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/

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