Announcing the 100K Vacay Team Challenge! | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep309 | 6-6-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
On today's Frequent Miler on the Air, we look at 2 cards offering 5 free nights, we recall the 5 ways we've been Bonvoyed recently, and we announce the 2025 Frequent Miler team challenge!
(01:41) - We learn how to pronounce Dugroz
(02:53) - "...any tools or shortcuts you use to quickly size up a biz class product without opening 6 tabs and a YouTube black hole? I know equipment swaps happen, but I’d love to avoid turning every redemption into a minor research thesis."
(09:05) - Best Offers Card Exploration Tool (Beta)
Try out our card exploration tool here.
(11:30) - 5 free night offers from Chase
See how we value free night certificates here.
(16:36) - Capital One Shopping pulls even more gift card redemption options
(20:16) - Venture X (& Venture X Business Card): lounge access changes for additional cardholders & primary cardholder guests
(26:50) - Iberia devaluation: Business class between US & Europe now starting at 40,500 miles one way (previously, 34K for off-peak)
(28:08) - Citi replaces Rewards+ card with new Strata card (not to be confused with the Strata Premiere)
(29:51) - United Excursionist Perk killed off
(31:57) - You can still upgrade to Emirates first class without elite status
(33:37) - Tim published: How to book EVA Air Infinity MileageLands awards (for multiple people)
(35:12) - Earn Hyatt bonus points when using Peloton during stays
(37:01) - JetBlue / United partnership, some details announced
(39:26) - What are IHG points worth?
Main Event: Announcing the 100K Vacay team Challenge!
(44:26) - Compete to see who can book the most amazing 100,000 point vacation
(44:55) - The 100K Benchmark Trip
(46:42) - Three challengers, each with 100,000 points from a different currency
(48:25) - Two Judges
(49:21) - $1,000 cash budget
(50:49) - Rules
(57:11) - Who will win? (strengths and weaknesses)
(1:11:18) - Are the no preset spending limit cards actually more restrictive than the standard cards with credit limits?
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by 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. |
| 0:10.9 | On today's Frequent Miler on the air, we cover two cards offering five free nights. |
| 0:16.9 | We describe five ways we've been Bonvoid, and we announced the 2025 Frequent Miler Team Challenge. |
| 0:25.4 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:29.8 | Today's main event, announcing the 100K Vacay Team Challenge. That's right, we're back with a new team challenge. We do these every year. |
| 0:40.2 | In fact, last year we kind of accidentally did two of these, but, you know, we couldn't help it. |
| 0:45.5 | But normally we do one a year where we challenge each other to make the most of points and miles, |
| 0:51.2 | see who can stretch miles and points the furthest. And this year, |
| 0:55.5 | we're going to be competing to see who can build the best vacation out of 100,000 points. |
| 1:00.2 | And I've got to say, I'm pretty excited about it because the whole idea kind of started back |
| 1:05.5 | with the fact that there was a good 100K offer out there. And I started thinking about, |
| 1:10.2 | oh, you know, what could you do with this? Could you plan a whole trip with just this 100,000 points? And then, you know, I went from feeling pretty good about that to thinking, oh, I don't know what you really could with all the points out there, to now being really excited again and thinking, man, you could do some cool stuff with just 100,000 points. So I can't wait to see what everybody pulls out of the bag, so to speak, on this one, pulls out of the hat, whatever you want to say. But we'll talk more about that later. Remember, if you want to come back to stuff later on, you can always find the timestamps in the show notes, or you can jump ahead and return to something, so on and so forth. and wherever you're watching or listening to this, don't forget to, first of all, like it. |
| 1:47.6 | Give it a thumbs up. Give us some stars. Leave us a review. Leave us a comment. We always love to hear from you. All right. So now I think it's time to drag out this week's giant mail bag. Yeah. Speaking about pulling things out of the bag, let's pull some giant mail out of the giant mail bag. |
| 2:03.4 | First up is from... Yeah, speaking about pulling things out of the bag, let's pull some giant mail out of the giant mail bag. |
| 2:03.3 | First up is from PDX Beach on the episode last week, it's raining mail from the giant mailbag episode. |
| 2:12.5 | So PDX Beach says, D-U-G-R-O-Z. |
| 2:16.4 | So this was someone who wrote in a couple times that we read mail from last week, |
| 2:22.0 | is actually pronounced du graze. You actually pronounce the Z, even though it's a play on his name |
| 2:29.9 | with a Z instead of an S. So there you go. Good tip from PDX Beach. |
| 2:36.0 | DuGraz it is. |
| 2:36.8 | So do Graz reports on YouTube. |
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