Make no mistake about it, once you start traveling in retirement you are going to spend an enormous amount of nights in hotels. It is important to find hotel programs that make it beneficial to stay with them and offer rewards and reward nights at reasonable rates. The best of the bunch in this regard is Hyatt, with reward nights starting at just 3,500 Hyatt points for a category 1 hotel night. This makes it possible to spend 30 x 3,500 points and stay in a Hyatt hotel for a...

The Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card is a fantastic, well-rounded business card with a low annual fee. In addition to consistently having a solid welcome offer that punches above the card’s own weight, the real highlight here is the earning rates. One of my favorite aspects of the Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card is that it earns 3x Ultimate Rewards on all travel purchases, up to $150,000 per year, then 1x after that. With as much as we stay at hotels, these points really add up over time. The points...

If we could only keep one travel credit card with us it would be an easy choice. One card that stands above them all. That card is the Chase Sapphire Reserve®. Why does this card deliver where so many others don't, it's pretty easy, Priority Pass lounge access. The more we travel the more we like travel days to be comfortable and easy, and nothing makes a trip to the airport better than having lounge access. Consider this: You've got to check out of your AirBnb in Kuala Lumpur at...

We've been traveling the world for the last 12 months straight and in that time we've used a lot of credit cards. By far the one that stands out the most in terms of a hotel credit card is the IHG One Rewards Premier Credit Card. This card offers perks that are unmatched by any other card, so let's jump into why it is so great for a retirement traveler. Extra Perks We all love perks and the IHG One Rewards Premier Credit Card has plenty. Our favorite of them...