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Keep in mind using 4 nights of points earns one free night.
Splurge on one trip. Small trips you can manage down the road.
One “go all out trip”. My husband and I did this for our honeymoon two years ago and it was worth the half a million points we spent to do it. We will keep those amazing memories for a lifetime!!! We took 3wks in Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Bali. I cannot recommend it enough!
This was the view we woke up to in our beachfront villa at the St Regis in Bali. It was absolutely otherworldly!
McK2 please share this itinerary! Planning a similar trip length and location wise (probably not as nice accommodations haha)
I would do small trips.. unless you know you will be traveling again frequently to build them back up, then all out.
For miles, I save them for a long haul international business trip ticket. For hotel points, I usually use them when the dollar value is really high but the point value isn’t (like holidays) or I use them to splurge on a nice unique hotel (I used them for a cliff side hotel in Santorini and now saving up for over water bungalows in Bora Bora).
You can transfer Marriott points to programs like Alaska and get great deals on first class flights on airlines like JAL or Cathay
Step 1: Look at hotels and flights, and determine what would be decent/fair value if you're paying cash for it.
Step 2: Look up the equivalent points/miles rate.
Step 3: Ensure that you're getting decent "value" on those points. So ideally something like >2c per Delta mile and >1.5c per Marriott point.
Exactly! See them as a currency and look at the exchange rate.
Sometimes I stay at the ritz in Maui, sometimes I use them at the shit courtyard in bumblfuck where my friends are getting married when I don’t want to pay $200 in actual money.
International business class is the best way to max value points IMO
You can get on JAL or Cathay with partnerships that US based airlines have as well, at the same redemption rate as the US airline. Just find the partnership and call (for JAL, call American and tell them you want to get on a JAL codeshare)
Alaska has lower rates and you can do a free stop over (eg US to Hong Kong, sty a few days, continue to Another Asian city)
Sidebar: now I’m 37w pregnant and these memories keep me going! I know we probably won’t travel like that again for many years. I am so glad we took the time to explore and see another part of the world while we had it! It was incredible experience. I will see the Wiggles on Ice or whatever it is kids are into with a smile on my face knowing we had this trip with one another when we could! 🥰
This is so sweet! And congrats!! 🥰
When we decided to go on Safari for a month, I decided those flights were the ones to splurge on with points - it was something like 28 hours in flight each way. Business Class on Emirates, which let us stay over in Dubai for a couple days along the way (practically free hotel), also gave us chauffeur service to/from all airports on our itinerary. Well worth the 300k miles.