Prior to having kids we travelled once or twice a year, we visited Costa Rica mostly and after having Ella we went to Bahamas with her and I still remember every moment there…the first time her toes touched the ocean *swoon*! Since having kids, finances shift and trips seem farther and farther away so we wanted to make sure that we took advantage of having a Card to use for our family expenses that would actually earn us points towards our family trips – genius right? I know! This means every time I drop hundreds at the grocery store (like everrry week), stock up on toilet paper and diapers, buy my fancy mascaras and face creams, I am earning towards our next vacation. With our Gold Rewards Card we earn 2 Membership Rewards® points for every dollar spent on eligible travel and everyday purchases (gas stations, grocery stores and drug stores) and 1 point for every dollar spent for everything else. Plus, when we do take our next vacay, we can use our Gold Card to book eligible hotel &car rentals through American Express Travel Online and earn 3 points for every dollar spent– perfection if you ask me!
American Express is definitely a travel essential for our family and it helps us right from planning, all the way to the actual day of travel and during our trip. We won’t travel any other way now especially with the amazing perks we have access to as Cardmembers like hotel upgrades and a wide array for insurance coverages.
Over the next two years we really want to take the kids on a ton of adventures, we want to experience the world as a family…taste authentic foods, cook with the locals, experience different cultures, stick our toes in the water of the most beautiful beaches, see wild animals, climb mountains…truly experience adventure. There have been times that this has felt out of reach between diapers, groceries and bills, but the points we earn along the way have helped pull those dreams closer with amazing rewards. Even though we have a long list of destinations on our list, American Express will help us to be travellers wherever we end up, not tourists! While our reasons to travel may change throughout the years, we still want a trusted travel Card like the Gold Rewards Card that we can rely on to book the best accommodations while travelling with two kiddos. When we can minimize the financial and planning stress, we can really focus on the beauty of travel and making memories to last a life time with our family!
With all of that said, we’ve teamed up with American Express to share a fun travel series with you guys! For the first part we are sharing our travel goals for the next two years. So, after we put the kids to bed last week we sat down and wrote a “travel bucket list”. We wanted to share our goals around family travel and soon we will be sharing how we plan to save and budget for these goals.
Our Family Travel Goals
- Make Memories
- See whales in British Columbia – done!
- Dance under the Eiffel Tower
- Make croissants & macarons in Paris with the kids
- Go on Adventures
- Eat endless poutine in Montreal
- Make pizza & pasta from scratch in Italy
- Horseback ride during the day and sip wine in Tuscany after the kids fall asleep
- Wake up in Santorini
- Earn more travel points WHILE we travel!
- SUP board in Hawaii
- Sleep in an overwater bungalow in Bora Bora
- Tour the East Coast of Canada
- Go back to the Bahamas so Noah can see it
- Take the kids back to Disneyland
- Visit the restaurants of San Francisco
- Take Craig and the kids to New Zealand to explore and meet my old friends
I know this list may seem a little crazy but I mean, one can dream right? And even if we can budget to only do half of it for now, we can still budget and earn points towards doing the rest later! While our reasons to travel may change throughout the years, we still want a travel Card that helps us get the most out of our everyday expenses and allows us to do more than dream about our travel goals, but actually experience them as a family. https://www.americanexpress.com/ca/en/content/gold-rewards-card/
This post was sponsored by American Express Canada, all opinions are my own!
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