TIF Podcast: Traveling Full-Time on Miles/Points w/ Katie & JT Genter

I first met JT and Katie when we’d just moved to Austin – JT was an accountant and Katie was a PhD student (making robots and smart stuff)… And now they are the ones out traveling the world full-time on miles and points, and writing for ThePointsGuy as well.

So I say we switched lives!

First, I’ll share where to listen and then give a summary.

How To Listen

Available on:

• travelisfree.com/podcast – just listen below
• Apple Podcast
• Google Play
• Google Podcast
• Spotify

Song credit: “Human” by Sean Heathcliff

Summary

Traveling Full-time

• Hotels First
  • IHG
    • IHG promos
    • IHG PointBreaks
    • Stacking IHG card perks (4th night free = 10% back)
      • This is super interesting, because their 15k point IC PointBreaks would cost 45k (instead of 60k) and they’d get 4.5k back. Making it closer to 10k a night for a swank IC!
      • Or their favorite Holiday Inn Express in Madrid is 10k normally, but with 4th night free it’s 30k for 4 nights + 10% back… Making it more like 6.75k a night.
  • Choice
  • The different status levels with each hotel
• Working on the road
• Airlines
  • Mileage Running
  • AA status
  • Asiana status
  • Malaysian status – OneWorld Sapphire for $500!
  • Airmule vs Grabr: which courier is the least sketchy way of getting paid for flying
• I asked them the favorite articles they’ve written:
  • Katie:
    • Mongolia train ride
      • Boy, that looks like a great dining cart!
    • Stretch your points
      • Here’s the IHG one, and you can find links to the others in the intro.
  • JT:
    • VA Flying Club w/ bonus to fly ANA First Class
      • 27 hours of ANA first class for 93k Amex MR points
• Follow them on social:
  • Katie.Genter on everything
  • JTGenter on everything