The Rental Car Game | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep318 | 8-8-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In today's podcast episode, we'll talk about Bonvoying Barclays, we'll discuss which Premium cards are keepers, then share everything we know about car rentals.
Giant Mailbag
(01:08) - One listener tells us how he Bonvoyed Barclays
Main Event: The Rental Car Game
(04:09) - Why don't we talk much about car rentals?
(06:23) - Always join the car rental program and attach your number
(11:37) - Car rental status via credit card
(14:20) - Which rental car elite statuses matter?
(22:06) - Status matching
(26:50) - Earning free rental days
(40:27) - Rental Car Savings
(48:57) - Avis First
(51:54) - Do you need anything special to rent cars internationally?
(57:02) - Any favorite programs or programs you avoid?
Question of the Week
(1:04:47) - What should you do if you're an intermediate player, trying to go from one or two credit cards to five or six, or seven to ten?
(1:10:58) - Read more about which premium cards are keepers here.
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by 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. |
| 0:11.0 | On today's episode, we'll talk about bonvoying Barclays. |
| 0:15.1 | We'll discuss which premium cards are keepers, and we'll tell you everything we know about car rentals. |
| 0:21.1 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:25.4 | Today's main event, the rental car game. We talk often about using points in miles to book flights |
| 0:32.4 | and hotels and how to get elite status and hotel and airline programs, but we don't talk a lot on our show about rental cars. |
| 0:41.2 | Today's show is going to correct that. |
| 0:43.1 | That's right. |
| 0:43.7 | That's right. |
| 0:44.1 | And truth be told, there are fewer ways to get great value out of your points for rental cars, |
| 0:49.6 | but it's worth understanding how the various rental car programs work, |
| 0:53.3 | which ones might be worth it, |
| 0:54.9 | which ones have benefits that you should know about. So we'll discuss some of that today. |
| 1:00.1 | But before we do, don't forget that you can always jump ahead to something or come back to |
| 1:03.8 | something later on by just expanding the show description. That's going to have all of the |
| 1:07.9 | timestamps so you can jump wherever it is you'd like to jump and you'll find links to more information. |
| 1:12.9 | Wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to give this a thumbs up. |
| 1:16.1 | Give us a like. |
| 1:17.0 | Leave us a comment. |
| 1:17.8 | We appreciate all those things. |
| 1:19.3 | Now let's drag out this week's giant mail bag. |
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