Our step-by-step guide on how to take a nearly free family trip to Walt Disney World in Florida using credit card rewards points has been featured in the NY Times, NBC, CBS and the Huffington Post. This article is a step-by-step guide to do the same for Disneyland in Anaheim, California! You can save over…
Take Your Family to Disney World For Free: Step-by-Step Instructions
As featured in the New York Times, CBS and NBC, here’s our step-by-step guide on how to take a nearly free family trip to Walt Disney World ($4,000+ savings) using credit card rewards points! Are you headed to Disneyland in Anaheim instead? If so, be sure to check out our guide to visiting Disneyland for…
The Essential Rewards Credit Card: Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
If I had to pick the single most essential travel rewards credit card, the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card would unquestionably top the list. Simply put, if you are serious about getting started traveling the world with rewards points & miles, you are going to want this credit card. Important Note: The information for the Chase…
Our $22.40 Florida Spring Training Getaway
My wife Laura and I are huge New York Mets baseball fans and it has always been a dream of ours to see them play in spring training games down in Port St. Lucie, Florida! I’m happy to say that March 2016 is the year we finally make it happen and the grand total for…
Three Ways to Redeem Chase Ultimate Rewards Points
If you want to get maximum travel value out of your credit cards, a great place to start is with transferable points such as Chase Ultimate Rewards. We consider Chase Ultimate Rewards the most valuable and flexible points in the travel rewards world, and highly recommend them as a starting point for travel rewards. This…
So we went to Europe and Africa…
I recently received an amazing travel rewards success story from Heather that started out like this: Subject: So we went to Europe and Africa… Hi Brad, Just wanted to let you know that one of our bucket list trips is done, many thanks to you!! Itinerary: Murren (Switzerland); Chamonix, Lyon and Villefrance-sur-Mer (France); Varenna (Lake…
How To Get 5 Star Treatment On Your Honeymoon
Although traveling for nearly free with rewards points never gets old, there are always times when it feels good to be pampered. When we travel, we normally fly economy and stay in 3 star hotels but for our honeymoon we wanted to do something special. After all, a honeymoon really is a once in a…
Success Story: Zina and Sam’s Honeymoon
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…
Book Your Next Trip To Mexico With Southwest
Southwest Airlines has long been been a staple in my travel rewards arsenal. In fact, the first credit card I ever got solely for the miles was a Southwest card back in the day. And even though I’ve come a long way since then, Southwest is still one of my favorite airlines to rack up…
Family Travel is…Nearly Free
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…