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.

Save on Cruises with Travel Rewards Credit Cards

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One of the questions we get asked most often is: “Our family is going on a cruise and we want to save money using credit card rewards points.  Can you help?” Cruises are a popular vacation option for many families, but unfortunately there are no cruise-specific credit cards with significant signup bonuses worth getting (in…

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…

The Best Ways to Get to Hawaii with Miles

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Hawaii is one of the top travel destinations in the world and it is certainly a great way to use your points and miles for a dream vacation!  Laura and I spent our honeymoon in Hawaii on the islands of Maui and Kauai and it is just a magical place that I would highly recommend…

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…