Every year I travel to St. Petersburg, Florida with my daughter for a swim meet. We almost always fly JetBlue to Tampa. I usually book the flights using TrueBlue points. At this point, you may be wondering how I always have so many TrueBlue points to book all of these tickets. Well the first way […]
Category: USA
Free Flights To Aspen with United MileagePlus Miles and Savings of $3,500
Our ski destination out west in March, 2013 was to Snowmass, Colorado. I vividly remember booking our DIRECT flights to Aspen over July 4th weekend, 2012. Maybe it was early enough or maybe I got lucky, but I was able to redeem only 37,500 United MileagePlus miles per ticket. […]
Delta SkyMiles Got Us Our Free Honeymoon First Class Flights to Hawaii
I have been playing this point game for a very long time. I had a job as a CPA out of college (I graduated in 1990-really?) where I traveled about 20 weeks a year. Many times my flights were not direct, so often I was taking 2 legs of […]
Starwood Preferred Guest Points Got Us Many Free Stays in New York City With Savings over $500 Each Time!
When the kids were younger, we often took them to the city for long weekends. We usually went in November, after our fall activities ended, and our weekends were a little more flexible. It was so much fun being a tourist in our own backyard. Every time we went, […]
Hilton Honors Points Got Us A Night In Providence For Waterfire
In the summer of 2012, on our way up to Maine, we took a detour, for a night, to Providence, Rhode Island to see the amazing Waterfire. I highly recommend seeing this at least once. It is spectacular! We crashed that night, for free of course, at the Hilton Providence. This Hilton is an HHonors […]
Starwood Preferred Guest Points Got Us A Free Stay In Boston and $600 Saved!
I have been playing this point game for a very long time. Back in 2007, we spent a long free November weekend in Boston. (Boy, do I long for the days before the kids had tons of weekend activities and we were free to travel.) It was the only time we were in Boston as […]
Starwood Preferred Guest Points Got Us Free Disney Hotels!
Huge Savings on Disney World Tickets, BUY NOW! We have been to Disney a few times. The first time we went, the kids were really young. The twins were 3 1/2 and Daniel was 5. I wanted it to be perfect and easy! So we splurged. We stayed on the Disney property at the Grand […]
Starwood Preferred Guest Points Got Us A Free Stay in San Diego and a Savings of $1,600!
Back in 2009, we took our longest plane ride to date and made our first trip out west to San Diego. We stayed on Starwood points at the Sheraton La Jolla Hotel. This hotel is a Starwood Resort and a SPG Category 4. The room was 10,000 Starpoints per night. The […]
Starwood Preferred Guest Points Got Us A Free 5 Night Stay In Scottsdale At The Phoenician –$1400 Saved!
Rob could not find time to go away during Spring Break, 2010. $%&%$#@#$%&. (Read as cursing). However, I did not want to stay home for an entire week alone with my kids who were then ages, 6,6 and 8. Shoot Me! To convince Rob to “let” us go away […]
Starwood Preferred Guest Points Got US 5 Free Nights in D.C. And A Savings of $1,500
Spring break 2011 we headed to Washington DC. We went via Amtrak, which was so easy!!! and so much better than those long six hours that we would have spent in the car. Upon booking our train tickets, I got my whole family Amtrak Guest Rewards accounts. (See #8 […]