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While some people look forward to tax time because they are going to get a refund, others dread it because they know that it just means a big tax bill. What if you could get something back for paying that...

Hyatt Zilara Cap Cana, Dominican Republic, March 2024 We booked this for our anniversary trip in March of 2023 with World of Hyatt points transferred from Chase. That was right before the big 2023 deval...

Someone in the Facebook group said that they were having a problem with “knowing which cards to keep and continue paying annual fees on.” If Kenny Rogers was a travel hackers, perhaps he would...

Travel hackers have been hit with a one-two punch in 2024 already. First we learned the SLH is leaving Hyatt and not too long after that, Hyatt announced what seems to be their annual revaluation (which...

I was recently asked to rank all of the different cruise lines. The problem with that is how do you really measure which is best? If we are talking about best food, cabins and itineraries, it’d be one...

Day 1 We stayed at a hotel near LAX the night before. The drive to the port was uneventful until we got to the pier itself. Then it took about 45 minutes to drive about a mile. I’ve heard from other TA’s...

Excuse the length of this trip report but I’m combining two separate aspects of the trip into one report. I’ll use headings so you can jump around if you’d rather not read everything....