393 |Travel Rewards Refresher 2022 | Lyn Mettler
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Brad Barrett | Choose FI Media
4.8 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this episode: Travel Rewards, Credit Cards, and The Value of Rewards Points.
We all know that it can be expensive to travel, and sometimes the joy and excitement of taking that long-awaited family vacation can be overshadowed by the cost of taking the trip. But what if there was a more efficient way to travel that doesn’t feel like you are breaking the bank? Well, with effective planning and the right tools this is entirely possible! This week we are once again joined by Lyn Mettler who will discuss to maximizing your spending in a way that does not deprive you, but rather rewards you!
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Timestamps:
- 1:30 - Introduction
- 3:50 - Credit Cards
- 7:50 - The Value of Points
- 16:53 - Two-Player Mode and The 5-24 Rule
- 20:35 - Where to Start With Travel Rewards
- 25:03 - Limitations and Strategy
- 31:33 - Why This Works With FI
- 33:31 - The State of Travel Part 1
- 37:15 - Award Charts and Wiggle Room
- 41:28 - Points and Hotels
- 48:25 - The State of Travel Part 2
- 50:31 - The Booking Order
- 58:44 - Conclusion
Resources Mentioned In Today's Episode:
- The Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card Review
- ChooseFI's List of Travel Rewards Cards
- Travel Rewards: How To Travel The World For Almost Free (The Easy Way) | ChooseFI Ep 9
- Travel Rewards What Comes After Chase | Travel To Disney World For Nearly Free | ChooseFI Ep 31
- Travel Rewards | Marla Taner | ChooseFI Ep 77
- Families Fly Free | ChooseFI Ep 353
- Turo
- Airbnb
- Vrbo
- Vacasa
- David's Vacation Club
- Subscribe to The FI Weekly!
More Helpful Links and Resources:
- Earn $1,000 in cashback with ChooseFI's 3-card credit card strategy
- Share FI by sending a friend ChooseFI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence
- Track your personal finances with Personal Capital
- Keep learning or start a new side hustle with one of our educational courses
- Slash your cell phone bill without sacrificing service with Mint Mobile
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Choose a Phi. I'm your host Brad Barrett and today we have a travel |
| 0:06.1 | rewards refresher for 2022 and I'm actually very fortunate to be joined by Lin Metler who runs |
| 0:13.6 | the website and podcasts Families Fly Free and she was our guest in episode 353 and I just |
| 0:20.0 | absolutely loved her take on travel rewards. It was with simplicity at its essence which is how |
| 0:25.8 | I view this. It's how can we take one or two vacations, maybe family vacations for free or close |
| 0:32.4 | to free every year by being just smart and intentional with our credit card habits. That's a win for |
| 0:38.8 | everybody and that's why we call this a killer of financial independence. Your listening to Choose |
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| 1:06.2 | community of like-minded people who are getting all things to do and taking control of their lives |
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| 1:30.5 | All right Lin welcome back to Choose a Phi. Thanks for being here. Sure. Glad to be here again. |
| 1:36.0 | Yeah this should be fun so I think what we're going to do today is kind of go back and let's do |
| 1:41.6 | like a just a general refresher on what are we doing with travel rewards. Why do we call this a |
| 1:47.9 | pillar of Phi? Why is it at that level of importance right? What is this strategy all about? So |
| 1:53.5 | you and I have been doing this for years and years and years but let's just break it down to its |
| 1:58.4 | absolute essence. Like someone comes to you and wants like the two-minute elevator pitch of Lin |
| 2:04.1 | what the heck what is this travel rewards thing that you're always talking about? Yeah I mean travel |
| 2:09.1 | rewards to me is a way that you can continue to travel with your family. I would wager you can |
| 2:16.4 | travel a lot more with your family while still achieving the goal working toward the goal of |
| 2:23.2 | financial independence because we can show you a way that you can do this for free or close to free |
| 2:30.0 | so that you don't have to spend the money that you're trying to save or invest or whatever on travel |
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