All three of us—Alex, Jess, and Pam—had post-Christmas celebrations to Hawaii with points and miles. TMS takes Hawaii with points and miles! Sadly, we weren’t on the same island, but Alex and Jess did meet up in Las Vegas before their connecting flights to Maui and Kauai, respectively.     Never could we have gone […]

I’ve really enjoyed my stays at the Thompson Central Park in NYC and The Cape, a Thompson Hotel in Cabo San Lucas. We have our own Thompson Hotel in Denver, but I hadn’t stayed there until recently, and I thought it was about time that I did, so I could review it! Spoiler alert: I […]

Jeannae sent in her reader success story to Madrid.  You’ll enjoy seeing how she and her family made the most of credit card points and miles for a Thanksgiving dream trip!   How We Took Our Dream Trip to Spain for Thanksgiving—Using Points & Miles (and a Little Magic) Thanksgiving 2024 will forever be etched […]

Have trouble finding available dates to use points to stay at a popular hotel? Our favorite alert system for hotel award-night availability is MaxMyPoint. Can’t find dates for the Conrad Bora Bora? Jess set an alert there and found her dates! Can’t find dates for the Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal? I set an alert […]

KrisFlyer Spontaneous Escapes are a way to book a Singapore Airlines flight at a reduced redemption. Similar to the Flying Blue Promo Rewards, these offer a discount, usually 30%, on award redemptions on certain routes. There are many routes from one city in Asia to another but there are also some flights to/from the United […]

Last week, there was a sudden Flying Blue devaluation—overnight, with no warning. Which meant no rushing to make any last-minute award redemptions before award prices went up. While we don’t love devaluations of any type, they’re a fact of life in the world of miles and points, and, as such, we’re at least glad that […]

Applying Hyatt Guest of Honor (GOH) Awards  and Suite Upgrade Awards (SUAs) online just got easier! In the past, I had to go through my Hyatt concierge (which is something that’s only available after you’ve achieved Globalist status). Now I can do it myself! 🎉 Here’s what you need to know about applying Hyatt GOH […]

We shared our top ten most popular blog posts of 2024 this week, so now it’s time for our top ten podcasts of 2024!  We love publishing our podcast episodes so we can teach (and entertain) you about individual credit cards, talk about a particular aspect of the points and miles hobby, or (my favorite) […]

I thought it might be fun to look at our top posts from 2024. The interesting thing is that some of them are posts we wrote years ago—but our readers still return to them!  I’ll list each of our readers’ top posts from this year and then our top posts that were actually published in […]

The United Kingdom is a frequent destination for not only many of our readers, but also Alex, Jess, and me. We all love London and at least one of us usually has a trip to the UK on the horizon.  So if you’re like us and might be heading to the UK soon, you’ll need […]

Stephanie, one of our Travel Mom Squad all-stars, sent us her reader success story to Turks and Caicos. I was really excited about this one as it is one of my favorite destinations and I am scheming about a return visit once the Andaz is completed there. Here is her story:   Turks and Caicos: […]

I love Air France and KLM for getting to Europe on points and miles! One reason is the Flying Blue Promo Rewards that come out on the first day of every month. Check out my post detailing the four reasons I love Air France. These are such good deals, so I will update this post […]

Every year I say I am going to travel less, and every year I fail. 2024 was no exception to that! I took so many trips this year that would have never been possible without points and miles, and I marked a few countries off my bucket list. Here’s my 2024 points and miles recap! […]

2024 was another incredibly great year for travel for this grandma of 21! Business-class seats, luxury hotels, and wonderful memories were all made possible with credit card points and miles. Here’s Pam’s 2024 points and miles recap!   Pam’s 2024 Points and Miles Recap January I started this year in a BIG way with a […]

Today we’re sharing some of our favorite business-class flights. While we usually fly in economy class when traveling with our families, we sometimes splurge for business class internationally. (To be honest, Pam always does 😜.) Here are some of our faves!   Jess’s Picks Turkish Airlines The food is SO good. I flew from Denver […]

Jeannie sends us her reader success story about her trip to Panama Beach, Florida. We spent some time there this year, too, so it is great to get another review of such a great a family-friendly area right on the beach! Here’s her story:   The Start of the Trip My friend called and told […]

Earlier this week, we talked about unsexy points and miles redemptions. We also love all of our family trips that aren’t luxury stays. But there’s yet another way we love to travel—living the bougie life on points and miles. (🙋🏻‍♀️)  Never, ever did I imagine that I could travel in business class or first class […]

I know you’ve seen all our business-class flights, and we might give the impression that that’s the goal of using credit card points and miles, or that we never fly in economy-class seats. Business class may work for us sometimes, but there are also several pros to flying in economy class using points and miles. […]

We all love a tropical beach vacation, traveling in business class, or staying at a luxury hotel. However, one of the less-talked-about features of credit card points and miles may be the unsexy award redemptions we can make that are just convenient or emergency lifesavers. Let’s talk about a few of these.   Family Emergencies […]

It is absolutely no secret that we love our Hyatt Hotels because of their outsized value. We are also huge fans of their luxury brand, Park Hyatt. But each of us all really enjoys another brand of Hyatt hotels:  the Hyatt Thompson Hotel brand, which is part of the Hyatt Boundless Collection.  It’s a TMS […]

Travel Mom Squad podcast listener Larisa shared her story about a recent mother/son trip she took to Costa Rica and here’s how she made it happen:   Starting Out With Miles and Points I stumbled on to Points Talk with the Travel Mom Squad early in January 2024. I was looking for a podcast on […]