168 episodes

Want to make more family travel memories without breaking the bank? Longtime travel journalist Lyn Mettler shares her top tips to help families quickly and easily travel for less using rewards points and inspires you with ideas of where to travel on your next vacation.

Families Fly Free Lyn Mettler

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.0 • 100 Ratings

Want to make more family travel memories without breaking the bank? Longtime travel journalist Lyn Mettler shares her top tips to help families quickly and easily travel for less using rewards points and inspires you with ideas of where to travel on your next vacation.

    162 | All About Chase Sapphire Preferred

    162 | All About Chase Sapphire Preferred

    Learn all about my favorite travel card, Chase Sapphire Preferred. I explain the offer, the card's features, how you can earn $1100+ in FREE travel, why it's my favorite travel card and walk you through how to fill out the card application. Thanks for using my affiliate link if you decide to apply in support of my small business and free podcast: https://www.familiestravelfree.com/chasesapphirepreferred 

    • 57 min
    161 | Teachers Can Fly Free Too With Monica Marino

    161 | Teachers Can Fly Free Too With Monica Marino

    Monica Marino shares how implementing a simple system to use miles and points enabled her to visit her son as much as she wanted, as well as enjoy some vacations. She also explains how teachers can fly for free using travel rewards despite being on a traditional school schedule.
    Learn how to fly for free like Monica by joining Families Fly Free. Learn more at https://www.familiesflyfree.com/join

    • 17 min
    160 | Success Story: Free Flights for Life with Andrew and Kiana Joyner

    160 | Success Story: Free Flights for Life with Andrew and Kiana Joyner

    Andrew and Kiana Joyner share their journey from travel rewards beginners to getting free flights for life! The couple share their best tips, including what to watch out for when booking with third-party vendors and why you need TSA PreCheck, as well as how they use travel rewards to fly for free.

    Check out their YouTube channel at:
    https://www.youtube.com/@SoulJourneyProject
    Want to get on the fast-track to always fly your family free? Come join us inside the Families Fly Free membership, the BEST way to learn how to fly free using travel rewards...
    https://www.familiesflyfree.com 

    Download Lyn's FREE list of 7 INSIDER hacks she uses to personally fly her family free...
    https://familiestravelfree.com/7hacks

    • 46 min
    159 | Tips for Choosing the Right Tour Company for Your Family With Christine Sarkis

    159 | Tips for Choosing the Right Tour Company for Your Family With Christine Sarkis

    Have you ever considered traveling with a tour company to a particular destination? Christine Sarkis, with TourScoop.com and FamilyVacationist.com, gives us some tips for how to decide if a tour is a good fit for your family and if so, how to choose among the many tour companies like Backroads, Road Scholar, Go Adventures, Intrepid, Wilderness Travel and more.
    Want to get on the fast-track to always fly your family free? Come join us inside the Families Fly Free membership, the BEST way to learn how to fly free using travel rewards...
    https://www.familiesflyfree.com 

    Download Lyn's FREE list of 7 INSIDER hacks she uses to personally fly her family free...
    https://familiestravefree.com/7hacks

    • 36 min
    158 | Success Story: The 80/20 Rule Applied to Travel With Jesse Brown

    158 | Success Story: The 80/20 Rule Applied to Travel With Jesse Brown

    The value of focusing on the most impactful travel rewards strategies to not only save you money, but tons of time, as well from someone who once flew free as an airline employee. Plus, he shares many great travel tips that we all should take to heart. 
    Resources:
    Email Jesse about his Lake Tahoe vacation rental at bobalinresort AT outlook.com
    Want to get on the fast-track to always fly your family free? Come join us inside the Families Fly Free membership, the BEST way to learn how to fly free using travel rewards...
    https://www.familiesflyfree.com 

    Download Lyn's FREE list of 7 INSIDER hacks she uses to personally fly her family free...
    https://familiestravefree.com/7hacks

    • 36 min
    157 | Tips for Traveling to Hawaii With Young Kids With Marcie Cheung

    157 | Tips for Traveling to Hawaii With Young Kids With Marcie Cheung

    Planning a trip to Hawaii but not sure about bringing young kids? Marcie Cheung of HawaiiTravelWithKids.com has taken her children, now 7 and 10, at least 10 times and shares how it's doable, along with some of her best tips to navigate Hawaii with kids. 

    Check out Marcie's Hawaii Travel Guides: https://www.familiestravelfree.com/hawaii-travel-guides (thanks for using our affiliate links here to purchase the Hawaii travel guides)

    HawaiiTravelWithKids.com
    Want to get on the fast-track to always fly your family free? Come join us inside the Families Fly Free membership, the BEST way to learn how to fly free using travel rewards...
    https://www.familiesflyfree.com 

    Download Lyn's FREE list of 7 INSIDER hacks she uses to personally fly her family free...
    https://familiestravefree.com/7hacks

    • 36 min

Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5
100 Ratings

100 Ratings

Momof2greatSons ,

Loving this podcast!

I thoroughly enjoy listening to this podcast about travel. I have learned a great many tips on how to earn points via credit card offers and using them to book Southwest flights, hotels, etc. I've also earned a Southwest companion pass! I love all the various travel topics Lyn covers in these podcasts as well!

A.l.l.i.G ,

if you like infomercials then this is for you

wow where to start - i guess if you like self promoting infomercials then this is for you - otherwise there are many other points podcasts that aren’t one giant commercial for themselves and how great their “business” is. listen to those instead! Literally all this lady does is self promote and try to get you to sign up for her classes or use her credit card links. Honestly her method that she teaches can be gotten for free anywhere on the intent and it doesn’t take a genius to figure that out.

kwatx ,

Love to Travel for FREE!

I love to travel and I love Families Fly Free podcasts! Each one I have listened to gives me practical, informational, and valuable ideas presented by people who have lived the dream of traveling. It’s really helpful to hear people actually using strategies that make traveling fun and free and these techniques have totally change the way I travel. Highly recommend!

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