What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?

[eliteflyer]

That's some serious seaplane fees that you're gonna have to pay...

Would look for closer resorts with lower fees. PH MLE also charges 266/night for having a fourth occupant in the room, in addition to the 520/430 transfer charge: so even using the points/award nights, it's an additional $494 per night on a six night stay. I suspect that there are better deals elsewhere...particularly in low-season, but we digress and should probably continue the conversation in the Maldives thread.

[Emkay]

  I suspect that there are better deals elsewhere

Most def are, you can book an OWB in another cheaper resort for that price

[AJK]

For four pax (two adults; two 2.5 year olds) in May:

JFK-AUH EY 380 J
AUH-MLE EY 320 Y

MLE-AUH 320 Y
AUH-JFK 380 J

Crazy?

What's crazy about that?

And I see you've taken my advice, huh?

[Denverite]

For four pax (two adults; two 2.5 year olds) in May:

JFK-AUH EY 380 J
AUH-MLE EY 320 Y

MLE-AUH 320 Y
AUH-JFK 380 J

Crazy?

Not crazy at all! Conrad there allows 4 in their standard award room and if the little ones will be 3 by your arrival date then they can go FREE all day as much as you want to their kids club...sounds awesome to me...maybe try to get enough HHonors points to go there.

[eliteflyer]

Not crazy at all! Conrad there allows 4 in their standard award room and if the little ones will be 3 by your arrival date then they can go FREE all day as much as you want to their kids club...sounds awesome to me...maybe try to get enough HHonors points to go there.

...They'll be 2.5

[Denverite]

...They'll be 2.5

You won't get the free kids club access but still won't have the extra room fees.  Those are awesome flights though and you should be able to find some kind of resort that will work and these places do offer babysitter if you want to do an excursion or have a night out.

[eliteflyer]

You won't get the free kids club access but still won't have the extra room fees.  Those are awesome flights though and you should be able to find some kind of resort that will work and these places do offer babysitter if you want to do an excursion or have a night out.

Agreed they are awesome flights....but the awesomeness may be lost on jetlagged 2 year olds...

[Ergel]

Agreed they are awesome flights....but the awesomeness may will be lost on jetlagged 2 year olds...

FTFY

[enwhycee]

2/25 2 LAX-BWI 7676 RR Points SW COMP PASS $5.60

2/29 2 JFK-LAX $56 JetBlue

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Yes. No.

He is saying that he booked it. Doesn't AA allow unlimited stops, but must be less than 24h between and cannot exceed 125% MPM?
Looks like it would break MPM, but I haven't checked. 

Booked. TLV-AMM-BAH-DOH-DXB-MEL-SYD-CNS x2
In RJ J,
GF J,
QR (domestic) F x2,
QF A380 F,
QF J x2

Total cost 60k AA and $35.40 x2

That's both Al Safwa and the DXB EK F lounge in one day
I haven't been this pumped in months
#BackInTheGame

[Tom Brady]

He is saying that he booked it. Doesn't AA allow unlimited stops, but must be less than 24h between and cannot exceed 125% MPM?
Looks like it would break MPM, but I haven't checked. 

I didn't check if it breaks MPM x 1.25 beforehand, but I assumed that it wouldn't,  as the origin and destination are really far apart, and the gulf airports are all really close. For example, this past summer I booked PVG-HKG-DOH-KWI-BAH-AUH-AMM on a single AA award, and it was within MPM x 1.25.

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I guess it's because you are heading East. So the route is pretty much in that direction anyway.  With TLV and AMM you actually need to head east before heading West.  I tried AMM-CAI-DOH-AUH-JFK and similar options and was told over MPM (two awards). AMM-DOH-AUH-JFK was okay.  But seemed to max out there.  Tacking on TLV to same route was also okay. 

[EJB]

I guess it's because you are heading East. So the route is pretty much in that direction anyway.  With TLV and AMM you actually need to head east before heading West.  I tried AMM-CAI-DOH-AUH-JFK and similar options and was told over MPM (two awards). AMM-DOH-AUH-JFK was okay.  But seemed to max out there.  Tacking on TLV to same route was also okay.

MPM is 9,687 (I believe) and routing is 10,248, well within the 25% buffer.

[Tom Brady]

MPM is 9,687 (I believe) and routing is 10,248, well within the 25% buffer.

Which route are you referring to?

[EJB]

Which route are you referring to?

Sorry - TLV-AMM-BAH-DOH-DXB-MEL-SYD-CNS

[Tom Brady]

Sorry - TLV-AMM-BAH-DOH-DXB-MEL-SYD-CNS

Nice. It's kind of disappointing to know that I could've added over 2k miles in additional routings for the same price

[EJB]

I guess it's because you are heading East. So the route is pretty much in that direction anyway.  With TLV and AMM you actually need to head east before heading West.  I tried AMM-CAI-DOH-AUH-JFK and similar options and was told over MPM (two awards). AMM-DOH-AUH-JFK was okay.  But seemed to max out there.  Tacking on TLV to same route was also okay.

13 miles over the limit 

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13 miles over the limit 

Ouch. 

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13 miles over the limit 

Actually, I was told AMM-CAI-AUH-JFK-PHX-SFO was also over. 

[Tom Brady]

Actually, I was told AMM-CAI-AUH-JFK-PHX-SFO was also over. 

Did they only tell you it was over after inputting the entire itinerary, or after you got up to AUH?