What as the 2022 Deal of the Year? | Ep183 | 12-31-22
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Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
We regularly report on great deals, but this week we discuss the cream of the crop as we try to narrow down the best of the best deals of 2022.
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00:50 Giant Mailbag
https://frequentmiler.com/frequent-milers-2022-state-of-the-business-report/
3:55 What crazy thing...did Southwest Airlines do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/southwest-having-operational-meltdown-no-end-in-sight/
11:10 Mattress running the numbers: Caution on those end-of-year mattress runs
15:45 Awards we booked this week: Alaska one-way with a stopover on a domestic award
18:50 Main Event: What is the 2022 Deal of the Year?
19:40 Amex Offer for 6% back at Belk
25:16 Capital One Shopping offers for 24-30% back
https://frequentmiler.com/digging-the-capital-one-shopping-browser-extension/
29:25 Brussels to New York in business class for 25.5K Avianca LifeMiles
https://frequentmiler.com/25-5k-business-class-brussels-to-new-york/
30:40 Amex Business Platinum No Lifetime Language offers
33:45 Amex Business Checking 60K offer
36:15 Cruise line status matches
https://frequentmiler.com/how-to-cruise-for-next-to-nothing/
39:58 Ritz-Carlton Visa becomes more valuable for the same annual fee
https://frequentmiler.com/yes-the-ritz-card-is-now-the-best-value-marriott-card/
42:38 United offered business class to many parts of the world for 60K miles one-way
47:00 Narrowing it down and crowning a winner
1:04:09 What are your elite status plans for 2023?
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. |
| 0:10.8 | 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 Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.9 | Today's main event, what was the 2022 deal of the year? |
| 0:33.3 | We saw some great deals this year. |
| 0:35.2 | I mean, we did. |
| 0:36.1 | We do every year, right? |
| 0:37.2 | I mean, truth be told, we always find some pretty good deals each year. There are always some great deals this year. I mean, we did. We do every year, right? I mean, truth be told, we always find some pretty good deals each year. There are always some great things going on. This year was really good. I mean, last year, arguably even better, but there's some, there was some really great stuff happening. So plenty to talk about. We had more nominees than we could deal with. So we'll get into what we're going to do about that when we get to the main event section of the show. |
| 1:01.1 | First, of course, we have the giant mailbag. |
| 1:02.9 | But I am all the way on the other side of the world in New Zealand. |
| 1:07.9 | And the giant mailbag did not come with me. |
| 1:14.1 | So luckily. The postman only delivers domestically, it turns out. Well, you know, he has delivered. I don't know if you were he delivered |
| 1:20.0 | to the Maldives that time we went there. So, you know, he does deliver to a lot of places, but for |
| 1:27.4 | whatever reason didn't make its way to down |
| 1:29.7 | under, but it did get routed to Nick. So Nick is ready with, with his giant mail. |
| 1:38.2 | What do you, what do you have from the giant mail back, Nick? I have a giant mail double header |
| 1:42.9 | of sorts. So the first piece of |
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