Every quarter IHG rolls out a hotel promotion, specifically targeted to each person. Each and every quarter I calculate whether or not it makes sense to take part in the promotion and if it lines up with our travel plans.…
Points Family Travel Spinoff
You found us! We’re excited to launch the new Points Family site. Points Family was created as a spinoff from the Travel channel at My Dollar Plan. Going forward My Dollar Plan will continue to focus on retirement, taxes, investing…
How to Plan a Free Trip to Disney World: Free Tickets
We’re planning a trip to Disney World! Taking your family to Disney doesn’t have to cost thousands of dollars. My goal is to take our family on a “free” Disney trip by redeeming points, using credit card miles, finding deals…
How to Plan a Free Trip to Disney World: Redeem Hotel Points
We’re taking the kids to Disney World! However, I’m planning to spend as little money out of pocket as possible. Some friends mentioned that they spent just under $10k for their Disney World trip… I don’t know about you, but…
Use a Best Rate Guarantee for a Free Hotel Room
After we spent the holidays on our free trip to Steamboat, I was hooked on a new hobby, finding ways to travel for free. Many of us are familiar with earning points and redeeming them for free nights using hotel…
How We Earned a Free Trip to Steamboat
I love to ski, and luckily my kids all share the same love of the sport. It’s a great family activity, but as everyone knows it is not inexpensive family fun. I wanted to take the kids out west to…
Readers Share Frugal Camping Tips
I asked you to share your camping tips and tricks last summer in What Do I Need to Know About Camping? And after almost a year of planning, our camping trip is finally here! With some very helpful suggestions on…
Budget Travel Tips
We’re on vacation this week, so it’s perfect timing to feature this guest post by Matthew Kepnes. Matthew has been traveling on a budget for over three years. You can find out more at his website, Nomadic Matt. If you…
12 Tips to Prepare Your Finances for Vacation
Since we’re off on vacation, here’s a timely reminder to get your finances in order for vacation. This post originally appeared at My Two Dollars. Taking time off and traveling is fun, relaxing and sometimes stressful. Planning ahead and getting…
Travel the World: Gap Years and Personal Finance
Featured today is a guest post from Plonkee who writes at Plonkee Money. Plonkee lives in the UK, enjoys writing about personal finance and loves books! Be sure to subscribe to the Plonkee feed for more great articles. Photography: Oia by Wolfgang Staudt I don’t know what…