My OPTIMAL Strategy for Travel Credit Cards [2024 Ultimate Guide]

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Here's my version of the ULTIMATE GUIDE to maximizing value from travel cards in 2024! Travel credit cards, with their points, miles, and benefits, are a great way to enhance your travel experiences with little to no extra cost. After traveling over 30000 miles this year, here is how I've optimized my credit card strategy to earn the MOST value towards travel!
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@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

How are you planning your travel credit card setup for 2024? Which other cards should others check out? Let us know down below!

@bmolale081 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for such a great breakdown

@paulfairchild8942 7 месяцев назад

Very helpful. Thanks Kevin!

@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

Glad you found it helpful! Do you have some of these travel cards?

@MikeMaye 7 месяцев назад

I'm currently saving my points and working on my VX 90K spend bonus for a major trip next Fall. Thanks for your tip on booking Singapore Air with Aeroplan miles. Great vid Kevin💥

@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

Let's gooo! Remember to keep checking, especially since fall is already just 9 or so months away!

@kevinManhattan 7 месяцев назад

Love the video Kev. And I love seattle and it's new Amex Centurion lounge. some of the best! I think max value almost always comes from international flights. I do burn points here and there but usually save them for big international trips. Love your thinking process for those each category. I am glad to know I do similar to a point master like you man. Do you have (or plans to) all those Hotel and Airline credit cards? and chase status? Between me and my wife (player 2) we have some sort of status and cards for almost all hotels and airlines. Not sure if I really need to have all these.

@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for the comment Kev! And definitely far from a points master haha! Hotel and Airline cards are on my radar, but I have a hard time diving into them without some sort of dedicated travel plans in the next year, especially when they include so many certificate/award-style benefits.

@TheCreditFrog 7 месяцев назад

Great tips in the video Kevin! Definitely have been taking notes on your strategies. How do you like AC Hotel Ginza? Looking for a Marriott in Tokyo so have been looking at some Bonvoy redemption options. Also, thanks for the shoutout at the end! 🐸

@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

The AC Hotel Ginza was my favorite hotel (and for great value) in Tokyo! In Ginza which has connections to all the main subway lines, modern, on the lower end of points needed for what you get. When I went there the second time this year with a bigger group, I REALLY enjoyed the Mimaru chain of hotel apartments (not Marriott, but just in case you have a bigger group). 🐸Np, you definitely have a unique setup!

@squeegeeman2000 7 месяцев назад

Seattle as well and still working to reach the less than $100 per day out of state ski trips. A few things I do: 1. IKON season pass 2. Alaska Flight attendant wife 3. Venture X for the lounges 4. Bonus time condos or last minute rentals 5. Lots of Choice points from two player Choice Select 6. Building up lots of AMEX, Chase, and Capital One points from bonuses and my business expenses. I still have one expense to shrink: the car rentals. Not going to work for them, and I wonder if there’s any way to convert some kind of points at 2+ cents versus crossing my fingers on Autoslash. Any ideas?

@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

Do Alaska employees get standby tickets for spouses as well? Personally never had any experience using points for car rentals... have you checked booking with your car rental stauses?

@bayareatech 6 месяцев назад

Great info! If i have AX Plat & C-VX points. Who would be the transfer partners to mainly Cancun trips? I burned some flying to Florida recently through United and using the AX portal which I'm now finding out equalled lower points value 😂. But we live and learn. I mainly fly Alaska & United. Thanks

@jaym8236 7 месяцев назад

Can you do a video with a breakdown of your full trips points

@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

I actually have a couple videos going over step by step how I book my trips!

@MattWelterOfficial 7 месяцев назад

Love that you are focused on those super high-value redemptions &.love all of the B-Roll of your travels that you use in your videos as well. Aeroplan is an awesome travel partner so definitely agree with you on being so high on them! The Amex Green Card is definitely underrated and 3x on Travel & Transit is a great way to quickly accumulate MR Points. Love your system for prioritizing those long-term international trips. Great video as always Kevin!

@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

Thanks Matt! Gotta sprinkle in that personal B-roll haha! Can't wait to hear more about your upcoming trips going the other direction

@dannyanderson6189 7 месяцев назад

⁠@@KevinYangChange out the Amex green to the Chase Ink Preferred. Same 3x on travel/transit and cheaper.

@coziii.1829 6 месяцев назад

But can you pick your own flights . I never have found direct flights Or it’s in another city in the state or country. Maybe I’m using it wrong

@sshaw1015 7 месяцев назад

Out of all the Asians that teach credit online.. u seem like the most normal, down to earth style that I can follow. This whole vid sounds like something I personally can achieve.

@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

Hey thanks for taking the time to watch! Honestly that means a lot, and hope you get a ton of value from putting in the time to watch these!

@DavidThomas005 4 месяца назад

“Of all the Asians” not gonna lie the credit card game is mastered by them 😂 I’m out here taking notes love me my CC asians

@druiz012 7 месяцев назад

Lol Kevin. I'm the same way! I take 2 big trips a year. 1 time with my whole family to Latin America and 1 time to Asia or Europe... stack points for a year (while I wait for my award flights) take my trip and use the points I I got from the previous year! Lol. I do take little weekend trips here and there too but I pay for those cash except possibly hotels.

@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

Damn, 2 trips a year is quite a lot already! Was that just this year, or every year?

@druiz012 7 месяцев назад

2024 will be our 3rd year in a row. Our goal is to do this every year. Spring (during spring vreak for the kids)Latin America with our 2 kids (flying economy) Fall (Europe or Asia) in business class. Luckily for me my wife is a fabulous player 2.

@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

@@druiz012 Your entire family must love you haha, traveling is such a great way to expand what we know about the world. You already planned out those redemptions?

@druiz012 7 месяцев назад

@KevinYang already booked. I got my March Peru redemption last April, Sept-Oct Thailand-Japan redemption last month. Now just stacking points.. plan on booking March 2025 to Costa Rica when I get back from my March 2024 trip. 😅😂

@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

@@druiz012 A year in advance, nice! What kind of routing are you taking to Thailand and Japan?

@jwil4286 7 месяцев назад

As a fellow Seattle resident, I would also recommend to get the Alaska Airlines Visa, as it is the only way to get Alaska miles thru daily spend (they have no 1:1 transfer partners).

@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

Yeah that card has always been on my radar, but with the recent nerf, it's still hovering just under the top of my list tbh

@joephillips5594 7 месяцев назад

I live in Seattle as well and recently ditched my Alaska card. Other than the welcome bonus, earning points takes forever and they just aren't valuable enough to be worth it. I've started focusing on AMEX cards since we have a great Centurion lounge in SEA and also provides a few transfer partners that work with Alaska.

@jwil4286 7 месяцев назад

@@joephillips5594 those transfer partners aren’t great, as even the best one (Marriott) is 3:1 with Alaska

@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

@@joephillips5594 True.. earning points through spend is always barely a fraction of the points you earn vs. bonuses

@MattMcGrathOfficial 7 месяцев назад

Great video Kevin. I just redeemed 112K Chase points for myself and my wife for premium economy flights to Paris and Amsterdam round trip during the 25% flying blue bonus boost. Chase points truly are the GOAT. I also have over 100K points with the VX, 75K with my wife’s Citi Premier, Approaching 100K with hey wife’s AMEX Gold. 260K Hilton Points with my Honors and Surpass (still deciding on Aspire app) and 5 FNA of 50K each with my Boundless Marriott Card. Still trying to figure out my hotel situation in Paris as the redemption rates are not good with the Marriott FNA & Hilton Points. Thoughts on how to book those hotels in Paris?

@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

Sounds like a great flight, and a stash of points that can bring you some amazing value! Have you checked Hyatt (if you have more Chase points)?

@MattMcGrathOfficial 7 месяцев назад

@@KevinYang Hyatt has the best hotels in Paris. Would have to add more chase points so considering referring my wife to one of the Chase Ink cards and combining our points

@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

@@MattMcGrathOfficial Going at this game with 2 players is a cheat code haha

@kfclovincat 2 месяца назад

What’s with the chapter titles 😂 not a fan of C1?

@TheZombaslaya 7 месяцев назад

You could trade the Green card in for the Wells Fargo autograph

@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

Yeah the Wells Fargo ecosystem looks like it's heating up with the transfer partners and rumored new cards. Will have to keep an eye out for that!

@gabrieladantas4353 5 месяцев назад

Can you use your points to buy tickets for yourself and a someone else?

@KevinYang 5 месяцев назад

Depends which points program, but for something like Aeroplan, yes!

@PingPingTravel 7 месяцев назад

Can I ask what/which airlines did you use to fly the majority of your 30,000 miles? Thanks.

@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

Star Alliance network! SEATPE on EVA LAX>SIN>ICN on SQ TYO>YVR on ANA and a few smaller hops

@PingPingTravel 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for the reply. Would apreciate if you can show how to book these flights using points, especially if you dont start a trip within the US. Like, maybe from Singapore to ICN. I find booking flights that dont start in the US using points to be confusing@@KevinYang

@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

@@PingPingTravel Actually the steps are exactly the same, but with even greater availability! Try checking Aeroplan search itself, or seats.aero!

@PingPingTravel 7 месяцев назад

Thanks, so the key is to still use Aeroplan even for Asian flights. I'll give it a shot. Thank you.@@KevinYang

@KevinYang 7 месяцев назад

@@PingPingTravel I personally like to do so. There's probably some ways to get even better (i.e. if you can get ANA points, booking ANA for round trip flights is even cheaper in points, and also wider availability within Asia)