Which Hyatts will you be book before the award chart changes? | Ask Us Anything Ep84 | 3-4-26
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🗓️ 8 March 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
What would you suggest if your P2 (partner, or "player two") is very reluctant? Which Hyatts will you be book before the award chart changes? We answered these questions and more on the Ask Us Anything hosted live on YouTube on March 4th, 2026
(02:10) - What specific Hyatt properties have you booked/will you be booking before the upcoming award chart changes?
(12:17) - How did you guys learn about HOW to find good flights to book with transfer partners? I am trying so hard to learn, but it feels confusing and overwhelming. need more concrete, step-by-step help.
Read about the top award search tools here
(18:05) - I have a question for Stephen and Carrie. Now that I am retired my wife and I are interested in finding rentals for several weeks at a time. I am pretty good at finding good properties on Airbnb and VRBO for several days but have less experience with navigating longer term rentals. Do you have any tips on how to find good locations and get good deals?
(27:32) - Looking to get a Hilton Honors American Express Aspire Card and upgrade a Hilton Honors American Express Surpass® Card. Should I do this on 2 different devices at almost the same time or does it not matter?
(28:26) - I am planning a trip for 2 weeks covering Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Oslo with 2 year old, do you have recommendations on where to stay? Planning during July
Read more about this here: https://frequentmiler.com/use-finnair-avios-to-book-scandinavian-hotels-at-2c-per-point-or-better/
(32:35) - What would you suggest if your P2 (player two) is very reluctant? I can't convince him to open more cards
(38:27) - Do the Hyatt changes make you reassess the value of Chase Ultimate Rewards points?
(39:58) - Can I request a retention offer for my US Bank Altitude Reserve card and then product change a month later to the Connect?
(42:20) - Can I book Hyatt stays now before the changes take effect, and later modify the dates while keeping the same redemption rate?
(42:55) - What is the best way to use Wyndham Points nowadays, and do you see any new alignments in the future to replace Vacassa
(47:44) - Are there good award search engines for hotel award stays?
Read more about this here: https://frequentmiler.com/editmaxxer-a-tool-to-maximize-chase-travel-the-edit-credits/
(51:08) - Have/would you guys entertain having all your P2s on for a podcast or AMA so we could hear about their experience through all the shenanigans you play?
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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. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome to Ask Us Anything, where the frequent Myler team answers your questions live. |
| 0:17.1 | Yes, we're live. |
| 0:18.2 | Go for it, Nick. |
| 0:19.7 | All right, welcome to this week's Ask Us Anything. I'm doing the |
| 0:23.3 | Greg portion today and welcoming everybody here. This is our monthly, rather, our monthly ask us |
| 0:28.3 | anything where we go live to answer your questions. And so if you'd like to join us from one of these, |
| 0:33.2 | it's the first Wednesday of every month at 9 p.m. that we do these live and you can ask your |
| 0:36.6 | questions on YouTube. Wherever you're watching or listening to this, please give us a thumbs up, like |
| 0:41.9 | this video if you're watching on YouTube, or give us some stars. If you're leaving podcast ratings, |
| 0:46.9 | we always appreciate that. And I think that brings us into question time, right? So Stephen, |
| 0:53.5 | do you have a question to kick us off with? |
| 0:54.9 | Well, I have a quick question first. Before Steven's question, I just want to know. So I had somebody, |
| 1:00.6 | so what happens when Greg the Frequent Myler, the big thing we need to call out front and center, |
| 1:05.4 | Greg the Frequent Miler is not here. Greg is walking upside down on the other side of the world. What is it, Stephen, |
| 1:12.4 | trying not to chunder? Correct. Trying not to chunder. Are we sure that's an appropriate word? |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah, totally. So check out the man down under song. But so somebody said, so what do we do |
| 1:24.2 | when Greg's out of town? When Greg's away, Carrie, did you throw a kegger |
| 1:28.6 | and invite all of the Ann Arbor peeps over? Or is there anything that happens when Greg's out of town? |
| 1:33.3 | Or do we just like industriously chip away at daily tax? We just keep it rolling. We just keep the |
| 1:40.7 | machine going for the most part. When the cat's away, the mice don't play. No, we just work and make it work. The sad fact is we're all too old to play. Yeah. The cat's away. It's like, well, I guess we don't have a team meeting so we can sleep in, maybe, I guess. It depends on what time. Take a nap. Yeah, yeah. Speak for yourself. That's dinner time for me. |
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