We're Using Our Airmiles Card for Vacation

It's time for a vacation and the accumulated miles on our Airmiles Credit Card has enough to get us two round-trip tickets anywhere in the lower 48. Since we're planning a trip in February, we don't have much to worry about blackout dates.

I've often considered switching over to Delta for our airmiles card but I've been using the United Mileage Plus card for quite some time; hence, long enough to accumulate two tickets for vacation. I really like Delta Air and tend to use them as our choice air carrier.

Sometimes you don't have a choice of airlines and for a while I was flying United at least once a month and eventually they offered a card through Chase. The card had no annual fee, which is unheard of for airmiles cards so I grabbed one up. Delta and the other airlines have cards, but they're fee free the first year and the $75 thereafter. Not worth it if it takes 5 years to accumulate enough frequent flyer miles on purchases alone.

So for now we're stuck with United for our airmiels card until someone offers a better deal.

To really exploit your card, you need to use it whenever you book hotel or rent a car. You get 1 mile for every dollar you spend plus 500+ ff miles for your hotel stay. Our last trip to ATL, we used our Mileage Plus card to rent a Jeep Cherokee. Since it was a driving trip, we booked our hotel rooms with Hilton and got miles just about every night we checked-in.

We've never been to NYC and that should be a nice trip to take to spend on Valentines day or on our wedding anniversary. Now if I can keep it a suprise from my Wife...

Until next time, remember to pay off your credit cards each month to avoid those hefty interest rates those companys charge use to keep us in debt.