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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...

A number of airlines and hotels take part in some sort of opinion survey program where you can earn miles/points for completing surveys. There are also separate programs where you can earn cash or other...

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’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...