What to do when you don't have enough hotel miles, and more | Ask Us Anything Ep76 | 6-4-25
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Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
What do you do when you don't have enough hotel miles? And why aren't we letting all 100K Vacay competitors use Chase points? We answered these and many other questions on the Ask Us Anything hosted live on YouTube which first aired on June 4th, 2025.
(07:36) - What is your favorite all inclusive you've stayed at? I've been to Punta Cana but want to try other locations.
(10:14) - Do you keep the points when you PC Wells Fargo cards? For example if you PC to the no longer available Visa signature card can you then use the points for 50% more for airfare?
(11:07) - Does purchasing gift cards count towards welcome offer spend?
(15:02) - How can you tell what resort fees IHG will charge when booking award stays?
(16:59) - Hello, thoughts on changes to amex biz plat dell credit? #1 Using buying groups for $1k credit? #2 Thoughts for the future, meaning more discounts instead of 1:1.
(21:26) - Does anyone know what to expect with United/JetBlue partnership? I’m moving from Houston to Boston this fall and ready to divorce Southwest.
(25:48) - What do you guys do when you have an overwhelming amount of airlines miles, and not enough hotel miles? Read more about Capital One Shopping changes here: https://frequentmiler.com/capital-one-shopping-gift-card-redemption-options/
(39:12) - what do you think about the lounge changes that are coming to Capital One?
(41:56) - I plan to start funding a 529 for my wife’s law school payments. I will be mixing in purchases of the $500 GoC cards. I am worried about clawbacks. Do you know of any data points for clawbacks?
(43:06) - Why not let someone use Chase points on the upcoming Challenge since it was the 100K from getting the Sapphire Preferred?
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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. |
| 0:12.2 | Welcome to Ask Us Anything, where the frequent miler team answers your questions live. |
| 0:19.6 | Welcome, everyone, to our, let's see, June 4th, ask us anything. We're not very good |
| 0:26.9 | with dates. Speaking for myself, anyway. I'm coming to you from the future, so it's actually |
| 0:33.5 | June 5th now, say. You have an excuse. It's June 5th for Nick, too, I believe. |
| 0:38.3 | So where in the world are you, Nick? I'm on a cruise ship somewhere in the Mediterranean, |
| 0:44.8 | so I'm somewhere around Greece. I'm not even sure to tell you the truth. I couldn't even tell you |
| 0:50.1 | what today's port stop is, to be honest. I was in Corfu yesterday. And today I am somewhere. |
| 0:55.7 | And I know the lights flashing. I'm trying to fix my little handheld light. I don't even have the, it's 4 o'clock in the morning here. |
| 1:02.3 | I got out of bed at 3, 4, 5 to be able to be here and just got stopped and realized I didn't have a reason. |
| 1:09.2 | Why? Yeah, we wouldn't even expect anything. |
| 1:11.9 | Why? |
| 1:12.4 | Who misses and ask us anything? |
| 1:15.3 | Oh, props. |
| 1:16.4 | That's commitment, man. |
| 1:17.5 | 4 a.m. from the middle of international waters, and here you are. |
| 1:22.3 | Here I am. |
| 1:23.1 | Here I am. |
| 1:23.7 | Literally not even sure where you are. |
| 1:27.6 | And literally and figuratively. |
| 1:28.6 | And it's good to see you, Nick. |
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