The single best deal of the year | Ep235 | 12-30-23
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Between those deals we have identified and those highlighted by readers, which was the single best deal of 2023 in the points & miles space? This week, Greg and Nick consider the contenders and crown a champion.
00:00 Intro
01:14 Giant Mailbag
05:45 Card Talk: Amtrak Preferred Card
https://frequentmiler.com/amkworld/
10:24 What crazy thing . . . did Bilt Rewards do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/bilt-rent-day-promos-75-150-transfer-bonuses-to-flying-blue-virgin-ihg/
14:44 Earning Bilt elite status
https://frequentmiler.com/bilt-rewards-will-double-elite-status-thresholds-in-2024/
26:15 Award Talk: Choosing a Marriott 25K Cert, 17K points, or something else
32:08 Award Talk: Can't cancel? Then change.
34:39 The single best deal of 2023
35:20 Virgin Voyages cruise deals with points
https://frequentmiler.com/virgin-voyages-7-night-european-cruises-for-only-62k-points/
37:38 Bilt's Hyatt Globalist fast track
https://frequentmiler.com/hyatt-globalist-fast-track-through-bilt-rewards-for-rent-day/
39:56 Bilt's 100% transfer bonus to Air France / KLM Flying Blue
41:33 Bilt's 75-150% transfer bonus to Virgin
https://frequentmiler.com/bilt-august-rent-day-up-to-150-transfer-bonus-to-virgin-atlantic/
42:46 Marriott Homes & Villas 40K bonus with 4 nights (and no minimum spend)
https://frequentmiler.com/incredible-marriott-promo-earn-40000-bonus-points-on-a-4-night-stay/
44:47 Choice Privileges College Gameday deals
50:00 Capital One Travel Sale (Flights and hotels for pennies)
51:40 Capital One Shopping $200 referral bonus for both sides
https://frequentmiler.com/both-sides-now-get-30-when-referring-to-capital-one-shopping/
54:16 30x Lufthansa Miles & More miles per dollar spent
https://frequentmiler.com/wow-lufthansa-miles-more-is-giving-30x-miles-on-booking-com-reservations/
58:20 Reader contributions
https://frequentmiler.com/90k-offers-now-available-both-online-in-branch/
01:04:26 Greg's pick for Deal of the Year
01:08:25 Nick's pick for Deal fo the Year
01:14:49 Question of the Week: Is Nick out of his mind?
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? The main event. Frequent Miler on the air starts now. Today's main event, the single best deal of 2023. Nick and I are going to review the great deals that happen in 2023 that are sort of points and miles related |
| 0:38.8 | and we'll debate which |
| 0:41.2 | do we think is the single |
| 0:42.9 | very best of them all. |
| 0:45.2 | Yeah, I mean from two guys |
| 0:47.0 | who like to hunt out deals, we'll see |
| 0:49.0 | which one we pick if we agree or |
| 0:50.9 | if we disagree, what feedback |
| 0:53.0 | we take into account that we've gotten from readers. So we'll find out where that all goes. All right, don't forget, if you're listening to this, if you're new to the show, don't forget that the timestamps are always in the show notes. So if you want to skip around or you want to come back and listen to something again, you can easily find the timestamps by just scrolling down to the show notes wherever you're watching or listening to this show. And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget if you like the episode, hit the like button. Give us a thumbs up, leave us some feedback. We always love to hear from you. And so don't forget to do those things. All right, let's drag out the giant mailbag. Dragging out the giant mail. All right. |
| 1:28.0 | Today's giant mailbag requires a little backstory. |
| 1:31.4 | This past week, Nick wrote a post called The Backstory, How Nick got into Miles and Points. |
| 1:38.6 | It was a fantastic read. |
| 1:40.1 | I highly recommend it if you haven't read it. |
| 1:42.5 | And in the comments of that post, there was so many, so many very complimentary replies or comments |
| 1:51.3 | on there, complimenting Nick, complimenting the Frequent Myler blog, the podcast and everything. |
| 1:57.4 | So thank you to everybody who wrote in. |
| 2:00.1 | And I just picked out a couple to |
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