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Frequent Traveler Toolkit

Toolkit:

United.com – Searching award travel flights for Star Alliance

BritishAirways.com – Searching award travel flights for One World

Delta.com – Searching award travel flights for Sky Team

Mint.com – Tracking all your credit card accounts

AwardWallet.com – Tracking all your miles and hotel points

AwardMapper.com – Searching hotel point prices around the world

TripIt.com – Tracking your vacation plans by consolidating itineraries

AwardAce.com– An airlines award chart search engine

Gcmap.com – Calculating the distance between airports

 

Recommendations:

  • Get a Schwab.com checking account. It’s free, you get 0.1% interest and best of all there are no ATM fees anywhere in the world. I use this when traveling since I get close to the bank rate when taking out money.  I also just take out small sums of money since carrying a lot of currency is risky.
  • Get Google Project Fi phone service. They charge $20/month for the service and $10/Gb of data used.  Best of all they connect to the fastest network available and can be used internationally at no additional cost. Stay connected!
  • If you don’t want to figure out what the best value for your miles/points are, there are many “Award Booking Services” that will do all the research for you. Typical cost is $100-200.
  • If you need to understand why credit cards (when used responsibly) can be incredibly beneficial to you, NerdWallet has a great article here: https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-card-data/travel-credit-cards-study/

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