Rakuten is an awesome cash back shopping platform that gives you cash just for shopping at your favorite companies. You don’t have to change anything that you’re already doing. There used to a company called Ebates that most people were familiar with but a similar company from Japan bought them out. Instead of keeping the […]
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When I booked my trip to Ohio, I booked the flights first and then the rental car. I should have done it the other way around but for whatever reason, I thought it would be fine. Once I got around to it, I found the prices to be pretty high but there was nothing I
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Brightline recently started service between South Florida and Orlando to much fanfare but is this really a good alternative? With this new train service, you now have three primary options to get from one place to the other: driving, train and plane. Let’s assume you have no interest in driving which is kind of the
I read an article today that reminded me about why I started all of this to begin with. I really hate liars and today’s internet really encourages so many people to B.S. everyone in an effort to increase clicks and views. Unfortunately, the travel industry and the travel hacking community are not spared from all
Great Wolf Lodge, the hotel chain with big waterparks is very popular with families. So, when I heard that they were offering a sale on August 4th (8-4) with $84 rooms, I shared it to the Travel Better, Travel More Facebook group. The deal was pretty simple, $84 dollar rooms on 8/4 in honor of
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Frontier Airlines is one of the few companies that actually comes up with ways to make the customer experience even worse. On August 1, 2023, Frontier announced on Twitter that they would start closing the counters for check-in and bag drop 60 minutes before flight departure instead of 45 minutes: The reactions are what you’d
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Rakuten is a great way to save money on travel and other expenses but there’s now a one week sale that makes this even better. Through May 15th you can now get $40 for signing up with Rakuten and if you refer anyone to Rakuten and they qualify (i.e. spend $40 in 90 days), you’ll
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Several years ago there was a viral post about traveling coast to coast on Amtrak for about $213. Since then, we’ve had a pandemic followed my crazy inflation and a travel boom. It’s not even summer yet and we are already seeing more travel now than we saw in 2019 according to TSA records. This
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United Airlines has a promo right now where purchases made with your United MileagePlus credit card will help you earn premier qualifying points aka PQP. These points will help you earn status on United. You have to register here in order to start earning.
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