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Is the Amalfi Coast Worth It? An Honest Review After One Week
The Amalfi Coast had been living rent-free on my travel bucket list for years. Colorful towns stacked impossibly high on cliffsides. Ferries gliding across turquoise water. Lemon groves. Beach clubs. Endless photos that somehow look too perfect to be real. When a family wedding in Rome gave us the perfect excuse to extend the trip,…
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How to Plan an Amalfi Coast Trip Without Losing Your Mind
Planning an Amalfi Coast trip online seems deceptively simple until you actually start mapping out the transportation. Unlike many parts of Italy where trains connect everything directly, the Amalfi Coast sits dramatically along cliffsides, meaning transportation becomes a combination of trains, buses, ferries, walking, and occasionally expensive taxis when plans go wrong. Looking back, transportation…
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Are You Building, Earning, or Burning Points?
One of the questions I get asked most often is surprisingly simple: “What travel card should I get?” The problem is that it’s usually the wrong question. Before we talk about cards, transfer partners, airline miles, or hotel points, it helps to understand where you are in your points and miles journey. Because someone who…
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Could the Chase Sapphire Preferred Be the Best Way to Start Earning Travel Points Right Now?
Disclosure: This post contains referral links. If you choose to apply through one of my links, I may receive points at no additional cost to you. Up until about a month ago, I was seriously considering closing my Chase Sapphire Preferred. Not because it was a bad card. I simply wasn’t reaching for it anymore….
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Best Day Trips From the Amalfi Coast: What We Learned From Maiori
One of the reasons we chose Maiori as our base on the Amalfi Coast was its location. While it may not have the name recognition of Positano or Amalfi, it offered relatively easy access to many of the destinations we wanted to visit while providing a more relaxed and affordable home base. Over the course…
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Where to Stay on the Amalfi Coast: Why We Chose Maiori
Before planning our Amalfi Coast trip, I spent far more time choosing our home base than I expected. Every town looked beautiful online, but once I started comparing transportation, hotel prices, walkability, and crowds, I quickly realized that where you stay can completely change your experience. One of the biggest decisions when planning an Amalfi…