Great travel tips revealed and a 100K Vacay winner is crowned | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep327 | 10-10-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
This podcast was recorded live on October 8th, at 9 pm ET during our 100K Vacay Annual Challenge final livestream. In that livestream we did our final scoring of Nick and Stephen's trips and crowned the 100K Vacay winner! You'll hear that livestream now, as part of this podcast episode.
(You'll notice some audio quality issues with Nick's mic this week - our apologies!)
Giant Mailbag
(00:39) - "Hi Greg. I know your 100K Vacay trip was meant to set the benchmark, but I would love to read a post of a trip you would have done if you were competing for real to beat the other contestants. I’m sure you could have had an amazing trip that blew the other contestants away."
Main Event
(02:55) - Overview of challenge and rules
(09:58) - Greg's benchmark trip, highs and lows
(11:48) - Stephen's highest highs and lowest lows
(18:15) - Nick's highest highs and lowest lows
(33:03) - Here are some of the things you all flagged as dubious
(38:13) - Flight deals revealed
(47:09) - Other airport tricks revealed
(55:11) - Hotel deals revealed
(1:07:54) - Crowning the 100K Vacay winner!
Questions of the Week
(1:34:04) - If it weren't for this exact challenge, would you have wanted to do the trip you did? Would you recommend your exact itinerary to the rest of us?
(1:37:30) - What is the hand that lost Nick the poker tournament?
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder
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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 |
| 0:07.0 | voyescape.com. Today's main event, great travel tips revealed, and 100K vacay winner is crowned. |
| 0:18.4 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:22.6 | Today we're going to be crowning the winner of the 100KVK Team Challenge. |
| 0:28.6 | As you know, every year we do a team challenge to see who can make the most of their points |
| 0:33.6 | in miles. |
| 0:34.6 | And this year we were tasked with using a hundred thousand no more than |
| 0:40.2 | a hundred thousand transferable points and one thousand dollars to build the greatest |
| 0:44.7 | vacation we could and so that is what we're going to get into in today's main event |
| 0:49.5 | moving on to the giant mail bag today Today's giant mail comes from Grant. |
| 0:55.1 | Grant wrote in to say, hi Greg, |
| 0:58.0 | I know your 100K vacate trip was meant to set the benchmark, |
| 1:01.9 | but I would love to read a post of a trip |
| 1:04.0 | you would have done if you were competing for real |
| 1:07.1 | to beat the other contestants. |
| 1:08.9 | I'm sure you could have had an amazing trip |
| 1:10.7 | that blew the other contestants away I'm sure you could have had an amazing trip that blew the other |
| 1:11.5 | contestants away. Not like that lame trip you did. I love this message because Gran at once, |
| 1:21.6 | like, put the ultimate slam down on my trip, like basically saying, you weren't even trying to beat the other guys. |
| 1:29.5 | But at the same time gave me this, like, great compliment. Like, oh, I'm sure you could have |
| 1:33.3 | beaten everybody had you only tried. So, Grant, I actually did try. I built a vacation that I thought |
| 1:41.3 | was awesome. You know, I get that it's not as maybe, maybe, |
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