Chase – Your Mileage May Vary

Our Weekly Recap: 10/15/17 – 10/21/17

Happy Saturday, y’all! Here’s a list of what we posted this week.

Joe wrote about:

Timing your flights to save money on your car rentals.
How to earn 4x Chase Ultimate Rewards at Disney theme parks.
Our then-upcoming hotel stay where we weren’t quite sure we would fit in.
Strange travel quirks.
How traveling together can show you’re meant for each other.

Sharon wrote about:

A product that could be a huge help for when you want a hot meal in your hotel room.
Highway music like you’ve probably never heard before.
A website that can potentially help you figure out your itinerary when you travel.
Getting into the Halloween spirit by going to walk-through exhibit that may be the stuff of nightmares.
A modern-day look at Walt Disney World’s (Abandoned) Discovery Island.

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Earn up to 4x Chase Ultimate Rewards at Disney Theme Parks

Visiting a Disney theme park is expensive. There aren’t many discounts available so you want to try to maximize the amount of points you get back on the money you’re going to be spending anyway. I was at Disneyland yesterday and was reminded of an easy way to get extra points. I’m really mad at myself that I didn’t think of it right away.

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How To Avoid Extra Credit Card Fees During International Travel

Going on an international trip is very exciting but it can also be very expensive. Using a credit card to pay for purchases when traveling internationally is often the best way to get a good exchange rate and the rate your bank gets will be better than the one you’ll get on your own if you exchange cash. Using a card also means that you don’t have to carry around a bunch of cash with you. However, many cards will add on a “foreign transaction fee” to any transactions made with anything except your home currency. Here’s an easy way to keep from paying that extra 2-3 percent on all of your purchases while away.

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Our Weekly Recap: 6/4/17 – 6/10/17

Hello, friends! In case you missed it, here’s a quick recap of our posts this week:

Joe wrote about:

His thoughts on which credit cards to keep, which ones to downgrade and which ones to toss.
The pros and cons of staying at a chain hotel vs. an independently owned hotel on Key West.
Some tips on how to get a better boarding group if you’re flying on Delta.
How he FINALLY got his long-awaited Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card.
The process of how to get internet access in Cuba.

Sharon wrote about:

Her very first visit to The Mai-Kai, a 61-year-old Polynesian Tiki bar, restaurant and dinner show in Fort Lauderdale.
The 6/6/17 to 6/8/17 $49 air fare sale on SouthWest Airlines.
The changing of a beloved & historic Walt Disney World attraction and pondering why A.D.A. compliance and maintaining art & history can’t happen at the same time.
TBT! Their visit to the World Expo in Aichi Japan in April 2005.
A really weird thing that has been happening since 1989, whenever she goes on vacation.

Why It took Me So Long To Get the Sapphire Reserve Card

“You can’t always get what you want” – The Rolling Stones

The lyrics of Mick Jagger were of little comfort to me for the past nine months. I’ll be the first one to admit I can get a little nerdy when talking miles and points (edit by Sharon: a LITTLE nerdy?!?!) and with that being said, even *I* think I was a little TOO excited about finally getting this card. I mean it’s just a credit card but getting it was out of my grasp until now. Let me explain why I wanted it so badly and what was keeping me from getting it.

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Should you keep, downgrade or cancel a credit card that has an annual fee?

When you have a credit card with an annual fee, you should evaluate every year whether or not the benefits of keeping the card are greater than the cost of keeping the card. This would seem to be an easy thing to do but there are many variables that need to be taken into consideration. A card that has great value to one person may be useless to another and therefore when reading posts about if a card it worth it, remember that Your Mileage May Vary.

So what should you be thinking about when deciding if you should keep that card?

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How To Decide What Rewards Credit Card To Sign Up For Next

I’m at the point where I am ready to sign up for a new credit card. It’s always an exciting time when we’re almost finished with the spending requirements for our most recent cards. I’ve read many articles listing the “Best sign up bonuses” so I have an idea of what is available. Instead of making yet another list, I’ll give you some insight into the things I take into consideration when making a decision like this.

deltaplane — With several trips planned for this year, I need to replenish my miles and points.

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