Introduction
The other half her first Amex 2-4-1 voucher through her BA Amex card in October whilst we were in California last year (at that time we’d just split up).
It so happened that BA announced details of a ½ price miles sale on all routes and in all cabins. This coupled with the 2-4-1 voucher meant that each person was effectively travelling for ¼ of the normal required miles.
We had briefly discussed our next holiday albeit had no immediate plans to book it - at this point in time we’d just separated after 3½ years but am pleased to say we got back together last Christmas and got engaged whilst on this trip!
However, this offer proved too tempting and we decided if we were able to get suitable dates we’d book something, it could always be cancelled at a later date.
We always like to travel in September/October time – gives us something to look forward to plus we’re not surrounded by kids on summer holidays! This year we had to travel towards the end of September as London Design Week is in the middle of the month (the other half attends this with work). We also had to take the outbound flight by 9th October as that was the expiry date for the 2-4-1 voucher.
We fancied going back to Asia (visited Japan in 2006) and potentially visit Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. It was clear at the outset we couldn’t visit all so it was more a case of what was feasible.
Last edited by Euan; May 25, 2010 at 2:35 pm