Points for family travel | Ep174 | 10-29-22
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Wondering how to leverage points, miles, and credit card benefits for a family of four or more? This week, we discuss how to enhance your family award travel.
1:30 Giant Mailbag
https://frequentmiler.com/frequent-milers-next-challenge-what-should-it-be/
6:06 What crazy thing.......did Frontier do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/frontier-gowild-all-you-can-fly-pass-coming-soon-take-unlimited-flights-for-12-months/
12:44 Awards we booked this week
https://frequentmiler.com/free-royal-caribbean-cruise-match-offer-kids-sail-free-stack-parlay-that-carnival-offer/
18:51 Points for family travel
https://frequentmiler.com/business-class-for-4-or-more-finding-multiple-seats-for-family-award-travel/
19:25 Lap infant tickets
https://frequentmiler.com/lap-infant-award-tickets-for-less-new-aeroplan-fee-is-25-cad-or-2500-miles-all-classes-of-service-partners/
24:31 Award availability for families
28:18 Flexible stopover
32:30 Companion Tickets
https://frequentmiler.com/travel-companion-tickets/
39:03 Vacation packages
https://frequentmiler.com/booking-a-flight-its-worth-checking-vacation-packages/
42:00 Lodging - Vacation rentals (Vacasa)
https://frequentmiler.com/wyndham-vacasa/
47:42 Airbnb
51:27 Hyatt suite awards
https://frequentmiler.com/finding-extreme-luxury-in-hyatt-premium-suites/
https://frequentmiler.com/my-misadventures-with-a-hyatt-premium-suite-award/
54:00 All-suite brands
57:38 All-inclusive resorts
1:02:25 Choice Privileges
1:03:46 Rental Cars (National Executive)
1:05:12 Corporate codes
1:08:37 Airport lounges
1:11:57 Question of the Week
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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? The main event. |
| 0:21.6 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.6 | Today's main event, points for family travel. |
| 0:29.6 | We're going to talk about how to use points and credit card perks to cheapify or enhance family travel. |
| 0:36.6 | Thank goodness we got a young dad on this podcast. |
| 0:39.9 | That's right. |
| 0:41.4 | You're a dad anyway. |
| 0:43.8 | Right, right. |
| 0:44.9 | At least part of that's true. |
| 0:48.1 | You've probably aged quite a bit since having two kids, I guess, as well. |
| 0:52.4 | I feel older every morning, yes. |
| 0:56.5 | But that was an insight joke for those who are longtime listeners from a comment from a reader on one of the podcasts that said something about how they enjoy our show. |
| 1:06.2 | It's an elderly guy and a young dad. |
| 1:07.9 | So I'm glorified in my young dadness or I am at least basking in the glory |
| 1:14.4 | of that perception for a few minutes today as we talk about family travel. Right. And I'm very |
| 1:19.7 | happy to take the man old elderly guy. And that's totally fine. And from the perspective of someone in their, I don't know, 20s, let's say, more than double. |
| 1:32.6 | So I'm elderly-ish. |
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