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Frequent Miler on the Air

Highlights and lowlights from the Last Minute Travel Challenge | Coffee Break Ep14 | 6-11-24

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture, Aviation

4.9640 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Greg and Nick are busy returning home from a jam-packed week competing in our 2024 annual team challenge "Flying by the Seat of our Points". For this coffee break episode, we've highlighted a portion of the final livestream from Kuala Lumpur where the team reflects on the highlights (and lowlights) of their individual journeys.

You can find out all kinds of details about this challenge here: https://frequentmiler.com/2024-annual-challenge/

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0:00.0

This is a Voyescape podcast.

0:04.0

You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com.

0:08.0

Here we go.

0:16.4

This is not your typical frequent mile on the air episode. This is a standalone segment we're calling Coffee Break.

0:24.9

Each coffee break segment will cover a single topic related to miles and points.

0:30.3

And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or your money back.

0:34.5

Enjoy. For today's Coffee Break episode, we've clipped out a few highlights from last night's

0:42.5

live stream where we met up with our travelers in Kuala Lumpur, and we announced our

0:48.9

winner of the 2024 frequent mile our annual travel challenge flying by the seat of our points.

0:55.4

I'm sure we'll have lots of discussion yet to come about all the things the guys learned from this last minute travel challenge.

1:01.8

But in this particular episode, we're going to talk about their highlights and low lights from the trip.

1:07.7

What did they feel the best about and what did they feel the worst about during their

1:11.6

trip? Give it a listen. So Greg, what was your highlight of the trip and then low light of the

1:18.4

trip for booking specifically? For booking specifically, I'd say my highlight was finding the KLM business class flight from Vancouver to Zagreb, Croatia, with that brief layover in Amsterdam.

1:39.8

Because not only was, you know, it seemed desperate like from L.A.

1:44.9

Trying to find something and to get something that perfect was amazing.

1:48.9

And then because it also positioned me so well for the onward flight that I, you know,

1:57.5

I literally just had the one stop to get here to Guadalampo because I was so well

2:04.1

positioned. So I'd say that was the highlight of my booking. Yeah. Lowlight was the other one.

2:11.9

Yeah. Okay. So my low light of booking, I'd say was my plan to use a gift card from Capital One shopping to book a hotel

2:23.1

because that gift card didn't come in time, so I didn't use that to book the hotel.

2:29.4

And just sitting there being like, I can't believe that was your worst part.

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