When my kids were younger, we enjoyed several fantastic stays at Great Wolf Lodge. Today only, February 29, 2024, you can find some fantastic sale prices by using the promo code LEAP. Some rooms/dates are as low as $29 per person, which includes the overnight stay and the waterpark. This promo is good at multiple […]

Earlier this month, I applied for and received the Bilt Mastercard. This card finally made sense to get since we will be paying rent for my son’s college apartment later this year. Plus, I love that transfer partners include American Airlines and Hyatt. Even though I’ve only had this card a few weeks, it’s already […]

It’s that time of year again. Hyatt just announced award category changes that will take place on March 26, 2024. You can see the announcement and all of the hotels here. Notable Changes In total, 183 properties are changing categories. Unfortunately, more properties are increasing (137) than decreasing (46). Several fan favorite aspirational properties and […]

This is my annual reminder post: If you use TurboTax or TaxAct online software for your taxes, don’t forget to sign in through a shopping portal to earn miles, points or cash back. An easy way to see all the rewards is on cashbackmonitor.com. From this site, you can see that United, American, Alaska, Delta […]

My family loves having TSA PreCheck/Global Entry. We are so accustomed to the shorter/faster airport security lines that we’d really miss it if we didn’t have it. In a few weeks, my family is splitting up to fly to Portugal. Two of us are flying on TAP Air Portugal, and two of us are flying […]

This past weekend, we encountered a stressful situation. A family member who lives in another city was in a horrible accident. The local hospital could not treat his injuries, so he was transferred to a Level I trauma center via ambulance a few hours away. We found out this information in the evening, and my […]