1. Traveling On Points & Miles: How We Got Started and You Can Too!

Points Talk with the Travel Mom Squad

Alex, Pam and Jess

Places & Travel, Education, Society & Culture, How To

4.9 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the FIRST ever Points Talk with the Travel Mom Squad!

We are Alex, Pam, and Jess! A trio of Moms who love to travel the world for nearly free, thanks to credit card points and miles. Now we are on a mission to help you and your family do the same! (Without spending more money.)

Maybe you may have seen us on a viral clip on TikTok or Instagram with a quick tip or maybe this is the first time you’ve heard of us! Either way, we are so glad you are here.

We've earned millions of credit card points that allowed us to travel the world and take our families on amazing vacations. As you can imagine, there is only so much you can share during a quick video on social media versus a deep-dive conversation. That’s why we started this show!

This podcast has been a long time in the works, and we couldn’t be more excited to share even more tips and tricks you need to know. We believe that anyone and everyone (not just moms) can Travel On Points.

To start things off right, we want to debunk the myth that you must be collecting points for years or spend a bunch of money to earn points before going on one of your dream trips. This is 100% a myth and we will prove it! In this episode, we share what traveling on points means, how we got started, and our favorite trips using points and miles.

By the end of the episode, you’ll be ready to bust out a vision board and start planning all the trips you never thought you could go on. We will give you a look into our favorite trips to Scotland, Greece, Italy, Hawaii, and other amazing places. The best part? Some of these trips cost less out of pocket than a meal at a fast-food restaurant…not even joking.

What are you waiting for? Hit play to learn more!

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Check out the links below to connect with us!

More Of What’s Inside:

How we got started traveling on points and miles
Why you need to experience business class
A look into the Marriott’s overwater bungalow in the Maldives
Our favorite trips using points and miles
The only thing that makes award travel even more fun
Interesting facts about the Singapore economy
Why Alex goes to Hawaii every year
Pam’s couponing blog in the early days of the internet
How Jess took her kids across the EU
And much more!

Links:

Links For All Things Travel Mom Squad: stan.store/travelmomsquad

Episode Minute By Minute:

0:02 What's inside today's conversation
0:48 Our definition of traveling on points
1:35 How we all started traveling on points
3:36 How Alex sold her mom Pam on the idea
7:38 We started the Travel Mom Squad
9:19 Our favorite trips we've taken on points and miles
23:27 Bonus Tip: How we save even more money on food while traveling
24:12 This isn't too good to be true, you can do it too!

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to Points Talk with the Travel Mom Squad, previously known as the Travel Hacking Mom Show.
0:05.8	Follow the links in the show notes to stay up to date with what the Travel Mom Squad has been up to.
0:10.5	Today, we're going to share what Travel Hacking is, how we got started, and our favorite trips using Points and Miles.
0:16.3	Stay tuned to find out how I got a $28,000 trip to the Maldives for just $2,000.
0:23.1	Welcome to the Travel Haki Mom Show.
0:24.9	We are three moms who've discovered how to leverage credit card welcome offers to get hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel expenses for nearly free.
0:32.9	We've used credit card points and miles to take vacations to places like Hawaii, Paris, Greece, the Maldives,
0:39.0	Italy, and so much more. And the best part? We each still have an 800 plus credit score. Imagine being
0:45.0	able to book a vacation without having to check your bank account. It's totally possible and we're
0:49.4	here to show you how. Hey, I'm Alex. And I'm Pam, Alex's mom. And I'm Jess. And we are travel hacking moms. We are so excited. Today is our very first episode of the Travel Hacking Mom show. And we cannot wait to jump into it. So let's go. In today's episode, we're going to tell you how we got started with travel hacking and share our favorite trip that we've taken using points and miles.
1:13.5	But before we get into all that, let's go over what travel hacking is. So in the most basic terms, travel hacking is leveraging credit card welcome offers in order to rack up tons of points and miles and then redeem those points and miles for nearly
1:29.6	free travel. This is something that all three of us have been doing for years, and we can't wait
1:34.8	to show you exactly how you can do it too. So an example of what this looks like is one of the
1:40.8	cards we recommend most is the Chase Sapphire Preferred. With that card, you get 60,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points after spending $4,000 in three months.
1:52.0	I know this might all seem complicated, but promise we are going to break it all down so that it is easy to understand for all of you.
1:59.0	So, Alex, tell us how you got started with travel hacking and with
2:05.1	travel hacking mom. Okay. So years ago, I'm trying to think how long ago it was, probably maybe.
2:13.1	No, no. Like when I very first heard about it was probably like 10 years ago, maybe around there.
2:20.7	So I had a friend in college and after college, like I kept seeing her on Instagram and stuff, like going on all these amazing vacations.
2:29.8	And at the time, her husband was a law school student. student you know law school students typically don't have
2:35.7	i mean as jess would know as a lawyer as a past law school student i'm assuming you don't have like
2:42.0	tons of money to be traveling all the time so i kept seeing this friend of mine traveling and i'm like
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