☀️Our family decided to head out west this year over spring break.  We visited a place I had never been: San Diego!  We wanted some warmer weather, a beach, and to take in the zoo and Sea World. ✈️Flights We booked flights on our favorite airline, Southwest of course.  I have a companion pass, so […]

Points and Miles Trip Review: San Diego

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☀️Our family decided to head out west this year over spring break.  We visited a place I had never been: San Diego!  We wanted some warmer weather, a beach, and to take in the zoo and Sea World. ✈️Flights We booked flights on our favorite airline, Southwest of course.  I have a companion pass, so […]

Points and Miles Trip Review: San Diego

We just got back from four nights in New York City and it was a wild and fun adventure! Here are the details for this family trip from Kansas City to New York, NY. Getting There: We flew direct on Southwest from MCI to Laguardia (60,000 points total for all four of us thanks to our Companion […]

Points and Miles Trip Review: New York, NY

Using Your Points Close to KC: Tulsa, OK Tulsa may not be on your radar, but it can make for an easy get-away from KC with just around a 4 hour drive! My husband and I took a long-weekend trip here last summer over our anniversary. We wanted someplace easy to get to, but someplace […]

Using Your Points Close to KC: Tulsa, OK

If you start getting into points and miles travel, you will quickly learn that Hyatt is the hotel chain of choice by many.  The biggest reason is because of the value you get for the amount of points you spend.  An example would be, a Hyatt category 1 hotel would range for 3,500-6,500 points per […]

Why Hyatt?

Where are all of my Disney fans!?  Did you know you can use points and miles to cover Disney?  It can be done!   Our family took a paid vacation to Disney in October of 2022.  It was our first time as a family, and we thought we would be “one and done” people.  Well, that […]

Points and Miles Trip Review: Disneyland

My husband and I had an amazing vacation in Kauai, Hawaii this past summer!  We had planned to do something like this a couple of years ago for our 10th anniversary and to celebrate both of us turning 40. But, we were in a pandemic, so we held off.  We honestly weren’t sure we would […]

Points and Miles Trip Review: A Luxury Beach Stay in Kauai

We spent the week after Christmas in St. Augustine, FL and it was such an amazing week! We used points for almost the entire trip and paid for the flights, hotel, and rental car all with points (we saved almost $6k!). St. Augustine is the “oldest city in the US” and was originally settled in […]

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Points and Miles Trip Review: St. Augustine, FL

Southwest is the main airline Keri and I fly for a lot of reasons. They have a lot of great policies that make them great for families or people who want to make air travel more affordable. But the thing that really sets them above any other airline is their Companion Pass. The Southwest Companion […]

Companion Pass 101: What Is The Southwest Companion Pass?

This property has been on our bucket list since we started doing award travel and we finally did our long awaited trip last week. It absolutely lived up to the hype and was such an amazing experience! I’ll break down how we used points to book this trip and our reviews of everything below. How […]

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Points and Miles Trip Review: Hyatt Ziva Cancún

For years, my husband and I put as much spend as we could on our old Southwest card to earn points. Even after several years of using the card, we barely had enough points to buy flights for the two of us. We had the right idea but the wrong technique and our points got […]

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