Uncover the secrets of Travel Rewards! In 2024, we earned over 591K points and redeemed more than $5,800 worth of travel, all while stacking up a future travel stash valued at $22K+.
Learn how we do it—and how you can too—to travel the world for less (sometimes almost free!). What are you waiting for?
Uncover the secrets of Travel Rewards! Dive into our strategies, earnings of 513K points, and redemptions worth $7,354 in 2023 alone!
Learn how to travel for less and plan your adventures with almost “free” travel money! What are you waiting for?
After landing in Taiwan at the cusp of the pandemic in 2020 we had to sloooooow down our travel significantly and spent most of the past 2 years on this wonderful island. Now that we feel more comfortable to travel internationally again, we’ve been back on the travel rewards train to score amazing deals.
In this blog post, we share the latest bookings we made to show you how inexpensive travel can be if you leverage travel rewards.
If you’ve been following us, you know that Travel Rewards is one of the core strategies we use to travel the world for less than staying at home in the USA.
After accumulating about 1.5 million of Travel Rewards points in 2020 (worth about $25,000 in redemption at current valuation), we managed to accumulate some more and was also able to spend them again to enjoy some free international flights.
In this blog post, we will give you a quick introduction to travel rewards before digging into how many rewards we accumulated in 2021, which credit cards we opened, how much money we saved by redeeming these precious points and what our plans are for 2022!
Are you ready to talk about free travel money and see how much we got in 2021 by using Travel Rewards?
(more…)With nearly 1.5M Travel Rewards points accumulated by end of 2020 (worth $20,000 in redemption) are we sitting on useless money during a pandemic?
In this blog post, we will give you a quick introduction to travel rewards before digging into how many rewards we accumulated in 2020, which credit cards we opened, how much money we saved by redeeming these precious points and what our plans are for 2021!
Last month, I bragged a little on Twitter that we managed to accumulate half a million travel rewards points in 2019 alone and I wanted to follow up with more details. If you’ve been following us, you know that Travel Rewards is one of the core strategies we use to travel the world for less than staying at home in the US. Do you believe that world travel is unaffordable because of airfare cost? Well we can show you with the magic of travel rewards, we were able to travel to 4 continents, 9 countries and 15 cities for 2 people for under $2000!
Updated on June 6, 2025 to reflect latest rewards accumulated and available offers.
Credit card travel rewards — also known as travel hacking — have been a key part of our strategy for traveling the world affordably since we began full-time travel in 2018. Almost all of our long-haul flights are booked using points, saving us thousands of dollars each year. We even treat ourselves to the occasional 5-star hotel stay, thanks to credit card hotel rewards. In this guide, we’ll walk you through how travel rewards work, how to start using them effectively, and which cards offer the best value for beginners.
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