We Get to Travel

10/11/2026

Two people, two nights at the beach, and we spent just $165 for the entire trip! 🌴☀️

We just got back from a quick getaway to Fort Lauderdale, where we stayed at the W Hotel. Between Southwest points, our Companion Pass, and Chase travel credits, we paid just $22 for our round-trip flights and $0 out of pocket for our hotel room, which normally costs over $700 for two nights!

We had some beautiful beach weather, calm ocean water, free breakfasts, and even got upgraded to an ocean-view room. We spent most of our time relaxing on the beach, which was exactly what we wanted.

The hotel wasn’t perfect, and we had a few frustrating service issues, but it’s hard to complain too much about a two-night beach vacation for $165 total, including flights, hotel, food, drinks, and transportation!

Another reminder that you don’t have to spend a fortune to travel. 🙂

10/08/2026

Great news for Nashville travelers! Non stop to Paris! 3 flights/wk on M, W, F. Flying the A350-900 with a great business class and very good premium economy.

Prices aren’t live yet but here’s my guess of what you cash only people will pay.

* Economy: $850 to $1,400. Might catch it cheaper in the winter, but peak summer will probably hit closer to $1,200+.
* Premium Economy: $1,600 to $2,800. Usually about double the price of regular economy.
* Business Class: $3,200 to $5,500+. Definitely a splurge for luxury, but sometimes they run flash sales closer to $2,500.

And for us who play the game, here’s what a one-way ticket can look like. Just heads up, Air France tacks on hefty cash fees for fuel and taxes:
* Economy: 20k – 30k miles + around $150 cash
* Premium: 35k – 50k miles + around $200 cash
* Business: 50k – 80k miles + around $350 cash

They also do "Promo Rewards" every month where routes get discounted by 25% to 50%, so if we get lucky, we could score business class for under 40k points!

AF046: leaves Paris-Charles de Gaulle at 2:10pm, arrives in Nashville at 4:40pm the same day;
AF047: leaves Nashville at 6:55pm, arrives at Paris-Charles de Gaulle at 10:15am the following day.
Tickets go on sale from October 14, 2026. For more details or to make a booking go to airfrance.com.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/transportation/airport/2026/10/08/nashville-airport-paris-nonstop-flight-air-france/92150670007/

Nashville International Airport will add its second nonstop destination to a city in continental Europe next year, Air France announced on Oct. 8.

10/07/2026

Made it to the beach! Lyft from airport was only $0.97 after discounts! Gonna be another cheap vacation 🙂

10/07/2026

Quick trip to the beach to use some free travel credits. Off to a good start on Southwest. Companion pass, a few points, and $5.60 each for this nonstop to Fort Lauderdale. Really like the extra legroom seats that we get for free with A List Preferred status.

04/10/2026

Guess where we're going! Next 2 months are fun and busy. 5 round trip flights w/ Zuzu, all "free" on points and miles. Out of pocket only $67 for the 3 flights. The 2 AA flights are all 1st class so taxes/fees are $351.

03/10/2026

Yay! Our last companion pass was worth $4,479.72 of free flights on ! We obviously need to up our game, lol

01/29/2026

Here’s exactly what we spent on 5 vacations last year.

We had 2 daughters get married in 2025 so that kept our vacation budget down to only $3336.

Total cash value of the 5 vacations was $32,359. So we were able to get about 10x value out of our annual thanks to !

What are your travel plans for 2026?