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Credit card expert: I used 100,000 points to take my mom and grandma on a 'once in a lifetime' trip to Iceland—here's exactly how I did it

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Daisy Hernandez earned a 60,000 -point bonus for spending at least $4,000 within the first three months .

By May , she'd accumulated more than 100,000 points, which she put toward a trip for all three of them.

By The Points Guy's estimates, each Chase Ultimate Rewards point is worth roughly 2.05 cents , making her stash worth about $2,000 .

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