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Destinations, Points and Miles, Travel Business Class, Egypt

EgyptAir 787-9 Business Class from Cairo to New York

April 25, 2021

Last January, we spent a week in Egypt booked mostly with points and miles. We flew to Egypt in economy so we were really looking forward to our flight back to the U.S. in business class. EgyptAir isn’t known for having a particularly great business class product, but getting to lie down for the 12…

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Credit Cards, Points and Miles Churning, Results

Credit Card Applications and Results: Fall 2020

February 28, 2021

I’m starting to sound like a broken record, but again, this post is not the most interesting as there was a lot less action since my last update. 2020 is a tough year for churning! We’ve slowed down on opening cards since we really just aren’t spending as much money during quarantine. Here are our…

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Destinations, Points and Miles, Travel Egypt, Points redemption

A Trip to Egypt Using Points and Miles

January 10, 2021

Last January we took a 10-day trip to Egypt with portions of the trip booked with points and miles. We took a 3-night Nile cruise which was our largest out-of-pocket expense, but we were able to get other hotels and our flights to and from Cairo using points and miles. Here’s the breakdown of our…

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Points and Miles

2020 in Review

December 27, 2020

2020 was interesting to say the least. We started off with an amazing trip to Egypt in January and we were lucky to squeeze in a trip to San Diego in early March right before COVID-19 shutdowns began. Things quickly went downhill from there. With flying out of the question, we canceled a trip to…

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Destinations, Points and Miles, Travel Abu Dhabi, First Class, UAE

Impressions of Etihad A380 First Class Apartments

November 22, 2020

After nine amazing days in France, we headed to Charles de Gaulle to continue the rest of our two week trip in the United Arab Emirates. We flew Etihad Airways A380 First Class Apartments twice on this trip: from Paris to Abu Dhabi and from Abu Dhabi to New York. This isn’t going to be…

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Credit Cards, Points and Miles Churning, Results

Credit Card Applications and Results: Summer 2020

October 25, 2020

After a slow spring of churning, I got more aggressive over the summer. This is when I realized that it is not a good time to apply for Chase business cards. I decided I needed to slow down with Chase in general so I pivoted to some other cards. Here are our credit card applications…

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Credit Cards, Points and Miles Churning, Results

Credit Card Applications and Results: Spring 2020

September 13, 2020

Well, this is going to be a short update. After a somewhat productive winter of churning where I earned the Companion Pass, spring was very eventful on the global news front, but less so when it came to opening credit cards. Between having nowhere to travel and spending less money, we couldn’t justify opening too…

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Destinations, Points and Miles, Travel Points redemption, South Dakota, USA

A Midwest Road Trip Using Points

August 12, 2020

This July, we planned to fly to California for a wedding in Napa. After the wedding, I had the perfect Highway 1 itinerary all ready to go with stops in Big Sur, Santa Barbara, and LA. Thanks to COVID-19, the wedding was moved to next year, Ventana Big Sur canceled our reservation, and we generally…

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Destinations, Points and Miles, Travel Air France, Business Class

Air France 777 Business Class Boston to Paris

July 12, 2020

Click here for more from our Croatia vacation series! I flew Air France business class last summer from Boston to Paris en route to Zagreb, Croatia. My pictures aren’t super extensive, but I want to share anyway. This was a special flight because it was my mom’s first time in business class. You can read…

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Points and Miles, Travel Tips Air France, France

Booking Air France Air & Rail Trips with Miles

June 28, 2020

Last year when planning our trip to France, I decided to start our itinerary in Alsace. That meant we needed to figure out the fastest way to get ourselves to Strasbourg. I wanted to use Flying Blue miles for our flights so that left two options. We could either fly on KLM through Amsterdam to…

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