Tag: strategy
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When to book family award travel
This is it: the shortest blog post I’ll ever publish. Because it’s all you need to know. This is when you should ideally book family award travel when your travel dates aren’t flexible and you need flights and hotel rooms for 3+ people.
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How new airline routes can supercharge your award travel
The story Let’s go back in time to 2017, when I was in the process of booking business-class award flights for my family of four from Houston to Australia for a trip celebrating my husband’s 40th birthday the next year. Australia was his dream trip for decades, and we were finally going to make it…
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How to figure out if a Hyatt award stay is a good redemption
Most of the time, booking a hotel stay with points instead of paying out of pocket is going to be the best option. For Hyatts, I usually just have a sense for whether a stay is a solid redemption or not, but if you want more guidance than “Traci’s intuition just knows,” a solid redemption…
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When you need to book award trips: some guidelines
It’s January and I’m seeing lots of posts online in award-travel groups about people wanting to book trips on points for spring break to Hawaii and Europe in July … this year. I mean … I guess it’s possible? But that’s not likely to happen unless you get extremely, extremely lucky. For popular destinations or popular times…
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Whoomp! (There’s Your Referral Bonus)
When you have a travel partner, whether they be your spouse, significant other, sister, parent—whoever else you can rope into earning miles and points—you should be thinking about these guys: The ’90s are back, baby! And you need to have Tag Team on your miles-and-points mind like it’s 1993 all over again. Banks offer referral…