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This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler In our third check-in of the Wild Card Challenge, our contestant's were in their final destination, nearly done with their travels. However, judges and viewers were not quite ready to score everything we were catching up on. In this check-in, we scored the second destination's activities and caught up with what our travelers had done since then, in preparation to finish scoring and announce a winner soon! (01:15) - Who is Annie? (05:35) - A quick recap of where the scoring left off (07:47) - Nick recaps his destination 2 (09:29) - Greg recaps his destination 2 (11:41) - Tim recaps his destination 2 (18:28) - Nick's scores for destination 2 (20:53) - Greg's scores for destination 2 (24:00) - Tim's scores for destination 2 (26:43) - Invitation for feedback Comment with your thoughts on how the scores could or should be adjusted here: https://frequentmiler.com/wild-card-challenge-the-scores-so-far-a-final-opportunity-to-influence-the-scoring/ (27:40) - Nick shares what he's been up to since destination 2 (35:34) - Greg shares what he's been up to since destination 2 (49:15) - Tim shares what he's been up to since destination 2 You can read more about Tim's award booking here: https://frequentmiler.com/costa-rica-to-korea-and-australia-on-one-business-class-award-tims-wild-card-challenge-journal/ (01:08:49) - Our favorite elements of each traveler's trip Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email [email protected] or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.

This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler While Greg and Nick, along with Tim, are traveling for the ongoing Wild Card Challenge, our podcasts will feature each of 3 live check-ins occurring throughout the challenge. On Saturday, we caught up with our Wild Card Challenge travelers for our second live check-in to discuss everyone's second destinations, (even though not everyone was still in their second destinations!) We started out by making some scoring adjustments based on your suggestions, so give the full video a look for some fun discussion around score adjustments! What is the Wild Card challenge? For this challenge, our contestants have picked from wild card decks to set the parameters of their trips. First, they selected travel destinations, then hotel, airline, and transferable points cards, which provide their points and miles budgets. And finally, they selected power-ups and obstacles to make their travels a little more realistic to the challenges our readers and listeners face, and make things a little more interesting! Learn more about the ongoing challenge here. (00:33) - Quick check-in on where everyone is (03:55) - Review of previously assigned scores at the Destination 1 live check-in (05:15) - We reveal our score adjustments, based on our feedback (19:02) - Greg destination 2 summary (26:52) - Nick destination 2 summary (39:58) - Tim destination 2 summary Tune in Wednesday, September 30th at 9AM (yes, that's AM) Eastern Time for our final live check-in in the third Wild Card destination! Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email [email protected] or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.

This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Greg and Nick, along with Tim, are busy flying around the world for the Wild Card Challenge, which is going on now! That means they didn't have time to film our usual podcast episode. Not to mention, we want to make sure everyone gets the chance to hear an update for the first destination of the Wild Card Challenge, even if you missed the live stream last evening. In this episode, relisten to the Destination 1 travel summaries and scoring. (01:17) - Greg summarizes his Wild Card Challenge Destination 1 (08:22) - Nick summarizes his Wild Card Challenge Destination 1 (15:21) - Tim summarizes his Wild Card Challenge Destination 1 (26:56) - Greg's scores (34:10) - Greg offers a rebuttal for his scoring (35:43) - Nick's scores (46:41) - Nick offers a rebuttal for his scoring (49:00) - Tim's scores (54:57) - Tim offers a rebuttal for his scoring Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email [email protected] or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.

This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Citi has added a valuable new transfer partner to their collection: Japan Airlines. This is good news after a roller coaster of good and bad news from Citi, but even this good news comes with some bad news too. (00:17) - ThankYou Rewards: For the best transfer ratios, you need: Citi Strata Premier℠ Card, Citi Strata Elite℠ Card, or the old Prestige card (00:41) - Citi ThankYou roller-coaster (02:11) - New: Added JAL but with lifetime language... (03:37) - Why JAL is amazing (09:02) - On the other hand... (09:42) - Citi advantages (11:37) - Citi disadvantages Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email [email protected] or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.

This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Is this points & miles hobby worth my time? Reader John asked this question recently, saying: Do you ever calculate the return on your time in the points and miles game? We spend a lot of time talking about return on spend and cents per point, but I rarely hear anyone talk about return on time invested. For me, points and miles are a hobby, not my job, so I sometimes catch myself asking whether saving an extra $200, or getting that credit or getting another 30,000 points is really worth two or three hours of my time. I tend to think about what my time is worth financially, but I also think about the opportunity cost. That might be time with my family (which really prompted this question) , working on my business (this honestly has much better return) , exercising, or just doing something else I enjoy.I know you guys sometimes go to extraordinary lengths because there is value in being able to report the results to your readers and listeners. But outside of the journalism side, do you personally put any value on the hours you spend playing the game?(01:04) - Why Greg's answer is "Absolutely!" (07:14) - Why Nick's answer is "Yes and no." We’ve been answering a reader or listener question at the end of each Frequent Miler on the Air podcast episode. Now, we’ve turned the question of the week into its own weekly episode. Tune in every Monday at 1pm for our Question of the Week podcast. And if you have your own question you’d like to submit, you can send it to [email protected]. Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email [email protected] or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.

This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler In today's episode, we'll get a Wild Card challenge update (including some cool tips regarding Capital One travel), Greg reveals that he's considering a United status match, Nick reveals he's considering a Delta status match, and we discuss the latest huge Delta card offers and how they relate to status matching. Wild Card Challenge Update(01:22) - Learn more about the ongoing challenge here. (03:01) - Nick's Wild Card update (09:52) - Greg's Wild Card update (17:16) - Find the Wild Card challenge landing page with more information here Giant Mailbag(17:39) - Patrick asks, "Do we make hay while the Amex sun is shining, or are we crazy to keep piling into a currency we’re already very rich in?" Bonvoyed: Amex/ANA & AwardWallet(22:43) - Amex/ANA (24:40) - Award Wallet is changing how expiration alerts work This Week in Points(28:50) - Chase news... (35:04) - Qatar Airways removed restrictions that limited the ability to redeem Avios for other people Read more about this update here Personal Points(37:25) - Efteling: Book it through any of the major channels. Theme park tickets included with your stay! (40:57) - Greg's considering the 120-day United status match (45:36) - Nick's considering the Delta status match Main Event: Diving into Delta's huge card offers(49:58) - Through November 4, Amex has some of the biggest welcome offers we've ever seen for Delta credit cards... all the way up to 200,000 miles... (50:28) - Some notes before we dig in... (56:13) - Quick overview of the 6 cards we'll be talking about (1:01:45) - Gold card offers Learn more about the Consumer Delta Gold card here Learn more about the business Gold card here (1:05:18) - Platinum card offers Learn more about the Consumer Delta Platinum card here Learn more about the Business Delta Platinum card here (01:10:06) - Reserve card offers Learn more about the Consumer Delta Reserve card here Learn more about the Business Delta Reserve card here Subscribe and FollowVisit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email [email protected] or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.

This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Many hotel cards come with free night certificates each year upon renewal. That's great, but those certificates expire after 12 months. If you don't time your applications well, you may struggle to use those certificates... (00:17) - Greg's been considering getting the Hilton Aspire, but... is this the right time? (01:05) - Example Problems (03:55) - When do free night certificates post? (07:52) - Nick & Greg's thoughts/analysis Subscribe and FollowVisit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email [email protected] or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.

This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler For this challenge, our contestants will pick from wild card decks to select which hotel, airline, and transferable points cards will provide their points and miles budget, then they’ll select their travel destinations from another deck. And finally, they’ll select power-ups and obstacles to make their travels a little more realistic to the challenges our readers and listeners face. (03:45) - Destination 1 cards are drawn (08:12) - Destination 2 cards are drawn (18:03) - Airline credit cards are drawn (25:29) - Hotel credit cards are drawn (30:56) - Transferable points credit cards are drawn (36:46) - A surprise extra credit card is drawn (43:31) - Reader-submitted obstacle cards are drawn (51:13) - Power up cards are drawn (57:39) - Stephen reveals the final, third destination where each contestant will need to meet up (1:02:44) - Surprise! Contestants get a hail mary option they can choose to take... Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “swappin’ back n’ forth” by up @ night Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email [email protected] or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.

This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler In today's episode, listeners weigh in on Nick's pick for "best Hyatt Place breakfast", Hyatt breaks up with one airline and ties up with another, and we review Chase's refreshed Air Canada Aeroplan card. Wild Card Challenge Update(01:15) - Which cards did our contestants pick for the Wild Card challenge? Learn more about the ongoing challenge here Giant Mailbag(09:02) - In our Hidden Gem Awards Ep373, Nick said Hyatt Place Amsterdam Airport had the best breakfast in the world... but do people agree? Mattress Running the Numbers(14:24) - Marriott Amex Offer: Spend $450 & get $200 back (targeted) Learn more about this targeted offer here This Week in Points(17:06) - US Bank adds Avianca LifeMiles as transfer partner (18:28) - Rove adds Copa Airlines as transfer partner, launching with 40% transfer bonus through September Learn more about Rove adding Copa here (20:13) - Hyatt dissolves partnership with AA Read more about Hyatt's ending partnership with American Airlines here (22:27) - Hyatt adds partnership with Delta: https://newsroom.hyatt.com/DeltaAirLines Card news(24:39) - Amex Bonvoy Business Card is coming (26:48) - Chase Sapphire Reserve enhances DoorDash benefit Learn more about this enhanced benefit here (29:34) - Chase IHG Premier Business anniversary free night certificate will increase to 50K points in 2027 Personal Points(31:16) - Chase return protection success (35:54) - Atmos Summit $60K spend Main Event: Chase's disappointing Aeroplan Card refresh(38:25) - New Cardmember Offer (39:54) - The changes that really matter (52:20) - Quick summary of the good stuff and bad stuff (53:35) - Nick and Greg: Never got the card before. Is it worth it now? Subscribe and FollowVisit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email [email protected] or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.

This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Greg has just returned from a short trip to RiverView Ranch in Montana - probably the single most aspirational points stay available in the United States. Now, he'll tell us all about it. Loving RiverView Ranch(00:46) - RiverView Ranch Retreat & Western Adventures Learn more about Hilton's flexible date calendar here (02:45) - Cancelation fees (03:28) - How to get free night certs Read: How to maximize your Hilton cards (with upgrades and downgrades) here (04:45) - Greg's pre-trip report (12:28) - Greg's trip report (14:49) - King Suite (19:04) - Dining (21:10) - Activities (26:19) - Wildlife (26:34) - Checkout (27:52) - Review (29:43) - How does it compare to Ventana Big Sur? (31:17) - How does it compare to Necker Island? Subscribe and FollowVisit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email [email protected] or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.

This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler What to do when your credit limit is too low? Kris reached out with the following question about managing a low credit limit: On your recent podcast, you mentioned that banks don’t like you to cycle cards. I just got approved for the new Capital One Venture Business card, and upon approval, found out that they had given me a credit limit of $2000. This obviously is going to make it very difficult to make the minimum spend for the sign-up bonus, and obviously can’t if I don’t cycle the card. I did try to call and request an increase and pointed out that I have a personal Venture X with a credit limit of $50,000 that is paid off fully every month. I asked for a credit increase and offered to decrease my Venture X credit limit, but was declined.(00:57) - What is credit cycling? (02:38) - Why is cycling generally inadvisable? (03:55) - Is cycling ever OK? We’ve been answering a reader or listener question at the end of each Frequent Miler on the Air podcast episode. Now, we’ve turned the question of the week into its own weekly episode. Tune in every Monday at 1pm for our Question of the Week podcast. And if you have your own question you’d like to submit, you can send it to [email protected]. Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email [email protected] or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.

This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler On today's episode, we'll talk about why Air Canada to Hyatt 2-to-1 transfers can be a good deal, how we won big on a 240x deal, the 250x deal that got away, and much more. Our apologies for Nick's lower-quality audio this week! We're working to fix it! Our biggest point gamblesGiant Mailbag(01:04) - Josh: Is the Hyatt/Aeroplan deal good for Canadians? Main Event: Our biggest point gambles(07:54) - When we took big risks to earn big miles... (08:04) - Nordstrom 36X (2012) (15:32) - Convert 90K SPG points into a 7 night Marriott stay + 120K Southwest points + Companion Pass for 2 years (2017) (19:43) - Marriott Travel Packages (2018) (23:40) - Iberia 90K (2018) (27:54) - Conservation International 240 AA miles per dollar (2021) (34:40) - Amex 20% transfer bonus to Hawaiian Airlines (2024) (39:28) - SAS: Fly 15 SkyTeam, earn 1M SAS Miles (2024) (44:50) - JetBlue 25/25 (2025) (48:42) - Kate Spade 250X via British Airways portal (2026) Subscribe and FollowVisit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email [email protected] or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.

This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler New York is an expensive city. Today, we'll talk about tips to make it more affordable using points, credit card benefits, and smart stacking. (00:52) - Flights: No one-size-fits-all option here, but consider... (05:47) - Favorite points hotel options (17:47) - Saving money on stuff to do (20:21) - Saving money with credit card benefits (27:24) - Tips for what to do while you're there Subscribe and FollowVisit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email [email protected] or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.

This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler How can I maximize my bookings through The Edit by Chase Travel℠? Reader Rob wrote in with three questions about this. (00:16) - What is The Edit by Chase Travel℠? (01:16) - Does the person on the card have to stay on the property, or can they book for someone else? (02:48) - Can you book before December 31st to take advantage of the stackable credits for select chains, but USE the credits for a hotel stay into the following year if you “pay now”? (06:32) - Do you lose the free breakfast if you book back-to-back stays of 4 nights but 2 separate reservations? Subscribe and FollowVisit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email [email protected] or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.

This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler In this episode, we'll hear about the "best ever" Hyatt Place breakfast, we'll talk about where Greg should go after Berlin, and share lesser-known sweetspot awards like flights to Europe from 90 points and Scandinavian hotels from 500 points! Giant Mailbag(01:08) - Paul asks: "Is there another way to status match Flying Blue elite status or do we have to wait until it opens up again for US residents?" See our Shortcuts to Flying Blue elite status here (03:19) - Kevin writes in with some miles and points success stories This Week in Points(05:12) - Rove enhancements (out on Friday 8/28) (09:11) - Citi 25% transfer bonus to LHW through 9/19 Personal Points(10:41) - LH multi-city via Aeroplan (13:25) - Hyatt Place AMS (16:51) - Greg's Berlin trip Main Event: Hidden Gem Awards(21:24) - Lodging (21:51) - Cottages.com for 15K Wyndham points/bedroom/night (23:14) - Preferred Hotels starting at 20K Choice/night (25:59) - Nordic / Scandinavian hotels w/ Finnair Avios Learn how to use Finnair Avios to book Scandinavian hotels here (30:15) - Flights: Star Alliance flights for 3.5K econ, 7K biz (under 600 miles) (32:27) - Air France business class to Europe with NO surcharges (36:06) - British Airways business or first class with low surcharges (43:06) - Royal Air Maroc: US to Morocco for 17.5K econ, 50.5K Biz w/ Finnair Avios (45:38) - Use Virgin Atlantic miles to fly around Europe and Northern Africa starting at 4K one-way Learn more about Air France KLM across Europe here (50:02) - North America to Europe for 90 points via Lufthansa Miles & More (55:54) - Delta short-haul 5K Flying Blue miles Subscribe and FollowVisit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email [email protected] or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.