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Points Talk®: Your Travel Dreams, Made Possible by Points

171. Would You Rather: Family Travel Edition

Points Talk®: Your Travel Dreams, Made Possible by Points

Alex, Pam and Jess

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

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

What's your ideal family travel strategy? In today's fun and lively episode, The Points Talk Squad plays a family edition of "Would You Rather?" with travel-themed dilemmas. Alex and Jess are joined by Traci and Megan, who each share personal experiences and strategies. Tune in to hear the Squad's answers to these tough travel choices and play along!

     

They discuss everything from kid-friendly travel perks to the best ways to make points work for your family. Whether it's choosing between two hotel setups or deciding if business class is worth it for a family flight, the conversation is full of insights and a little healthy debate.

     

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's episode is a family edition of the game Would You Rather?

0:04.1

Tune in to hear our answers and play along.

0:07.1

Welcome to Points Talk.

0:08.9

We are three moms who've discovered how to leverage credit card welcome offers to get

0:13.1

hundreds of thousands of dollars of travel expenses for nearly free.

0:17.2

We've used credit card points of miles to take vacations to places like Hawaii, Paris, Greece,

0:22.4

Maldives, Japan, and so much more. And the best part? We each still have 800 plus credit scores.

0:29.1

Imagine being able to take the vacation of your dreams for nearly free. It's totally possible,

0:34.1

and we're here to show you how.

0:38.3

Hey, I'm Alex. And I'm Jess. Let's Talk Points. Pam is not here today, but in her place,

0:45.5

we have Megan, our director of operations. I always forget your title. I'm like director of something,

0:50.9

but it's director of operations. And then Tracy, our copy editor is also here.

0:55.9

And we're going to do a little family version of Would You Rather? So Tracy led us in a Would You Rather

1:03.0

Exercise back on episode 127, if you want to check that out. Pam was here for that one. But because Pam is traveling and wasn't able to make it, we thought it would be fun to do a family edition of Would You Rather with me and Alex and Megan.

1:18.4

With Tracy leading the way, we do not, we have zero idea what Tracy is about to ask us.

1:24.2

She has been keeping these questions a secret.

1:27.0

So I think it's going to be very interesting because you're going to be put on the spot. Yes, they do not know what I'm going to ask. So it should be fun. And I'm going to give bonus points. There's no like winner in this game. We're just going to have fun. But we're going to get. Hey, you said points, Tracy. That means I want to win. I want the most points. Yeah, we need some game show music. So it's a would you rather. So it's really going to be like, would you choose A or would you rather have B? But if someone comes up with like a really creative, insightful C, they could win some bonus points. And I'm just putting that out there. Okay. So are we ready to get started? Yeah. So it sounds like we have

2:02.6

Tracy Jennings on this call. Yes. Ken Jennings. I'm the biggest Ken Jennings fan in the entire world. So

2:08.8

yes, I'm going to be channeling my inner Ken. So are we ready to go? Yeah, we are ready. Okay. All right. The first,

2:16.3

would you rather is if you could only keep one of these super family friendly policies and only be able to use one of them, would you rather keep the Flying Blue 25% award flight discount for kids age 2 to 12? Or would you rather keep the Hyatt family plan rate

2:37.2

discount of 50% off of a second room? I am going to go with the 25% off flying blue

2:45.0

ages for kids ages 2 to 11. I granted I only have two that are still in that age range. My other two have aged out,

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