About this episode

Kiersti Torok shares tips on how to use everyday savings to enhance your travel budget.

Coupon queen Kiersti Torok reveals how everyday savings on gas, groceries and gift cards can fund your next trip. Hosts Meghan Coyle and Sally French talk to Kiersti Torok — known online as Torok Coupon Hunter — about turning everyday savings from groceries, gas and gift cards into a bigger travel budget. But first, they break down the latest travel headlines, including Air France and KLM's Flying Blue splitting award tickets into three new pricing tiers, Bilt's new partnership with Equinox, Alaska Airlines' new nonstop routes from Seattle to Athens and Paris, American Airlines' plan to bring back seatback screens fleetwide, and fresh data from Expedia showing this fall's shoulder-season travel deals aren't as deep as usual. Then, Meghan and Sally jump into Kiersti's world of extreme couponing, covering which cash-back apps (like Rakuten, Ibotta and Fetch) are worth keeping on your phone, how to stack store promotions like Target Circle deals with discounted gift cards, and when buying gift cards for Disney, Southwest and other travel brands can help stretch a vacation budget. They also cover strategies for saving on gas and Kiersti's tips for hacking the Disney dining plan…

People in this episode

Hosts: Meghan Coyle, Sally French

Guest: Kiersti Torok

Topics covered

• couponing
• travel savings
• gas savings
• grocery savings
• travel budget
• travel news
• cash-back apps

Keywords

• couponing
• travel budget
• savings
• cash-back apps
• travel deals
• extreme couponing
• gift cards

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Air France, KLM, Bilt, Equinox, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Expedia

Products: Rakuten, Ibotta, Fetch, Disney dining plan

Places: Seattle, Athens, Paris

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