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How to plan a trip to anywhere via travel hacking

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on June 9, 2016 | Featured

I was at a party recently where the conversation turned to travel. One person in particular was trying to get to a destination (somewhere in South America, I forget the specific city) the following month, and wanted to know how they … Read More … Read More

Tags: flights, planning, travel hacking

Travel hacking to get to Buenos Aires (for cheap)

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on July 31, 2014 | Featured

I’ve talked about how to buy frequent flyer miles for immediate use in travel, and why it could potentially be a good deal to do so. But why stop at theory? Here is the story of how I helped … Read More … Read More

Tags: Buenos Aires, frequent flyer miles, miles, travel hacking

Travel hacking blunders: The lounge

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on June 19, 2014 | Featured

Travel hacking is not all about glamour and flying around the world with ease and style. It’s also about trying out schemes and having them totally not work. So continuing on from my post on blowing an opportunity to … Read More … Read More

Tags: airline lounge, blunders, travel, travel hacking

Travel hacking blunders: The hotel

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on June 16, 2014 | Featured

I’ve talked about how I’ve used travel hacking to allow me to have experiences that I wouldn’t have been able to accomplish any other way. I frequently stay in hotels for free, and have on more than one occasion … Read More … Read More

Tags: blunders, hotels, mistakes, travel, travel hacking

Travel hacking to challenge your ethics

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on May 1, 2014 | Featured

The speaker was talking about a particular product, and was asking the crowd how many of this product the members of the audience had. A show of hands. One person in the crowd asked: “Isn’t that product limited to one … Read More … Read More

Tags: ethics, travel, travel hacking

Can you trust travel hacking blogs?

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on December 9, 2013 | Featured

I read travel hacking blogs all the time. Brian, Summer, Gary, and Lucky are my equivalent of The Today Show, blogs I digest with my morning tea. They freely give frankly some invaluable advice and have some engrossing stories, … Read More … Read More

Tags: affiliates, bloggers, blogs, travel, travel hacking, trust

Travel hacking to get the whirlpool suite in a sold-out hotel

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on July 22, 2013 | Featured

I like to play the travel hacking game. I suspect you likely do too, considering this post is one of the most frequently-viewed pages on this site. I play the game a bit differently from many other people though. … Read More … Read More

Tags: hotels, travel hacking, upgrades

Travel hacking to get free hotels

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on May 2, 2013 | Featured

I stayed at the Holiday Inn in Gwangju, South Korea. The question that invariably popped up whenever I told anyone that I was staying in Gwangju (even Koreans all said this) was, “why!?” Yikes, do they know something I … Read More … Read More

Tags: flights, hotels, travel, travel hacking

How to travel debt-free

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on July 26, 2021 | Featured

Most people travel and then figure out how to pay for it, but with my plan, you figure it out in advance and come home debt-free. We’re at the point in the pandemic where the average person in the U.S. … Read More … Read More

Tags: planning, travel, travel planning

Conferring with the enemy (Part 1): A credit card for a travel plan

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on March 23, 2015 | Featured

All posts in this series: Conferring with the enemy (Part 1): A credit card for a travel plan Conferring with the enemy (Part 2): Fulfilling minimum spend requirements on a credit card Conferring with the enemy (Part 3): The waiting (for … Read More … Read More

Tags: aer lingus, avios, award travel, Boston, british airways, credit cards, Dublin, flights, London, planning

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