How we booked 6 international one way tickets + 5 nights at a high-end resort in Fiji for $400

After landing in Taiwan at the cusp of the pandemic in 2020 we had to sloooooow down our travel significantly and spent most of the past 2 years on this wonderful island. Now that we feel more comfortable to travel internationally again, we’ve been back on the travel rewards train to score amazing deals.

In this blog post, we share the latest bookings we made to show you how inexpensive travel can be if you leverage travel rewards.

2021 End of Year Travel Rewards Report

If you’ve been following us, you know that Travel Rewards is one of the core strategies we use to travel the world for less than staying at home in the USA. 

After accumulating about 1.5 million of Travel Rewards points in 2020 (worth about $25,000 in redemption at current valuation), we managed to accumulate some more and was also able to spend them again to enjoy some free international flights.

In this blog post, we will give you a quick introduction to travel rewards before digging into how many rewards we accumulated in 2021, which credit cards we opened, how much money we saved by redeeming these precious points and what our plans are for 2022!

Our Travel Rewards Balance history in 2021. Keeping a strong momentum!

Are you ready to talk about free travel money and see how much we got in 2021 by using Travel Rewards?

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2020 End of Year Travel Rewards Report – Are travel rewards still relevant?

With nearly 1.5M Travel Rewards points accumulated by end of 2020 (worth $20,000 in redemption) are we sitting on useless money during a pandemic?

In this blog post, we will give you a quick introduction to travel rewards before digging into how many rewards we accumulated in 2020, which credit cards we opened, how much money we saved by redeeming these precious points and what our plans are for 2021!

2019 End of Year Travel Rewards Report – How we earned $10K in free travel money

Last month, I bragged a little on Twitter that we managed to accumulate half a million travel rewards points in 2019 alone and I wanted to follow up with more details. If you’ve been following us, you know that Travel Rewards is one of the core strategies we use to travel the world for less than staying at home in the US. Do you believe that world travel is unaffordable because of airfare cost? Well we can show you with the magic of travel rewards, we were able to travel to 4 continents, 9 countries and 15 cities for 2 people for under $2000!

How to Travel for Free: Introduction to Credit Card Travel Rewards

Credit card travel rewards AKA travel hacking is a large part of our strategy to travel the world affordably as full-time travelers for the past 6 years. Almost all of our transcontinental flights are paid for by travel rewards points, saving thousands of dollars per year. We even occasionally treat ourselves to a nice 5 star hotel paid for by credit card hotel rewards. In this detailed introduction to credit card travel rewards, we will explain what they are, how you can leverage them and the credit cards we recommend to get started.

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