Doing Hawaii with points | Ep195 | 3-25-23

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Frequent Miler

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture, Aviation

4.9 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Instead of saving money for years to visit Hawaii, save your money and get your flights and hotels covered with just two new credit cards. This week, we talk about how to scratch Hawaii off your bucket list with ease and your best options to make it happen.

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00:00 Intro

00:56 Giant Mailbag: IHG Suite Upgrade Clarification

04:36 Frequent Miler Challenge Update

https://frequentmiler.com/party-of-5-frequent-milers-2023-team-challenge/

13:46 Card Talk: Wyndham credit cards

https://frequentmiler.com/wyndhamearner/

https://frequentmiler.com/wyndhamearnerplus/

https://frequentmiler.com/wyndhamearnerbiz/

29:00 What crazy thing....did Citi do this week?

32:51 Mattress running the numbers: Wyndham portal promotion

https://frequentmiler.com/wyndham-shopping-portal-math-strikes-again/

39:08 Wyndham points on sale

https://frequentmiler.com/buy-wyndham-points/

43:02 Award Talk: A multi-night stay on Hyatt free night certificates

45:21 Award Talk: Marriott bookings before the gloves come off

50:28 Main Event: Doing Hawaii with points

https://frequentmiler.com/hawaii-vacation-book-flights-and-hotels-with-credit-card-points/

56:38 How to get award flights to Hawaii

https://frequentmiler.com/best-ways-to-fly-to-hawaii-from-the-us-mainland/

56:37 Book with miles directly with the operating airline (AA Web Specials, Delta and United flash sales)

1:03:03 Partner awards: United via Turkish Miles & Smiles

https://frequentmiler.com/how-to-book-united-flights-using-turkish-miles-smiles/

1:07:55 Partner awards: British Airways for Alaska or American

1:08:10 Partner awards: Air France and Virgin Atlantic for Delta

1:08:48 Tools for searching for award flights

https://frequentmiler.com/which-award-search-tool-is-best/

1:11:21 Hawaiian miles to upgrade from economy to business class

1:12:38 Lodging

1:13:23 Wyndham

1:13:45 Book Vacasa rentals with Wyndham points

https://frequentmiler.com/wyndham-vacasa/

1:17:04 Wyndham points for Wyndham timeshare properties

1:21:46 Hyatt points for Hawaiian accommodations

1:23:35 StayWithPoints

1:28:50 Is Hilton worth it? What about Marriott?

1:34:23 Timeshare deals

1:38:49 Question of the Week: Why is Greg's wallet so full of Citibank cards?

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?
0:21.0	The main event.
0:22.3	Frequent Miler on the air starts now.
0:26.9	Today's main event, doing Hawaii with points.
0:31.3	We're going to get into how to do Hawaii using your award points so that you can travel for free-ish. For free-ish, I like it. I like it. Get a little ukulele music going. Let's see if I can add a little ukuley music to the pie. So if you just heard that, that was me. That was my touch. Nick likes to add extra tasks for himself when he edits these things later. If I can find it. If you didn't
0:55.3	hear it, then that means I didn't find a clip I could use. Right. Or maybe you just ran out of time.
1:00.1	You might have gotten backed up and, you know, had too much to do. We'll see. Um, right. Let's get
1:06.4	into the giant mail bag. Today's giant mail comes from our very own Stephen Pepper in reaction
1:13.8	to our podcast where we discussed the best hotel loyalty programs. And in that podcast, we talked
1:22.6	about how good the IHG suite upgrades were, I mean, compared to Marriott.
1:30.2	But, you know, we'd like the Hyatt ones even better.
1:32.6	But still, he had a reaction to our discussion about the IHG certificates.
1:38.1	And he says, a big drawback with IHG's suite upgrades is that you can currently only use them on paid stays, not award stays.
1:48.6	Yeah. As an aside, IHG has said that they'll eventually make them available to award stays,
1:53.7	but to my knowledge, that hasn't happened yet. So hopefully it will. I mean, they've, they've
1:58.2	been good about most of their, all of maybe their promises about the new program. So I hope that this will indeed happen. But anyway, currently, that is a big downside to it. He says also just FYI, you can pick one suite upgrade at 20 nights, one at 40 nights, and up to two at 70 nights. So that's just to
2:20.1	clarify some of the, I guess, guess, guess work we had. We knew 20. We knew got one at 20, but then we
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