How To Get 10X Points And FREE Global Entry

I love booking flights with miles, but sometimes, you don't have enough miles to book a certain flight or you can't transfer your miles to the airline you want to fly or there's no availability. 

So what do you do? The Capital One Venture card is the answer and now, the card offered some added perks. 
First, the new perks for those of you who already know about this card. Through 2020, book a hotel through hotels.com and earn 10x points on your Capital One Venture card. Wow! That's a quick way to rack up points. 

Another perk is FREE global entry. This is a $100 value. I'm not convinced that global entry saves any time, but if you fly a lot and run into security issues or long lines, then it may be helpful. 

The best value of the Capital One Venture card is that you can erase any travel purchases with points. What does this mean?

For example, you book a flight on Norwegian Airlines for $400 round trip from Newark to Rome. You purchase the flight with your Capital One Venture card. Once the purchase goes through, you can log into your Capital One Venture account and use points to erase the purchase. You have 120 days to erase the purchase. And with a bonus of 50,000 when you sign up for the card, you can erase about $600 worth of travel. Travel purchases are hotels, flights, train tickets and anything else coded for travel. 

I used my bonus to cover 5 one way flights from Houston to LAX. This was the last leg of our flights home from Panama. Unfortunately, my United points would only get us from Panama to Houston and not all the way back to LAX due to lack of availability. But I used the Capital One Venture bonus to finish the trip. 
The card has a $3,000 minimum spend in the first 3 months with $0 annual fee the first year, $95 after that. 

That's how we do it at almost FREE family travel!