Family vacation bookings on points | Ep56 | 7-25-20
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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00:18 Reader feedback: Abbas wants to know hot we book hotel rooms for 4 people.
7:15 What crazy thing did Citi do this week? Issuers clamping down.
9:23 Confession time: How Greg might have lost a boatload of Citi points
10:58 Mattress running the numbers: Is the Cambria promo for 20K points after 2 stays worthwhile?
19:18 Booking family vacations: Big suites, vacation rentals, etc.
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/ways-to-book-vacation-rentals-using-rewards-points/
42:15 Post Roast: Greg rips me for my failure to take a stand
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/capital-one-product-change-dilemma/
48:00 Turnabout: Greg's top picks for Hyatt suites were in pretty random spots.
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/the-most-exciting-hyatt-suites-bookable-with-points/
55:10 Question of the Week: Is the Platinum card worth its annual fee?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at |
| 0:07.1 | voyescape.com. Frequent Miler on the air starts now. Today's main event is booking vacations for |
| 0:16.2 | families. How do you get four or more people into a little hotel room when they often only allow two or three people? |
| 0:24.4 | First, of course, we're going to dip into the giant mailbag and see what kind of feedback we have for this week. |
| 0:32.9 | You can actually make a noise. |
| 0:34.1 | A lucky winner. |
| 0:36.3 | I know. |
| 0:36.9 | You made sound effects, but you didn't say anything yet. You're right. I didn't say it. I'm here. I'm here, guys. I'm watching the mail bag in. That's right. He was busy. This week's mail is from Abbas. I guess that's how you say it. A, B, B, A.S. seems like a good guest to me. Abbas says I guess that's how you say it, ABB-A-S. It seems like a good guest to me. |
| 0:56.4 | Abbas says, love your podcasts, very enjoyable, funny, and insightful. |
| 1:01.6 | Enjoy listening during long rides, much to the chagrin of my wife and two kids. |
| 1:07.4 | I just love that. |
| 1:08.7 | He loves our show so much that it's... |
| 1:11.6 | He tortures the wife and kids with it. |
| 1:13.8 | Well, yeah, and hearing complaints from them is less painful than not listening to our show. |
| 1:20.2 | I like it. |
| 1:21.2 | I'm a big fan about it. |
| 1:23.0 | Right. |
| 1:23.4 | I'll say that right now. |
| 1:24.6 | Right. |
| 1:25.5 | So going on. |
| 1:27.3 | He says, talking about my wife and two kids, here is a question for you. |
| 1:30.9 | As bad as it is trying to find four premium class tickets on flights, I'm now having as bad a time finding standard hotel awards, |
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