6. Our Favorite Credit Cards For Traveling On Points & Miles and Why

Points Talk with the Travel Mom Squad

Alex, Pam and Jess

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

4.9 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Does the amount of credit card offers out there make your head spin?

We have been there too! When you first start the process of Traveling on Points, it can feel a little overwhelming, and you can start to question what cards work best for you.

In this episode, we go through our top cards and what makes them our favorites. There are a lot of great credit cards out there that can help you travel for nearly free. However, just because some cards work for us, doesn’t mean they will work for you.

Every Travel journey is as unique as the traveler themselves! We encourage you to get clear about your travel goals, where you want or need to go, when you want to go, and who is coming along for the ride.

You’ll be amazed how a little intentional planning and goal-setting can make your card selection a breeze! Even though we all have different situations, there are a few rules we follow and standards a card needs to have before it makes the cut and lands in our wallets.

Hit play to learn our card criteria, when and why we are willing to pay an annual fee, what makes a card our favorite, plus more. If you have ever wondered about the benefits of having different cards for hotels, business, and airlines, we will explain the difference and how to leverage all three!

We will also let you in on the perks and incentives that our favorite cards have to offer such as discounts at our favorite stores, exclusive access to travel lounges around the country, TSA pre-check, and bonus luggage for the whole family, just to name a few.

To learn more about the cards we mentioned today, connect with us for questions or to receive a Free Credit Card Consultation, follow the links below!

More Of What’s Inside:

A look into our luxury Airport lounge access
Why we love The Chase Sapphire Preferred card
Our favorite airline cards and why
The difference between the United Quest and the Explorer
What you need to know about The American Express Gold Card
Cards that give us the most points
One card most people don’t use for travling on points
And much more!

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Links For This Episode:

Free Credit Card Consultation: https://travelmomsquad.ck.page/credit-card-consultation

Episode Minute By Minute:

0:02 What’s inside today’s episode
0:55 Let’s talk about our favorite cards
1:24 Pam’s favorite credit card for traveling on points
7:34 Jess’ favorite credit card for traveling on points
11:51 Alex's favorite credit card for traveling on points
16:52 Our favorite airline cards
26:54 Our favorite hotel cards
30:35 Our favorite business card
34:41 Cards that deserve an honorable mention

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.
0:10.5	There are a lot of great credit cards out there that can help you travel for nearly free.
0:15.0	In fact, there are so many that it can be a little overwhelming.
0:18.2	Today, we're going to break it down and go over which credit card makes the cut on our list of favorites. Welcome to the Travel Hackey Mom Show. We are three moms
0:26.9	who've discovered how to leverage credit card welcome offers to get hundreds of thousands of
0:31.2	dollars in travel expenses for nearly free. We've used credit card points and miles to take
0:35.9	vacations to places like Hawaii, Paris,
0:38.6	Greece, the Maldives, Italy, and so much more. And the best part, we each still have an 800 plus credit
0:44.5	score. Imagine being able to book a vacation without having to check your bank account. It's
0:48.9	totally possible and we're here to show you how. Hey, I'm Alec, and I'm Pam, Alex's mom.
0:55.0	And I'm Jess.
0:56.1	We are travel hacking moms.
0:58.1	In today's episode, we are going to be sharing with you some of our very favorite credit cards and why we love them so much.
1:05.4	Before we get into our favorites, I just want to point something out.
1:09.0	Notice that we aren't calling these the best cards.
1:11.7	These are just our favorites. Now, these might be the best cards in our eyes, but they might not be
1:17.0	the best card for everyone. And that's why we call them our favorites. And my favorite might not be
1:22.6	your favorite. We might even have an unpopular choice, but that's what's great about travel hacking.
1:28.4	You do what works best for you. so let's get into it and share our favorite overall cards mom why don't you go first
1:34.5	okay my favorite overall card is one that is probably an unpopular opinion or won't be most people's
1:42.8	favorite card and that is the American Express Platinum card.
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