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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]