This thread is for sharing valuable awards you may have found in your searches.

It can be rare J/F seats that you don't normally find and also award nights at popular destinations.You can also coordinate cancelling flight and hotel reservations.Asking for compensation of any type is not allowed.

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I have about 300k and want to redeem any business class flight with my partner to HKG from the US (i don’t mind to pay on the domestic / other connection flight, across entire Dec to Jan.) but there is nothing available on the website…

I tried : YVR, LAS, SFO, SEA to HKG, Tokyo and Osaka….

How can I make best of these points?

I was hesitant to use the 30% transfer promos of Amex and Chase to BA avios. Now that Bilt has 100% transfer bonus and have over 100K. I am curious if the transfer is worth it. Now we are a family of 3, we need 3 business seats and it’s almost impossible to get this on QSuites via BA. Are there any good redemption options for BA than Qsuites? I know from time to time Bilt does other promos like Canada Aeroplan. But not sure here…So wonder what are your thoughts on this.

Has anyone stayed with 3 adults in a room at Ventana Big Sur?

I have a points booking secured at the standard rate (45k) and was looking forward to a trip with a friend, but another friend is now joining. I’d hate to cancel the reservation and stay somewhere else because I’ve really been looking forward to this property specifically. Is there any way to make this work? I’m a globalist so will likely be upgraded to a suite but could we go to the restaurant and pay cash for one person in our party since the all-inclusive usually only covers two people?

Considering using Bilt 100% rewards (maybe around 10-15k points) to transfer to BA. Does BA usually have rewards flights (either from them or their partners) from US to Asia (Vietnam)?

I know its just 3 days but I have a BIlt bonus transfer available only today and wondering if the point cost for flight will continue to be the same later in November so I can transfer the right number of points.

Opened an ANA mileage club account to book a possible trip to tokyo in a few months.

Looking for flights, i found a premium economy flight RT for 62000 miles.
- The status says waitlisted. Is that because i haven't completed the mileage transfer from CC yet?
- 62K for a prem economy RT ticket sounds like a good deal, is it because of ANA being a good transfer partner for amex?

Was looking for BLR to AUS flights for late Jan 2025.

Business class on the BA website was 390,965 INR which is roughly $4649.34 USD.

But in the Chase Ultimate Rewards portal it's only $2,359.17 USD. What gives? I guess this can happen, just not often?

Keep getting an error code and the booking won’t go through, anyone figure out a way to book on points? Called the help line, four hour wait.

Has anyone tried using the Daily Drop pro app that just released to help you find award flights and available hotels with points? It's not working so great for me so far. I'm only using the free version so far and it's not even fully completing searches. The completion bar only gets two-thirds of the way and I've been waiting several minutes and it never finishes.

I booked a round trip AA flight using the C1 travel portal. I flew the first leg but don’t plan on flying the second leg (booked a different airline directly). There are absolutely no refunds on the ticket I booked through C1 so I was planning on just cancelling the second half and eating the cost. Could I instead keep the ticket and try to take a travel voucher to give up my seat, since the flight may be overbooked?

I've been looking at standard awards that book direct to overwater villa, which sleep up to 3, but unable to book 3 adults with points; it seems extra person will be charged.

Milaidhoo 130K HH Water Pool Villa:

• I called to confirm they removed dinner; return seaplane included for 2, but ~$700/night + ~$800 seaplane for 3rd person.
• Because of this probably considering 3 nights.

Huvafen 150K HH Lagoon Bungalow: I imagine similar, but with speedboat (does include for 2).

WA 150K HH 150K HH Queen Reef Villa:

• Can do 3 adults so no extra room charge, but ~$1000 speedboat/person.
• Would ideally do 5 nights with points, but availability is hard to come by.

Amilla 120K HH Sunset/Lagoon Water Pool Villa: $1085/person seaplane seems quite steep on top of extra room charge.

What are your thoughts?

Hi everyone, has anyone heard of a limit on Legacy GOH bookings? Just got off the phone and they had said that for those earning Globalist last year, you get 5 GOH certificates and only 2 Legacy bookings after that? I'm going to call again and see if that really is the case, but it true, that puts a huge damper on being able to book awards for friends and family...

Just noticed Virgin Atlantic has stopped offering a companion award for 50% off as of October 30th. They now offer some sort of upgrade voucher or companion voucher only if you have their credit card or are a Gold level Flying Club member. Too bad, that was a good perk.

Hi guys, I will be flying an award flight this Dec from ORD and I have to make a positioning flight there. The flight from ORD will be in the afternoon. It’s an international flight. I found a flight that can get to ORD 5.5 hours before that. Is it enough to claim the baggage and re check them? Or should I get to Chicago the night before? This is my first time so hopefully get some tips and advice from you guys. Thank you

So are the rates solely determined by the date now?

For example, would a saver award ever become available on a date that right now has only super expensive awards?

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I called their CS a few months back, they said they'd look into it. nothing happened.

At times, I can log in and at times I can't log in at all. The times I CAN log in, when I try to access my booking, I am getting this error.

I have tried Chrome, incognito, Inter Explorer, my phone's Chrome, and Incognito as well.

Has anyone else seen this error? I tried to call them now, and it just goes to an engaged tone.

I have booked a couple of reward flights, but I only see one of them. The other one doesn't show, and I am getting anxious about the status. They changed the flights earlier and never emailed me, so I am afraid they might have done the same thing again, and I just don't know.

I would love to know which airlines have unique collectibles, such as the Lufthansa ducks, KLM houses, Delta trading cards, Virgin Atlantic salt and pepper shakers, etc.

Always trying to maximize the value of our points and miles we booked 5 nights each at Hilton's in Paris (Opera) and London (Waldorf). You get the 5th night free when you book 4 nights. We are diamond so get the executive lounge, etc.

It was 320,000 for each stay of 5 nights. So, 640,000 Hilton points for 10 nights. It would run you at least $4,500 if you were to pay for those 10 nights with Executive Lounge access in both hotels.

So, how I run the numbers $4,500 / 640,000 gives .007 per Hilton point. I think how people value their points and miles depends on how they use them and other considerations like executive lounge, etc.

Just went to book my usual hotel for work trips and see the Wyndham Rewards Double Points Rate is gone. That might be a work travel game changer for me. Meant an average extra 2000 points per night.

Sad day. None showing on MCT <> EUR and vice versa for the next 180 days. Nice while it lasted.

I was looking at upgrading my economy seat in asiana airlines, and was wondering if I can use my Krisflyer miles to do so?

I was doing some research and it seems that I can do so via Star Alliance website, but I got stuck where I needed to fill in my Asiana flight number.

Star alliance needed a 4 digit flight number, but my flight number only has 3.

Has anyone managed to upgrade their flights this way?

Just started a new job in September of this year. I currently have Choice Hotel and Hilton Memberships. I was wondering which reward program to focus more on. I travel the southeast of the US, i pay for hotels and rental cars if needed then get reimbursed after the stay.

So I take an annual trip or 2 to Paris each year and always fly AF premium economy. A product I actually love (on the newer models planes).

But I as of today, that booking would cost me about 60k Amex points (w/bonus). Whereas when I look up BA flights, the same route with a 2hr stopover in LHR, would be 20k BILT points (w/bonus).

Anyone ever flown BA premium economy? Is this deal worth it for both the hard and soft product, since I don’t really mind the stopover?

Thanks!

Hi all,

Managed to book roundtrip upper class tickets from SFO->LHR in August 2025 for 67k points+$900 fees per ticket x 3 pax. Was pretty excited but then saw that hard product (787) isn't so great. Still a good redemption? Please don't flame me if it's a good deal - I'm new to the game. Thank you!

Flying from EWR->SFO (AS) -> NRT (J in JL). Will I get any lounge access in EWR?

Also, can I switch to a premium seat on this booking somehow based on the fact that I paid for J seat overall but that there wasn't availability in J on the domestic leg (and there's some seats available now)? Don't want to risk them cancelling and rebooking, but would anything fly at the time of check-in/gate?

Lastly, do I check in on the J line or the Y line? Online check in isn't working, so dreading those long lines tomorrow.

Planning a honeymoon to Japan with my soon to be wife and was hoping to apply the point I've accrued from the VS credit card. Now that VS no longer flies to Japan (which is a bummer), are there any clever ways I can transfer these points to someone who does? Thinking of late March 2025. Ideally business class but premium economy at minimum. EDIT: I should add that I'm flying from London.

Would it ever be worth it to pay to access a lounge? For example: the luxurious middle eastern airlines(Emirates, Qatar Airways, Ethiad, Oman Air, Saudia) allow economy passengers to access their lounges for a fee.

My wife and I are trying to plan our honeymoon for December this year. We want to fly from Toronto (YYZ) to Argentina and are trying to find the most reasonable/economical way to spend points/cash to do it. Our ideal itinerary looks something like this:

Toronto to Argentina -

Buenas Aires 1-3 days 

Fly to El Calafaté (FTE) - 5-7 days 

\- hiking around El Calafate, 

\-trips to El Chalten for day or two + Mt. Fitzroy Galcier 	

\- trips to Chilean Patagonia for day hike? - Torres Del Paine 40km away 

Fly to Wine Region (Mendoza) 

\- book wine and food resort/estate holiday 

Return to Toronto

We are open to other stop overs like Panama City (if we fly Copa) etc. but would appreciate some help putting together an iterary that makes sense.

We have about 200k Aeroplan points and ~ 200K Amex points to work with. Thanks in advance!