How to find impossible hotel awards | Ep210 | 7-8-23
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Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Ever wonder how you can possibly snag a reservation at a high-demand property that never seems to have award availability? This week, we discuss the tools you can use to make those impossible awards happen.
00:00 Intro
01:10 Giant Mailbag: Don't Hilton free night certificates have a big drawback?
04:25 Card Talk: Hilton Surpass and Hilton Business cards
https://frequentmiler.com/amxhiltonbiz/
https://frequentmiler.com/hilton-honors-american-express-surpass-card/#Goto
https://frequentmiler.com/why-i-paid-over-1000-dollars-to-upgrade-3-no-fee-hilton-cards/
12:20 What crazy thing . . . did Chicago Seminars do this week?
15:06 Award Talk Double Header
15:26 Cathay Pacific Asia Miles devaluation
19:38 JW Marriott Safari Lodge Availability
https://frequentmiler.com/jw-marriott-masai-mara-lodge-award-nights-available/
25:06 Main Event: How to find impossible hotel awards
https://frequentmiler.com/tools-for-finding-impossible-hotel-awards/
https://frequentmiler.com/go/maxmypoint
https://frequentmiler.com/go/staywithpoints
51:02 Question of the Week: Is the 95x / 95% back LifeLock deal worth doing for the Membership Rewards point
s?
Music credit: Annie Yoder
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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. |
| 0:10.8 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.6 | What crazy thing did City do this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.9 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.1 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.5 | Today's main event, how to find impossible hotel awards. |
| 0:31.0 | So, Nick, it's impossible. |
| 0:32.8 | Well, it's not impossible. |
| 0:34.8 | Yeah, I guess what. |
| 0:36.0 | You're telling me the impossible. |
| 0:37.1 | It's possible. Could I say nearly impossible hotel awards? But that doesn't sound as good. No, it's not impossible. Yeah, I guess what... You're telling me the impossible is possible. |
| 0:37.7 | Could I say nearly impossible hotel awards? |
| 0:40.3 | But that doesn't sound as good. |
| 0:41.3 | No, it doesn't. |
| 0:42.8 | Nick, you were just, you just stayed at the Grand Hotel, Victoria in Lake Como and wrote a glowing |
| 0:49.3 | review. |
| 0:50.0 | I think you would say it doesn't suck. |
| 0:52.7 | No, definitely not. |
| 0:54.2 | But finding availability does suck. |
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