Hello travel peeps! It is Ashley Renne from
Travel Lushes and i'm here with another
vlog for you and this one is going to be
about how I was able to go on my honeymoon to Asia for free.
everybody likes free stuff right so I'm
gonna tell you exactly what i did in
order to go to Bali and Hong Kong for
nothing at all.
So we actually just got married. It was a
wonderful wonderful beautiful ceremony
We got married at this really beautiful
rooftop venue overlooking the city of
Atlanta. I had my bridesmaids dressed up
in saris. They looked gorgeous.
We danced. We partied. We ate great cake. We ate
great food. We even had our first dance
choreographed thanks to my friend Shara
Jackson. She's awesome. And then we go away by
helicopter at the end of the night. It
was just a really awesome right. And then
two days later we went on our honeymoon
and that was awesome as well. So how were
we able to go on our honeymoon for free?
That's what I want to talk to you guys
about. This is not a sponsored post.
Nobody is paying me to say this. I'm going to tell you
exactly what i did in order to go to
Asia for nothing at all.
So having travel hacking? Travel hackers
are basically people who, they chase, like
rewards, points, and miles, and
you know, they try and game the system
in order to travel for free. Well, that's
kind of what we did.
So basically several months before the
wedding we ordered the chase sapphire
preferred credit card. I ordered one and he
ordered one. I also got another credit
card but I'll get into that later. With
the chase sapphire preferred card you
get 50,000 bonus points when you spend
four thousand dollars in the first three
months. Now because we were planning a
wedding, that was
really easy to do. Each of us were
easily able to spend four thousand
dollars in the first three months. We
were easily able to get those 50,000
bonus points each together. That was a
hundred thousand bonus point that we
were able to put towards miles for our
flight to Asia. Yeah I mean awesome.
And so here's where the travel hacking part
comes in because I didn't just get the
Chase Sapphire Preferred card, I also
got another credit card to use in
conjunction with my Chase Sapphire
Preferred card. I got the Chase Freedom
card, because with the Chase Freedom card, you get
five times the points in certain
categories. So let's say that from
October to December they have a category
for gas and groceries where if you use
your credit card for all of your gas and
grocery purchases you get five times
the points. So for October through
December I would use my Chase Freedom card for
gas and groceries and for all other
purchases I would use my chase sapphire
preferred card so I'm able to really
maximize every single dollar that I'm
spending and with the Chase Sapphire
Preferred card, you get double the points if
you use it on travel related items so like
flights, hotels, even restaurants so I'm
getting double points from my chase
sapphire preferred card and i'm getting
five times the points on certain items
with my chase freedom card. Now the
beautiful thing about these two cards is
you can combine the point so you can
transfer everything from your chase
freedom card to chase sapphire card and
that's what I did. When it came time to book
my travel, I transferred all of my points
from the Chase Freedom card onto my chase sapphire
preferred card and then Karl and I
linked our credit cards so that I was also
able to have him transfer his 50,000 bonus
points and his other points that he
amassed from you know spending stuff for
our wedding, we were able to transfer all his
points onto my credit card so my
Chase Sapphire Cared now has my 50,000
bonus points, his 50,000 bonus points,
and any points that I amassed on my
chase freedom card. That was a boatload of
points and we were able to use it all
to book two plane tickets. My ticket and his ticket
to Bali and Hong Kong.
How awesome is that? We didn't have to pay
for it because we just used points. So I
highly highly recommend using points if
you can to travel. I mean, it's like
free money because you're basically just
getting rewarded for money that you're
already going to be spending anyway and
that is exactly how we were able to travel
for free on our honeymoon. You know
we're both very responsible people so
you know when it comes to finances, nothing
that we spend just sits on our
credit card. We paid it off every single
month. I've never had a balance on my card
that I didn't pay off in the end of the
month. So if you are a financially
responsible person then i highly
recommend getting a credit card that has
good travel rewards but there are other
credit cards out there that I heard were
also great. The Capital One Venture card
for example was really awesome and
the good thing about that card is you get
2 times the points on every dollar you
spend not just on certain categories, not
just on travel, not just on you know
hotels and restaurants. On every dollar
spent on the Capital One venture card.
But I ended up doing the Chase Sapphire Preferred
card and and the chase freedom card
and I
combined this point along with Kar's points
to book the travel for my honeymoon. So
that is it, that is how we were able to
travel and go on our honeymoon for FREE. For free!
And if this video was helpful to you, give it a
thumbs up please
And I want to know, have you ever travel
hacked?
Have you ever used points to travel for
free let me know in the comments below
because i want to know your story I want
to hear if it never worked for you. And also
just know I'm gonna be coming out with
weekly vlogs about our honeymoon so
you're going to see our Honeymoon
Diaries, everything that we did
in Bali and Hong Kong, all the fun that we had
All of that is coming up, so subscribe
for weekly videos coming your way. That
is it that is all I have for you guys
today.
Thank you so much for tuning in and I
will see you next week with a new vlog.