514: How to “Travel Hack” Like a Pro and Get FREE Flights, Hotel Stays, and More!

BiggerPockets Money Podcast

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🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Want to know how to travel for FREE in 2024 and 2025? We’re about to introduce you to the magical world of travel hacking. Never heard of it before? You’re about to have your mind blown. Travel hacking is one of the best ways to turn your everyday spending into free trips, hotel stays, business-class flights, and more. And if you’ve ever wondered how to get into those fancy airport lounges or snag yourself a lie-flat seat next time you’re headed across the Atlantic, this is the episode for you! Eli Facenda, a travel hacking expert, joins us on this episode to share the beginner's guide to traveling for free. Eli is so good at travel hacking that he started his own consulting agency to help business owners turn their regular expenses into first-class travel wherever they go in the world. Today, he’s sharing his favorite travel credit cards, tips to fly for FREE for the next four years, the biggest credit card point mistakes, and beginner wins to get you your next trip for free. We’ll also touch on the unbelievable rewards you can get from travel hacking, such as $1,000+/night hotel rooms for free or even a visit to Richard Branson’s private island, ALL through credit card points. Say goodbye to flying coach; these credit card tips will upgrade not only your wallet but your entire trip! In This Episode We Cover The best beginner credit cards to start earning points TODAY How to travel for FREE for the next four years with Southwest’s “Companion Pass” Why you should NEVER take cash back for your credit card points (do THIS instead) The most bang-for-buck points transfers that’ll get you exceptional hotel stays for free Biggest beginner mistakes that’ll cost you when trying to travel hack How to fly to Europe in business class THIS YEAR with just 50,000 points And So Much More! Links from the Show BiggerPockets Money Facebook Group Network with Other Investors on The Path to FIRE Through the BiggerPockets Forums Finance Review Guest Onboarding Join BiggerPockets for FREE Mindy on BiggerPockets Scott on BiggePockets Listen to All Your Favorite BiggerPockets Podcasts in One Place Apply to Be a Guest on The Money Show Podcast Talent Search! Find an Investor-Friendly Agent in Your Area Find Investor-Friendly Lenders Cards Mentioned in Today’s Show: Amex Gold Amex Platinum Barclays American Capital One Venture X Chase Freedom Chase Sapphire Preferred Citi American Costco Card Hilton Aspire Southwest Credit Cards Resources Mentioned in Today’s Show: AwardWallet CardPointers LoungeBuddy Max Miles Points One Mile at a Time TripIt Upgraded Points Click here to check the full show notes: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/money-514 Interested in learning more about today's sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email us: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today we're talking about travel hacking. It's one of those areas that people in the personal finance world love to take advantage of and for good reason.
0:09.0	But it can get very overwhelming very, very quickly.
0:12.8	To demystify it all for us we're going to have the outstanding Eli Fisenda joining us
0:16.9	on today's show. Eli is going to give us a crystal clear framework for travel hacking and
0:21.2	he'll answer our very specific questions about how you can
0:24.1	optimize your spending in points. He'll also show us how to organize your system so you don't
0:28.4	end up confusing yourself or forgetting about your payments or points.
0:31.6	Hello, hello, hello and welcome to Bigger Puckets Money Podcast.
0:34.8	My name is Mindy Jensen, and with me as always is my co-host Scott Tredge,
0:38.8	who I always like to give a lot of credit to.
0:42.0	Nice one, Mindy. I'm going to give you a couple of points for that one.
0:45.6	All right, we're here to make financial independence less scary.
0:47.8	Less just for somebody else to introduce you to every money story because we truly believe
0:52.0	financial freedom is
0:52.8	attainable for everyone no matter when or where you're starting. Eli Fascenda
0:56.4	welcome to the BiggerPunkets Money Podcast. I am so excited to talk to you today.
1:00.6	It's great to be here. I'm really excited to dive in and talk about
1:03.0	you know credit points travel all the good stuff. Let's give a brief overview of what
1:07.1	exactly travel hacking is. Yeah so travel hacking is really taking the money that you already spend in your everyday life and turning those purchases into points and then using those points for travel.
1:20.0	Okay, now I say specifically for travel because there's people that do things like cash back or they'll take their points and go to Amazon or they'll get gift cards and you're leaving a lot of money on the table when you do this.
1:30.0	So travel
1:33.7	is about using your credit card spend and turning it into your ideal lifestyle,
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