Travel Hacker's Toolkit | Ep190 | 2-18-23
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 18 February 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
There are a lot of great tools for collecting and spending points and miles. This week, we talk about the ones we use most often to maximize our mileage.
00:00 Intro
00:45 Giant Mailbag: Tips from the comments on a fixing a failed attempt at a Platinum triple dip
https://frequentmiler.com/fixing-a-failed-platinum-triple-dip/
05:50 What crazy thing....double header!
05:58 What crazy thing . . . did Capital One do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/capital-one-including-global-entry-reimbursement-on-1099s/
12:03 What crazy thin . . . did Virgin Voyages do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/capital-one-including-global-entry-reimbursement-on-1099s/
17:23 Mattress running the numbers: New Hilton credit cards
https://frequentmiler.com/increased-hilton-card-offers/
25:48 Main Event: Travel Hacker's Toolkit
26:10 Managing Points: Award Wallet
29:39 Earning miles and points
29:45 Best Offers Page
https://frequentmiler.com/best-credit-card-sign-up-offers/
32:56 Travel Freely
https://frequentmiler.com/take-the-stress-out-of-credit-card-bonus-hunting-travel-freely/
35:23 Tools for meeting minimum spending requirements
35:41 Kiva
https://frequentmiler.com/why-i-love-kiva-for-earning-rewards-and-doing-good/
36:51 Paying taxes
https://frequentmiler.com/pay-taxes-via-credit-card/
https://frequentmiler.com/best-category-bonuses/
40:34 Referral bonuses
https://frequentmiler.com/maximizing-value-from-amex-multi-referrals/
42:10 spending points
42:22 Flight tools (First up: Flight Connections)
44:49 Google Flights and airline websites
https://frequentmiler.com/find-great-business-class-fares-google-flights/
50:28 Point.me and Award Logic
https://frequentmiler.com/point-me-vs-awardlogic/
58:00 Seats.Aero
https://frequentmiler.com/seats-aero/
1:01:17 Expert Flyer
1:03:30 Award Nights
1:04:38 Award Mapper
1:06:16 Stay with points
https://frequentmiler.com/staywithpoints-find-hard-to-get-hotel-awards/
1:08:56 Car Rentals
https://frequentmiler.com/shopping-for-car-rentals-comparison-results/
1:15 Google Maps, Google Flights, Google Hotels, Blog Reviews
1:20:54 Question of the Week: On a partner award, do you always check in with the operating carrier?
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. |
| 0:21.6 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:23.6 | Today's main event, the Travel Hecker's Toolkit. |
| 0:29.6 | We have all kinds of tools that we use for building up our points and miles to war chest and for using the points and miles effectively. |
| 0:40.8 | And so we're going to get into what are our favorites? Which ones do we turn to time and again |
| 0:45.3 | because they really deliver the value that we need to make the most, actually earn the most points |
| 0:51.4 | of miles and make the most of them once we have them. So that's what we're doing today for the main event. |
| 0:57.2 | But first, of course, we have the giant mail bag. |
| 1:00.1 | Today's giant mail comes from a few people. |
| 1:04.3 | These are comments in response to my post called Fixing a Failed Platinum Triple Dip. |
| 1:11.6 | In that post, I talked about how I had messed up. |
| 1:16.6 | I had intended to cancel my MX business platinum card in January before it was too late. |
| 1:25.6 | And what too late is in the MX world is that once the annual fee posts, |
| 1:30.8 | you have 30 days from the date that it shows up on your screen there when you log in, |
| 1:36.3 | 30 days from then to cancel and you get the full money back for that annual fee. |
| 1:41.9 | If you wait 31 days, they're going to charge you the full |
| 1:44.5 | annual fee. And if you cancel, then, you get nothing back. So in that post, I talked about how I had |
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