When I discovered something called 'travel hacking', I thought it was going to become a new way of life for me, but then I saw how much effort was involved and I decided to just fly with EasyJet, risk deep-vein thrombosis and stay in shit hotels instead.
If only I wasn't such a lazy sod, though, I could have had the holiday that Daniel Gillaspia enjoyed.
He had a five-star around the world trip for £329. To put this into context, my monthly travel pass to get from Liverpool to Manchester, for work, costs £296 and I don't get any champagne. I hate this lad and am impressed by him in equal measure.
Travel hacking works by exchanging air miles and credit card points for money off travel. It's quite a lot of work, but Daniel reckons it's definitely worth it.
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Firstly, he took out 45 credit cards. FORTY FIVE! I'm pretty sure that's not responsible lending from those credit companies.
Anyway, I digress. Daniel writes on his blog that he set himself a very careful spending plan, so he's not stuck having to pay these cards off for 10 years after he's dead, and in total spent £34,000 on plastic to accumulate enough points to get cheaper travel. Can you see why I couldn't be arsed now?
For his £329, Daniel flew from LA to Tokyo (isn't there a song about that?), business class. He then went to South Africa, Dubai and Singapore, enjoying helicopter rides, shark spotting and more free champagne than you can shake a fist full of credit cards at. The holiday should have cost around £42,000.
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Excuse me while I just go and sign up for 48374 credit cards.
Featured image credit: Twitter/Daniel Gillaspia/@uponarriving
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