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You’ve decided to start your travel hacking hobby, you understand earning and burning your points and now you need to decide which credit card to get but there’s so many to choose from! While we’ll get...

Too many people want to save up their points for some unknown far away trip. They just fall in love with the idea of earning a ton of points and going on some type of big trip in the future. They really...

Regardless of what you think is a good redemption value, calculating cents per point is pretty easy. Divide the dollar amount by the amount of points. We’ll use United again as an example. Because good...

Travel hacking is the process of optimizing credit card points/miles to get as much free travel as possible. The “hacking” part of it has changed over the years. Several years ago, there were more techniques...

Way too many websites push you right into applying for all sorts of credit cards without first explaining to you the pitfalls of this hobby. That’s because they make a commission each time you sign up....

One of the things that scares away would-be travel hackers is all of the lingo and acronyms. When someone says “I used all my MRs to get J on UL from EWR to CDG” newer people may think that...

Since credit cards are at the core of travel hacking, having a good credit score will help you get approved for the best credit cards. Thus, travel hackers take their credit score very seriously. You’ll...