Travel-Hacking Disney Parks With Credit Cards, Points and Miles

Nick Burgess
13 min readJun 13, 2023

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Travel-Hacking Disney World with Credit Cards, Points and Miles

Every January 1, my house looks something like this: my wife and I struggle to wake up from our champagne-induced hangovers as the dog threatens to shit on my carpet. I roll out of bed, take the dog for a walk and wish for death until my coffee kicks in, while my wife wakes up to the various nonsense noises coming from her TikTok account. Inevitably, she falls into a Mickey Mouse-shaped TikTok hole, which then prompts her to move to the television where she loads up YouTube and tunes into hours of watching Mammoth Club or AllEars.Net deep dives into Disney World. This turns into her missing Disney, wanting to go to Disney, and then begins the slow drumbeat of my wallet offering itself on the altar of Iger to shell out $3,000 for a trip to Satan’s own personal hellhole — Orlando, FL.

So this begs the question: Can you travel-hack Disney with credit cards, points and miles? Let’s chat about a few of the ways you can do it, including with cards from American Express to Citi to Capital One, as well as how…

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Nick Burgess

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