61. Unpacking Our Award Travel Secrets: Your Questions, Our Answers!

Points Talk with the Travel Mom Squad

Alex, Pam and Jess

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

4.9 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Q&A With TMS! Today, we’re getting personal and interactive by answering your questions. We've gathered a fantastic collection of questions from our Instagram stories, and we got to answer as many of them as we could in this episode!

Here is just a sneak peek at some of the tips and tricks we cover:

We tackle common dilemmas such as being an authorized user on a credit card and still wanting to snag the welcome offer.

We also address the post-welcome offer phase—what do you do with your credit cards then? Close them? Keep them open and pay the fee for another year? Something else?

We dive into questions asked about our planning process—do we choose our destinations first, or do we follow the deals? We share our mixed approach of meticulous planning and spontaneous deal grabbing, like the amazing flight sale to Singapore we couldn’t resist!

A significant part of our discussion revolves around managing annual fees and maximizing the value of our points. So, we decided to open up about our strategies and experiences, demonstrating how to make the most out of those points and miles.

And finally, we just couldn’t wrap up this Q&A episode without sharing some of our proudest moments. Are you ready for tips, insights, and more?

Hit play and join us for a deep dive into the art of award travel!

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

Episode Minute By Minute:

01:15 Answering Your Questions: Credit Card Usage
03:39 Answering Your Questions: Strategy After Redeeming Points
08:12 Answering Your Questions: Choosing Destinations vs. Following Deals
12:49 Answering Your Questions: Saving Points vs. Earning and Burning
17:46 Answering Your Questions: Expenses Not Covered by Credit Cards
22:09 Answering Your Questions: Business Cards for 5/24
25:44 Answering Your Questions: Annual Fees
29:31 Our Proudest Moments in Traveling On Points

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
0:04.7	Mom Show. Follow the links in the show notes to stay up to date with what the Travel
0:08.8	Mom Squad has been up to. On today's episode of the Travel Hacking Mom Show, we're answering
0:13.6	your questions. Do we really use credit cards for every expense? Do we choose the destination
0:19.5	first or follow the deal? How much do we pay
0:22.3	in annual fees? We answer all these questions and more. Welcome to the Travel Hacking Mom Show.
0:30.4	We are three moms who've discovered how to leverage credit card welcome offers to get hundreds of
0:34.9	thousands of dollars in travel expenses for nearly free.
0:38.2	We've used credit card points and miles to take vacations to places like Hawaii, Paris, Greece,
0:43.6	the Maldives, Italy, and so much more. And the best part? We each still have an 800 plus credit score.
0:49.5	Imagine being able to book a vacation without having to check your bank account. It's totally
0:53.6	possible and we're here to show you how. Hey, I'm Alex. And I'm Alex. being able to book a vacation without having to check your bank account. It's totally possible,
0:54.3	and we're here to show you how. Hey, I'm Alex. And I'm Pam, Alex's mom. And I'm Jess. We are
1:01.7	travel hacking moms. We decided that for today's episode, we would put you in the driver's seat.
1:08.6	So we put up a question box in our Instagram stories and asked you
1:13.1	to submit your questions. We got over 100 submissions. So while we won't be able to answer all of
1:20.6	them, I did choose quite a few for us to cover today. So let's get to it. Question number one, Alex, I'm putting you in the hot seat
1:30.7	for this one. My husband added me as an authorized user. Does this mean that I can't get the
1:37.3	welcome offer on the same card? Okay, well, first of all, I'm just impressed that your husband is
1:43.6	opening up his own cards and adding you as the authorized user, first of all, I'm just impressed that your husband is opening up his own cards and adding
1:45.5	you as the authorized user, because for all of us, we've got to open, we open all the cards.
1:51.7	There's and ours. So, but to answer your question, the good news is you can still get the welcome offer on the same card.
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