Show notes
There are a lot of great tools for collecting and spending points and miles. This week, we talk about the ones we use most often to maximize our mileage. 00:00 Intro 00:45 Giant Mailbag: Tips from the comments on a fixing a failed attempt at a Platinum triple dip https://frequentmiler.com/fixing-a-failed-platinum-triple-dip/ 05:50 What crazy thing....double header! 05:58 What crazy thing . . . did Capital One do this week? https://frequentmiler.com/capital-one-including-global-entry-reimbursement-on-1099s/ 12:03 What crazy thin . . . did Virgin Voyages do this week? https://frequentmiler.com/capital-one-including-global-entry-reimbursement-on-1099s/ 17:23 Mattress running the numbers: New Hilton credit cards https://frequentmiler.com/increased-hilton-card-offers/ 25:48 Main Event: Travel Hacker's Toolkit 26:10 Managing Points: Award Wallet 29:39 Earning miles and points 29:45 Best Offers Page https://frequentmiler.com/best-credit-card-sign-up-offers/ 32:56 Travel Freely https://frequentmiler.com/take-the-stress-out-of-credit-card-bonus-hunting-travel-freely/ 35:23 Tools for meeting minimum spending requirements 35:41 Kiva https://frequentmiler.com/why-i-love-kiva-for-earning-rewards-and-doing-good/ 36:51 Paying taxes https://frequentmiler.com/pay-taxes-via-credit-card/ https://frequentmiler.com/best-category-bonuses/ 40:34 Referral bonuses https://frequentmiler.com/maximizing-value-from-amex-multi-referrals/ 42:10 spending points 42:22 Flight tools (First up: Flight Connections) 44:49 Google Flights and airline websites https://frequentmiler.com/find-great-business-class-fares-google-flights/ 50:28 Point.me and Award Logic https://frequentmiler.com/point-me-vs-awardlogic/ 58:00 Seats.Aero https://frequentmiler.com/seats-aero/ 1:01:17 Expert Flyer 1:03:30 Award Nights 1:04:38 Award Mapper 1:06:16 Stay with points https://frequentmiler.com/staywithpoints-find-hard-to-get-hotel-awards/ 1:08:56 Car Rentals https://frequentmiler.com/shopping-for-car-rentals-comparison-results/ 1:15 Google Maps, Google Flights, Google Hotels, Blog Reviews 1:20:54 Question of the Week: On a partner award, do you always check in with the operating carrier? Music credit: Annie YoderMentioned in this episode:Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of Voyascape, a podcast network that brings together the world's best travel podcasts. You can find all of our podcasts from around the world at Voyascape.com.
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