Most of you are no longer paying for flights or hotels for your vacations due to large credit card sign up bonuses. For those who haven’t quite reached that level we’ll show you how to get a massive discount on these expenses. I’ve decided to start experimenting with password protected posts as well.
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Getting a 6%+ discount on all of your travel (flight & hotels) is actually pretty easy. You’ll need to get a Travelocity American Express card from Barclay to begin with, this card earns 3 points per $1 spent at Travelocity. You might be thinking that this will result in only a 3% discount, but when you redeem Travelocity points in amounts greater than 20,000 points their value doubles to 2¢ per point.Â
You then need to pair this with a cash back portal to get an additional savings on all of your Travelocity purchases. The Barclay boost portal regularly offers 3% back on all Travelocity purchases (currently only at 1%) and a lot of other portals offer anything from the 1-6.5% range. It’s important to read to find out which purchases are and aren’t covered (if it says up to 6.5% chances are most purchases will NOT qualify at this rate). You can view a list of cash back portals here that deal with Travelocity.
There are some obvious downfalls to this method, you’re restricted to purchasing all of your travel through Travelocity. They usually have the best prices (or at least comparable) but this isn’t always the cash. You also need to fiddle around with cash back portal sites as well which can be slow to pay out or even nitpicky on what does & doesn’t count. There also used to be a card that earned 5 points at Travelocity which came with a $39 annual fee, this card is sadly no longer available.
I personally don’t use this method as I’ve got enough points/miles to fly and stay for free, but it can be useful for somebody who finds themselves doing a lot of cash bookings. [/cspasswordcode]
