My family just go back from a spring break trip visiting one of our favorite places! Our family just loves springtime in Arizona. We are big Royals fans, and the mix of sun, baseball, and family time always hits the spot this time of year! We have been to the Phoenix/Scottsdale area a bunch of […]

A Spring Break Trip to Arizona

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My family just go back from a spring break trip visiting one of our favorite places! Our family just loves springtime in Arizona. We are big Royals fans, and the mix of sun, baseball, and family time always hits the spot this time of year! We have been to the Phoenix/Scottsdale area a bunch of […]

A Spring Break Trip to Arizona

One of our favorite things about Southwest Airlines it the ability to get points or cash back on your booked flights if the prices drop! This means if you can book a flight, BUT later the price drops, you know you’ll have the ability to get points or cash/flight credit back. The process for doing […]

How to Get Points Back on Southwest Flights!

The easiest way to earn a Southwest Companion Pass for the longest period of time is using our “Go-to” strategy, but there are other ways to earn companion pass qualifying points. Check out some of these ways below. Use your Card that earns Rapid Rewards points Every time you use your card that earns Rapid […]

Other Ways to Earn Points Toward a Companion Pass

I have a smaller immediate family, but that for sure isn’t the case for a lot of people. We often get asked about tips when traveling with families of 5 or more. Obviously, I don’t have a ton of experience in this area, but we have heard many tricks from others that do it, so […]

Can you travel on points with a large family?  Yes, yes you can!

If you want to use points and miles long term, opening business cards is an essential part of your strategy. There are so many business cards out there and they often have great signup bonuses they are a great way to space out your personal cards and have a long-term travel card strategy. But there […]

Our Favorite Business Cards

At KC Savvy Travelers, we talk a lot about cards from a specific bank. But, once you get a little further into points and miles, it is good to start diversifying the points and miles that you earn! There are two cards from Capital One that we often talk about as our “next step” cards. […]

Our Favorite “Useful” Travel Cards

If you are exploring the world of award travel for the first time, there is one card you should consider first: the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card! The main idea of points and miles travel is that you open a travel card with a welcome offer, meet the required spend for the bonus offer using your normal […]

Our Favorite Starter Card

We are super excited about the new airport lounge at Kansas City International Airport (MCI)! We have gotten so many questions about how to get access to the airport lounge, so we wanted to explain more about the Escape Lounge as well as how you can access it. The new Escape Lounge at MCI includes: […]

Airport Lounge Access- It’s easier than you think!

Earning Extra Points: Many people with travel credit cards are earning points, but at a slow pace. Being strategic about using specific cards can really up your points earning potential! You will see people that travel with points saying that they earned 3X or 5X points. This basically means, instead of just earning 1 point […]

How to Maximize Your Points Earning Potential!

People are always looking for ways to save for Disney! Now that we have done both Disney World and Disney Land with points and miles, I can share with you some ways to save and use those points! How We Saved On Flights To Disney Flights might be the most straight-forward way of saving on […]

How We Saved Thousands At Disney Using Points and Miles

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