Your Next Vacation is on Froogal
By: K. Aaron
Tags: Travel, Saving Money, Personal Finance, Adventure Travel, Traveling

Save money, get free hotel nights, flights and more.

Photo by Nicole Geri on Unsplash

There are a million different hotel and flight “loyalty” (another term for, making it increasingly hard to switch brands) programs out there.

There are also about 8,000 banks out there attempting to exploit you for every last dollar in your account. The classic first tactic used by these banks? Pay zero interest (or $0.02/month).

In an era where travel has become incredibly cheap (relatively that is) and the desire to explore continues to increase, these are two big problems.

Getting trapped into a loyalty program limits your ability to obtain the most value (either big living luxury or my personal favorite, cheap living but do anything/everything) out of your travels. Not to mention that it’s BRUTAL to plan the entire thing, to begin with (for the non-planner types out there) and it’s just as painful to coordinate (for the planning-machines in every couple/group).

So even if you luck out and your frequent flyer miles are through the airline you need (and for that matter, the entire group uses the same airline, unlikely) and your hotel points allow you to stay just where you need to be, chances are that the final cost is more than you have/want to pay and/or someone in the group didn’t save very well (there is always one) so they can only afford a way shorter trip.

All of this because you, and your entourage/spouse, is still using a bank rather than a digital savings platform (aka “rewards banking”).

How so, you may ask?

Well for the frugal of us out there, you likely have a decent chunk of change parked in a savings account at a JP Fargo of America-type bank (or a small mom & pop bank) earning 0% interest every single month.

If this is the case, you are waving goodbye to free hotel nights and flights you could have had without changing a thing except for the name of your bank (digital savings platform).

Only one FinTech exists now, Froogal, that can get you where you need to go (literally and figuratively). This first place you need to go is as far away from your current savings account as possible and over to www.froogal.us.

Travel rewards on Froogal continue to grow every week, but currently, you can select from any of the following:

Signing up takes about 2-minutes and then adding funds & creating your group (solo & couples are welcome as well) travel account takes as much or as little time as your planner needs to get it done.

Here’s what a group travel account can look like on Froogal: (early stages of a big USA road-trip & coordinating a big group!)

So now that you’ve signed up (www.froogal.us), added your savings, created your travel-goal account, added your group members, and figured out how much this will all cost, you start accumulating rewards points to be used for various components of your trip (hotel nights, flights, Ubers).

No limitations on hotel brands or airlines. Just freedom to figure everything out and find the best deals for rooms and seats.

Once you’ve earned enough points to select the various needed rewards, points accrue all day every day, you can redeem the points ANY TIME. Or if you need to pool some points in order to afford a hotel room that you’ll inevitably cram the entire group into, we’ve got you covered too. You can easily share all rewards points earned with other Froogal members.

Froogal is here to make your life better in the short-term and long-term, not be a bank that profits off eliminating your ability to retire early.