Have you ever checked a round trip airfare to a small remote destination on one of the major airlines? We’ve often seen the price of a flight double by simply adding a small hop which could easily be done with a local flight for a great price with lots of availability.
Visitor passes usually bundle the cost of multiple attractions into one. In the end it’s more economical and convenient to skip the long line to buy tickets. You simply show the pass and walk in.
Nowadays we are not as loyal to the various affinity programs from airlines and hotels as we once were because these have gotten less valuable and the recognition is not what it used to be. That’s a whole other story but, if you are like us, you may find yourself traveling with an airline you […]
More and more, parking is becoming an automated thing around the word. The days of depositing coins into parking meters is long gone, and nowadays you pay via a machine with a credit card or download an app and pay on your phone. If you are planning to rent a car in your next international […]
We tend to book our trips well in advance and love travel planning. At any given time, we may have the next 2 or 3 (or even 5) trips in various stages of planning. In fact, we often do our planning around finding a great price on airfare. If something pops up that looks good, […]
We have been using travel reward cards to pay for travel, mostly because of their great benefits that include travel insurance. But with our Chase Reserve Sapphire card we got the keys to the coveted new Chase Sapphire lounges too.
Every year we review our travel rewards cards and reevaluate them based on upcoming travel preferences, our travel habits, and the choice of newly available credit cards. In doing so, we have learned a lot. Here are our tips on what to look for and how to evaluate the travel rewards credit card benefits and […]
This month’s travel tip is about car rental returns. My husband who is part of a major rental company’s affinity program enjoys benefits like quick check-in and check-out and paperless transactions where they send him an invoice by email. This is convenient and saves some time, but as he recently found out it does not […]
We have a convenient SunPass sticker that lets us drive through tolls on local Florida highways charging the fees to our credit card on file. Not only do we save money on the tolls but it is super handy! When traveling, the rental car companies charge an arm and a leg for tolls if you […]
On our recent trip to South America, we had organized a direct flight from Miami to Buenos Aires with a short stop before taking a local flight to Iguazu Falls and back. While American Airlines had a generous luggage allowance (even more so for elite members) we saw that our local Aerolinas Argentinas flight was not […]