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Tag: Sweet Spot Spotlight

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45K business class to South America: LATAM sweet spot via Alaska Mileage Plan

Nick Reyes - 23
The Frequent Miler Party of 5 challenge has been plugging forward on an epic trip meant to highlight sweet spots and opportunities for those...
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Air France / KLM Flying Blue sweet spots for award travel

Nick Reyes - 33
Flying Blue sweet spots have been more difficult to define than those in other programs ever since Air France and KLM ditched the Flying...
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Avianca LifeMiles sweet spots for award flights

Nick Reyes - 23
Avianca LifeMiles is one of our favorite airline programs because of unique sweet spots, the ability to manipulate awards to pay fewer miles than...
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Award spotlight: Marriott’s Torre de Palma Wine Hotel, Portugal

Greg The Frequent Miler - 6
Torre de Palma Wine Hotel belongs to Marriott's Design Hotels brand.  I stumbled upon this place when researching options for my 3 Cards 3...
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Award spotlight: Rancho Santana, Nicaragua

Greg The Frequent Miler - 13
Rancho Santana is a member of Preferred Hotels & Resorts and is bookable with Choice Privileges points.  I stumbled upon this place when researching...
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Air France & KLM across Europe for less [Sweet-Spot Spotlight]

Greg The Frequent Miler - 42
Since this post was originally written, I've stumbled upon a neat little trick.  It is sometimes possible to reduce award prices by flying with...
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Sweet spot awards that I actually use [On Greg’s Mind]

Greg The Frequent Miler - 31
We frequently post about great deals using points & miles, and we refer to these as "sweet spot awards."  Some of these are almost...
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Nordic Choice Sweet-Spots: Great Value w/ Choice Points

Greg The Frequent Miler - 34
I've long heard that redeeming Choice Privileges points at Nordic Choice Hotels offered great value, but I've never previously looked very closely at this. ...
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The Best Points-Bookable Hotels in the World (2021)

Greg The Frequent Miler - 29
Travel & Leisure recently published The Top 100 Hotels in the World for 2021.  It's fun to peruse the list and dream about visiting some...
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New IHG Sweet Spot: Dynamic Pricing + 4th Night Free For Huge Savings

Stephen Pepper - 29
Update 4/18/21: Seeing as IHG has been playing games with dynamic pricing recently (see this post and this subsequent update), I thought it'd be...
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Qantas Sweet Spots for award tickets (economy and business class)

Nick Reyes - 3
Qantas sweet spots are governed by the distance from the start point of your trip to the end point. While Qantas has a distance-based...
Etihad Guest Sweet Spots

Etihad Guest Sweet Spots for award tickets in business class or economy

Nick Reyes - 12
Etihad Guest sweet spots are among some of the most interesting values with some of the cheapest partner award pricing (in very specific situations)...
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Searching for Emirates sweet spots with partner airline awards [JAL, Copa, and Qantas awards...

Greg The Frequent Miler - 23
UPDATE 3/2/2021: Emirates has completed their partner devaluations. Now all partner awards follow the same not-great distance based award chart. I no longer know...
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Citi ThankYou points sweet spots for high value redemptions

Nick Reyes - 37
While ThankYou points came out less valuable than Chase or Amex points when we last updated our Reasonable Redemption Values (See: A big change...
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