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definitely use one of the points websites--I like point.me. I recently got flights to london non stop for about 12k points each way by doing a kind of work around, instead of using points directly on the airline or credit card sites where it was like 40k points. I search them for business class deals as well--last year DH and I went to the dolonites, business there and economy plus back for 100k points total, non stop to venice, in july.

as to how i would spend? We have a list of places to go. I kind of search for the time period and places I'm interested in and see what's available. We have a lot of places on our list, japan, turkey, argentina, vietnam/thailand, etc. I would use the points to fly business long haul.

NP here. I have $1M amex points! Not kidding. I want to use for long haul flights/upgrades. Kids want to go to Australia, Japan, Thailand, ect. I'm in! But we are 4. So do you get regular flights with points and then upgrades with cash?[/quote]

You can search business class tickets. Once you try it, you see that there are multiple ways to book the same trip, using a variety of credit card or other points. Its a membership fee--can't remember how much--that allows you to search a year out. But you can test it out for free I think . So right now, the same business class United flight that is 200k points on united shows ms 88k chase ultimate reward points. You can select to search only amex points, etc, etc. I am guessing that pointsyeah is a similar thing. I never really understood the whole points/credit card thing until I realized these sites exist. They also alert you when there are really great deals. [/quote]

So do you have a general idea of what you want to do or go eg safari or Europe or Asia and then you monitor for the flights and work the trip and lodging around that?

We do a lot of safaris and travel to see family in Europe regularly and I’ve never been able to get the award flight availability to match up with lodge / family availability. [/quote]

Not PP but yes that's what we do, but we aren't aiming for locations with such specific availability.  So we have a few weeks of summer vacation flexibility, and let the flights make the calendar.  Aim for business class on the way over if it's an overnight, economy on the return is fine if it's a daytime flight.[/quote]

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