Family trip around the world 2019-2020

We’ve chosen to share with you every moment of our family trip around the world, completed between December 2019 and March 2020. This should have lasted over 5 months, but was cut short by the arrival of COVID-19, forcing us to return home quickly.

All the same, we discovered South Africa, Singapore, Kuala Lampur, Cambodia, Bali, Australia and New Zealand.

Also comments or links to our site articles on destinations, hotels, airbnb accommodations, lounges, airlines we’ve tried!

In each article, you’ll discover the activities we chose to do with our two children, aged almost 3 and 5 at the time, all our favorites, our tips for saving money and indulging ourselves, and below, the different credit cards we used for our trip.

We hope our photos and stories will inspire you to travel to these magnificent countries!

Here are the different credit cards milesopedia recommends to Canadian travellers for groceries:

• 5 points per dollar with the American Express Cobalt™ Card
• 5 points per dollar with the Scotiabank Gold American Express^® Card
• 3% cash back with the no-annual-fee BMO^® CashBack^® Mastercard^®*.

Here are the different credit cards milesopedia recommends to Canadian travelers for gas:

• 3 points per dollar with the Scotiabank Gold American Express^® Card
• 2 points per dollar with the American Express^® Gold Rewards Card
• 2% cash back with the Tangerine Money-Back Credit Card no annual fee

Here are the different credit cards milesopedia recommends to Canadian travellers for restaurants and bars:

• 5 points per dollar with the American Express Cobalt™ Card
• 5 points per dollar with the Scotiabank Gold American Express^® Card
• 3 points per dollar with the BMO Ascend World Elite Mastercard^®*.

Here are the different credit cards milesopedia recommends to Canadian travelers for cash back:

• Up to 4% with Scotia Momentum^® VISA Infinite* card
• 2% everywhere with the SimplyCash™ Preferred from American Express
• 1.5% everywhere, including Costco, with the BMO^® CashBack^® World Elite^®* Mastercard.

Here are the different credit cards milesopedia recommends to Canadian travellers for insurance purposes:

• Up to 60 days of out-of-province medical coverage with the National Bank World Elite Mastercard^®.
• Up to 60 days of out-of-province medical coverage with the National Bank World Mastercard^®.

Here are the different credit cards milesopedia recommends to Canadian travellers for hotels:

• 5 points per dollar with the Marriott Bonvoy™ American Express^® Card for bookings at Marriott’s hotels, with a nice welcome bonus
• 5 points per dollar with the Marriott Bonvoy Business American Express^MD Card for bookings at Marriott’s hotels, with a nice welcome bonus

Here are the different credit cards milesopedia recommends to Canadian travelers to avoid paying conversion fees for purchases made in foreign currencies (a 2.5% savings on each transaction)!

• Scotiabank Platinum American Express^® Card
• Scotiabank Passport™ Visa Infinite* Card
• Scotiabank Gold American Express^® Card

Here are the different credit cards milesopedia recommends to Canadian travelers to save on activities like theme parks:

• The BMO AIR MILES World Elite^®* Mastercard allows you to collect AIR MILES miles for Disney gift cards.
• The Scotiabank Gold American Express^® Card is the only card that earns 5 points per dollar for the following activities
• The Scotiabank Passport™ Visa Infinite* Card allows you to apply points towards park admission or other entertainment activities.