My intended audience is people who are infrequent travelers. People who, in the ordinary course of business, spend less than twenty nights a year in hotels and may only fly once every couple of years. That's me. Yet, in the last two years, my wife and I have travelled to London and Prague in business class, have stayed at great hotels without paying for rooms, and have stayed in suites for the price of the cheapest room.
What's more, in the next six months I'll be taking my father on a transatlantic business class trip, and my wife and I will be travelling to Europe in first class. All this is possible without being wealth and without getting in up to your eyeballs in credit card debt. As a general rule, Heinlein was right when he wrote that "anything free costs twice as much in long run or turns out worthless." TANSTAAFL is the law of the land, and even points and miles have to be earned.
Consequently, I don't think of award travel as "free" travel. It isn't. Earning status or points and miles without actually spending money on airlines or in hotels takes a little time and effort. But, sometimes it's very little time and effort! Like anything else at which you wish to be successful, it is important to set a goal for yourself and work toward it.
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