I am Madhavi T and I started this blog to share some travel tips that helped me save money and travel to places around the world. Points and Miles, along with deals let me travel to beautiful, exotic and memorable places around the world smartly. One doesn’t have to break their bank to travel around the world. Anyone with financial discipline could travel to places of their choice at a fraction of cost than, one would spend conventionally. Using alternatives of points, miles and deals will let you take your dream vacations sooner.
I ran into the world of Points and Deals precisely around 2015. Being a newbie at the time, I had to go through a big learning curve to teach myself, on how to make use of Deals and Points to travel frequently for leisure. I definitely put some time into it, as there are lots of resources available online for this purpose. Once I saw the Benefit in collecting and using points for travel, I completely got hooked to what people in the travel world call “Travel Hacking”.
As it’s a common knowledge in the travel points and miles world that the fastest and easiest way to rack up lots of points and miles is by signing up to credit cards. Credit card signup Bonus Points and Miles are where one could collect plethora of points and miles from, other than daily spends made on dining, shopping, car rentals and other purchases. These points have taken me to places near and far and I still continue to travel, exploring new places all the time.
So far, I have travelled to all the seven continents Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, Europe, North America and South America in 2018. Overall, I had a chance to visit 75+ countries so far and I am still counting. Especially, these points and miles have let me spend more quality time with my loved ones.
As I live in USA, pandemic pushed me to travel to all the 50 states in USA, as I was locked within our big land mass. As the lockdowns eased, I was able to make it to all the provinces in Canada.
I am currently member of following airline and hotel loyalty programs.
Airline loyalty programs include:
- American Airlines AAdvantage(One World Alliance)
- Delta Airlines Skymiles (Sky Team Alliance)
- United Airlines Mileage plus (Star Alliance)
- Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan
- Jet Blue True Blue
- Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards
- Frontier Airlines Frontier Miles
- Spirit Airlines Free Spirit Miles
- Air Canada Aeroplan
- British Airways Avios
- Cathay Pacific Asia Miles
- Emirates Airways Skywards
- Ethihad Airways Etihad Guest
Hotel loyalty programs include:
- Starwood preferred guest/Marriot Rewards
- IHG Rewards
- Hilton Honors
- Wyndham Rewards
- Choice Privileges
- Radisson Rewards
I think, the first step to get into the points and miles world comes with signing up for these loyalty programs.
Here is the Map of the Counties I visited so Far
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