We're Alan & Melissa

We've been making travel videos since 2017, back when the channel was called Dual Income No Kids Yet and the trips were very different. The name doesn't fit any more — but the habit of filming everything stuck.

Why Hotels

Every hotel website shows you the same four photographs: the lobby, the pool at golden hour, a bed nobody has slept in, and a plate of food. None of them tell you whether four people actually fit in the room, what age the kids' club starts at, or whether the “family suite” is a real second room or a curtain.

So we film all of it. Every room, every corner of the kids' club, breakfast at the time you'd actually eat it with a toddler. It turns out that's what people want — property tours are consistently our most-watched format, and they hold attention far longer than anything else we make.

Why Points

Because the properties we want to show you cost more than we'd ever pay in cash. Points are the mechanism, not the mission — we write about them because they're how the trips happen, and because the family-specific parts (four award seats, rooms that sleep four, lap infants on international awards) are badly covered everywhere else.

How We Make Money

Honestly, and in the open: credit card referral links, affiliate links on gear we already own, and paid partnerships with hotels — which are always disclosed as such. We don't take payment for a positive review, and we say when something didn't work.

If a property was hosted, the video and the write-up will say so at the start, not in a footnote.