Using Points To Retire To Hotels Starting From Zero - Full Retirement Travel Budget Breakdown

Published 2024-02-26
Today we share with you the ultimate retirement points guide and our full retirement travel budget breakdown.
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We break down the best hotel credit card programs. We go over step by step how to book hotels and where to book them for the best point redemptions. Using points to retire to hotels is a great way to keep costs down.

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All Comments (21)
  • This has to be the best YouTube channel ever. Easy breakdown, doable, and no if and or butt about it. Luxury for Less! Thanks guys!
  • This presentation gave me a paradigm shift. I have to get out of debt so I can change the way I live. I thank you for showing me some possibilities for my future.
  • @MarleneGreen
    But wait there’s more… Recall you pointed out in your prior video not having to spend on line items like insurance, taxes, water, electricity, maintenance & household items that we do for our own home. All are eliminated when slow travel living in a hotel. Brilliant strategy!
  • @titanispi1998
    Great info! Now if you can do that for Europe and South America it would be great. Looking forward to the plane tips.
  • @paulbiel517
    Thanks for the amazing breakdown that finally reveals how to make these cards work! Comments on how good these cards could be always seemed like exaggerated hyperbole or requiring some kind of complex shell game to make it work. Your step by step guide is what I needed to realize the benefit. This is the first real breakdown I've seen of this on YouTube. Appreciate your analytical engineering minds and willingness to share! Thanks!
  • @pamelanurse2024
    After watching this I got an IHG credit card and transferred my Chase points to Southwest Airlines and Hyatt to cover my flight and hotel to Fort Lauderdale before my transatlantic cruise. So grateful for the tips!!
  • @dotted8-
    If you are going to be in Hiroshima in late March, take a short trip to the Kintai Bridge Park near Iwakuni to see beautiful cherry blossoms in bloom. Was there 10 years ago and was amazing (my first cherry blossom experience).
  • @abhaykedare7146
    That was amazing. Been watching lot many youtubers spending 3-4K a month in south east asian countries, and with your 786 budget for a month, just blowed up my mind. Points to be considered here is: 1. No need to pay any electricty bill. 2. No need to pay for extra laundry. 3. No need to pay for food. 4. No need to hire a person to clean the rooms.
  • @catherine8332
    Mind blowingly useful. Seriously my brain is cracked open and filled with knowledge I would’ve never gotten otherwise. Thank you.
  • @KandyGTV
    I love this, I'm taking my daughter to Japan for her graduation gift and this is the perfect solution for us to stay for longer!
  • @kaykay4832
    I love your channels you guys are like best friends to all of us… thank you so much for being so willing to share your information with us.. and not making it difficult to understand that’s awesome! Plus you guys have awesome personalities. God Bless You for your generosity!❤
  • @wgarnsey
    Another awesome video. Thank you for providing a great blueprint for our travel. We used AirBNBs for years (and have been hosts) and just got so disappointed in the declining quality and high expections (cleaning and huge cleaning fee) that hosts had for their guests. Your hotel living hack is brillant and will fit well into our plan. My wife worked a 30 year career for the airlines. I just retired. We like SE Asia and the Mediterrean. We think this hotel living lifestyle could work well for our intended 50% travel plan.
  • @kathyoliva6966
    Fabulous THANK YOU! Plus, as you note in many other videos, these wonderful hotels also provide cleaning (often daily), fresh towels, fresh linens etc. FANTASTIC
  • @ncbeltz
    I just love you guys and so appreciate your presentations ❤