Travel Hacking in Two-Player Mode

On your own, you can earn and redeem thousands of dollars in free travel to use for flights, hotels, cruises, resorts, rental cars, and vacation packages. But when you move beyond Travel Hacking all by yourself, you can actually achieve so much more when you team up with family and friends in pursuit of some amazing vacations through pooling your points together. This is what we call "Two-Player" Mode.

Two-Player Mode

Many people in the Travel Hacking community like to gamify this strategic process. They will often refer to pooling your points with someone as "Two-Player Mode". Two Player mode is when you get your spouse, significant other, or a friend to team up with you as a "Player 2" to earn and pool points for vacation redemptions. In order to do this, avoid this key mistake - don't add your spouse as an authorized user on your credit card. By not doing that, you can get two separate Welcome Bonuses on the same card! 

How to Leverage Referrals in Two-Player Mode

One of the ways that you get a points boost is through referrals. What many people miss is that you and your spouse can refer each other to sign up separately for the same cards, then pool your points together with an added referral bonus mixed in. For instance, my wife signed up for a Chase Credit Card that earned 1.5% back on all purchases and earned a 90,000 point welcome bonus after spending $6,000 in three months. After she was about to earn her welcome bonus, she then referred me to get that card, and she received a 40,000 point referral bonus. Then I went on to earn a 90,000 point welcome bonus after I spent $6,000 in three months. That means that we earned a combined 238,000 points from just $12,000 of spending in Two-Player Mode!

For those all of you math people, that's 19.8% Back from that spending if those points were only worth the typical cash back value of 1¢ per point, but when you redeem those points for travel they're worth significantly more! The amazing things is that those 238,000 points are worth at least $4,700 in free travel! That's just from ONE CARD that my wife & I used in Two-Player Mode!

Pooling Points with MORE than Two Players

What many credit card, airline, and hotel programs allow you to do is to transfer points to others so that you can pool points together with other household members, extended family, or even friends. If you're following the possibilities of where this can lead, you can quickly identify that in many cases you could have a number of family members or a group of friends all refer each other to sign up for the same card, then pool their points to get a resort, house rental, cruise, and more! 

By the way, you can help my family as I help you! When signing up for a new "Player 1" card, I'd love to invite you to use any of my card referral links to receive great offers and support our business: travelmultiplier.com/referrals