have any time to do any sightseeing. And it seems like there's a lot, there's a lot there

1:38.7

and a lot of people very knowledgeable and interested in showing us around. And so we should take advantage of that next time. Yeah, definitely, definitely. I wish we could have this time just, you know, one of those things. Sometimes time just doesn't allow as much as you'd like it to. But next time, hopefully, and hopefully, you know, during the summertime, because Philadelphia in February, I'm sure it's wonderful in all for those who live there. I live in upstate New York, so it's even

2:00.9

colder here, but February is not my ideal time to go visit Philadelphia. I don't want to run up the steps of the museum in the middle of the winter. So I want to go in the summertime when I can walk and hang out and enjoy some sightseeing. The next time, let's plan that. It got up to like 50 degrees, which was great compared to here.

2:19.8

You're right.

2:20.2

You're right.

2:20.9

That's that, that, it's been, it's been chilly. It's warming up. The sun's coming out. So I can't complain now. but I definitely have warmer things on my mind. And so I'd like to be able to put my points to use for that. I'm still working on trying to get that midwinter trip in and haven't quite been able to plan it yet.

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