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The most comprehensive guide to saving money on all your trips, receiving valuable extra travel perks (usually reserved for frequent travelers), and easily earning free airline tickets and hotel nights.

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There is no need to browse through hundreds of (frequently outdated) blog entries to become an expert on how to earn free travel and get the cheapest possible travel reservations. Everything you need to know as a beginner or more experienced travel "hacker" is explained, organized, and cross referenced.

What's New

  • It's Daily Getaways Time!. The U.S. Travel Association's annual Daily Getaways promotion has started. Every day for the next few weeks, there is an opportunity to take advantage of some unique deals that are only available once per year. The offers for the first three weeks (out of five) have been announced, and while they don't yet include any truly fantastic offers (like last year), there are plenty of offers that might be worthwhile, given your individual circumstances. If there something you are interested in, you'll need to jump on it when the availability window opens at 1pm EST on the day in question.
  • New Article: Earn 5% on All Your Spending (advanced). If you are willing to invest time and effort, you can combine several strategies to earn 4-5% on ALL of your credit card spending. These strategies definitely aren't for everyone, but allow passionate point collectors to absolutely maximize the rewards they earn from their credit card spending.
  • New Article: All the All-inclusive Resorts You can Book with Your Points. One of the ways to get extra value from your hotel points is to book all-inclusive resorts. Not only will you get a "free" room, you'll get free food, drinks, and activities. An all-inclusive award reservation, coupled with frequent flyer tickets, can reduce your outlay for your entire trip to only the cost of your airport transportation.
  • New opportunity to earn lots of Membership Reward points on your online purchases. For those that don't know, "Shopping Portals" are a way to get cash back on most things you buy online. Rather than going directly to an online store, you visit the Shopping Portal first, and then click on a link to visit the store. As a result, the Shopping Portal gets paid a commission on your purchase, and kicks back the bulk of this commission to you.
  • Ebates was the first major Shopping Portal and has just introduced the ability for new customers to earn Membership Reward points, instead of cash back, on their purchases. For example, rather than earning 6% cash back at Macy's, you can earn 6x Membership Reward points. If you are comfortable using your Membership Reward points for frequent flier tickets, they are worth considerably more than 1 cent each. As a result, you are getting a substantial boost for anything you buy through Ebates.

    This is only available for new users and only by signing up with this link. You need to already have an online account with Amex where you have at least one credit card that earns Membership Reward points. If you use the Ebates Credit Card to make the purchase you'll get an extra 3x Membership Reward points on any purchase you make in this way.

  • RIP Cash and Points hotel awards. Over the last year or so, Hilton, Marriott, SPG and now Hyatt have modified their Cash and Points awards. Once a great way to get more value form your reward points, the major program's Cash and Points awards are now almost entirely useless.