Practical Sweet Spot Awards | Ep149 | 5-7-22
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Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
There are lots of great sweet spots that are exciting in theory are nearly impossible to actually book. This week, Greg and Nick discuss *practical* sweet spots -- the ones they have booked & you can, too.
1:25 This week's disclaimer
4:16 Mattress running the numbers: Is it worth mattress running to get 2x, 3x, or 4x IHG points.
10:12 Main Event: Practical sweet spot awards First up: Delta One to Europe for 50K
14:12 Star Alliance business class to Europe
17:32 Ability to book short flights cheaply
22:58 Using Iberia Avios for business class between Spain and the Eastern US
26:48 Qatar Qsuites via American Airlines miles or Avios
30:18 ANA Business Class to Japan / Asia
34:57 Hyatt awards
37:57 Vacasa vacation rentals via Wyndham Rewards
43:09 Choice privileges points for Nordic Choice properties
44:37 Capital One points for great Major League Baseball tickets
47:56 Question of the Week: I transferred points for what turned out to be phantom availability. Am I stuck? What could I have done differently?
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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. |
| 0:10.8 | 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. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:27.0 | Today's main event, practical sweet spot awards. |
| 0:30.3 | We're not going to talk about those crazy, amazing awards that you just can't book anyway, |
| 0:34.6 | but rather awards that are actually doable and that me and you, |
| 0:40.9 | that Nick and I do all the time. And there are some great sweet spots out there that we do |
| 0:45.6 | actually do in real life. It's not just a made up type of thing that like you see on our award |
| 0:52.8 | chart, but that's impossible to book |
| 0:54.6 | very good i mean because that that's more fun right the things you can actually use rather than |
| 1:00.0 | the things that you can i mean it's fun to dream a little bit about the theoretical but oh absolutely |
| 1:05.0 | absolutely but you know it's really every time we write about something like uh class ANA for only 55,000, you know, |
| 1:15.1 | points one way, people write back, but I can't find any word availability. And that's true. Those are |
| 1:20.7 | so hard to find. So we're going to be talking about not those necessarily, but ones that are a little |
| 1:27.4 | bit easier to find. |
| 1:28.4 | And more importantly, ones we've actually done |
| 1:31.4 | and that we know are possible and hope to do again. |
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