Our favorite Capital One Sweet Spot Awards | Ep124 | 11-13-21
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Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Capital One has access to some incredible sweet spot awards, but there are also some sour spots that you would be missing if you gave up other award programs to go all-Capital One miles. We also analyze a targeted Hyatt promo, answer the question of the week, and more. 00:44 Giant Mailbag 2:14 What crazy thing did...Hyatt do this week? https://frequentmiler.com/caution-dont-accidentally-use-a-hyatt-1-7-certificate-for-a-category-4-stay/ 6:17 Mattress Running the Numbers: Who should mattress run Hyatt's targeted promo for 30K points after 10 nights? https://frequentmiler.com/targeted-hyatt-earn-5k-points-every-2-nights-12k-points-every-5-or-30k-points-every-10/ 12:12 Main Event: Our favorite Capital One Sweet Spot Awards 13:12 Vacasa https://frequentmiler.com/wyndham-vacasa/ 14:49 Turkish https://frequentmiler.com/turkish-miles-smiles-complete-guide/ 17:54 Cathay Pacific https://frequentmiler.com/toward-hacking-asia-miles-the-unified-oneworld-award-chart/ 21:24 Avianca LifeMiles https://frequentmiler.com/avianca-lifemiles-sweet-spots/ 24:00 Iberia https://frequentmiler.com/avios-sweet-spots-for-award-tickets-british-airways-iberia/ 25:42 Air Canada Aeroplan https://frequentmiler.com/air-canada-aeroplan-guide/ 28:48 Air France Flying Blue https://frequentmiler.com/air-france-klm-flying-blue-sweet-spots-for-award-travel/ 31:14 Emirates Skywards 32:38 Etihad https://frequentmiler.com/etihad-guest-sweet-spots/ 34:14 Capital One Sour Spots: What's missing? 34:33 ANA 37:13 Virgin Atlantic for ANA First Class 38:25 Virgin Atlantic for Delta business class to Europe 39:08 Hyatt 39:38 Choice Privileges thanks to Citi's great transfer rate 42:28 Question of the Week: Chase Ink Business Preferred wasn't instantly approved. Should he call? Subscribe to our email list: https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ Music credit: Annie Yoder
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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 City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.0 | The main event. |
| 0:22.2 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.6 | Today's main event, our favorite Capital One Sweet Spot Awards. |
| 0:32.3 | That's right. |
| 0:33.2 | We got lots of favorites out there. |
| 0:34.5 | We're going to play favorites today and talk about all of our favorite sweet spot awards. Right. With everybody all excited about the new Venture X card, everybody's going to be accumulating lots of Venture X miles, capital one miles. And so let's talk about what can we do with them? What can you do with them? We've got some really nice things that you can do with them. So we will get into that. |
| 0:55.2 | First, we do have our giant mailback. Let's see here. |
| 0:59.2 | Always love to see what the people have to say. So drag it out, pull up the giant mail. |
| 1:03.8 | This comes from Apple podcast reviews. Good. I don't ever read the Apple podcast reviews, so I always get excited when you do one of these. |
| 1:12.7 | Right. |
| 1:13.5 | This one is from FM Fan. |
| 1:16.1 | And so you can guess are ready. |
| 1:17.6 | This is probably going to be a positive review. |
| 1:19.0 | I like it. |
| 1:19.6 | I like this person. |
| 1:21.3 | FM fan says best points miles podcast out there. |
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