Susan Aksu
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How to Book Free Hotel Stays While Traveling
While traveling in Southeast Asia, one of the biggest money savers has been staying in hotel for free–for weeks at a time. The free hotel stays were booked using different methods: hotel points earned through credit card sign up bonuses, free credits earned from hotel booking apps and Best Rate Guarantees. In total, we booked 28…
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Backpacker’s Guide to Miles and Points: Ways to Earn US Airways Dividend Miles
In the Backpacker’s Guide to Miles and Points I will be going over airline mileage programs—I’ll cover the quickest ways to earn miles and how to maximize the miles to help make traveling for less much easier. With careful planning and following a few strategies you can easily get a free flight or two within…
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How to Get from Sapa to Chiang Mai via Laos
While planning our travels through Vietnam, we underestimated the amount of time and actual travel to get from one region to another. It may not look like a large country, but Vietnam is very long with shifty road conditions, so it could take a very long time to get from point A to B and…
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Backpacker’s Guide to Miles and Points: Introduction to Maximizing US Airways Miles
In the Backpacker’s Guide to Miles and Points I will be going over airline mileage programs—I’ll cover the quickest ways to earn miles and how to maximize the miles to help make saving for the trip of a life time much easier. With careful planning and following a few strategies you can easily get a free flight or…
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Top 5 Travel Credit Card Sign-up Bonus Offers for August 2014
Credit card sign up bonuses can be a great tool for offsetting major travel expenses and there are some great bonuses currently available. Each card, has its own perks and terms and conditions so the best credit card sign up bonuses are the ones that will benefit you and help you work towards a travel…
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Visiting the Sapa Highlands in Vietnam
I just spent 30 days in Vietnam while backpacking through South East Asia and Vietnam quickly has become one of my favorite countries that I have ever visited. One of the main reasons being Sapa, a great hill town in the northern Vietnamese highlands. I did the usual touristic stops that everyone visiting Vietnam must…
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How to Travel to Siem Reap from Bangkok
To travel from Bangkok to Cambodia, you have a few different options which depend on your budget, time and patience. You can take the train, a bus, or a cheap flight to get to Cambodia. Like for most people visiting Cambodia for the first time, my main motivation for traveling there was to experience Angkor…
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Tips for Getting Tailor Made Clothes While Visiting Vietnam
The last time I remember getting any type of clothes made was when I was 12. My mom made my sister and I matching red pea-coats for Christmas with a matching red barrette. I felt like a classy little 12 year old ready to take Paris by storm, but of course this was in Los…
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Top 5 Travel Credit Card Sign-up Bonus Offers for July 2014
Signing-up for credit card offers that award you free airline miles or hotel points is one of the easiest ways to travel for pennies on the dollar. I know there is no way that I would be on a three-month trip through Southeast Asia if I wasn’t able to book flights and hotel with the…
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How Credit Cards Can Help You Travel for Free
If you consider yourself to be financially responsible and have been looking for ways to offset travel expenses such as cheap plane tickets, transportation or free hotel stays, then credit card sign-up bonuses is an option you may want to consider. When I traveled in August and September, I flew Business Class on Turkish Airlines…