Extreme Hotel Savings | Ep162 | 8-6-22

Friends don't let friends pay full price for hotels. Here are some of the tools we use to slice and dice the price of lodging. 00:44 Giant Mailbag: Pop-up averted over the phone 4:14 3 Cards, 3 Continents, 3 Updates https://frequentmiler.com/frequent-milers-2022-team-challenge-3-cards-3-continents/ 15:34 What crazy thing....did Marriott Bonvoy do this week? When it says you can't use suite night awards, maybe that's not true . . . 23:45 Mattress running the numbers: Buying IHG points for 0.5c each https://frequentmiler.com/buy-ihg-points/ 28:53 Main Event: Extreme hotel savings 29:40 Buying points on sale 36:45 Specialty rates 40:46 Card-linked offers (Chase Offers, Amex Offers, SimplyMiles, etc) https://frequentmiler.com/card-linked-programs-the-networks-they-run-on-aka-which-programs-stack/ 43:44 Portals 49:14 Membership sites (Capital One Spring, Greyhound, etc) https://frequentmiler.com/capital-one-spring-priceline-save-hotels/ 52:25 Hotels.com stacking 54:25 Best Rate Guarantees 1:01:16 Mastercard Travel & Lifestyle 1:03:48 Wyndham business to Caesars to Free room 1:05:12 Follow sites for deeply discounted prices 1:07:20 Question of the Week: Do you have an update on American Airlines Loyalty Points? https://frequentmiler.com/american-airlines-loyalty-points-game-update-halfway-through-whos-in-front/ Join our email list: https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ Music credit: Annie Yoder