Travel Hacker's Toolkit | Ep190 | 2-18-23

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 Yoder