ben hedges: booked! 5-star hyatt ziva los cabos all-inclusive vacation using credit card rewards

Learn more on the Hyatt Credit Card: Check out MaxRewards: CODE: shifu ️ Click "show more" for ad disclosure Credit Shifu Wallets: Like Credit Shifu on FACEBOOK: Hey Credit warriors, I was just going about my business the other day and then suddenly I thought “hey why don’t I go on a 5 star luxury all inclusive vacation to Mexico” It sounded like a good idea, so I immediately booked a trip. In this video I am going to break it down and show you exactly what I booked, what credit cards I used to earn the maximum points on the booking and in a few days we will have some actual travel and hotel review videos for this trip. Now the hotel I booked is the Hyatt Ziva Los Cabos, I have already been to the Hyatt Ziva Cancun, its an all inclusive resort, where you can literally eat and drink as much as you want, you may remember my video on that. Which is actually the number 1 video if you search Hyatt Ziva, just a mild flex there. But before we get into talking about the hotel booking, you have to get there right? And you have to get to the airport. So let’s go through this trip in chronological order and I’ll give you the full breakdown. So I chose to drive to the airport, since getting a taxi there and back is really expensive. And since my flight is at 8am, I would have to get up at 4am to get there on time, so I booked an airport hotel for the night before. But not just any airport hotel, but the new TWA Hotel at JFK. Now this is a hotel built inside the old TWA terminal, which lay empty for 20 years. You may recognize it from the movie Catch Me if you Can. It has an amazing roof top pool where you can plane watch and rooms overlooking the airfield and a real old plane that you can go inside. This cost us $136 for one night, plus taxes, it came to about $170. Now I also booked parking at the airport for 6 days, right by terminal 8 where we fly out of, and that cost me $196. TOTAL: $366 The flight we booked is with American Airlines, just economy class, nothing fancy this time, but I booked through the Chase portal, exchanging 47,911 points for a discount of about $700 (at 1.5 cents per point) and I paid the remaining 1,009.65 on my Sapphire Reserve for 3x back on travel. TOTAL: $1375.65 Since I have One World Ruby through my British Airways Bronze status, I can use the business class check in and I also get preferred and pre-booked seating. At check in we will be able to use our Amex airline credits for free checked bags, we have $500 worth of credits across the Amex Platinum, Schwab Platinum and the Amex Gold. And we will whiz through security with TSA pre check, which we have as part of global entry from the Chase Sapphire reserve and Amex Platinum too. We can also use that amex airline credit for a free visit to the Admirals club, but to be honest, it isn’t very good, so we may pass. Alright now we get to the point you have been waiting for the all inclusive resort. So if you don’t know Hyatt has its Ziva brand of all inclusive resorts, they are kind of an aspirational travel booking for many, not quite the level of Maldives over water villa but definitely up there amongst the dream travel objectives for any travel hacker. They have one in Cancun which I have been to, one in Jamaica, one in the Dominical Republic and two more in Mexico including the Los Cabos one which I just booked. If you book with points this resort is 20,000 Hyatt points per night, cheaper than the Cancun one, which is 25,000. And if you have more than 2 people in a room, you have to add 10,000 for each extra person above 3 years old, so if you have very young kids you can get them in for free. Hyatt points are easy to earn with the Hyatt credit card or can be transferred from Chase Ultimate Rewards at a 1:1 ratio which makes them super easy to earn. This time we booked with money for about $400 per night, a total of $1250. It cost more than the base rate because we had two kids in the room as well although one of them is free. TOTAL: $2625.65 We booked using the world of hyatt credit card from Chase for 9 points per dollar on Hyatt spending. SONG FROM OUTRO Track: Halcyon & Valentina Franco - Runaway (Heuse Remix) [NCS Release] Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds. Watch: youtu.be/5bj44xI2oWw Free Download / Stream: ncs.io/RunawayHeuseRemix NOTE: The content in this video is accurate as of the posting date. Some of the offers mentioned may no longer be available. Advertiser Disclosure: This site is part of an affiliate sales network and receives compensation for sending traffic to partner sites, such as CreditCards.com. This compensation may impact how and where links appear on this site. This site does not include all financial companies or all available financial offers.