Ep. 17: Travel Hacking with Friends--The Good, Bad, and Ugly

This episode is all about traveling with friends! Whether your friends are travel hackers or not, there are pros and cons to both situations! We are spilling the tea on the postives and negatives, and sharing some of our personal stories and experiences from which you can learn to avoid!

In this episode, Angel and Mackenzie chat about:

• The pros and cons of traveling with travel hacker friends
• The pros and cons of traveling with non-travel hacker friends

• How to deal with "who earns the points?"
• Playing credit card roulette
• Different ways to navigate cost sharing group trips like bachelorette parties as a Bougie in a Backpack stacker
• How to stack and earn a sign up bonus by organizing an airbnb
• Getting friends into lounges (or leaving them at the door...sorry!)
• A way to sneak food out of the lounge for your friends who can't get in
• To use the Southwest Companion Pass to travel with 3 different friends

and more!

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