For the last part in the booking award flights with points and miles series, this article will focus on the award flight search process. It’s extremely helpful to familiarize yourself with the programs you plan to use by signing up for their loyalty program. I recommend searching proposed routes on the search engines of the programs you […]
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Award travel works best by keeping the miles, points and out-of-pocket spend to a minimum. As I shared in how I book award flights, it’s important to have a plan and process. It makes for a more efficient and pleasant experience filled with fewer headaches. As a primer, the U.S. has three major airlines that
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Award Travel Free travel is the goal of most award travelers. Having the best tools, like AwardHacker, is ideal to find the flights you need to reach that expensive and/or hard-to reach destination. The best tools make it easier to book award flights saving you money in the process. As I mentioned in my post
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Wikipedia is a powerful tool many people use in the award travel space. Richard Kerr, found of the Award Travel 101 Facebook Group, recommended the tool to me to book cheap flights. The platform is helpful due to the amount of information available to award travelers. Wikipedia As many may know, Wikipedia is a free
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As a complement to last week’s post on booking award flights, I thought it’d be helpful dive into each section in more detail. The sections covered in the previous post were Transferable Points, Wikipedia, Award Hacker, Google, and Award Search. For this post, I’ll kick it off by focusing on Transferable Points to help you
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Award Travel I know all too well the frustration that occurs when wanting to book award flights. Where do I start? How do I know which points and miles to use? What airline program has the best redemption? These are many of the questions that I had when starting out. For today’s post, I’m going
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I am finally able to breathe a sigh of relief after I was able to piece together our Italy trip that looked dire heading into last weekend. My wife Ashlee‘s lack of work vacation days put us in a pinch to find award availability within a tight window. With the knowledge I’ve gained from Richard
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World of Hyatt, loyalty program of Hyatt Hotels, is a program that allows members to book Hyatt hotels among other redemptions. The award program is considered to be one of the best, if not the best, hotel loyalty programs for elite members. Above all, Hyatt requires fewer points for premium hotels and elite members receive
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Ritz-Carlton Ritz-Carlton Rewards, loyalty program of Ritz-Carlton, is a program that allows you to book Ritz-Carlton hotels, Marriott hotels, and Starwood hotels, among other redemptions. The Ritz-Carlton brand is under Marriott International but the award program is separate. You can be a member in either Marriott Rewards or Ritz-Carlton rewards, but not both programs. With
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Marriott International Marriott Rewards, loyalty program of Marriott International, is a program that allows you to book Marriott hotels, Ritz-Carlton hotels, Starwood hotels hotels, transfer points to/from Starwood Preferred Guest and earn airline miles. It is also the first hotel program I earned elite status in which I used to earn the Southwest Companion Pass. Earning Points Marriott points
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