I’ve been asked by a few people now to share some of the travel hacking blogs where I get my all my insider info from. These blogs have far more detail than I do and it’s really where I’ve gotten my start in playing this travel hacking game. My eyes were first opened to the opportunities out there when I was on a business trip last January. I was sitting in a hotel room catching up on my email from earlier that day while I had been in meetings with clients, and I saw an email from a good friend of mine. She had run across a blog by a married couple who travels permanently- all year round, and they only spend $20,000. That means they’re living below the poverty line, money wise! But because of all their credit cards, they’re really living a life of luxury. I was hooked immediately and the insane hours upon hours of research began.
1. That original blog I visited is called “Travel is Free”: http://travelisfree.com/
After that I’ve found more and more over the past few months and I’m now subscribed to them all. I receive the daily emails from them which always give me the first clues of new offers hitting the public. Sometimes I’m interested in the posts, sometimes not. For example, staying in luxury hotel lines is not as important to me as getting free flights. So I tend to ignore some of the posts about hotel cards and focus instead on airline info. Keep in mind, there are a lot of “travel blogs” out there- but these ones specifically are about using credit cards to travel for free.
Here are some of my other top recommended reads and subscriptions:
- The Points Guy: http://thepointsguy.com/
- Mile Value: http://milevalue.com/
- Million Mile Secrets: http://millionmilesecrets.com/
- (this one does a weekly interview every Friday where they feature another person’s travel blog. I always find those emails super interesting in learning about new blogs or just different strategies.
- Points Centric: http://pointscentric.com/
- Miles to Memories: http://milestomemories.boardingarea.com/
- This one is written by a young dad who takes his wife and young son on all their travels- so there’s more family travel suggestions on this one.
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