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The Trips That Weren’t

Last Updated on January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 2 Comments
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the trips that werent

2020 started out as a year full of travel and excitement for me and my family. There was a lot to look forward to. Most important, of course, was the birth of our son early in the year. Our family of two was now a family of three. The rest of 2020 was going to […]

Filed Under: Travel, Travel Hacking

My Road Trip Home During The Pandemic – And Using Points To Book Suites Along The Way

Last Updated on August 28, 2021September 2, 2020 Leave a Comment
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About a year ago, I booked a two-week trip to Greece for a friend’s wedding. This trip was going to be a big one, with my wife, myself, and our future baby all headed overseas to celebrate with our friends (our son would be 5 months old by the time we started our trip – […]

Filed Under: Travel, Travel Hacking

A Thanksgiving Trip To Miraval Arizona Resort & Spa With Hyatt Points

Last Updated on February 5, 2024February 27, 2020 6 Comments
This post may contain affiliate links. Affiliate Disclosure.This post may contain affiliate links. Financial Panther has partnered with AwardWallet and CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. Financial Panther, AwardWallet, and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers. Some or all of the card offers that appear on the website are from advertisers. Compensation may impact on how and where card products appear on the site. The site does not include all card companies, or all available card offers. Opinions, reviews, analyses & recommendations are the author’s alone, and have not been reviewed, endorsed or approved by any of these entities.

Editors Note: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here. One of the things that travel hacking has allowed me to do is to travel a lot more – and to do so in ways that I wasn’t able to do before. Back in December, I wrote about a spontaneous […]

Filed Under: Travel, Travel Hacking

Combining SoFi Experiences And Travel Hacking For Free Flights And Free Events

Last Updated on August 24, 2021December 26, 2019 6 Comments
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sofi experiences

It’s been a while since I’ve talked about SoFi and how much value I’ve received from refinancing my student loans with them way back in 2015. Refinancing did two things for me. First, it dramatically lowered my interest rate, which made it easier for me to pay off my student loans as fast as I […]

Filed Under: credit cards, Student Loans, Travel, Travel Hacking

Financial Panther 2018 Personal And Blog Year In Review

Last Updated on August 24, 2021January 19, 2019 15 Comments
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2018 blog and personal finance recap

With 2019 just starting up, I thought it’d be a good time to look back at 2018 and review how my year went, both personally and on this blog. What follows is a post that covers four things: (1) a brief financial year in review; (2) a travel year in review; (3) a blog year […]

Filed Under: Blogging, My Story, Travel

What’s In My Wallet: A List Of All Of My Credit Cards

Last Updated on February 5, 2024June 26, 2018 23 Comments
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Over the past year and a half, my wife and I have accumulated hundreds of thousands of points and miles from the strategic opening and use of credit cards. These points and miles have served us well, allowing us to do a ton of traveling over the past year that we otherwise wouldn’t have been […]

Filed Under: credit cards, Travel, Travel Hacking

Earning Our First Southwest Companion Pass

Last Updated on February 5, 2024January 20, 2018 9 Comments
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Editors Note: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here. A few days ago, my wife and I earned our first ever Southwest Companion Pass. We’d set out to earn this perk last year when a deal came up that gave us the opportunity to earn the Companion Pass in the […]

Filed Under: Travel, Travel Hacking

How Much Does It Cost To Go To FinCon? (Plus A FinCon Recap)

Last Updated on August 11, 2021November 1, 2017 57 Comments
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How-Much-Does-It-Cost-To-Go-To-FinCon

A few years ago, when I was a brand new, baby blogger, I learned about an event called FinCon. If you’ve never heard of FinCon, it’s basically a gathering of personal finance bloggers and podcasters (with the occasional YouTuber thrown in). Yes, it’s as nerdy as it sounds. But if you’re deep in this personal […]

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A Weekend In New York City, Compliments of Hyatt and SoFi

Last Updated on August 11, 2021October 12, 2017 13 Comments
This post may contain affiliate links. Affiliate Disclosure.This post may contain affiliate links. Financial Panther has partnered with AwardWallet and CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. Financial Panther, AwardWallet, and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers. Some or all of the card offers that appear on the website are from advertisers. Compensation may impact on how and where card products appear on the site. The site does not include all card companies, or all available card offers. Opinions, reviews, analyses & recommendations are the author’s alone, and have not been reviewed, endorsed or approved by any of these entities.

weekend in new york city

Last month, my wife and I flew to New York for a wedding up in the Hudson River Valley. Neither of us had been to New York in quite some time. The last time I was in New York was for callback interviews in the summer between my first and second year of law school […]

Filed Under: Travel, Travel Hacking

Southwest Companion Pass – How To Fly For Free For Two Years

Last Updated on February 5, 2024September 25, 2017 23 Comments
This post may contain affiliate links. Affiliate Disclosure.This post may contain affiliate links. Financial Panther has partnered with AwardWallet and CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. Financial Panther, AwardWallet, and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers. Some or all of the card offers that appear on the website are from advertisers. Compensation may impact on how and where card products appear on the site. The site does not include all card companies, or all available card offers. Opinions, reviews, analyses & recommendations are the author’s alone, and have not been reviewed, endorsed or approved by any of these entities.

southwest companion pass

Editors Note: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here. Ever since I began travel hacking, I’ve kept hearing about the Southwest Companion Pass and how beneficial it is to have. Many people consider it one of the best travel hacking perks you can earn, allowing you and a partner […]

Filed Under: credit cards, Travel, Travel Hacking

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