I saved over $1,900 on my family trip to Orlando using credit card points. These are the hacks I used.

The author (second from right) used credit card points to save on her Orlando family trip. Courtesy of Lisa Galek Our six-day Orlando trip for a family of five cost about $8,620. By opening credit cards before our trip, we were able to earn points. We then used those points to redeem a lot of our travel expenses, reducing the cost. When I started planning our family's Disney and Universal vacation, I knew it wouldn't be cheap. Our six-day Orlando trip for a family of five cost about $8,620,…