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Travel Hacking

Some guy's definition: Travel hacking is the art of collecting frequent flyer miles and points to travel for free.

Now travel hacking isn't limited to just collecting points nor is it about travelling completely for free.  My version of travel hacking is all about being travel savvy and being to take advantage known or unknown deals, workarounds, "hacks", and sometimes loopholes to come out on top and travel better (whether that means cheaper, longer, or happier).

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Best Hilton Honors Category 1 Hotels That Only Cost 5000 Points

The Hilton Honors program has gone through a lot of changes over the past years but there have always been a very small subset of hotels that were incredibly cheap on points.  They’re in areas that you would least expect so without further ado, here are the best Hilton Honors Category 1 hotels that only […]

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Travel Hacks: Travelling Europe for Cheap

Europe is one of those dream destinations that everyone has on their mind when they think about travel.  When I graduated, the idea of a trip to Europe was the only thing we considered but as you can imagine, we didn’t have a lot of money back then so we had to figure out how […]

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Travel Hack – How to get Free Boingo Wifi At US Airports

Airports that don’t offer free wifi drive me insane.  American airports are notorious for not offering free wifi and instead electing to use a service called Boingo where you either have to pay for a day pass to use wifi or pay a monthly fee to gain unlimited access to Boingo hotspots.  In this day […]

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Travel Hacking – Caching Your Google Maps For When You Have No Data

This is a familiar problem right?  You’re in a new country for a few weeks but you don’t have a data plan.  So there are a few things you can do.  You can use Google Maps when you have Wifi and take a bunch of screenshots and hope for the best or you revert back […]

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Free Hilton HHonors Points Experiment

Hilton HHonors

In February 2013, I introduced how you can get free Hilton Honors points through the TopGuest program.  Here’s a quick check-in on how things have been going. I’ve been diligently checking into my local Doubletree daily for over half a year now and I’m happy to announce that I’ve hit 10,000 free points by using […]

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Google Flights Explore

Google Flights Explore

Now have the power to do open ended search for flights based on regions You’ve probably heard or seen that Google has gotten into the flight search game.  What you didn’t know is they have an awesome cool new feature called Explore that’s kind of a hidden feature for now (one of many Google secret […]

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AMEX – Refer Yourself & Credit Card Churning

Refer Yourself

American Express credit cards are great for travel because you collect points that are versatile enough to be used as regular membership rewards points that can be used to converted into dollars to pay for travel spend or you can do direct conversions into programs you’re already part of like Aeroplan, SPG, or Honors.  It’s […]

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Save on Car Rentals – Car Rental Coupon Code Extreme

Car Rental Coupon Codes to Save You Hundreds I’ve always want to summarize all my knowledge about car rental coupon codes because I have random bits of notes here and there for when I need it. In a selfish way I guess I’m doing this for myself but now that this is on here you […]

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How to Use Priceline’s “Name Your Own Price”- Simplified

Bidding on Priceline with “Name Your Own Price” to get the best deal on hotels seems like a daunting task for those that don’t know how to do it but it really isn’t that hard.  My goal for this article is to break it down into the easiest way with an example, screenshots and everything. […]

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How to Hand Wash Your Clothes When Travelling

Washing your clothes while travelling isn’t something most people think about when you hit the road.  It sounds almost crazy right?  But the more you start thinking about it, the more it makes sense especially if you’re trying to figure out how the heck you can pack light.  How does everyone do it?  Instead of […]

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