https://mrsmillennial.com/2014/12/31/how-we-booked-a-5-star-luxury-trip-to-hawaii-for-over-50-off/ Lessons on Food, Travel, Money, and Marriage from a 21st-Century Broad. Fri, 19 May 2017 19:54:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mrsmillennial.com/2014/12/31/how-we-booked-a-5-star-luxury-trip-to-hawaii-for-over-50-off/#comment-38 Thu, 25 Jun 2015 00:42:57 +0000 http://unintendeddomesticity.wordpress.com/?p=255#comment-38 […] I’ve been collecting travel miles and points for years now, and in fact am right in the middle of a new round of card churning. So before I […]

]]> https://mrsmillennial.com/2014/12/31/how-we-booked-a-5-star-luxury-trip-to-hawaii-for-over-50-off/#comment-37 Sun, 07 Jun 2015 18:02:57 +0000 http://unintendeddomesticity.wordpress.com/?p=255#comment-37 […] For this segment of the trip, we stayed at the Fairmont Orchid, which is a fairly traditional upscale Hawaiian resort.  Using a free upgrade certificate I’d gotten by asking for a status match, we managed to get a lovely partial ocean-view room with a balcony in the tower closest to their private beach area, yet paid only about a third of the standard room price. […]

]]> https://mrsmillennial.com/2014/12/31/how-we-booked-a-5-star-luxury-trip-to-hawaii-for-over-50-off/#comment-36 Mon, 25 May 2015 15:45:29 +0000 http://unintendeddomesticity.wordpress.com/?p=255#comment-36 […] taste more authentic.  We had paid for this leg of the flight ourselves instead of using points, as we explained in an earlier post, and I still think that was a pretty good […]

]]> https://mrsmillennial.com/2014/12/31/how-we-booked-a-5-star-luxury-trip-to-hawaii-for-over-50-off/#comment-35 Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:25:51 +0000 http://unintendeddomesticity.wordpress.com/?p=255#comment-35 […] roughly $15,000 in travel completely free over the past 2.5 years because of this hobby, with another $5,000 or so in freebies already booked for later this […]

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