The 2025 Bonvoyed Awards | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep337 | 12-19-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about how Rove matches your Mesa, we talk about whether or not you should buy IHG Diamond status, and we announce this year's picks for Bonvoyed of the Year.
Giant Mailbag
(01:09) - Changing names on reservations/workarounds for using the Fine Hotels and Resorts the Hotel Collection benefit
Mattress Running the Numbers
(03:59) - IHG Lock in 2026 Diamond status by buying points (targeted)
Bonvoyed
(12:52) - Chase re-edits The Edit by Chase Travel℠: 1.65x boosts
Awards, Points, and More
(16:12) - Rove: Match Your Mesa (up to 5,000 free miles)
Main Event: The 2025 Bonvoyed Awards
(18:36) - What are the Bonvoyed Awards?
(20:03) - 2024 winner
(21:11) - 2025 Honorable mentions
(21:55) - 2025 Contestants
(40:05) - Nick's Pick: Southwest
(44:36) - Greg's Pick: Sapphire Reserve® Refresh
Question of the Week
(50:02) - Any last-minute ideas for using Hilton resort credits?
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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 | On today's show, Rove matches your mesa. |
| 0:14.8 | We'll answer the question, should you buy IHG diamond status? |
| 0:19.0 | And we announced this year's picks for Bon Void of the year. |
| 0:23.2 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:27.1 | Today's main event, the 2025 Bon Void Awards. Everybody has been looking forward to this show. |
| 0:35.4 | In fact, an unbelievable number of loyalty programs and credit card |
| 0:40.2 | issuers have submitted to become winners for this show by bonvoying us over and over throughout the |
| 0:47.5 | year. And we even have some late breaking entries to the list this year. So we'll get into all of that in today's main event. Oh, my goodness. There's so much going on this year. There are even honorable mentions. It's crazy. It's been a crazy year. But we'll get to that later on. Remember, if you want to jump ahead to something or you want to come back to it later on, you can always find the timestamps in the show notes. Just expand the description box and wherever you're watching or listening. |
| 1:16.2 | Don't forget to like this video or give us a rating on the podcast wherever you're watching or listening. Leave your comments too. We always appreciate hearing from you. Let's drag out |
| 1:20.7 | this week's giant mailback. This week's giant mail comes from Sean. So as background, |
| 1:25.9 | you know, the Amex platinuminum cards offer $300 every six months |
| 1:31.2 | of credit towards fine hotels and resorts and the hotel collection. And Sean's talking about |
| 1:37.2 | trying to use his credit. Sean says, I've been trying to figure out a good use for my second half |
| 1:42.9 | 2025, fine hotels and resorts, the |
| 1:45.2 | hotel collection benefit, and it doesn't fit into my trips. It might fit into my parents' trips. |
| 1:51.5 | I looked at the terms and conditions and found that companion platinum card members can book |
| 1:56.9 | the hotel collection, not find hotels and resorts, and the $300 credit can be applied. |
| 2:02.8 | The companion platinum card is the fee-free one. I've seen a lot of discussion about changing |
| 2:07.8 | names on reservations and workarounds. This seems like a much more in the rules fee-free way to do it. |
| 2:14.6 | Really interesting. So the platinum card, if you have a platinum card, |
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