How to spend half a million Amex points | Ep134 | 1-22-22
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Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 22 January 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week's episode was recording when word came in about the death of the incredible Resy offer. Still, the sweet spots discussed are highly relevant for anyone sitting on a bunch of Membership Rewards points. Listen in as we discuss how half a million points could buy you seven round trip business class tickets to Europe -- or even more valuable redemptions.
2:44 Giant Mailbag: The new Giant Mailbox
4:15 What crazy thing . . . did Marriott do this week? Get a very good deal for unused Travel Packages (probably).
8:45 Main Event: How to spend half a million Amex points
42:19 Post Roast
45:05 Question of the Week: Does booking a car rental through Hopper negate the rental car insurance from the Chase Sapphire Reserve?
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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 |
| 0:07.1 | voyescape.com. Hello, Nick here to kick things off. As you can probably imagine, though we |
| 0:16.9 | publish Frequent Mile Around the Air on Saturdays, we actually recorded a couple |
| 0:20.9 | of days sooner. |
| 0:22.6 | And this week, we were talking about ways to put your membership rewards points to good |
| 0:27.1 | use. |
| 0:28.1 | Now, that was inspired by the fact that I wrote a post this week about how I earned more |
| 0:32.6 | than half a million American Express membership rewards points by buying a car. And during the show, for about |
| 0:39.2 | the first half or three quarters, we referenced the offer that I used, which was an offer on the |
| 0:43.9 | MX platinum card to earn a bunch of points in 15x at small businesses and restaurants for the first |
| 0:49.7 | six months. And unfortunately, while we were recording the show show we found out that that offer had been |
| 0:56.7 | pulled so that offer that we discussed at the beginning is no longer available for new card |
| 1:02.9 | holders it's changed the platinum card is now offering 125 000 points after 6,000 spend in the |
| 1:09.1 | first six months and just 10x only at restaurants on up to 25,000 spend during that same window. So it's not exactly the same. However, the content from the episode is still highly relevant to anyone who's been collecting AMX membership rewards points. And let's be real, there's been lots of incredible ways to pick up those points over these last couple of years, and most of us have been traveling less than we did pre-pandemic, so you may be sitting on a similar number of points, even without that offer. And today's content is going to be useful for you if you have been sitting on a pile of membership rewards points wondering how am I going to put them to use. |
| 1:46.2 | So keep that in mind as we discussed that Rezi offer and the 15X. Remember that that offer is |
| 1:51.8 | unfortunately no longer available. It's expired. But today's content will be valid for a long time |
| 1:58.4 | as long as these award chart sweet spots still exist. |
| 2:01.5 | So listen up and enjoy today's episode. |
| 2:05.8 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 2:08.6 | What crazy thing did City this week. |
| 2:12.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 2:14.8 | Ready for the main event? |
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