Drafting the dream: Strategies for drafting the best 3 card, 3 continent dream trip | Ep155 | 6-18-22
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🗓️ 18 June 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
You're planning a dream trip to 3 continents; which 3 credit cards would you choose for the best combination of welcome bonuses and card benefits? This week, we talk strategy for our upcoming draft -- because once one of us makes a selection, the other two will be left scrambling to strategize the next move.
1:25 Giant Mailbag
2:38 Awards we booked this week
Link to the SimplyMiles deal we referenced: https://frequentmiler.com/incredible-the-240x-simplymiles-deal-is-being-honored/
11:22 Mattress running the numbers: Marriott Homes & Villas stacking deals
18:40 Main Event: Drafting the Dream: Strategies for drafting the best 3 card, 3 continent dream trip
https://frequentmiler.com/challenge-3-cards-3-continents-buckle-up/
Link to read about the previous 40K to Far Away challenge: https://frequentmiler.com/40k-to-far-away-afterglow-help-us-design-the-next-40kfaraway-challenge/
51:09 Post Roast
https://frequentmiler.com/chase-sapphire-reserve-should-i-keep-it/
54:21 Question of the Week: Is there a downside to having multiple car reservations and deciding at the counter which update is best?
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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. |
| 0:10.7 | 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, drafting the dream. |
| 0:29.6 | You know, Nick, we are finally back in business with a big, big team challenge. We're back. And that's what we're going to be talking about |
| 0:40.7 | today. We're going to be doing the best three card, three continent trip that we can come up with. |
| 0:50.6 | So that means three sign up bonuses from three cards. That's our budget. We go as far or as |
| 0:57.4 | build as big, as incredible of a trip as we can dream up with those three sign up bonuses. So that's |
| 1:07.0 | the challenge that we're going to be talking about today. And we have a fun way of letting us pick the three cards. Anyway, we'll get into that. We sure do. We're calling that draft to talk about. But that's the part about where we pick the card. So I can't wait. I'm excited. I can't wait either. It's going to be exciting. It's funny fun. If you enjoyed previous challenges we've done, I think this one is going to be right up your alley too. |
| 1:29.3 | So we'll talk more about it in a few minutes. |
| 1:30.8 | But before we. It's funny fun. If you enjoyed previous challenges we've done, I think this one is going to be right up your alley too. |
| 1:29.2 | So we'll talk more about it in a few minutes. But before we get into all that, we are going to talk about the mailbag first, right? |
| 1:36.4 | So let's drag out that giant mailbag time. It is. Yeah. All right. So in this week's giant mail, we found a message from, I think it's pronounced me, |
| 1:47.6 | Basid, on YouTube. Bassett says, I think I was thinking about what new segment could be added to the show. |
| 1:56.1 | A short segment about some use of points that one of you actually did this week. It would obviously not |
| 2:01.4 | necessarily be every week, but would be interesting to show some of the real world uses that you |
| 2:05.4 | guys personally use on a regular basis. So you know what? I think that's great. I like, |
| 2:12.0 | we like that idea. Nick and I talked about it. We love the idea. We're going to do it. So, |
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