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Credit Card Points, Rewards Miles, & Travel Hacking with Nick Ewen of The Points Guy
Millennial Travel Podcast 4: How to Optimize your Frequent Flier Miles and Rewards Points to Travel for Free!
Nick Ewen is Senior Editor at The Points Guy. He caught the travel bug at an early age and spent over a decade as a road warrior, earning and redeeming points & miles to visit over 40 countries across six continents.
I got Nick’s story on how he was able to travel while his wife was still in school and how they did it for free.
Nick says, start small, and not worry about signing up for every single points and mileage program in the world, and really helps us focus on what we want out of the travel hacking game. He gives his recommendations for best travel credit cards, best frequent flier programs, and how to optimize rewards points.
Nick has 21 open credit cards and claims that there has been no effect on his credit score! We talk about what the top no annual fee cards are and how someone with a small budget can travel frugally without paying fees. We also talk about what the best frequent flier allegiances are and how to navigate this complex game!
We also do a rapid fire round where Nick gives me his favorite travel related recommendations...
Favorite Airline
-Domestic: Jetblue
-International: Cathay Pacific
Favorite Hotel in the world
-Hilton Labris, Seychelles Islands
Favorite Airline Lounge
-Turkish Airline Lounge, Istanbul
-Cathay Pacific Lounge, Hong Kong
Travel Gear
-Amazon Kindle
Favorite Book or Movie for the Flight
-Narcos Colombia
-The Good Place
Book Recommendation
Narcos Colombia
The good place
Gear Recommendation
Kindle…
Favorite Airline
JB
Cathay Pacific
Favorite Hotel in the world
Secheylles hilton lebreeze
Favorite Airline Lounge
Turkish ailine lounge in istanbul
Cathay in hong kong
-delta hub
-capital one venture
-chase sapphire preferred