I had to subscribe after this video dropped, you upload so consistently and the content comes exactly when the topics are relevant to me. 10/10 no notes
I am new to the booking on points world. I wasted too many years and too many points on doing the payment eraser with capital one. I thought I was doing ok, until I learned about the travel partners. Owning a small business and spending lots of money on that business gives me a big advantage. I can't believe how stupid I was! My hubby and I are going on our first vacation in January that is 100% on points. The first of many, fingers crossed. So excited!
Just keep in mind that the points earned on small business spend are considered a rebate on that business spend, so you do need to subtract their value from your business expense deductions on your taxes.
We did hotel indigo in Florence for 4 days. Good way to use IHG points and 4th night free. And 4 nights felt good there cause you can do a Tuscany wine tour, day trip to Pisa, etc.
Careful when calculating cpp based on quoted one way fares. One way fares are often priced way higher than the round trip or multi-city fare. If you are planning on returning to the same city you left from, be sure to check roundtrip/multi-city prices and divide that by 2 for your more accurate cpp baseline.
It depends - one way fares can be the same or more depending on the route. But one way also offers much more flexibility - especially with booking on points. Many people traveling to Europe will leave from different cities than they arrived from, so booking one way makes more sense. Also award availability on points may only be available one way but not the other. Better to fly to business class to Europe to get the sleep, but then economy back during the daytime - if needed! But yeah you can definitely factor some of that into the travel plans as well and compare roundtrip vs one way 👍
Great video series idea! I actually booked the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress a few weeks ago using Chase points. The Hyatt Regency Orlando would have been a higher cpp redemption as the cash price was higher but I'm glad I chose the Grand Cypress! Looking forward to more like this!
I'd also love to see a series highlighting different hotel and resort properties that are good redemptions. You could focus on a destination per video.
Thanks for this video, Daniel. It was awesome to learn the most effective way to get to Italy using points. But learning how to get to the second destination was also really cool. Definitely going to want to visit these spots next year.
Great content! Do you have tools to help track and monitor points and miles utilization for all your credit cards accounts to stay on top of balances especially when booking trips? Thank you.
Good stuff! I did the emirates Milan flight last summer. It was 88,000 each for business class. We’re going back to Paris next summer and I was able to get upper class on the way back for 44,000. And 18,000 on the way there for premium! ( on Virgin Atlantic).
Please help! I have Amex points as well as chase points. I found great flights on American airways for 40k miles from Doha to Japan (different airports) in July. I tried booking through British and Qatar and they want significantly more points for the same flights. How do I get around that. Also we need 6 seats
You're the best! Any comment in the first hour is amazing - but especially good for the first 5 minutes haha. Thanks for sticking around and watching the channel for so long!
Another banger vid Daniel! So glad I stumbled across your channel! I just got the Capital One Venture as my first travel credit card and I can't wait to use my miles to book a trip! Keep up the good work sir!
Doesn't Marriot one free night award oer year cap at 35,000 points? I was noticing that even economy brands were coming up to almost that many points per night. Its making me really not want to consider this card
Correct, but you can also top off those 35K point free night awards with points transferred from Bilt, Chase, and Amex. You can combine each 35K award night with up to 15K points to redeem on nights that cost up to 50K points. Not ideal and like I said Marriott points are not nearly as valuable as Hyatt - but still something to consider if that makes sense
It’s true that Hawaii and Alaska transfer 1:1, but don’t forget the cost of transferring points from Amex to Hawaiian is .0006 cents per mile up to a maximum of $99 in fees. Great video! Love your content! I just subscribed 🎉
I think utilizing credit card rewards for travel is one of those things that you don't fully grasp/know how to execute effectively until you do it yourself. I could watch this video all day and still be missing something (or at least assume I am missing something). Airlines and others in the travel industry make it intentionally complicated so that people simply don't know how to find the best deals without doing a lot of leg work.
Might be a stupid question here but when i gotta transfer my points from my chase or citi to an airline and then to another airline, does that mean I'll need to have accounts set up at every one of these airline websites? Even the middle man?
One thing some people miss the best redemption is a business flight if it nets you 2+ cents per point. However, Economy is not a bad idea if you already have some miles with that FF account, you want to use the points before they devalue or increase the point requirements. I've usually found myself hoarding on points...
Transfer points, I have 20,000 amex points. Marriott Bonvoy has an offer of every 1000 points you'll 350 points which is 35% before Dec 31,2024. I want to know is this a good deal? Thank you, love the videos.
I love these types of videos! They inspired me to get into the credit card game, but being in the STL region, finding how to min/max value of my points is a bit harder. Sadly, STL isn't a major international airport with the nearest one being Chicago. I'd love to see an example of something like that because lots of your viewers might not be in the same boat and live near a ton of major international airports. From my understanding, the way to min/max that value in my case is to book a one-way flight to the international airport you discovered the deal with, then go through TSA again (if you have more than a personal + carry on). Then finally take the flight that you initially booked to get to said destination.
You can book the points flight from say ORD-destination and separately book a ticket from STL-ORD (called a positioning flight) and you shouldn’t have to go back through security on the way to the destination. Arriving back in the US, you’ll have to go through passport control and security, but that would be true of any regular layover in the US anyway, so no real difference.
What needs to be talked about the lack of ethics behind these credit card companies. A conversation needs to be happen about these credit card companies because they are not your friends. These credit card companies enslaved people and pray off the desperate. Who pays for those “points” and “free tricks”; it the widows, the woman who left the abuse a relationship who has no money, young naïve people, etc. This idea that you can game the credit card system is nonsense. It’s a dirty business.
I think everyone looks at these points wrong. Do you really want to go through all this credit card stuff, get all your points, transfer them an all that, to blow them all on one 8 hour business class trip. Why??? I don’t understand anyone who would rather have 1 free extra trip vs like 3 free normal seats
Finally some sense in these comments! There are 2 types of influences in this space: 1) those disingenuously talking up the “outsized value” of transfer partners in order to drive referral revenue and 2) those that have unwittingly drank the kool aid and believe the hype. It’s important to remember: the airlines and credit card companies *really* want you to think that miles are worth a ton, because it costs them almost nothing and drives a ton of revenue.
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I had to subscribe after this video dropped, you upload so consistently and the content comes exactly when the topics are relevant to me. 10/10 no notes
I am new to the booking on points world. I wasted too many years and too many points on doing the payment eraser with capital one. I thought I was doing ok, until I learned about the travel partners. Owning a small business and spending lots of money on that business gives me a big advantage. I can't believe how stupid I was! My hubby and I are going on our first vacation in January that is 100% on points. The first of many, fingers crossed. So excited!
Just keep in mind that the points earned on small business spend are considered a rebate on that business spend, so you do need to subtract their value from your business expense deductions on your taxes.
This was amazing! Cant wait for part 2!
Love the new series, especially because I’m gonna book a flight to Italy next year
Love that! I’m looking to book a flight to Italy at some point too next year
We did hotel indigo in Florence for 4 days. Good way to use IHG points and 4th night free. And 4 nights felt good there cause you can do a Tuscany wine tour, day trip to Pisa, etc.
@@zaalb131 Thanks for the great advice. I will definitely check out Hotel Indigo
Careful when calculating cpp based on quoted one way fares. One way fares are often priced way higher than the round trip or multi-city fare. If you are planning on returning to the same city you left from, be sure to check roundtrip/multi-city prices and divide that by 2 for your more accurate cpp baseline.
It depends - one way fares can be the same or more depending on the route. But one way also offers much more flexibility - especially with booking on points. Many people traveling to Europe will leave from different cities than they arrived from, so booking one way makes more sense.
Also award availability on points may only be available one way but not the other. Better to fly to business class to Europe to get the sleep, but then economy back during the daytime - if needed!
But yeah you can definitely factor some of that into the travel plans as well and compare roundtrip vs one way 👍
Please do more of these. These types of videos are great. You should do one for each major credit card points (one Amex video, one chase video, etc.)
This is some amazing content. Please keep this work up.
Thanks Nitin, so glad to hear that you like the content! I've got lots of good stuff planned, so stay tuned 👍
Great video series idea! I actually booked the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress a few weeks ago using Chase points. The Hyatt Regency Orlando would have been a higher cpp redemption as the cash price was higher but I'm glad I chose the Grand Cypress! Looking forward to more like this!
I'd also love to see a series highlighting different hotel and resort properties that are good redemptions. You could focus on a destination per video.
Thanks for this video, Daniel. It was awesome to learn the most effective way to get to Italy using points. But learning how to get to the second destination was also really cool. Definitely going to want to visit these spots next year.
Thank you! Yeah always good to have a way to travel in business class but also economy using points 👍
Great content! Do you have tools to help track and monitor points and miles utilization for all your credit cards accounts to stay on top of balances especially when booking trips? Thank you.
Good stuff! I did the emirates Milan flight last summer. It was 88,000 each for business class. We’re going back to Paris next summer and I was able to get upper class on the way back for 44,000. And 18,000 on the way there for premium! ( on Virgin Atlantic).
Were both ways virgin? We have Paris and London on the docket. I’ve never been. Are you using any points for hotels?
Damn bro some RUclipsrs would charge for this insider info 🔥
Please help!
I have Amex points as well as chase points. I found great flights on American airways for 40k miles from Doha to Japan (different airports) in July. I tried booking through British and Qatar and they want significantly more points for the same flights. How do I get around that. Also we need 6 seats
Under five minute gang! Thank you always for these informative videos Daniel! Been a sub since day one and learned so much! Much love from China!
You're the best! Any comment in the first hour is amazing - but especially good for the first 5 minutes haha. Thanks for sticking around and watching the channel for so long!
Another banger vid Daniel! So glad I stumbled across your channel! I just got the Capital One Venture as my first travel credit card and I can't wait to use my miles to book a trip! Keep up the good work sir!
Great video Daniel, very relevant for my current situation and well presented.
For some reason the travel partner guide won’t give me the option to make a copy to save
This is a fine hypothetical video, but the real value in this kind of content is seeing you actually book a real trip that you’re going to take.
AMEX charges a small fee to transfer points to a domestic airline
make a part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7 etc... pleasee
Doesn't Marriot one free night award oer year cap at 35,000 points? I was noticing that even economy brands were coming up to almost that many points per night. Its making me really not want to consider this card
Correct, but you can also top off those 35K point free night awards with points transferred from Bilt, Chase, and Amex. You can combine each 35K award night with up to 15K points to redeem on nights that cost up to 50K points.
Not ideal and like I said Marriott points are not nearly as valuable as Hyatt - but still something to consider if that makes sense
Could you please do another episode like this, but for Japan (HND) as the destination? 🙏🏻
Yeah definitely! We actually just did an example for that in the newsletter last week. Going to cover that in a new video like this soon as well 👍
Great video!
It’s true that Hawaii and Alaska transfer 1:1, but don’t forget the cost of transferring points from Amex to Hawaiian is .0006 cents per mile up to a maximum of $99 in fees. Great video! Love your content! I just subscribed 🎉
Beast mode!
Yessir!
great vid
Thanks for watching!
Loved this!
Hyatt is basically easy mode. And I love it!
I think utilizing credit card rewards for travel is one of those things that you don't fully grasp/know how to execute effectively until you do it yourself. I could watch this video all day and still be missing something (or at least assume I am missing something). Airlines and others in the travel industry make it intentionally complicated so that people simply don't know how to find the best deals without doing a lot of leg work.
Might be a stupid question here but when i gotta transfer my points from my chase or citi to an airline and then to another airline, does that mean I'll need to have accounts set up at every one of these airline websites? Even the middle man?
It's a later night and i have to be up early for trading. Definitely coming back to this series as i have hundreds of thousands of points to redeem..
One thing some people miss the best redemption is a business flight if it nets you 2+ cents per point. However, Economy is not a bad idea if you already have some miles with that FF account, you want to use the points before they devalue or increase the point requirements. I've usually found myself hoarding on points...
You should do a video covering what is going on with BILT right now. Points for buying a house, mortgage payment points coming in 2025, etc.
Now the biggest challenge is when I have 310k+ points (Chase, Bilt, C1) and no time to travel.
Transfer points, I have 20,000 amex points.
Marriott Bonvoy has an offer of every 1000 points you'll 350 points which is 35% before Dec 31,2024. I want to know is this a good deal? Thank you, love the videos.
I love these types of videos! They inspired me to get into the credit card game, but being in the STL region, finding how to min/max value of my points is a bit harder. Sadly, STL isn't a major international airport with the nearest one being Chicago. I'd love to see an example of something like that because lots of your viewers might not be in the same boat and live near a ton of major international airports.
From my understanding, the way to min/max that value in my case is to book a one-way flight to the international airport you discovered the deal with, then go through TSA again (if you have more than a personal + carry on). Then finally take the flight that you initially booked to get to said destination.
You can book the points flight from say ORD-destination and separately book a ticket from STL-ORD (called a positioning flight) and you shouldn’t have to go back through security on the way to the destination. Arriving back in the US, you’ll have to go through passport control and security, but that would be true of any regular layover in the US anyway, so no real difference.
What needs to be talked about the lack of ethics behind these credit card companies. A conversation needs to be happen about these credit card companies because they are not your friends. These credit card companies enslaved people and pray off the desperate. Who pays for those “points” and “free tricks”; it the widows, the woman who left the abuse a relationship who has no money, young naïve people, etc. This idea that you can game the credit card system is nonsense. It’s a dirty business.
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Just barely got second comment on this one! haha - thanks as always for watching and hope you're having a great holiday season 🥈
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You got it! First comment - thanks for watching 🥇
I think everyone looks at these points wrong. Do you really want to go through all this credit card stuff, get all your points, transfer them an all that, to blow them all on one 8 hour business class trip. Why??? I don’t understand anyone who would rather have 1 free extra trip vs like 3 free normal seats
Finally some sense in these comments!
There are 2 types of influences in this space: 1) those disingenuously talking up the “outsized value” of transfer partners in order to drive referral revenue and 2) those that have unwittingly drank the kool aid and believe the hype.
It’s important to remember: the airlines and credit card companies *really* want you to think that miles are worth a ton, because it costs them almost nothing and drives a ton of revenue.
It’s more about the experience not necessarily maxing out the value. This is a really cool experience you can get for basically free.