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Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways

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Planning your next vacation? Before you budget, learn how to get the most out of your travel dollars with Smart Travel. NerdWallet’s trusted travel experts, Sally French and Meghan Coyle, are here to help your travel dollars work even harder. But the travel Nerds don’t just make recommendations; they break down the latest travel details, exploring the pros and cons of specific strategies, practic... more

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Learn the best and worst days to fly for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's, plus when to book to save on airfare.

Hosts Sally French and Meghan Coyle discuss the best days to fly and book around Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's to help yo... more

What does Southwest's loyalty overhaul mean for the Companion Pass, elite status and credit card earning in 2027?

Hosts Sally French and Meghan Coyle discuss Southwest's Rapid Rewards overhaul to help you figure out whether the Companion Pass and el... more

Learn how to find award availability for hard-to-book business class flights and hotels using your points and miles to travel.

Hosts Sally French and Meghan Coyle discuss how to find availability for hard-to-book award flights and hotels to help you... more

Learn how to use award travel search tools like Seats.aero to find flights you can book with points and miles.

Hosts Meghan Coyle and Sally French discuss how to search for award flights across dozens of airline loyalty programs to help you get more... more

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Recent Guests

Craig Joseph
NerdWallet lead travel writer who covers award travel and travel points valuations
NerdWallet
Episode: How to Book Business Class With Points: Award Availability Tips for Flights and Hotels
Ian Carroll
Founder of Seats.aero, an award search tool
Seats.aero
Episode: How to Find Award Flights With Points: Tips From the Seats.aero Founder
Tiffany Leung
Listener, small business owner and competitive lifter
Home Gym (Dublin, CA)
Episode: Ten Credit Cards, One Strategy: Which Annual Fees Are Worth Paying
Chris Hutchins
Host of All the Hacks Podcast and travel expert
All the Hacks / independent
Episode: Chris Hutchins' Top Points and Miles Tips, Straight From “All the Hacks”
Kiersti Torok
Coupon Hunter, Torok Coupon Hunter
Torok Coupon Hunter / Disney-focused couponing
Episode: How to Coupon Your Way Around the World, with Torok Coupon Hunter
Frederick Jones
Director of Rooms & Guest Relations at NH Hotel Group
NH Collection New York / NH Hotel Group
Episode: What to Ask Your Hotel Concierge: Free Upgrades, Insider Deals, and What Most Travelers Miss
Paul Bernardini
Head of Marketing
Flighty
Episode: Your Flight Got Canceled. Here's How to Beat Summer's Worst Travel Chaos
Dr. Andrew Kahn
Licensed psychologist, Associate Director of Expertise and Behavioral Health Innovation at Understood
Understood
Episode: The ADHD Traveler's Guide to Airport Security, Budgeting and Staying on Schedule
Zu Rakuthu Nirina
Tour guide in Madagascar
Independent tour guide (Madagascar)
Episode: The Hidden Costs of "Cheap" Countries: What $300 a Day in Madagascar Really Buys You

Hosts

Meghan Coyle
NerdWallet travel expert
Sally French
NerdWallet travel expert

Reviews

4.4 out of 5 stars from 407 ratings
  • The review

    Really good will keep listening to it

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    TheMobig
    United States20 days ago
  • Awesome

    Open and listen!! Wow

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Jez angerizagift
    United Statesa month ago
  • Very great

    5 stare for sure

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Drea4lif4rs
    United States2 months ago
  • Bilt episode

    I have to set the audio speed to .8 because the women talk so quickly. The guy said that Bilt hotel bookings are non refundable but there is a normally a refundable choice, at a higher rate. Bilt is too stressful? As a host, become a bit more educated about the program. How could you not know about rent day benefits?

    Apple Podcasts
    4
    Gitloml
    United States2 months ago
  • Great tips.

    Useful travel tips. Some other reviewers stated that they wished they spoke slower. You can change the speed of the podcast. I actually speed the podcast up if I’m short on time and want to get all of the information.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    les37043
    United States4 months ago

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Some listeners value the guest interviews and actionable tips; a few criticize the hosts' preparation or focus.
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Many appreciate the hosts' energy, humor and conversational style, while others find the delivery too fast or high-pitched.

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How to Book Business Class With Points: Award Availability Tips for Flights and Hotels
Q: What are the top tools that you are using, Craig?
Craig Joseph recommends Seats.Aero for searches and alerts on premium award flights, including broad searches that account for positioning flights. He also uses PointsYeah for its destination map and Points Path to compare cash and points fares.
How to Book Business Class With Points: Award Availability Tips for Flights and Hotels
Q: But often, what we end up seeing is those best hotels don't actually have anything availability. The same goes for flights. It's often so hard to find availability, especially on those coveted business class international flights. I don't know about you guys, but there have been so many situations where I want to fly business class, I find an amazing 60,000 points to Asia, but then there'll be one seat available in business class, and I'm always traveling with my husband. One of us cannot be in economy and one of us in business class. But that does bring me back to my original point, is it seems like increasingly more you are in that situation where there is just one seat left. And why is that?
Craig Joseph says award seats are limited and demand has risen as more travelers use points and miles, while airlines can sell seats that might once have been released for awards. The hosts add that more leisure travelers are seeking premium cabins.
How to Find Award Flights With Points: Tips From the Seats.aero Founder
Q: How has Seats.aero improved recently and what makes the browser extension special?
The interface is cleaner now, and the browser extension shows points prices inside Google Flights, Amex Travel, and Chase Travel, making it easier to compare cash prices with point redemptions.
How to Find Award Flights With Points: Tips From the Seats.aero Founder
Q: What exactly do you do with Seats.aero when I want to go from New York to London?
We use multi-city codes to automatically cover all NYC airports, show a broad date range, and then sort by the most valuable business-class redemptions, while displaying taxes to help decide if a given award is worth it.
Chris Hutchins' Top Points and Miles Tips, Straight From “All the Hacks”
Q: What's your take on the new Hyatt-American and Hyatt-Delta relationships and dual-earnings?
He notes the breakdown of the Hyatt-American tie and the promise of future dual-earnings with Hyatt-Delta, while highlighting the complexities and timeline around partnerships.

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Practical guidance for travelers who want to make their budgets, credit cards, points and miles work harder. Sally French and Meghan Coyle compare travel strategies, explain rewards programs and fees, and share tips for choosing flights, hotels, cruises, gear and booking tools. The format combines host-led advice and listener questions with interviews featuring specialists in areas such as award searches, hospitality, flight tracking and travel-focused savings. Discussions often use real-world examples to weigh costs against benefits, from deciding whether a card's annual fee is worthwhile to finding award availability or handling a canceled flight. The conversational, energetic approach makes detailed travel-finance topics accessible, with... more

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