Doing New Zealand with points | Ep185 | 1-14-23
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2023
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Fresh off the plane from New Zealand, Greg shares highlights from his trip and we discuss the best ways to fly to and stay in New Zealand using points and miles.
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1:06 Giant Mailbag
3:06 What crazy thing . . . did Chase and Aeroplan do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/unlimited-pay-yourself-back-for-travel-at-1-25c-for-aeroplan-cardholders/
9:47 Mattress running the numbers
15:56 Awards we booked this week
21:35 Main Event: Doing New Zealand with points
23:36 United Polaris mini-review
30:48 Qantas business class mini-review
37:23 Ways to book to NZ on points
https://frequentmiler.com/best-ways-to-get-to-australia-new-zealand-south-pacific-using-miles/
42:53 Cheapest way to NZ on points in business class
47:24 How to book impossible awards
https://frequentmiler.com/how-to-piece-together-an-impossible-award/
49:48 The best program for impossible awards
54:27 What are your options for staying in New Zealand?
54:48 Park Hyatt Auckland
1:03:27 The George (SLH via Hyatt)
1:17:14 Eichardt's Private Hotel (SLH via Hyatt)
1:21:24 The Carlin (SLH via Hyatt)
1:24:36 Other options on points in Queenstown
1:24:57 Holiday Inn Express
1:33:55 Question of the Week: Can you do a free stopover in Honolulu on an Alaska award?
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. |
| 0:24.6 | Today's main event, doing New Zealand with points. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm fresh off the plane back from New Zealand, which I did, you know, mostly with points, had a fantastic time. And so we'll |
| 0:39.9 | be getting into not just what I did, but what are the options for getting to New Zealand with |
| 0:44.7 | points and staying in New Zealand with points and where you might want to go off grade a little bit |
| 0:51.3 | and use some cash because there's some fantastic things to do that way |
| 0:54.3 | as well you might want to i mean if you've seen gregg's pictures then you'll be like yes no i i |
| 0:59.4 | definitely want to do whatever it is that he did to make that trip happen because that looked |
| 1:03.7 | pretty great there were some pretty great elements too i mean overall great trip and uh you know |
| 1:09.4 | so i will touch on some of the some of the really great parts of it when we did, when we get into that in detail. |
| 1:16.3 | First, of course, we have our giant mail bag. |
| 1:19.3 | And today's giant mail comes from T.S. Ogle via Apple podcast reviews. |
| 1:27.9 | And I pulled this one out, not just because it was complimentary to our podcast, but because |
| 1:32.7 | he had some humor in that. |
| 1:34.0 | And this is the first time I can kind of remember a, you know, deliberately funny thing |
| 1:40.1 | in a review like this. |
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