How To Use This Site
Family Points Passport is written for parents who want five-star trips without five-star prices. You don't need to read everything — just follow this path, in order.
Get The Free 101 Guide
Everything starts here: Melissa's seven-lesson beginner guide to travel hacking — welcome bonuses, credit scores, which cards and in what order, and how to redeem for outsized value. One free PDF, delivered the moment you leave your email.
Do this now: Download the guide — it's about a 13-minute read.
Get the guide →Learn The Words
Points people speak in shorthand — 5/24, transfer partners, cents per point, Player 2. The plain-language glossary defines all of it, with the family angle included, so nothing else on this site (or anywhere) reads like a foreign language.
Do this now: Skim the glossary once; come back when a term stumps you.
Open the glossary →Choose Your Cards
The cards we actually carry and the honest reason each one earns its place — organized by what your family needs, not by who pays the biggest commission. This is where the points come from.
Do this now: Pick your next card, not your next five. One at a time.
See the cards →Put The Calculators To Work
Free tools for the real decisions: when award bookings open for your school-break dates, what your points become in every transfer partner, whether a redemption is actually good, and whether a premium card's fee pays for itself.
Do this now: If you have a trip in mind, run the booking-window calculator first.
Open the tools →Book Like We Do
The strategy guides are the playbooks: how we search award flights step by step, where Chase, Amex, and Capital One points fly furthest, and the exact letter we send to request hotel upgrades.
Do this now: Read the award-booking guide before your first redemption.
Read the playbooks →See It In Action
The hotel tours on YouTube and the trip reports show you what the points actually buy — room by room, resort by resort. And the gear that survives our trips lives in the shop.
Do this now: Watch one tour of a resort on your wish list.
Watch the tours →
The honest part
You don't need to understand everything before you begin — and you definitely don't need to follow fifty accounts. The whole game rests on one rule: pay your balance in full every month. Interest erases points several times over. If that's not where you are yet, sort it first — the points will still be here.
Wondering who “we” is? Our story is here.