Extreme Hotel Savings | Ep162 | 8-6-22
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Friends don't let friends pay full price for hotels. Here are some of the tools we use to slice and dice the price of lodging.
00:44 Giant Mailbag: Pop-up averted over the phone
4:14 3 Cards, 3 Continents, 3 Updates
https://frequentmiler.com/frequent-milers-2022-team-challenge-3-cards-3-continents/
15:34 What crazy thing....did Marriott Bonvoy do this week? When it says you can't use suite night awards, maybe that's not true . . .
23:45 Mattress running the numbers: Buying IHG points for 0.5c each
https://frequentmiler.com/buy-ihg-points/
28:53 Main Event: Extreme hotel savings
29:40 Buying points on sale 36:45 Specialty rates
40:46 Card-linked offers (Chase Offers, Amex Offers, SimplyMiles, etc)
https://frequentmiler.com/card-linked-programs-the-networks-they-run-on-aka-which-programs-stack/
43:44 Portals
49:14 Membership sites (Capital One Spring, Greyhound, etc)
https://frequentmiler.com/capital-one-spring-priceline-save-hotels/
52:25 Hotels.com stacking
54:25 Best Rate Guarantees
1:01:16 Mastercard Travel & Lifestyle
1:03:48 Wyndham business to Caesars to Free room
1:05:12 Follow sites for deeply discounted prices
1:07:20 Question of the Week: Do you have an update on American Airlines Loyalty Points?
https://frequentmiler.com/american-airlines-loyalty-points-game-update-halfway-through-whos-in-front/
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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. |
| 0:26.6 | Today's main event, extreme hotel savings. |
| 0:30.6 | Sometimes you got to pay for hotels and we're going to tell you how to do it cheaper. |
| 0:35.6 | You don't want to pay a lot for hotels, right? You don't want to pay a lot for hotels, right? |
| 0:46.0 | You don't want to. Yet these days, you almost have to because hotel rates have been skyrocketing. |
| 0:53.7 | And so we've got sort of a grab bag of tips and tricks to help ease that burden with extreme hotel savings. First, of course, we have the giant mailbag. |
| 0:57.7 | Today's giant mail comes from Pete. So Pete has a story, which I'm going to mostly paraphrase, |
| 1:05.9 | which is he wanted to sign up for the Delta Reserve card when it had a, you know, promotional offer. |
| 1:12.9 | And he got the pop-up telling him basically, you know, there's two types of pop-ups from Amex that say, |
| 1:21.8 | basically, you won't get the welcome bonus if you sign up. |
| 1:25.1 | One of the pop-ups is where you've had the card before, |
| 1:27.6 | and it tells you that. The other pop-up is I've referred to as the, we don't like you pop-up |
| 1:32.8 | because it's very vague about why it popped up. And that's what he got. Specifically, |
| 1:38.3 | it says, based on your history with credit card, balance transfers, American Express welcome offers, |
| 1:45.9 | introductory APR offers, |
| 1:50.7 | or the number of cards you've opened and closed, you are not eligible to receive the welcome offer. So he got this, but he was very confused because this is only the second AMX card he's ever |
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