Welcome to Point Me to First Class, the only show for employed professionals, entrepreneurs,

and business owners who are looking to optimize their higher than average expenses to travel the world.

I'm your host, Stephen Gimbleimble and I believe that your expenses are your

greatest untapped asset if you know how to leverage them. Ready to dive into the world

of credit card points and miles so you can travel more, travel better, and travel often.

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Hey everybody,

everybody, welcome back to the podcast.

This week, I back to the podcast.

This week, I want to talk to you all about some thoughts,

some ideas, and some tips for those of you actively looking

or considering booking family travel to Europe next summer, which is summer

2024. And I wanted to talk about this on the podcast for a couple of reasons.

First, I'm currently in the middle of planning a week-long trip to Rome for my family of four next June,

so I am eyeballs deep in tracking down award flight options and hotel options, and although I consider myself reasonably experienced in booking award travel

I have encountered a few obstacles while travel planning for this trip and I want to talk

about those obstacles so that you can navigate around them more easily

if you're also planning family travel to Europe next summer.

Second, as you are probably aware, a little thing called the Olympics are being held in Paris next summer.

And even though they won't be going on for the entire summer, I do think that event is going to

have significant impact on travel to Europe, including cash and award availability

for flights and hotels that will impact travel

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