48. Behind the Scenes: Our Most Recent Trips, Cards, and More!

Points Talk with the Travel Mom Squad

Alex, Pam and Jess

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

4.9 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Want to hear what we've been up to lately? We thought it would be fun to recap some of the cards we've opened and trips we've been booking!

In this episode, we're taking you behind the scenes. We discuss exciting travels we've embarked on and some of the gems we've discovered. We kick things off with our most recent stays on points and miles.

Looking ahead, we move onto trips we've recently booked (but haven't yet taken) using points and miles. TMS is gearing up for several bucket list trips! We hope you’re ready for a Travel Mom Squad tour of Asia.

Lastly, we asked our favorite question: "what’s the most recent credit card you opened?" We dive into which cards we've opened recently + why. Hit play to learn more about each of our recent adventures, future bucket list trips, and credit card updates!

Happy Travels!

PS—Start your points journey today by following the links below!

Links For All Things Travel Mom Squad: stan.store/travelmomsquad

Episode Minute By Minute:

01:23 Pam starts off talking about her most recent trip to Costa Rica
05:10 Jess breaks down one of her most recent trips to Mexico
06:32 Alex talks about her trip with Jess to the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines
08:47 Pam shares what her next trip is going to be and how she booked it
11:49 Jess talks about her next booked trip to Istanbul
13:26 Alex breaks down her upcoming family trip to Cancun
17:08 Pam shares her most recent trip that she’s booked
21:21 Jess’s most recent trip that she booked to London to see Taylor Swift
23:26 Alex shares two trips that she’s booked recently
28:11 The breakdown of their planned group trip to Singapore
33:01 Pam looks to the future and talks about what trips she’s dreaming up
34:03 Jess talks about future trips that she wants to take
35:12 Alex shares her potential future trip ideas
36:28 Pam talks about the last card that she opened
37:45 Jess shares what cards she’s opened up recently
39:27 Alex breaks down her latest cards and the struggle with AMEX pop-up jail
42:15 Pam shares what card she is hoping to open next
44:15 Jess talks about what card has piqued her interest
48:02 Alex talks about which card is on her radar to apply for next

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to Points Talk with the Travel Mom Squad, previously known as the Travel Hacking Mom Show.
0:05.8	Follow the links in the show notes to stay up to date with what the Travel Mom Squad has been up to.
0:10.6	Want to hear what we've been up to lately?
0:12.7	Cards we've opened and trips we've been booking.
0:15.4	Listen in as we recap what the THM team has been up to.
0:21.2	Welcome to the Travel Hacking Mom Show.
0:23.3	We are three moms who've discovered how to leverage credit card welcome offers to get
0:27.1	hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel expenses for nearly free.
0:31.2	We've used credit card points and miles to take vacations to places like Hawaii, Paris,
0:35.9	Greece, the Maldives, Italy, and so much more. And the best part,
0:39.9	we each still have an 800 plus credit score. Imagine being able to book a vacation without having to
0:44.9	check your bank account. It's totally possible and we're here to show you how. Hey, I'm Alex. And I'm Pam,
0:52.0	Alex's mom. And I'm Jess. We are travel hacking moms. Today we thought
0:56.6	would be fun to chat about what we've been up to recently, including the most recent trip we've
1:02.0	taken, the trip that we're looking forward to booking, any recent trips we have booked. Spoiler
1:08.3	alert, we all booked one today. We're going to get into that a little bit
1:12.7	later on in the episode cards we've opened recently cards were thinking about opening so we got it all
1:20.0	inside this episode it is going to be a fun one all right we're going to kick it off with our most
1:27.2	recent trip that we have taken on points and, we're going to kick it off with our most recent trip that we have taken
1:29.7	on points and miles. We're going to share how we booked it. So Pam, why don't you kick it off?
1:36.0	Okay. I got back not that long ago from Costa Rica, went to the Guan Costa Rica, and I stayed at two hotels, hotel hopping once again.
1:48.9	I stayed at the Andes Hyatt, the Ondas Papagallos Hyatt has great reviews.
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