AA web specials, Hyatt devaluation, and is Kiva dead to us?
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Greg and Nick discuss:
-AA Web Specials now apply to business and first class. Nick explains why that might not be good news.
-Hyatt moves to peak and off-peak award pricing. Nick calls it a devaluation. Greg argues that there's good news here.
-Kiva turns out to have higher default rates than Greg expected. Is Kiva dead to the miles & points community? We explain why we're still Kiva-ing along
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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. |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome to Frequent Miler on the air with Greg and Nick. |
| 0:15.5 | Neck, it looks like you are not at home. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm not at home today. |
| 0:20.0 | No, I am closer to the home of the happiest mouse on |
| 0:24.4 | earth or something like that. Happiest place on earth. Disneyland. I'm in Orlando coming to |
| 0:29.6 | you live from Orlando tonight. So Disney World, I guess I should say. The Disney aficionados out |
| 0:34.5 | there just cringed when I said Disneyland probably, but Disney World in Orlando, right? |
| 0:39.6 | Land is California. I'm still learning these things. I'm a relatively new parent, but, you know, |
| 0:44.1 | here I am rocking Mickey and coming to you from probably the third largest hotel room I've ever had behind that Dome's of Alundas suite I wrote about earlier this year. And when Wyndham ran that promo, which is long dead where you could book like a mansion for 15,000 points. It was a really short window. Which we both did. Yeah. And so that was the biggest place. It was nine bedrooms. That was huge. But the place I'm at tonight is a Wyndham property that was 15,000 points a night because they all used to be. Now I think it's 30,000 points a night, but it's four bedrooms and it is like a house. Oh, nice. Outdoors here on my patio and I have like, let's see, the risk of, for those of you who are watching the video anyway, I've got like a built-in grill in the whole nine yards. |
| 1:27.7 | I mean, well, there'll be some pictures on the blog. |
| 1:30.3 | So here I am from Orlando, and you are at home. |
| 1:33.0 | I'm at home. |
| 1:33.7 | I'm at home. |
| 1:35.2 | Next week I'll be traveling, but for now I'm still at home and enjoying the cold weather. |
| 1:42.7 | I realize something about us that's similar. We both live in |
| 1:47.2 | cold climates and we both hate the colds. Why do people listen to any advice that we give? |
| 1:54.4 | No idea. Not particularly a reliable source now, are we? I'm very good at practicing what we preach, I suppose. At least not |
| 2:02.8 | with regard to climate. Hopefully we're better with credit cards. I think we're better with credit |
| 2:07.8 | cards and things like that. So speaking of things like that, this week or this episode of Freed |
| 2:17.1 | on the air, we have three great topics. |
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