47. Umrah Travel and Booking Using Points with Amena Bakali

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Devon Gimbel MD

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🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Amena Bakali is an award travel educator, travel blogger, and family travel enthusiast. While many of us use our points for leisure travel, points can also help with booking travel that is of religious or cultural significance. One example of that is how she used points to book a trip to observe Umrah, the Islamic pilgrimage to their Holy City: Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

Discover her tips for booking a culturally significant trip like Umrah using points. She is walking us through how she chose her hotels, flights, and experiences during this pilgrimage, and she’s sharing her tips for planning a trip like this for you and your family.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Point Me to First Class, the only show for employed professionals, entrepreneurs,
0:06.2	and business owners who are looking to optimize their higher than average expenses to travel the world.
0:10.8	I'm your host, Stephen Kimballimble and I believe that your expenses are your
0:13.9	greatest untapped asset if you know how to leverage them. Ready to dive into the world
0:18.9	of credit card points and miles so you can travel more, travel better, and travel often.
0:23.0	Let's get started.
0:25.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to the podcast.
0:30.0	One of my favorite things about points is that there are so many incredible uses of them
0:35.2	that can help you have new travel experiences, more travel experiences, or my favorite luxury
0:40.9	travel experiences. And while most of us probably use our points
0:44.9	the majority of the time for traditional leisure travel,
0:48.0	like taking vacations, points can do so much more than that.
0:52.4	Points can also make it possible to book travel that has particular
0:55.0	religious or cultural significance to us. And on today's episode we are going to
0:59.6	be talking about one particular example of that with guest Amina Piccale.
1:04.0	Amina is an award travel educator, travel blogger, and family travel enthusiast
1:08.8	and we're going to be discussing how she used points to plan a trip to observe Uma,
1:13.5	which is an Islamic pilgrimage to Maca,
1:15.6	the holiest city for Muslims.
1:17.5	I hope you all enjoy this conversation.
1:20.8	Welcome to the podcast, Amina. I'm so so happy to have you here today. How are you doing?
1:26.6	Good, thank you for having me, Devon.
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