✈️ Your 2025 Travel Strategy: Maximize Points, Minimize Costs

Good morning ☀️ from Booked It On Points: A curated collection of travel tips and personal stories by me, Allie→ because you’re meant to experience meaningful travel no matter life’s constraints 👊🏽

Let’s dive in.

Here’s what’s on today—

📉 Our friends at AirFrance have done it again and I did the math.

Here’s the math:

$829-$111 (this is the taxes/fees if you booked the flight in miles)= $718

Now we divide 718/20,000pts (cost in points)= 0.0359.

Then we multiply by 100 which = 3.5 cents per mile- this is HUGE value.

See what I did there? Anything over 1.5 cents per mile is a great deal!

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TOP STORY: Find travel success in 2025

It’s reflection time. How many emails, tiktoks, gifs, reels, etc have you received this month with the end of year messaging of ‘reflection’- on self, on business, on relationships?

I just got off an hour zoom Soul Vision Session to gear up for 2025 and it was everything, setting me up with some much needed clarity and alignment 🙏🏼

This letter today is quick steps to align your 2025 travel goals to ensure they happen. If you take a minute to sit down and focus on these things below, you’re setting yourself up for your best trip yet.

2025 Travel Strategy: because you’re worth it

• Plan the PTO: Lay out a 2025 calendar and start to brainstorm. Highlight holidays, long weekends, and any opportunity you see to step away from your desk. Follow this layout to discover how to turn 11 days of PTO into 44.

• Be clear on budget: We’ve all got a budget, I don’t care how much money you have. What’s realistic for you this year? Is this the year for a full-on African safari? Or is this a year you’ll focus on more local get-aways?

  Understand what’s realistic so you aren’t wasting time (or emotions) searching destinations that aren’t aligned with this year’s travel budget.

• Understand your points: Know what credit card/airline points you have, how many and where they are? Do you have points laying around in accounts you don’t really use? Organize all your points (same goes for your P2) in a spreadsheet to get a good understanding of your currency.

• Know your booking window: I wrote about the best time to book flights here. So set all the Google Flight trackers now to get alerts for flights you’re hoping to snag as soon as those prices drop.

• Downgrade/Cancel: Yesterday I sorted my collection of credit cards. I downgraded a personal Southwest credit card of mine. Why? Because for 2025 I don’t anticipate flying Southwest and therefore won’t need any credit card perks. I’ll be refunded the annual fee that just posted. This practice ensures I’m not wasting money on annual fee cards I have no use for.

• Apply for a new credit card: This is my wheelhouse, ya’ll. Time to lay out your cards and strategize for next year.

• I’ve created this tool to help you reach 500,000 points in 2025 ⤵️

  Simple Strategy How to Earn 500K Points.pdfFollow these simple steps to learn how to earn 500K points this year! 130.53 KB • PDF File Download

  Need something more personal? Hit reply and let’s talk credit cards.

*Block out some time for this. No one gets excited by waiting until the last minute only to see they’ve missed all the deals and opportunities to take the trip they’d hoped for.

✈︎ Travel News

Quick hits

• A good excuse to hit the streets of NYC this winter→ Save 25% on your hotel stay.

• More than your wallet, uploading your passport to you mobile wallet could soon be the new normal.

• 25 places to visit in 2025- we have plans to hit 4 of these destinations, how about you?

• Need help getting compensated for a flight delay? These guys can help.

• Frontier’s annual pass, for 50% off.

🎁 Holiday Offering! If you reach out before the end of the 2024, I’m offering these services at 50% off. You’re 1 step away from understanding everything you need to book your (nearly) free travel in Points + Miles. Give yourself the priceless gift of travel this holiday season. Let me support you, simply hit reply!

💡 Don’t have the points game going yet? Did you know I’m also an Independent Travel Agent? Miles? Points? Cash? I’m here for all of it. Reach out, you’re 1 trip away from a life changing experience!

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Travel is powerful. Let 2025 be your year to experience something incredible.

Thanks for being here and have a great Tuesday!

Allie