How the Nerds Do It: How a Travel Nerd Books a Trip

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Points or cash. Bargain hunting or splurging. Deep research or impulse booking. A lot can go into booking the perfect vacation. In this episode of our “How the Nerds Do It” series, travel Nerd Sam Kemmis talks through how he books his vacations and how you can get into the points game yourself. To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email [email protected]. Like what you hear? Please leave us a review and tell a friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.3	Prime Video.
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0:32.1	Welcome to the NerdWallet Smart Money podcast.
0:34.8	I'm NerdWallet Investing Writer Alana Benson.
0:37.1	This episode, we're continuing our
0:38.8	series called How the Nerds Do It, where we talk with our nerds about how they personally
0:43.2	tackled the issues they write about every day. This week, we're talking with NerdWallet Travel Writer
0:47.7	Sam Chemist. Sam is going to talk with us about how he got started in the points game, how he finds
0:52.8	great deals, and his favorite
0:54.3	travel secrets for travel nerds in the making. Hey, Sam, thanks for being on.
0:59.1	Hey, Alana. Great to be here. All right. So tell us about your history with travel. How did you
1:05.2	get interested in points, rewards? Like, what is the origin story of your journey with travel rewards yeah totally i'll do the
1:13.4	quick origin story i want to do the whole superhero movie background the basic story is i was
1:20.0	taking a flight to Bangkok on emirates flying through Dubai and i randomly got upgraded on my
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