用1500万积分和飞行里程，带全家到22个国家旅行
Want to travel the world for next-to-nothing? Play your (credit) cards right.
想要免费环游世界吗?正确使用信用卡。
Florida entrepreneur Darren Keast is a card shark of the highest degree. He and his wife have 45 open credit cards, and between the two of them, they’ve racked up almost 15 million points and airline miles.
佛罗里达州的企业家达伦·基斯特是一个玩信用卡高手。他和妻子共有45张信用卡，他们两人累积了近1500万积分和飞行里程。
They’ve put those to good use, traveling across the US and to 22 other countries — trips that would totaled cost some $600,000 without their points savvy.
他们很好地利用了这些积分，在美国和其他22个国家旅行，如果没有这些积分的话，旅行的总费用将达60万美元。
“With four children, our budget would not have allowed us to travel to virtually any of these places, even in economy seats and budget hotels,” Keast, who runs a vacation-property business with his family in Florida, tells the Points Guy. “But with points and miles, we have been able to show our children the world and, frankly, spoil them with business-class flights and luxury hotels!”
“有了四个孩子，我们的预算不允许我们去任何一个地方，即使是经济舱和经济型酒店。”基斯特在接受Points Guy采访时表示，他和家人在佛罗里达经营着一家度假地产公司。“但有了积分和里程，我们就可以向孩子们展示这个世界，坦率地说，我们已经用商务舱和豪华酒店宠坏了他们!”
Keast says owning a small business has been helpful in amassing points and miles. He says the cards he finds especially helpful for travel are ones that earn flexible points, including the Chase Sapphire Reserve, Chase Sapphire Preferred Card, Chase Ink Business Preferred Credit Card, The Platinum Card from American Express and AmEx EveryDay Preferred Credit Card.
基斯特说，拥有一家小企业有助于积累积分和里程。他说，他认为对旅行特别有帮助的信用卡是那些获得灵活积分的信用卡，包括大通蓝宝石储值卡、大通蓝宝石信用卡、大通油墨商务信用卡、美国运通的白金卡和美国运通日常信用卡。
Points and miles have taken Keast, his wife, and their four kids to Montreal; Istanbul; London; Egypt; Greece; Munich; Hong Kong; Macao; Shanghai; Costa Rica; Iceland; Ireland; Sorrento, Pompeii, Naples and Venice, Italy; Innsbruck and Vienna, Austria, and many more, using Award Mapper to find hotels and TripAdvisor to find the best-reviewed properties and adventures.
积分和飞行里程已经把基斯特、他的妻子和他们的四个孩子带到了蒙特利尔;伊斯坦布尔;伦敦;埃及;希腊;慕尼黑;香港;澳门;上海;哥斯达黎加;冰岛;爱尔兰;索伦托、庞贝、那不勒斯和意大利威尼斯;奥地利的因斯布鲁克和维也纳，以及其他更多的地方，他们通常使用Award Mapper查找酒店，使用TripAdvisor查找最受好评的酒店和刺激项目。
For Christmas 2017, Keast gave his wife and two oldest children tickets to see “Hamilton” in Chicago (“Better than seeing ‘Chicago’ in Hamilton,” he quips), and in the fall of last year, he and his wife took a couples trip to Dubai; Singapore; Siem Reap, Cambodia; and Da Nang, Vietnam; taking advantage of Cathay Pacific’s ultra-low fare of $1,600 for two first-class tickets from Da Nang to Vancouver.
2017年圣诞节，基斯特给了妻子和两个大孩子在芝加哥看“汉密尔顿”的票(他调侃道：“比在汉密尔顿看‘芝加哥’好多了”)，去年秋天，他和妻子一起去了迪拜、新加坡、柬埔寨暹粒和越南岘港的情侣之旅;还用1600元的超低票价，购买两张从岘港到温哥华的国泰航空头等舱机票。
