I saved over $1,900 on my family trip to Orlando using credit card points. These are the hacks I used.

When I started planning our family’s Disney and Universal vacation, I knew it wouldn’t be cheap.

Our six-day Orlando trip for a family of five cost about $8,620, including airfare, hotels, theme park tickets, airport transportation, meals, and other travel expenses.

So, I started looking for a way to offset some of those costs using credit card rewards. Over time, I earned enough rewards to save about $1,920 on our vacation, bringing our final out-of-pocket cost down to roughly $6,700.

We first researched different credit cards and planned ahead

The key was timing our credit card applications to take advantage of their generous welcome bonuses.

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