Upgrade your Retirement Travel Dreams - Using Hotels to Elevate your Lifestyle

Description: In this video we talk about how we have transitioned from primarily using Airbnb on our slow travels for the last 2+ years, to using hotels to upgrade our lifestyle, while maintaining or even lowering our budget.
By building loyalty and status with a hotel chain, IHG for us, we can stay in nicer hotels; get upgrades to better rooms; and with our newly acquired Lounge Access, we will get free food on many hotels over the next 2 years.
We answer the how and why, and show you some examples of hotel amenities we are enjoying on our latest stay in Bangkok, Thailand.
With our lounge access, we will be getting free breakfast and more for nearly 50 nights in the first 3 months of 2025. Our plan is to spend 100-150 nights or more in IHG hotels, and with status, we can afford to move from budget and business hotels to more luxurious hotels and resorts for the same budget we had for Airbnb, or in our year plus living in Portugal.
Enjoy our video. Maybe you get some inspiration or just a few ideas that can help you as you plan your retirement life.
Happy travels.

We are Peter and Elena, and we retired from the good old US of A in 2022 and have been traveling the world. We slowed traveled for over a year, 13 stays in 5 countries. Then we then sped up and had over 25 different stays in 4 months. We then settled into a retired life in the Algarve, in southern Portugal. After a year, we realized the world was still calling us, so we packed our carryon bags again and are going new places.
Our channel is Retire Everywhere and we will be sharing our experiences, places, people, food, and lessons learned, plus various topics in retirement, finances, miles and points, and overall wellness.
Hope you enjoy.

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