September 27, 2019
Kori’s NYC Memorial Weekend on Points
Alex
In this edition of Reader Success Stories, Kori shares how she used points to book a trip to NYC over Memorial Weekend to attend her best friend’s wedding. Not only did she get the whole trip paid for but she brought her 5-week-old son along! Supermom! Here is her story:
Kori’s Story
In 2018, I was invited to my best friend’s wedding in New York City. Shortly after, I found out I was pregnant. This meant my husband and I would bring a baby as our +1! We needed to find a way to fly from our hometown in Seattle, across the entire country, with our to-be-5-week-old newborn to New York City over Memorial Weekend. Memorial Weekend in NYC is not cheap! Birth also isn’t cheap. With those significant expenses, I need to find a way to book this trip on a serious budget!
To add to that financial party, I exclusively nursed, and the wedding had booked a live band – a loud, talented live band. So not only did I need to fly cheap, I also needed to find a hotel in mid-town NYC that was a 5-minute walk from the wedding reception location. I planned to send the baby back to the quiet hotel with Daddy so I could party with my best friend, the bride. I also needed to get to the baby quickly when he needed to nurse. A 5 week old doesn’t have a predictable nursing schedule – so hotel proximity was a big deal. All I could see were dollar signs adding up, and I was overwhelmed. Enter: Travel Mom Squad to the rescue!
Flights to NYC
Alex was amazing. She helped me piece together my existing Delta SkyMiles from various random accounts to get all our flights for free. We flew out on Delta to the cheapest of the NYC area airports.
NYC Hotel
Hotels for Memorial Weekend in NYC were so expensive! Thankfully, Alex helped us select the perfect credit card for our hotel stay! Listen to this magic – using her points/miles wizardry, Alex found a hotel that was one block from the wedding reception location! I could stay for 3 days and 2 nights for FREE using my card_name rewards points! I got the card and earned the points by spending on my everyday purchases (and paid off my birth). Using my points, we booked the absolute nicest hotel in the absolute perfect location for free! Flights for & hotel for free, thanks to Alex’s expertise!
It was an amazing wedding weekend, and I partied like I hadn’t just had a baby! My sweet baby was just three minutes down the block, sleeping peacefully with Daddy. Thanks, Travel Mom Squad!
Your Turn
Thanks, Kori, for sharing how you used points to spend Memorial Weekend in NYC with us! Who would like to be our next success story?
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