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Points Used:

UR: 133K
MR: 40K
SPG: 90K
AA: 148K
UA: 95K
Hyatt: 4 free nights
Marriott: 146K and 2 free nights (still waiting for some points to post and then change cash res. to points)
IHG: ~130K (still haven't decided which hotel in Belgium to stay at)
Melia: 22K
BA: 4.5K
And 1 BRG :)

Desired Locations: (Strikethrough means booked)

Israel
London
Paris
Zurich

Rome (Car rental booked FCO-FLR-PSA-VCE)
Florence
Pisa
Venice
Madrid (RT train booked to Toledo)
Barcelona
Seville
(Car rental booked SVQ-GIB-SVQ)
Gibraltar
Bruges/Ghent (Belgium) (Have to book trains within Belgium and RT to AMS.)
Amsterdam

Days Scheduled in Each Location
In no order in particular...

Rome 3.5
Florence .5
Pisa .5
Venice 4.5 including Shabbos (although others said it can be done in less time)
Israel 12
Amsterdam 2
Paris 4 including Shabbos
Dublin 1.5
London 4 including Shabbos (although others said it can be done in less time)
Zurich 1 (b/c it's the United <24 hour stopover, but I'm sure there's more than 1 day's worth of activities there)
Belgium 1
(Amount of days in the different Spain cities are short and were very calculated based on suggestions, as I wanted to save any "extra" days I had for other countries.)
Madrid 1
Seville .5
Gibraltar 1.5 including Shabbos
Barcelona 1.5
« Last edited by @Yehuda on June 08, 2014, 06:26:36 PM »

Author Topic: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon  (Read 108075 times)

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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #160 on: February 06, 2014, 04:23:32 PM »
Do you know I find something on AB.com can AA book it?
AA.com searches AB availability, as does BA.

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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #161 on: February 06, 2014, 04:26:50 PM »
AA.com searches AB availability, as does BA.
AA also shows BA and you still suggested searching BA.com

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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #162 on: February 06, 2014, 04:34:47 PM »
AA also shows BA and you still suggested searching BA.com
You can search both.
BA will tell you the total cash cost from YQ and other fees before you get towards the final screen. AA won't.

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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #163 on: February 06, 2014, 04:45:52 PM »
You can search both.
BA will tell you the total cash cost from YQ and other fees before you get towards the final screen. AA won't.
Gotcha

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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #164 on: February 06, 2014, 05:30:34 PM »
It will be helpful for you to figure out what is more important- class of service or destination or length of stay, etc.

For example there are 2 business class seats out of Helsinki, but you would have to leave on Wed. July 23; the Thurs flight doesn't land until 3:50 Friday aft.  Also do you even want to go to Helsinki!!

As mentioned before there are coach seats for the days you want out of Madrid. So you are going to have to figure out how important the different issues are and make decisions based on that.

If this trip is very important you might not want to take the risk of waiting for better availability. Otoh - if Business class is a key part of the trip for you, you would not book coach at all. 

So it will probably come down to figuring out an itinerary that works as opposed to one that is perfect.
 

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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #165 on: February 07, 2014, 10:05:52 AM »
It will be helpful for you to figure out what is more important- class of service or destination or length of stay, etc.

For example there are 2 business class seats out of Helsinki, but you would have to leave on Wed. July 23; the Thurs flight doesn't land until 3:50 Friday aft.  Also do you even want to go to Helsinki!!

As mentioned before there are coach seats for the days you want out of Madrid. So you are going to have to figure out how important the different issues are and make decisions based on that.

If this trip is very important you might not want to take the risk of waiting for better availability. Otoh - if Business class is a key part of the trip for you, you would not book coach at all. 

So it will probably come down to figuring out an itinerary that works as opposed to one that is perfect.

True. I may just go for the flight out of LHR b/c this could be what I use "Zaidy's money" on :)
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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #166 on: February 08, 2014, 01:56:18 PM »
True. I may just go for the flight out of LHR b/c this could be what I use "Zaidy's money" on :)
Or you can give 90% of Zaidy's money to me, and I'll find you a better routing back to the US.
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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #167 on: February 08, 2014, 06:42:53 PM »
Or you can give 90% of Zaidy's money to me, and I'll find you a better routing back to the US.
;)

Haha! Back to planning!

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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #168 on: February 09, 2014, 05:33:51 PM »
Anyone know how to combine the miles in mine and my wife's AA accounts with paying fees?

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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #169 on: February 09, 2014, 06:02:40 PM »
Anyone know how to combine the miles in mine and my wife's AA accounts with paying fees?

No way.
"Not all who wander are lost"

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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #170 on: February 09, 2014, 06:08:56 PM »
No way.

Darn. Well, add it to all the YQ's.

1.25 hours on phone with AA, we're getting closer although there's no real reservation yet b/c IB flights can only be reserved for 24 hours and we know this won't be finished in 24 hours :)

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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #171 on: February 10, 2014, 12:30:46 AM »
Anyone know how to combine the miles in mine and my wife's AA accounts with paying fees?
Not enough miles in each account in order to book sep?
Can you transfer in SPG into your account, and save her's for a different time?

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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #172 on: February 10, 2014, 09:43:24 AM »
Not enough miles in each account in order to book sep?
Can you transfer in SPG into your account, and save her's for a different time?

Nope :(
I have 113K, she has 53K. If we keep it under 10K miles and go biz, it'll be 90K pp. Didn't know SPG transfers (actually haven't looked into where it transfers to at all). Is it 1:1? Only 60K is under my name, 30K is under hers. Can I send her points to my AA acct? Or maybe send her SPG to my SPG w/o fees?

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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #173 on: February 10, 2014, 10:09:09 AM »
Nope :(
I have 113K, she has 53K. If we keep it under 10K miles and go biz, it'll be 90K pp. Didn't know SPG transfers (actually haven't looked into where it transfers to at all). Is it 1:1? Only 60K is under my name, 30K is under hers. Can I send her points to my AA acct? Or maybe send her SPG to my SPG w/o fees?
You get 25k when you transfer 20k. It then takes a few days on average till it'll post to your AA account.
If your address is the same, you can transfer for free btw SPG account, although it takes a few days to process.

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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #174 on: February 10, 2014, 10:27:00 AM »
You get 25k when you transfer 20k. It then takes a few days on average till it'll post to your AA account.
If your address is the same, you can transfer for free btw SPG account, although it takes a few days to process.
Ooo that could work. If I transfer 60K. I'll have 113+75=188 and then I can buy 2K for $40. Only thing then is that I'm using up my SPG which would have been nice to use for hotel stays.

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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #175 on: February 10, 2014, 11:38:35 AM »
Why not just put in enough to get your wife's account to 90k?

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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #176 on: February 10, 2014, 11:43:55 AM »
Why not just put in enough to get your wife's account to 90k?
Wow, that's smart. lol Ooo except that the SPG are under my name. Can I transfer them to her AA account?

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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #177 on: February 10, 2014, 11:45:12 AM »
Yes, if you are at the same address.

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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #178 on: February 10, 2014, 11:47:08 AM »
Yes, if you are at the same address.
Great. So she would need 37K. Transfer 32K and get 37K? Or am I wasting 12K and I should just transfer 40K for 50K?

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Re: @Yehuda's Israel/Eurotrip Honeymoon
« Reply #179 on: February 10, 2014, 11:48:41 AM »
Your  call. If you want to save a little spg for hotels...