The World Unlocked: How the points & miles hobby makes incredible experiences practical | Ep196 | 4-1-23
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Award travel unlocks an incredible world of possibility. Where will it take you?
This week, we talk about how award travel can unlock more travel and more luxury than you may imagine if you're new to the hobby. We also discuss an opportunity to unlock Hyatt elite status that is only available through 4/1/23.
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00:00 Intro
01:07 Award Talk: Expedia destroys the value of Hotels.com reward program
07:48 Card Talk: World of Hyatt Credit Card
https://frequentmiler.com/woh/
18:19 Mattress running the numbers: Bilt promotion to fast track to top-tier Hyatt Globalist status
https://frequentmiler.com/hyatt-globalist-fast-track-through-bilt-rewards-for-rent-day/
https://frequentmiler.com/should-you-mattress-run-the-bilt-x-hyatt-promotion/
37:01 Giant Mailbag
42:21 Main Event: The World Unlocked
https://frequentmiler.com/my-100000-vacation-year-on-nicks-mind/
https://frequentmiler.com/how-to-get-53-free-nights-of-vacation-from-a-single-credit-card/
1:19:42 Question of the Week: You send too many emails. You don't send enough emails. What should I do?
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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. |
| 0:26.7 | Today's main event, the world unlocked. |
| 0:30.2 | With the points in miles hobby, travel, we never would have dreamed of paying for as easily within reach. |
| 0:37.2 | We're going to be telling our personal |
| 0:38.9 | stories, our team stories about how travel that we would have never even thought about paying |
| 0:45.1 | for is something we do routinely. And that means both incredible luxury travel as well as |
| 0:53.7 | traveling much more than we would |
| 0:55.6 | have ever thought possible before. So we'll get into that. That was it, that was it unlocking |
| 1:01.8 | right there. Oh, nice. We've got sound effects, live sound effects right now from Nick. Good. |
| 1:10.0 | Today, we're going to delay the giant mailbag. I mean, we still're going to uh delay the giant mailbag i mean we still |
| 1:13.8 | are going to get to the giant mailbag later in the show uh but today we're going to start with |
| 1:19.6 | award talk uh what do we have going on in the world of awards neck well hotels.com absolutely destroyed their value this week, or I should say Expedia, |
| 1:32.3 | destroyed the value of the Hotels.com reward program. If you're familiar with Hotels.com, |
| 1:37.3 | it was sort of like a 10% rebate. I know somebody's going to get into the math and tell me it was 9%. |
| 1:42.8 | But you got sort of a 10%ish rebate on your hotel stays. |
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