I had to take my daughter, Jessie, to a 2 day swim meet a few weekends ago in East Meadow, NY. Because the swim meet started so early in the morning (what I told Rob), and because I thought it would be nice to have a 2 day getaway with my daughter (the […]
Category: Mom’s Trips
British Airways Avios Points Got Us To London On British Air Business Class -We saved $12,000 On Flights And Another $3,000 On Our Stay
Family trip to London-check. And what a trip it was as we flew ON AVIOS POINTS to London on British Airways Business Class. Wow what an experience!!! Amazing food, seats that turned into beds, an abundance of outlets for charging, a pre boarding lounge with tons […]
JetBlue TrueBlue Points Used For Free Flights To Puerto Rico and the Bahamas
JetBlue’s rewards program is TrueBlue and personally, I have always found much availability booking award tickets for very low and attractive point redemptions through this program. In fact, Rob is going to Puerto Rico for a 50th birthday guys weekend this October. (How are we so close to 50?) I got him a ticket on JetBlue […]
Matmid Points Got Us Free Flights to Israel on El Al–We saved about 10K!!!
El Al is an American Express Membership Rewards transfer partner. Membership Rewards points can be transferred to EL AL’s frequent flyer program, Matmid. At the time of this post, 1000 American Express Membership Rewards points equals 20 Matmid points. Over many many years, I have had Rob accumulate his Membership Rewards points in anticipation of […]
Starwood Preferred Guest Points Got Us 9 Free Nights in London and a Savings of $2,800
Not only did we fly British Air Business Class on miles and saved $12,000 on our family trip to London, but we also stayed 9 nights for free on Starpoints!!!! We stayed at the Park Lane Hotel, a Starwood Resort (SPG Category 7!) We used 160,000 Starwood points for a […]
Starwood Preferred Guest Points Got Us A Kids Free Getaway to the Amazing St Regis Monarch Beach on Starpoints and A Savings of $2,500
Rob and I spent 5 nights a few of summers back at the St. Regis Monarch Beach. This resort is a Starwood Resort and SPG Category 7. Conservatively, this hotel is about $500 per night. So for 5 nights, the hotel would have cost us about $2,500. Instead, we stayed on Starpoints, of course, at 30,000 […]
Starwood Preferred Guest Points Got Us 5 Free Nights in Costa Rica at the Westin Playa Conchal-A Savings Of $4,000
Last December we went to Costa Rica over December break. We spent 5 nights in the rainforest at the Springs Resort and Spa, amazing! Unfortunately, I did not have enough points in any form, to use for this stay (i.e.-using Chase Ultimate Rewards points or American Express Membership Rewards points), so we paid for […]