How We Saved $4,800 On Flights to Copenhagen
As those following the Mrs. Millennial social media channels already know, our “big trip” this year is pretty epic: we’re taking a 9-day cruise of the Baltic Capitals out of Copenhagen, Denmark, with stops in Warnemunde, Germany; Talinn, Estonia; St. Petersburg, Russia; Helsinki, Finland; and Stockholm, Sweeden. There’s just one issue: we have to get […]
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How we’ve re-earned our Southwest Companion Pass through 2020
If you’ve read more than a few posts on this blog, then by now you’ve most definitely heard me mention our Southwest Companion Pass. This magical pass, which I consider to be one of the all-time best deals in the points and miles travel-hacking game, allows you to designate a companion, and then bring them […]
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My two newest credit cards: both Southwest Airlines Visas!
If one of your New Year’s Resolutions is to travel more, then it’s time to jump into action and earn yourself one of the best travel-hacking values on the market: the Southwest Companion Pass. I’ve written a lot about the Southwest Companion Pass in the past, but here’s what you need to know: You earn it […]
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4 Steps We Took to Save $700+ on Flights to Cancun
This week, after planning out our travel itinerary for all of 2017, it was time to turn to booking and making those vacations we’d planned out in a document actually come to life! As I discussed in that last post, one of our strategies for elongating our vacations is to book over holiday weekends; unfortunately […]
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How We’re Saving $1,200 on our Five-Star Dublin Hotel
If you’re a fan of the blog, then you’ve likely been following our planning for next year’s UK & Ireland trip, including how we saved $6,500+ on our business class flights using Citi & Chase points on Singapore Airlines, and how we saved ~$600 on our hotels in Manchester & Liverpool using Starwood points. The next item up […]
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How the SPG & Marriott Merger Can Help You Get More Free Hotel Stays
As of this past week, SPG (the parent chain behind such hotels as W, Westin, Sheraton, and many others) is officially part of the Marriott company. While many, myself included, predicted a bit of gloom and doom* about this merger, for now at least, the brands are playing nice. It was announced that Starwood points would transfer […]
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How We’re Saving $6,500+ on a Trip to the UK and Ireland
Well, we finally did it. After a little bit of heartbreak, and a little bit of confusion, we finally booked a trip for early next year with all those points we’d transferred over to Singapore Airlines a couple months back. To recap: after earning more than 200,000 points across our Chase Ultimate Rewards and Citi ThankYou […]
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Introducing the Chase Sapphire Reserve Card!
We just got a new credit card! It’s always exciting in the miles and points game when you’re approved for a new card and can start dreaming about all the benefits that go along with it. Today, it was the Chase Sapphire Reserve card. The card comes with a $450 annual fee, which is quite […]
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The Singapore Airlines Booking Saga Continues…
About a month ago, I posted about how after transferring all the points we’d saved over a 2-year period over to Singapore Airlines, they did away with the route that we were planning on booking. Since then, I looked up EVERY single route that Singapore Airlines flies out of the US for the March – June […]
Read MoreHow 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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