Chase Ultimate Rewards points: Best ways to get great value | Ep216 | 8-19-23
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Don't settle for mediocrity - get great value from your credit card points by utilizing some of our favorite techniques to save big on both economy and business class airfare and hotels ranging from simple to simply luxurious.
00:00 Intro
00:48 Giant Mailbag: Trouble with the Schwab debit card and a workaround
06:14 What crazy thing . . . did Bilt Rewards do this week?
14:29 Mattress running the numbers: Frontier's GoWild pass promotion
20:55 Award Talk
20:59 Nick's experience with a British Airways award via American Airlines
26:05 Greg gets the Bilt card
26:47 Alaska trick for saving miles
29:51 Southwest is adding free standby on all fares
33:32 Choice suites thanks to Radisson
34:32 Main Event: Chase Ultimate Rewards points: Best ways to get great value
34:48 Hyatt
40:00 Using Chase Ultimate Rewards points via airline programs
40:39 United Mileage Plus
43:23 Virgin Atlantic Flying Club
55:38 Air France / KLM Flying Blue
1:03:40 Air Canada Aeroplan
1:09:48 Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer
1:11:37 Avios
1:16:01 Question of the Week: Which comes first -- the chicken or the egg? Do you book the flight or hotel first to maximize value?
Music credit: 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. |
| 0:10.8 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? The main event. |
| 0:21.6 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:23.6 | Today's main event, Chase Ultimate Rewards Points, Best Ways to get great value. |
| 0:32.6 | We all want to get good value, right? |
| 0:34.6 | I mean, you're spending these cards. |
| 0:35.6 | You got to get good value out of the points, right? You absolutely do. Last week we talked about the must-have chase cards, and some of them |
| 0:43.4 | were cards that earn chase ultimate awards points. So now that you've gotten those cards and you've met the |
| 0:50.6 | minimum of spend requirements and earned your welcome bonuses. Now you have all these chase |
| 0:54.2 | points. What are you going to do with them? We'll talk about ways to get crazy good value from them. |
| 0:59.5 | First, we have the giant mail bag. Today's giant mail comes from Aiden. And I'll admit, this was, |
| 1:08.6 | this giant mail came in a while ago so when he says i'm currently enjoying my |
| 1:14.1 | a and a round the world redemption i don't know if he's currently |
| 1:18.2 | who knows i mean that could be a year a year long right i mean i could be absolutely |
| 1:23.3 | anyways he says he's enjoying it thanks to you all first of all, thank you and cheers to many more years of frequent Myler. |
| 1:32.3 | While on this trip, I ran into an issue where the Schwab debit card would get rejected from ATMs in Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, and currently Thailand. Now, I generally don't ever carry cash, but this has been quite a learning experience for traveling abroad going forward. |
| 1:51.7 | Now for the tip, I experienced this by accident in Morocco, where the hotel, big shout out to Hyatt Casablanca, |
| 1:59.5 | unbelievable service, by the way, who offered to charge my room and give me cash. |
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