First Class for 5: Gambling on Frequent Miler's 2023 Team Challenge | Ep187 | 1-28-23
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Do you often read about the luxury travels of bloggers and think "That's nice, but it's not possible to do that with an entire family!"? This week, Greg and Nick decided to bet the Frequent Miler team's reputation as points and miles wizards on our ability to create an amazing trip for not one or two people, but for all five of us.
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00:00 Introduction
1:18 Mattress running the numbers: Bilt Rent Day Promo: 100% transfer bonus to Hawaiian Miles
5:45 Mattress running the numbers: Marriott promo for double elite night credits https://frequentmiler.com/marriotts-surprisingly-good-new-promo-earn-1k-bonus-points-per-night-double-elite-nights/
9:36 Noteworthy news this week Bilt integration with Point.me
https://frequentmiler.com/bilt-adds-free-point-me-integration-for-award-searches-with-partners/
12:22 30 Million+ Amex points for readers
17:08 Awards we booked this week, AKA...
17:24 Main Event: First Class for 5. Gambling on Frequent Miler's 2023 challenge.
https://frequentmiler.com/ana-first-class-wide-open-award-tickets-early-2023/
59:19 Question of the Week: Will Delta protect your booking if you're traveling on two separate tickets booked via Virgin Atlantic?
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. |
| 0:27.1 | Today's main event, first class for five, gambling on Frequent Milers' |
| 0:32.2 | 2023 team challenge. |
| 0:35.2 | We've got a different type of show today. |
| 0:37.3 | We're going to be telling a story of some |
| 0:38.9 | excitement that went on within our team yesterday, where yesterday is not yesterday compared to when |
| 0:45.8 | you're listening, but the day before we recorded this show. Earlier this week, well, earlier |
| 0:51.3 | the week we recorded the show. I guess you could be listening to it in the future. Yeah. Okay. Anyway, there was some gambling going on. Yesterday to me and Nick right now. |
| 0:59.0 | Anyway, before we get into that part, I will read one little quote that came out during our adventure, which is me saying, I think we have to do our team challenge in Japan. No choice, |
| 1:14.4 | really. So we'll talk about what that means, why I said it later on the show. Normally, we jump |
| 1:22.6 | into the giant mail bag right now, but today's giant mail kicked off our whole main event. So we'll get to that |
| 1:28.7 | later. What do we have next, Nick? So first, let's talk about mattress running the numbers for this |
| 1:33.4 | week. So this week's mattress running the numbers, we got a couple of interesting things going on. So |
| 1:38.0 | first off, we've got built is going to be offering a transfer bonus on February 1st. This will be one day only, |
| 1:45.0 | so it'll only be February 1st. But if you have built points, you may want to listen up because |
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