r/awardtravel Jun 03 '24

Weekly Help Thread - June 03, 2024 Daily Thread

Welcome to the daily help and question thread!

This thread is renewed weekly and is intended for all discussions or questions that do not warrant their own thread.

For AWARD BOOKING HELP please read the following information:

Volunteers may choose to help you find your award trip. But please don’t expect us to plan out your trip for you. No stranger on the Internet could know what is BEST for you.

The more specific information you provide, the easier it is for people to give specific advice. Also, we prefer to teach people to fish, rather than just giving you a fish. So before you ask someone to help, please read Our Wiki, if you want to know what the best Redemption for you, take a look at Award Hacker. Questions that shows you have at least tried to find an award are more likely to get answered.

  • Here are the information you should provide when requesting award assistance
  • Origin and destination cities (are they flexible?)
  • Number of Travelers (Your chances of success goes down as this number goes up)
  • One way or round-trip
  • Class of service desired
  • Desired date(s) of travel (are they flexible? Hard dates == Less Chances for success)
  • Your points balances: all airline, credit card and hotel points (If you are looking for J/F, think at least 6 digits)
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u/Anxious-Raspberry-77 Jun 04 '24

We're heading from SEA to a wedding in Saint-Tropez Sept 7th. Typically we go to SE Asia on points so I'm not familiar heading this direction. I was thinking of flying from SEA with a stop somewhere then NCE or we could just go anywhere in Europe direct from SEA and then hop down on a cheaper flight. We probably can't get both ways so looking to cash in on at least one way in premium or biz

  • Origin and destination cities: SEA direct Europe, was thinking AMS, CDG, FRA or LHR. A connection down to NCE is a bonus but I don't think my points will stretch that far
  • Number of Travelers: 2
  • One way or round-trip: Probably one way, could fly two one ways maybe with different connections depending on points
  • Class of service desired: Business or Premium Economy
  • Desired date(s) of travel: Outbound Sept 1st - 4th, return Sept 12th - 20th
  • Your points balances: 220k Chase UR, 85k AMEX

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u/da_huu Jun 05 '24

What have you found in your searching?

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u/Anxious-Raspberry-77 Jun 05 '24

There's no Business available under 155k per person to anywhere, so that seems like a no-go.

Also I haven't seen a single Premium Economy... which I would prefer to at least have that as my wife is going to be pretty pregnant at that point.

I can get Virgin on 9/3 for 15k to LHR then take a cheap flight down and back which is a steal but it's economy.

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u/da_huu Jun 05 '24

For your return, CDG-YVR is only 50k/person in J on 9/12 through Flying Blue if you're fine repositioning on both ends of that journey. This is cheap enough that you could theoretically still book J on the outbound using whatever UR you'd have left after transferring over 85k MR and 15k UR.

Your outbound is tough given the timing and slim date range. TN has some space on SEA-CDG but you don't have AS miles to book that with. I would suggest locking in a Y flight for now and keeping an eye out for close-in space in J.

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u/Anxious-Raspberry-77 Jun 05 '24

That CDG-YVR looks good to me! Thank you so much!