Unpacking StayCay, best domestic & international travel options post-COVID, a new podcast & more | Ep47
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Greg & Nick discuss:
Topics: -#StayCaytoFarAway: results are shaping up to be quite a surprise including a huge comeback and surprising (to us) finish
-Should we launch a podcast version of our live show?
-Travel News & Thoughts: Will Iceland be a safer destination than parts of the US? What are the options we're talking about domestically?
-A cool tool for finding award availability
00:00:47 Reader Feedback: Ask Us Anything. Should it be a pod?
See: https://youtu.be/fmHjqJWMdaw
8:58: What crazy thing did Citi do this week?
See: https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/citi-shows-points-earned-with-each-thankyou-card-transaction/
15:54 StayCay to Far Away
See: https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/tag/staycaytofaraway
38:39 Travel News & Thoughts: International & Domestic, including: -Iceland's plan to test tourists for COVID-19 -Greg's canceled Hyatt reservation -Nick's comfort with being home -United business class to Europe (See: https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/europe-2021-united-business-class-awards-wide-open-book-for-45k-w-turkish/)
55:43 Finding award availability: SeatSpy
See: https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/seatspy-founders-deals-ending-soon/
1:08:41 Question of the week: Is the Best Offers page clear enough? How could we make it more user-friendly?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:11.1 | Welcome to Frequent Myler on the air. Hey, Nick. Today we're going to be talking about a number of cool things like the state K contest there's there's a lot of uh kind of funny |
| 0:24.8 | stuff that went on there so i'm looking yeah some funny stuff for sure what it's going on i think |
| 0:30.9 | someone's been stuffing ballots i don't know yeah right this voting by email thing is not any good |
| 0:36.6 | right and uh This voting by email thing is not any good. |
| 0:38.9 | Right. |
| 0:46.5 | And travel, like domestic versus international. |
| 0:50.8 | I wouldn't have thought we'd even be talking about international travel at all, |
| 0:52.7 | but there's some good reasons to talk about it. So that's another big topic for today. |
| 0:55.5 | And then a couple other smaller topics, such as, I'm going to dig into one of them |
| 0:59.9 | because it's relevant to the reader feedback. |
| 1:03.7 | Okay. |
| 1:04.3 | So the topic is... |
| 1:08.2 | Topic. |
| 1:08.8 | For some background. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay. |
| 1:10.5 | There's some background to the topic. |
| 1:11.6 | The topic is ask us anything. |
| 1:15.0 | So you might not know this, Nick, but every Thursday at 4 p.m. Eastern Time, we've been doing a live |
| 1:21.5 | broadcast on YouTube where readers can join and ask us anything. |
| 1:26.9 | Is that what's been going on? Yeah, that's what's been going on. I was doing something. I wasn't quite sure what it was, but... Yeah, I know. You just thought we were just chatting, and you were wondering where I was coming from. Came from the eye in the sky somewhere. It comes from the mysterious genie who... Right. I think Carrie, he feeds us those questions as they're asked. |
| 1:47.9 | So the question came up there about whether we're going to turn it into a |
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