Success Story: Zina and Sam’s Honeymoon

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Here’s a fantastic travel rewards success story from Zina Kumok of the personal finance blog DebtFreeAfterThree.com. When I met Zina last September at the FinCon conference in New Orleans, she was engaged to be married and they hoped to spend their honeymoon in Croatia. Zina was familiar with credit card rewards points and had used…

Family Travel is…Nearly Free

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I was asked to join a wonderful group of travel and family bloggers for a month-long series entitled “Travel is…”  Each of us is sharing how travel has enriched our lives.  My post is about how we’re able to travel the world for nearly free using rewards points and miles (and click below to see…

How to Book a Free Stopover using United Miles

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In a prior post I showed how easy it can be to book an award flight to Europe using United miles (specifically on Lufthansa, but also true on many of their Star Alliance partners).  At that time I promised a future video on how to book a “free stopover” on an international round-trip flight using…

Simplest Way to Europe with Points: Use United Miles on Lufthansa

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In this video I want to walk you through one of the easiest ways to use travel rewards points to get to Europe: Using United Airlines miles on their Star Alliance partner Lufthansa to fly direct from many US cities to Europe. While it might sound confusing to book a flight on a German airline…

Travel Rewards 101: Three Main Types of Rewards Credit Cards

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For beginners, researching the different rewards credit card rewards can seem overwhelming at first. After all, each bank and card issuer typically has its own rewards program and all these programs offer travel benefits, but often in dramatically different ways. The point of this post is to shed some light on the three main types…

NYC to Portugal to Thailand and Back for $120!

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I just put together an amazing itinerary for my brother for his proposed summer 2015 trip and this is a perfect example of how travel rewards points can save you money and take you places you could only dream of! He’s a teacher and he wanted to go to either Europe or Asia next summer…

Our $231 Luxury Bermuda Trip using Travel Rewards Points

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A few years ago, we took our summer vacation to New York City and Bermuda, and it is a great example of how you can save thousands of dollars using travel rewards points. We saved $5,500 off our luxury vacation, and only paid a net $104.79 for the hotel plus $126.50 on unavoidable flight taxes…