Our 10 Night Family Trip to San Francisco for $44.80

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T-minus two weeks until our big family summer trip to the San Francisco Bay Area and we couldn’t be more excited!  This will be our first “real” trip with the girls (real = leaving the East Coast), and since we’re lucky enough to have family in the Bay Area …

Life Update from the Richmond Savers Family

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Hi everyone, it’s been a long time since I wrote a real personal article here at Richmond Savers and I want to get back to basics and let you know what’s going on in our world, and update you on the future of this site and my other site Travel Miles 101.

Our $22.40 Florida Spring Training Getaway

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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…

The Best Miles Redemption Of All Time

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Since discovering the wide world of travel rewards almost 5 years ago, I’ve been fortunate to partake in some pretty amazing trips.  A lot of them would not have happened without the free hotel rooms and free flights either.  It’s hard to justify a $10,000 European honeymoon when your wife is in medical school.  But when…

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…

How we Saved $7,017 on our 15-night Honeymoon In Europe With Miles And Points

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A lot of people look forward to their wedding day but any good miles and points blogger will tell you that it’s all about the honeymoon!  My wife and I got married over the summer and while we did have an amazing wedding day, I was looking forward to our two week European honeymoon almost as much.…

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…