The travel rewards we want most | Ep233 | 12-16-23
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
It's fun to daydream about the flights and hotels we'd love to book with miles and points. This week, Greg and Nick discuss the redemptions they would most like to make if the stars aligned.
00:00 Intro
01:33 Giant Mailbag
06:38 Card Talk: Air France / KLM Flying Blue World Elite Mastercard
https://frequentmiler.com/afklm/
15:45 Main Event: The rewards we want the most
16:35 Greg: Air France La Premier (first class)
18:54 Emirates "new" First Class
19:30 Lufthansa New First Class (if it ever comes to be)
20:04 New Singapore Suites
22:13 Turkish business class nonstop Detroit to Istanbul
23:56 Nick: New Singapore Suites (on a long route!)
25:01 Etihad Apartments
27:18 Qatar Qsuites
28:29 NOT Air France La Premier
39:49 Hotel awards we want
39:54 Mr. & Mrs. Smith
40:32 Post Ranch Inn
41:29 Virgin Limited luxury safari camps -- via Mr. & Mrs. Smith
47:28 Intercontinental Khao Yai
48:20 Ritz-Carlton Al Bustan Palace
49:36 Am SLH property in Santorini
51:02 A luxury safari camp
53:46 A Celebrity or Norwegian cruise
56:24 I wasn't aware that there is a way to book American Airlines with Membership Rewards points. What are the options?
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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? |
| 0:21.0 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.5 | Today's main event, the travel rewards we want most. |
| 0:31.2 | Last week we talked about our favorite rewards from 2023. |
| 0:36.2 | And this week we're going to be talking about the rewards that |
| 0:39.3 | we're sort of most interested in taking advantage of in the future. |
| 0:43.7 | Just can't wait. We just can't wait. I mean, there's always something new and coming around |
| 0:47.2 | the corner. So these things will change. But these are the things that we're excited about doing |
| 0:52.3 | at some point or hope to do at some point. There'll be new things, I'm sure that we'll come along and maybe we'll never get to do these, but we can dream, right? Absolutely. Absolutely. Don't forget, wherever you're listening to the show, make sure you comment, give us a like, a thumbs up if you enjoy the content and share it with your family and friends and all the rest of that. And remember, we always have the show notes, or excuse me, we always have the timestamps in the show notes. So check the show notes for those timestamps. If you want to skip around to different segments or you want to come back and revisit something, listen to it again, you can easily find the different sections. Again, that'll be in the show notes. If you're listening in a podcast platform or if you're |
| 1:27.9 | watching on youtube expand the description box and you'll find links to all of the various sections and |
| 1:32.7 | of course also when there are relevant posts i also include links to those posts so you can read |
| 1:38.3 | even more about what we've been talking about yeah speaking about more let's drag out that giant mail back. |
| 1:45.0 | I'm dragging it out. |
| 1:46.0 | I almost dragged it on top of your little shield before. |
| 1:49.0 | Sorry about that. |
| 1:50.0 | I would have heard. |
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