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 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. If you are interested in advertising or sponsored content on any of our shows you can find out more at the link below.Voyascape Podcast Network