Miles and Points
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JetBlue Announces Intriguing Revision of their Loyalty Program
JetBlue, while not one of the core 3/4 U.S. based airlines has slowly increased their presence in the last few years. While the airline isn’t a member of any of the 3 Airline Alliances, they do have a unique partnership with American Airlines. Here’s the full scoop on JetBlue’s surprising tweaks to their loyalty program!…
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Cheap Hotels or Points Booking: An In Depth Look
Hotels can make a dent in your wallet quickly. That’s why I have come to love and adore booking free hotels nights with World of Hyatt and Hilton. Unlike airlines where rates and fees are transparent, Hotel imposed resort and parking fees can quickly add up. In this post, I will be looking at cheap…
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Manufactured Spending 2022: My Year End Review – Great Success
Manufactured Spending is a highly lucrative method to generate enormous amounts of miles and points. I’ve covered severed well known methods over the years, but here’s my full recap for Manufactured Spending 2022 even though we still have December left. Elite Statuses Earned Hyatt Globalist I stayed about 20 or so nights at Hyatt properties…
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Manufactured Spending: The Beautiful Art of Stacking
Manufactured Spending(MS for short), is my primary method of generating tens of thousands of points each year. This method can sometimes be tedious, but when I take a nice trip with Jen, it all feels worth it. A sub-segment of MS that I utilized emphasizes the important art of extreme deal stacking. This means double…
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Manufactured Spending: Is there Anything Left after 2022?
Manufactured spending is an art and the process of artificially spending with credit cards to generate miles and points. This creates tremendous value and this post will cover what still works in 2022 and beyond. Why I Manufactured Spend? Before we get into the weeds of what methods still work, let’s recap on why I…
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A Big Thank You to Jen: The Food Curator & My Awesome Other Half
Strictly Travel was a fun venture I started back in 2019. Originally, this was a way to learn how to blog as well as working on my programming skills. Prior to founding Strictly Travel, Jen and I were fresh out of college and just beginning to understand miles and points. Although Jen doesn’t write much,…