175. Using Points for Kids' Sports, Road Trips, and Family Travel
Points Talk®: Your Travel Dreams, Made Possible by Points
Alex, Pam and Jess
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
What if you could cover the cost of all those road trips, tournaments, and quick overnight stays without paying out of pocket? In this episode, Alex, Pam, and Jess share how points and miles can be used for the kind of travel families are already doing, from kids' sports weekends to airport stays and visiting family.
The Squad walks through practical ways they use points for these trips, including choosing family-friendly hotels, using free night awards, and taking advantage of hotel credits that come with credit cards. They also talk about what actually matters for these stays, like complimentary breakfast, space for families, and convenience, along with how they decide when to use points, free nights, or cash.
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| 0:00.0 | Of course, we love points for beachy getaways, visiting a new country, and luxury flights. |
| 0:05.1 | But we also love them for more practical things, like traveling for kids' sports. |
| 0:09.6 | Listen in as we share some tips and tricks for using points for road trips, kids' activities, and overnight airport days. |
| 0:17.1 | Welcome to Points Talk. |
| 0:19.0 | We are three moms who've discovered how to leverage credit card welcome |
| 0:22.3 | offers to get hundreds of thousands of dollars of travel expenses for nearly free. We've used |
| 0:27.8 | credit card points and miles to take vacations to places like Hawaii, Paris, Greece, Maldives, Japan, |
| 0:33.4 | and so much more. And the best part? we each still have 800 plus credit scores. Imagine being |
| 0:39.9 | able to take the vacation of your dreams for nearly free. It's totally possible and we're here to show you how. |
| 0:48.6 | Hey, I'm Alex. And I'm Pam, Alex's mom. And I'm Jess. Let's Talk Points. |
| 0:55.5 | So when I got started traveling on points, my goal was to visit family in Chicago. |
| 1:01.2 | I was looking for, you know, Southwest flights there, hopefully with a companion pass. |
| 1:07.8 | Somewhere clean and nice to stay. |
| 1:10.0 | It did not need to be. I was not saying at Park Hyatt's |
| 1:12.6 | at this point. You know, like a Hyatt Place, a 5,000 point a night high at place was perfect for |
| 1:17.4 | what I needed it for. So if you're in the same boat, whether it's road tripping or like Alex |
| 1:22.7 | traveling for kids sports, listen in as we share some tips to help you safe. Okay, so we're going to talk about |
| 1:29.8 | some of the best hotels for these sorts of states. Truth be told, this is all I stayed in |
| 1:37.5 | raising a family. This was all we stayed. We even stayed in Motel Sixes. I think they still have them. |
| 1:43.7 | They look, you know, kind of scary now. But I remember there was a time it was like you |
| 1:48.8 | could pay $39 to stay there. And so these are, my friend actually recently paid like |
| 1:55.9 | $45 to stay somewhere. And she like sent me a video and I said, no, this is not acceptable. You need to be |
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