Is the Grand Hyatt Kauai worth 45K? | Ask Us Anything Ep78 | 8-12-25
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🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Is the Grand Hyatt Kauai worth 45K? We answered this and many other questions on the Ask Us Anything hosted live on YouTube on August 6th, 2025.
(00:42) - How do you typically like to get around a city that you’re visiting, especially internationally? Are you more likely to take a taxi or Uber to get to places, take public transit, or do you prefer to just walk everywhere?
(05:43) - To circumvent Hilton’s minimum length of award stay requirements (e.g., WA Pedregal) — has anyone tried booking more nights than needed, then asking Hilton to remove nights from the stay?
(07:18) - What is a question that you would ask someone who is interviewing for a job at Frequent Miler?
(16:22) - You can find each of our origin stories here:https://frequentmiler.com/about-frequent-miler/)
(16:44) - ​​Give us a peek behind the curtain: What is a typical day/week for the Frequent Miler team?
(23:42) - Do you think the custom cash will survive having ThankYou points transfers?
(25:34) - Now that Citi transfers to AA, where does Citi rank among the transferable points programs?
(28:06) - For the JetBlue 25 for 25, does anyone have datapoints on how fast you get the 150k point after 15 destinations?
(29:52) - How would you re-evaluate the value of your Chase/Bilt if you were able to get a family & friends discount on Hyatt cash stays?
(31:54) - Hi team! What card are you recommending to people who aren’t really in the game but got the CSR years ago and now want a different card?
(37:50) - Head-to-head match-up, Citi Strata Elite or the new Alaska Premium card?
(39:17) - ​​Any thoughts on Kenya Airways' new program and the Status Match opportunity that was announced earlier this week?
(41:40) - ​​When Frequent Miler finds a unicorn fare or incredible deal, what is the quickest way that Frequent Miler gets that information to those who follow you so we can book it?
(45:46) - ​​Grand Hyatt Kauai is now 45k for the basic room with 2 adults and 2 kids. I have a guest of honor available to me. Is the property worth that rate for 4 nights???
(50:44) - Which card is better to downgrade, the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card or the Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card, both of which have a $95 AF?
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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. |
| 0:12.2 | Welcome to Ask Us Anything, where the Frequent Myler team answers your questions live. |
| 0:19.5 | All right, welcome to this week's, or month's frequent Myler, ask us anything live |
| 0:25.1 | where we answer questions live on YouTube. Of course, if you're listening to this in podcast |
| 0:30.1 | form, then it's no longer live, but we took the questions live. So it kind of counts anyway. |
| 0:35.2 | You're hearing my voice this week, Nick, instead of Greg's, |
| 0:37.7 | because Greg is off on vacation. But when the cat's away, the mice will play. And so the rest of us |
| 0:43.0 | are here to answer your questions this week. So we've got Kerry and Stephen and Tim as usual. |
| 0:48.3 | So I guess we're going to kick things off. Stephen, can you kick us off with a question or two? |
| 0:53.2 | Yes. So this question isn't |
| 0:54.5 | one that's quite live. It's one that someone who'd asked us on our Ask Us Anything blog post, |
| 1:00.5 | and it's, how do you typically like to get around a city that you're visiting, especially internationally? |
| 1:06.3 | Are you more likely to take a taxi or Uber to get to places, take public transport, or do you prefer to just |
| 1:11.6 | walk everywhere? So I feel like that's a good, like, all-comers question. So, like, just in case we all |
| 1:18.3 | have, like, different ways of doing it. How do you do it, Nick? Well, so I'm usually traveling |
| 1:22.4 | with two kids, and so we tend to probably Uber more than I would if it was just me or just my wife and I. |
| 1:32.3 | When it was just my wife and I, we really always kind of enjoyed getting to know the public |
| 1:36.1 | transport system, the trains or buses or subways or whatever. With the kids, it's a little bit |
| 1:41.2 | more difficult. So we tend to opt for the path of least resistance, which is usually an Uber. |
| 1:47.3 | But I do really enjoy walking around, too. |
| 1:50.1 | And in the years where I was young and in shape, I used to love to run in a place that we would visit. |
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