Chase points: 10 Best and 5 Worst uses of Ultimate Rewards | Ep272 | 9-13-24
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🗓️ 14 September 2024
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Summary
Now that you've amassed a huge stash of Ultimate Rewards points after listening to Episode 271, how what? Today, we talk about the top 10 best (and bottom 5 worst) uses of Chase Ultimate Rewards points.
00:00 Intro
01:10 Announcements
01:12 New "How to" series on Youtube
02:54 Using buying groups to increase spend
04:10 Giant Mailbag: Online grocery is more broadly useful than you think
07:43 Card News
07:45 Increased offers on the Wyndham cards
https://frequentmiler.com/how-to-get-free-cruises-by-gaming-casino-status-matches/
11:39 What crazy thing.....did Wyndham Rewards do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/apparently-wyndham-credit-card-points-never-expire-positive-change/
17:00 Mattress Running the Numbers: Aeroplan to Marriott to MGM
23:41 Award Talk
23:47 United vs Aeroplan https://frequentmiler.com/united-vs-air-canada-which-is-the-better-chase-transfer-partner/
29:59 Discount partner awards for United Premier status
33:12 Which award search tool is best? https://frequentmiler.com/united-vs-air-canada-which-is-the-better-chase-transfer-partner/
37:50 Graduate Hotels via Hilton Honors (earn & redeem is now live)
38:47 Main Event: Top 10 best and 5 worst uses of your Chase points
39:21 #10: Booking travel through the Chase Travel portal with the Sapphire Reserve at a value of 1.5c per points
40:40 #9: 70% transfer bonus to Marriott
42:07 #8 Transfer to Emirates and book first class from New York JFK to Milan or Newark EWR to Athens for 102,000 points + ~$130 https://frequentmiler.com/how-to-find-and-book-emirates-first-class-awards/
44:41 #7 Transfer to United for positioning flights
48:10 #6: Transfer to British Airways Avios to fly Qatar Qsuites to Doha for 70K https://frequentmiler.com/how-to-find-qatar-q-suites-award-space/
49:58 #5: Transfer to Iberia Avios to book business class from the east coast to Europe from 34K Avios one-way https://frequentmiler.com/best-uses-of-avios-british-airways-iberia-qatar-aer-lingus-finnair/
53:33 #4: Transfer to Hyatt to book a suite https://frequentmiler.com/how-best-to-book-hyatt-luxury-suites/
56:10 #3: Transfer to Air Canada Aeroplan and book a multi-partner award with a stopover for just 5,000 additional miles https://frequentmiler.com/nicks-6-country-5-airline-award-ticket/
01:00:36 #2 Transfer to Flying Blue to book Air France or KLM Business Class for only 50K one way https://frequentmiler.com/air-france-klm-flying-blue-lowers-business-class-award-cost-from-the-us/
01:05:33 #1 : Transfer to Hyatt to book hotels for great value
01:12:18 In-between: Cash out for $0.01 per point
01:14:18 The worst of the worst uses of Chase points
01:14:23 #5 Transferring to any program to book a low-value award
01:16:23 #4 Buying gift cards with your points
01:17:16 #3 Transfer to Marriott without a transfer bonus
01:18:45 #2 Using your points to shop at sites like Amazon
01:20:54: #1 Transfer points to IHG One Rewards
01:23:59 Question of the Week: How do you protect your miles and points?
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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. |
| 0:13.8 | What crazy thing did City do this week? |
| 0:17.5 | Time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? The main event. |
| 0:21.6 | Frequent Milo on the air starts now. |
| 0:23.6 | Today's main event, chase points, 10 best and five worst uses of ultimate rewards. |
| 0:33.6 | Last week we talked about how to amass chase ultimate rewards points. |
| 0:38.3 | And this week, we're going to talk about some of our favorite ways to use them and some of our least favorite ways, things that you should avoid. |
| 0:45.8 | Yeah, and that's important, the things that you should avoid doing so you don't use your points at low value. |
| 0:50.5 | You know, I find these two topics both interesting because some people are all about the thrill |
| 0:55.0 | of the hunt, right? Some people just really want to amass lots of miles of points and like to see a huge balance growing. But I think I am more, I mean, I like that, but I think I'm more in the camp of it's more fun to use the points, right, to redeem them. So I'm kind of excited about talking about redeeming them, but I think that both sides have their dopamine hit. And we'll talk more about |
| 1:14.0 | some of the best uses today. But don't forget, we always have the timestamps in the show notes. So if you want to jump ahead to a specific section, you want to return to something. Again, later on, you can find those timestamps in the show notes. Just expand the description box. And wherever you're watching or listening please give us a like |
| 1:27.7 | give us you know five or six or 12 stars or whatever it is leave us a rating and let us know what |
| 1:32.3 | you think about everything that we have to say today all right let's talk about this week's |
| 1:37.1 | announcements we get some announcements to start with right yeah we do uh so we are introducing a new |
| 1:43.7 | weekly series of videos on youtube. So I'm sorry for those who just like to listen via podcast, but these are specifically visual. This is Nick and I walking you through how to do stuff on a desktop. And so it doesn't translate well to podcast form. |
| 2:05.2 | So please make sure to go over to our YouTube channel and follow it. |
| 2:10.3 | So you'll be alerted when there's new stuff. |
| 2:12.5 | So far, we released how to use Delta companion tickets. |
| 2:16.4 | So I showed Nick how to book, for example, round trip to Hawaii and add a companion for free, |
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