Nearly free flights and hotel nights aren’t the only reason to get some travel rewards credit cards. In addition to credit card points and miles, you can also enjoy some nice perks from your credit cards that will make your travels less stressful, more enjoyable, and save you more money. Let’s go over 5 credit […]

I know you’ve seen all our business class flights, and maybe you thought that was the goal of travel hacking. That may work for us sometimes, but there are several pros of flying economy. And more importantly, we don’t always fly business class—we fly economy most of the time.   Better Availability How many of […]

We are so happy to share our two courses with you—Award Travel Academy and Award Travel Academy Next Level. When we started our points and miles journey years ago, we spent more time, energy, and frustration trying to figure out how to do this points and miles game. I would have LOVED a course to […]

As a travel hacking newbie, we recognize how hard it is to keep up with all the new vocabulary and rules. Hence, we give you our Travel Hacking FAQs that we hope you refer to often. We will give you a short explanation and link you to our articles that give you a more detailed […]

Many readers want to know more about airline transfer bonuses—these really help your miles go further. A transfer bonus is when you transfer from a flexible currency like Chase, AMEX, Capital One, or Citi, and you receive a bonus (usually 10-50%) more with the airline or hotel that you transfer to. I recently transferred AMEX […]

I don’t use card points and miles for cheap seats. Now that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t, but I have some reasons I’d like to share with you regarding why I’ve made that choice. Free is free, though. If you are buying 4 airline tickets domestically, I know it can add up. It may make total […]

With the increased sign-up bonus on the Chase Sapphire Preferred card, we are getting a lot of inquiries on downgrading it in order to re-apply. Let’s go over the basics of how to downgrade a Chase card and when it makes sense to do so.   When It Makes Sense It makes sense to downgrade […]

It’s easier to earn points than it is to find award flights—we can all agree on that. We love using search engines like AwardLogic and Point.me to help us find award flights. I just checked out Roame, a new search engine for award flights, and was pleasantly surprised at the speed at which it worked […]

There are so many ways that you can use credit card points and miles, and credit card issuers constantly give you ideas. Not every idea is a great point or mile redemption, so let’s go over the do’s and don’ts of credit card point redemptions.   How NOT to Use Your Points Shop at Amazon […]

Do you love the idea of free travel but are afraid you can’t meet that $2,000 -$5,000 credit card minimum spend to get your bonus points?  I am here to show you how to meet credit card minimum spend.   It is simpler than you think! And you can listen to more thoughts about it […]

Chase Card spending bonuses occur every quarter and are a great way to get some extra points/miles on some of your favorite cards. You just need to go here and enter the information on each card to see what you are eligible to earn. These deals are available for purchases between April 1 and June […]

One of the benefits of several credit cards is an airline incidental credit. These are usually offered on the cards with higher annual fees, so you want to use these benefits to make the annual fee seem lower. Using credit card airline incidental credits can be tricky because most of the things you can use […]

We love Hyatt points. I don’t think that statement surprises any of you, right? We are always trying to earn more and more of them to stay at Hyatt hotels because they offer such oversized value. Our primary method of earning more Hyatt points is opening Hyatt cards for the points or opening cards that […]

Chase Ultimate Rewards are our favorite points currency. We love the flexibility that these points offer. It is also pretty easy to earn a bunch of these points because many cards offer them. There are the Chase Ink Business cards, the Freedom cards, and the Sapphire cards. With the incredible increase in the Chase Ink […]

I LOVE a good luxury hotel! It is one of the reasons that I travel hack – to stay at hotels that I normally couldn’t afford to. In contrast, that is great when you are traveling with a spouse or on a girl’s trip, which usually doesn’t work for family trips. I would run through […]

If you are like me, most of the time I travel, I head to the airport wondering if I did everything I needed to do before I leave. In that vein, here is a list of 15 important things to do before you travel. I’ll check these off before every trip so I feel less […]

You may have heard someone talk about fifth freedom flights and using points and miles to take one. And you may have been totally confused. We’re hear to clear up that confusion as we talk about fifth freedom flights today. A fifth freedom flight or route is flight that operates between two countries that are […]

My mom and I still don’t understand why more people, especially our friends, don’t travel hack. Who doesn’t want to travel? Especially for almost free? One of the comments we get the most is, “I could never keep it all organized”! Is that something you struggle with too? Let us introduce you to your new […]

My husband and I are in Sydney, Australia, as part of a great trip to Tokyo, Australia, and New Zealand. We should have left for Auckland this morning, but the weather changed dramatically on the North Island of New Zealand. We noticed the following scenes in Auckland on tv the night before we were to […]

What is airline elite status? Is it a big deal? Should you try and get airline elite status? One year I bought an economy-plus subscription from United so I could always fly in comfort. That is when I decided flying in comfort was worth it. That economy-plus seat was much nicer than regular economy. I […]

Last year we paid our federal taxes by credit card. Is it worth paying your taxes with a credit card? My husband is self-employed, and we had a tax bill of about $30,000. I hate writing a check for taxes and getting nothing back. Taxes are hard enough to pay anyway, right? I decided I […]