The Ultimate Guide to Free Family Travel

The Ultimate Guide to Free Family Travel – For the Rest of Us

AKA The Wannabe Business Travelers Guide to Never Actually Paying for Flights or Hotels by Earning Miles & Points the Hard Way

If you really wish that you were one of those business guys (or ladies…we are completely non-discriminatory around here) who gets to travel around all over the place on the company dime, putting things on their business credit cards and then getting reimbursed…well, me too.  Too bad for us that we decided to go into a human services field (oh, that’s just me?) and we have to earn our miles & points the hard way.  By not working.  Or maybe it’s the easier way actually.  Here are some non-business-y ways that we can go about earning our rewards so that we can travel for free just like the big guys (and girls).

Oh, and this guide is also to remind me about what I need to write about, so it’s kind of a rough draft.  If you can’t click on it, it isn’t written yet. You’re welcome.

LEVEL 1 Travel Hacking

(aka The Low-Hanging Fruit)

Definition: Targets or goals which are easily achievable and which do not require a lot of effort

 How to Travel for Free :

•  The VERY Basics
• Make your own travel goals

 Earn Free Travel for Doing Regular Stuff:

• Earn Points for Shopping : Shopping Portals
• How to Use Shopping Portals Tutorial
• Miles for Dining
• Miles for Taking Surveys Online
• How to get Free Attraction Tickets
• Earn miles for going to the bathroom (kidding…just wanted to see if you were paying attention)

 

Stuff About Credit Cards:

• Credit Cards: Part 1
•  Credit Scores and Credit Reports
• Credit Cards: Part 2
• Reconsideration Calls
• Different types of points

 

Using Miles & Points We Earn:

• Vacation Planning 101
• Flights
• Hotels
• Cars

 

 LEVEL 2 Travel Hacking

(aka Stepping Up Your Game)

Definition: improve your skills or talents

Manufactured Spending

• What is Manufactured Spending? 
• Are these people crazy?
• Do people really do this?

I have the Credit Cards….now what?

• Category Bonuses
• How to meet Minimum Spend requirements
• Should I cancel my card or keep it?
• Retention Bonuses

Booking Travel..Tips and Tricks:

• Airline Alliances
• Elite Status

 

LEVEL 3 Travel Hacking

(aka You Are A Pro…You Do Not Need Me…Will You Please Adopt Me?)

 

 

There is a ton more, but we have to start somewhere, right?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/"> -->