We traveled in Muslim majority countries in Southeast Asia for about six months straight: about four and half months in Malaysia, one month in Indonesia, and a few days in Brunei. News of and fear of attacks by radical Islamists around the world is widespread. Discussions of, and fear of, Sharia law is also a […]
Elite Hotel Status Nomadic Living Strategy Results – $26 per Day
A few months ago, I wrote about our plan to live as much as possible at major, global hotel chains using a combination of hotel loyalty points and paid stays. http://ournomadicexperience.com/elite-hotel-status-nomadic-living-strategy/ With our elite hotel status, we hoped to live comfortably and inexpensively by taking advantage of free meals and upgraded rooms. Two and a […]
Elite Hotel Status Nomadic Living Strategy
We retired at age 53 and travel the world full-time. We sold everything and live out of a suitcase and backpack each. We have just started our third year of retirement and are going to be spending most of our time in major brand hotels, primarily in the Starwood, Marriott and Hilton families for the […]
How We Stayed at a Hilton Garden Inn Hotel for $20 per Night
We just spent five nights at the Hilton Garden Inn in Foshan, China and used Hilton Honors points for our stay. You could say that we stayed for free since we used points, but points do have value. This time, I used some of the Hilton Honors points I recently purchased. I bought 80,000 points […]
Hub and Spoke Approach to Global Retirement Living
Over twenty years ago I saw an article about the top places to retire overseas. This concept fascinated my wife and me. We subscribed to the International Living magazine and read stories every month about people who had retired overseas and were living the life of their dreams. Most claimed to be living these incredible […]
Get Elite Hotel Status Quickly
If you stay in hotels for business or pleasure, you can improve your experience and save money by obtaining elite status with hotel chains. There are definite advantages to having status. I have Platinum status at Hyatt and IHG (Holiday Inn), will have Platinum status by the end of 2016 with Marriott and Starwood, and […]
My Free Luxury Hotel Stay in Paris
How would you like to stay five nights in Paris at four and five star hotels for free like I did? It was really quite easy, I used free hotel reward nights and points I got for signing up for a couple of hotel sponsored credit cards. I have made collecting lots of airline and […]
How I Amassed 1.3 Million Hotel and Airline Points in Less Than a Year
In early 2015 I decided to seriously work on collecting as many airline and hotel reward points as possible. When I looked at my total point balance at the end of 2015 and saw that I had accumulated 1.3 million points in less than a year, I even surprised myself at how successful I had […]
Re-positioning Cruises – A Low Cost Way to Travel
In January of 2016 at the age of 53 I retired from my job in corporate America and my wife and I now travel the world full-time. We feel that we are living a fantastic lifestyle for less than what a typical middle class lifestyle would cost in the United States. We do this by […]
Introduction to Points Hacking – how to accumulate loyalty points for free flights and hotels
When I retired, my wife and I had over 1.6 million airline, hotel, rental car and credit card loyalty points. We had accumulated about 1.3 million of those points in the previous 12 months. It took some research and study to figure out how to do this, but it is not that difficult once you […]