Free travel

You’re probably not traveling much these days, but you could be banking some free travel later. Without flying or checking in anywhere. The actions you take now, just by adjusting how money flows through your accounts, could lead to free flights, free hotel rooms, and mostly free vacations a year from now. One of the …

If you’re visiting a big city on almost any continent and are looking to stretch your budget, try to time your travels so that you will have all of Sunday there. It’s often the best time to bike around or take a walk without dodging cars. It’s usually also a good time to catch some …

Earning free flights and complimentary hotel rooms doesn’t require riches or celebrity. It also isn’t all very difficult or complicated if you have a decent credit rating.  It’s easiest in the USA, where the whole “perks for loyalty” idea got codified originally, but if you search for travel hacking ideas where you live, you’ll probably …

Over the course of a year I once won 11 pairs of concert tickets, five CDs, and $98 from just two radio stations in my city. Was I lucky? Maybe a little, but really there was one thing that set me apart: I put out the effort to enter. What set Lindsey of Connecticut apart, …

Need a place to crash? Well, you don’t need to have dozens of friends scattered around the world to find a place to rest your head. If you own a home, you can exchange your house for a week, a month, or maybe more. Homeowner or not, you can sign up with a program that …