Rock Your Travel: Fly First Class, Stay in Five-Star Hotels and Travel in Luxury for practically Nothing Paperback – Illustrated, December 7, 2012

I've considered myself mileage geek, having subscribed to a $200/year newsletter on the same topic, and having taken several overseas trips each year for the past 5 years, never in coach, or paying for a ticket. I spend lots of time telling friends how to do all this, and now I can simply refer them to this excellent book.This book captures the same information as $500 worth of newsletters, in a clear and concise format that won't waste your time. When reading, I sometimes anticipated that there was going to be an important secret that the author omitted. I was invariably wrong, because all the secrets are here.I was amazed at how some obvious ideas like signing up for affinity credit cards to get the 30k-100k bonus miles were refined to artistry, like by determining which credit cards use which credit agencies, and spacing out your applications so one agency doesn't see too many applications, (and you can get hundreds of thousands of miles per year, without heavy spending.It has common sense ideas like hanging up and trying again if you're having no luck getting award seats with one agent. People vary, and some can be stubborn, or less capable. And I'm an idiot (but wiser now) not to have known before recently booking a Hawaii trip on Alaska that my companion could have flown for only $99 if I had only had the right credit card!Beyond the basics, it tells you how and why these procedures work. And to one who was already aware of most of the good ideas here, I'm impressed that nothing here was wrong, or obsolete.This book is worth every penny.Incidentally, this book is a starting point, and does not cover much more advanced techniques like (for those whose home airport is a hub) booking the return leg on one trip and outbound leg of the next trip as a single flight with a long stopover.

I've been hearing my friends talk about travelling for years, using skymiles, rewards points,etc. How in the hell did they accumulate so many miles in order to fly to all of these places for free? Some of them had more money than they knew what to do with, but me, well, not so much. I was looking into travelling, but plane tickets cost a damn fortune when you're trying to get to Europe. I was researching discounted travel books when I came across "Rock Your Travel" on Amazon. It seemed that there were tricks to capitalizing on rewards points, so I thought why not download the book for $6? I'm glad I did!There are more ways than I ever imagined to rack up points on your credit cards, and fortunately my good credit allowed for me to apply to a card that gave me 50K miles for signing up. I then started using portals to rack up miles buying things I'd be buying anyway. I bought my Mom some flowers through the Delta portal and they gave me 12 miles for every dollar spent. Hell yes!ATL to Amsterdam for 50K miles, flying first class. I had to travel at some weird times, and had a long layover, but hell, you can't beat first class. While I don't look like a Rockstar, I sure as s*** travel like one now.

This book contains some interesting suggestions for first class travel. I don't feel a necessity for having first class seating on short flights, but it opens some wonderful possibilities for long flights. I sometimes found his attitude toward the people who travel in coach to be a bit condescending, like calling the waiting areas "cattle holding pens," but he graciously shares his secrets with us so that we can rise above the crowd. I conclude that he must travel frequently for business because of his ability to build points with more than one hotel chain. Some of his suggestions apply even to the casual traveler, however, so I'm glad I read it.

This book has forever changed the way I look at traveling. From now on I'll be much smarter about booking my trips so that I can always earn rewards to travel even more while paying even less. I would recommend this book to the casual traveler as well as the globetrotter. I'm about to do some international traveling for Spring Break and so grateful to have read this book before planning my trip.

The book shows you how to accumulate frequent flier miles, points and hotel points for the purpose of getting free flights etc. For a rookie in the world of travel perks, this book provides lots of useful tools and information. It shows you how to work more conservatively towards your travel goals if you're in no hurry and also how to be more aggressive in accumulating miles for free flights, hotel stays and other perks. I am new to the frequent flier miles game so I will have to re-read and refer back to it in order make sure that I'm maximizing the strategies outlined in the book and that everything I've read is sinking in. But so far, so good.

Thanks thats all I want to say but for some reason there is a minimun word requirement on Amazon's reviews.

This is probably the worst money I've ever spent on Amazon. Fortunately it was only the cost of a premium cup of coffee. I bought this book because it was highly recommended to me by Amazon. What a farce! The big "secret" is getting hotel and airline discounts by collecting frequent flyer miles. Just in case you've been living on a desert island the last 30 years, you can use frequent flyer credit cards and earn "free" airline miles! Heck, you can get even more miles by paying full retail price at premium shopping locations! Wow, just totally rocked your world I'm sure. I'm not knocking the whole concept of collecting frequent flyer miles, but you can probably find a blog that covers the details much more concisely, with more current best deals, and won't cost you a penny. I should have known better, but instead I just paid $6 of stupid-tax for this book.

I wouldn't have wanted to pay more than I had. Good tips...that have all been heard before. Also, no real tips for those of us wanting to lead debt free lives. Credit cards are great for racking up the points (which is the entire premise of this book), but I think I'm trying to find something new. Thanks for the reinforcement that credit cards 'make a way out of none', but I'd rather listen to a time share spiel for my free nights instead of doing this.

This book is a mine of information that will save you a lot of money and enable you to travel in luxury. I travel a lot and am gutted that this book was not published years ago. It should have been. Who wouldn't want to learn how two people can fly US to Japan for just over $100. Whilst it focuses on the US frequent flyer programmes, the exact same are applicable in the UK. One one of my FF accounts my points were literally about to expire and as I am not travelling in the next few weeks, I thought I would just lose them. Oh no - Algis reveals that all you need to do is just use some in the online shop, so I just bought myself a $50 itunes gift card and this renewed the rest of them for the next 18m. Awesome! This book makes you money!!

Very interesting details and ideas to flight cheaper, definitely a very informative book.