How Nick booked his baller family of 4 round the world adventure featuring Taylor Swift in Europe, a free Mediterranean cruise, tropical beaches in Mauritius, and DisneySea in Japan | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep276 | 10-11-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we'll look at how Nick booked his baller family of 4 a round-the-world adventure featuring Taylor Swift in Europe, a free Mediterranean cruise, tropical beaches in Mauritius, and DisneySea in Japan!
(01:28) - Beware of agents erroneously telling you your free night certificate is not applicable at SLH properties!
(05:30) - What is this segment even about? (And how should you evaluate opportunities?)
(11:42) - Amex airline fee reimbursements
Learn more about airline fee reimbursements here.
(19:05) - Read more about Nick's incredible trip here.
(22:22) - Getting to Europe on JetBlue in Mint (business) class via Qatar Avios
Read how to book JetBlue Mint via Qatar Avios here.
(27:25) - Getting around Europe
(35:04) - “Free” MSC cruise from Venice to Montenegro, Croatia, Greece, and Italy
Read how to get free cruises through casino status matching here.
(39:45) - Venice to Paris: Air France Business Class via Virgin Atlantic for 9,000 points + ~$22 each
(45:19) - Big Air Canada Aeroplan award from Paris to Japan
(1:01:40) - Train to Tokyo
(1:10:49) - Tokyo to Hawaii to New York
(1:24:45) - Amex Gold card now has a coupon for a $7 Dunkin' credit. Does it work for Baskin Robins too?
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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. |
| 0:10.7 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did? |
| 0:15.9 | City this week. |
| 0:17.4 | 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 Milo on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.6 | Today's main event. |
| 0:28.1 | How Nick booked his baller family of four round the world adventure featuring Taylor Swift in Europe, a free Mediterranean cruise, tropical beaches in Mauritius, and Disney Sea in Japan. |
| 0:41.8 | Yeah, not bad for summer vacation. It worked out okay. It worked out okay. |
| 0:46.7 | We're looking forward to you telling us all about that in today's main event. And I have to say, |
| 0:52.3 | this is easily the longest title we've ever had for a show. But it probably won't be the longest show we've ever recorded. So if you saw the title and you were like, uh-oh, I don't know if I have time for this one. Hopefully it won't be the longest show we've ever. Well, I don't know about hopefully. I just don't think it's going to be. We'll see. We do have some long ones. I know some of you out there |
| 1:11.1 | mowing the lawn appreciate that. So we'll see what we can do for you today. But at any rate, remember, if you want to jump ahead to a specific segment or you want to return to something, you can always just go to the show notes. We've got the timestamps in the show notes. So if you expand the description box and take a look through, you can jump ahead or jump back. Also, remember wherever you're watching or listening to this, don't forget to like it. Give us a thumbs up. Leave us some feedback. Leave us a review, a rating, et cetera. We always love hearing from you, and it helps other people discover the show, too. So thank you very much for doing that. All right. Let's drag out this week's Giant Mail bag. All right. Today's giant mail comes from Tim. |
| 1:51.0 | Someone you might not know that Freakomiler is not just Nick and I, but also behind the scenes, we have a full-time writer Tim, and of course there's most people know Kerry and |
| 1:57.4 | Stephen as well, anyone who checks out the blog or are Ask Us Anything segments. |
| 2:04.1 | Tim wrote in because he was trying to book a SLH property, small luxury hotel property |
| 2:11.9 | using Hilton Free Night Certificates, which you might remember. They have a partnership, |
| 2:19.2 | Hilton and SLH. And one of the great things about the partnership is that Hilton lets you do things like use free |
| 2:24.1 | night certificates or fifth night free awards, things like that. So Tim, you know, in order to |
| 2:29.6 | use those free night certificates, you can't do it online. You have to either call or online chat. |
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