How a Quick Phone Call Earned Me 12,000 Points
Around this time last year, I talked about how we’d just started a new round of card churning with the Citi Prestige and Citi Premier cards. It was a good combo – we earned 100,000 Citi ThankYou Points between the card bonuses, as well as a lot of extra perks from the Prestige card alone. To […]
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Trip Report: Weekend in San Antonio, Part Two
Don’t miss part one – link here: Weekend in San Antonio, Part One Once we’d gotten everything sorted with our hotel for the weekend, it was time to have a little fun! That’s why we were in San Antonio, after all. We started things out with a stroll down the Riverwalk from the hotel where we saw […]
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Trip Report: Weekend in San Antonio, Part One – the Hyatt Regency
As I wrote about a couple months back, getting loyalty status with various travel brands can certainly make frequent travel a lot easier. Sometimes, it also makes it a lot more luxurious! Seeing as how I recently acquired Hyatt Diamond status for free, I figured it was high-time to take advantage of it. And since our […]
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The Sandals Saga Continues AKA Worst Customer Service Ever
Yesterday, I published the blog “Not All Vacations Can Be Winners: Sandals 2016“. Apparently Sandals took notice. Today, I received a fairly worthless offer to shut me up. Suddenly, the lack of negative Sandals reviews online is making a lot more sense – they’re literally bribing people to take them down. Today, I received an […]
Read MoreNot All Vacations Can Be Winners: Sandals 2016
Updated 2/16/2016 3:53 PM: Once you’ve read this, make sure to check out my next post in which Sandals tries to bribe me into taking this down. I am very susceptible to good advertising. I think that’s why, back when the hubs and I got engaged, I was totally starstruck by the Sandals ads that I kept seeing […]
Read MoreWhen Status Matters
This is a story about four statuses. Travel loyalty statuses, to be specific. And how your travel could be a lot more rewarding if you have one. The story starts back in 2013 when I was still doing a lot of work travel at my old job. I stayed a few times in Starwood hotels, […]
Read MoreWhat’s in YOUR Wallet? (or, An Introduction to Travel Hacking…)
So I talk on this blog (and my other writing project, The Points Guy) about travel hacking – the art of maximizing the benefits available through hotel loyalty programs and co-branded credit card offers in order to travel for free. We’ve been travel hacking for about four years now, and I estimate we’ve saved somewhere […]
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Top Tips for Visiting the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
This post contains affiliate links. See our full advertising disclosure on our about page. Guys, I have a confession: I’m a full-fledged Harry Potter geek. I have been for….quite a while now. I’ve read all the books at least five times. I’ve seen the movies even more frequently than that. I own The Tales of Beedle the Bard. […]
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Read Me on The Points Guy!
Well, hey there Unintended Domesticity readers. What? Ah, no. Don’t give me the cold shoulder like that, baby. I’m sorry. I know I’ve been neglecting the blog a little lately, but if you’ll bare with me just a bit, I’ll tell you why. You see after a glorious period of fun-employment, it was time to come back down […]
Read MoreHow To Save Money/Points Even After You’ve Booked Your Stay
So you’re planning a trip. You’ve researched. You’ve squirelled away points or (gasp!) actual dollars, and now you’re ready to book your vacation. Now you might think that once you press the “confirm stay” button on your booking method of choice, you’re done, with nothing left to do but count down the days til you […]
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