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Everyone loves a great vacation to relax and enjoy themselves, but the vacation isn’t the only thing that should be easy. Traveling to and from your vacation should be leisurely and convenient. Having the right tools can change the traveling narrative from difficult to effortless.

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It sounds like a serious traveler’s dream, starting your own holiday company, not tied to any one provider to ensure a broader range of offerings, with prices 25% to 40% cheaper than anywhere else.

That dream became a reality for travel enthusiasts Brett Norton and Stephen Knight when they launched their travel startup, Ultimate Travel Club, during lockdown. The pair are also travel industry veterans and called on their combined knowledge and experience in commercial strategy and marketing for travel, leisure and hospitality businesses to develop their concept.

CEO Norton says: “We are both travelers first, and as travelers, we want greater flexibility, more choice and real impartiality. But we’re also all in the travel industry, so we know that traditional companies aren’t set up to offer all this at a reasonable price, which is why we went ahead and created our own travel

While most people are focused on staying cool at a beach or pool during these dog days of summer, I’d like to note that now is an ideal time to sign up for a new credit card with an eye toward holiday travel. Yes, there are still 142 days until Christmas, but it can take months to earn a sign-up bonus. You’ll also want to build in some advance booking time. If anything, it’s actually a little late in the game.

The best credit card bonuses typically require new cardholders to spend a few thousand dollars in their first three months with the new card. The rewards generally appear shortly after the customer hits that threshold, often on the next statement date.

It’s very important, of course, to avoid overspending. The best way to hit a credit card sign-up bonus spending threshold is with money you would have spent anyway.

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It’s officially August, which means with every passing minute, your time to take a summer vacation is rapidly dwindling. I don’t know about you, but I have spent way too much time in the past two months worrying about the fact that I have no plans to go to Europe. Despite the fact that my entire Instagram feed appears to have decamped to the Mediterranean, the obstacles to taking a big fat summer vacation have never been higher. Flying these days is a journey through the seven circles of hell and, with a few exceptions, everything fun is expensive or bad for the environment or both. With that in mind, may I suggest you take the pressure off a little? There are three weeks left of summer: just enough time to plan a super low-stakes vacation.

This is not a staycation, and it’s also not a road