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✈️ Maximizing Points: My Strategy for Booking Excursions
+ Key to earning extra points year after year
Good morning ☀️ from Booked It On Points: A curated collection of travel tips and personal stories by me, Allie→ because you’re meant to experience meaningful travel no matter life’s constraints 👊🏽
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Here’s what’s on today—
🌎 World: Job requirement: Inhabit the uninhabited
✈️ Flight: East coast to Istanbul, business class, my dear
💸 Points: Earn 11x points: Excursions, Tours and Experiences
👩🏽✈️ News: ETIAS update and buying plane tickets with Venmo
✈︎ Today’s World
Handa Island
Job Opening
Relocation required to a remote island with no residents. Perfect for those seeking solitude and connection with nature.
Salary: $31k/ year
Would you take this?
✈︎ Flight Deal
New York → Istanbul 🇹🇷
📉 Oh, be still my heart 💛 Non-stop, nearly 10 hours in the sky on one of the very best business class products out here. The best part? This flight is only $80 in taxes and fees.
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✈︎ Points + Miles
TOP STORY: Points + Miles for tours and excursions
It’s brief, but it’s good 😉 (5 min)
In a few weeks we are going to Morocco 🇲🇦 and I’m raking in EXTRA points with each booking.
There are 2 ways I could utilize points + miles when creating our itinerary →
1) Use Points + Miles to cover the costs:
Access the purchased excursions within your bank app and “erase” the statement charge using points
I’m not a fan of this way- you only get 1:1 value which is not a good value on points

Not the BEST value
DO THIS INSTEAD:
2) Earn EXTRA points with each excursion by paying cash and earning 11X points within the special offers
I’ve seen Viator as high as 13X points here but 11x points will do just fine for me 🙂
Simply scroll down within your Capital One bank app to “Offers”, click in and search via “Travel & Entertainment” and book away!

🙌 This is one of the ways to keep earning points YEAR AFTER YEAR in the game of credit card points + miles.
✈︎ Travel News
Quick Hits
Check out this most UNUSUAL border crossing
ETIAS has been implemented for travel to the UK, and already they’re making changes
Summer travel can be a headache, 2025 looks no different
JetBlue accepts Venmo?
Spirit takes it a notch above the rest: But here are the clothing/tattoo restrictions when boarding major airlines
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Allie